Events

An afternoon with writer and curator, Hettie Judah, author of How to Enter the Art World After… with four artists’ talks about their work Join us on Sunday 24 May at 2pm for an afternoon with writer and curator, Hettie Judah, as we launch her new book, How to Enter the Art World After… a late start, a first career, illness, […]

CHALK: SONGS FOR THE SOUTH WEST : GRACE NEWCOMBE, LIANE SADLER, COLIN HELLER Promising plenty of nostalgia with no love songs whatsoever, CHALK is a folk-classic, trad-modern, fond yet honest spotlight on the South-Western countryside. Each song links to a south west tradition, place, orfolk lyric; but anyone familiar with a similar landscape will recognise […]

Elizabeth Brown – ‘Making Choices’ Devising an imaginary schematic – Making Choices – underpins an abstract approach with a strong conceptual foundation. Using just colour to investigate the landscape liberates both it and the artist, and gives context and theory to these visual building blocks. This is the framework where Elizabeth Brown’s observations and thoughts […]

The Sandy Hill Arts community are putting on an afternoon of music and art in order to raise funds for Forest Holme Hospice and Arthur Rank Hospice who cared for seven women closely linked to our community over the past year. This is our way of saying thank you and we are very grateful to […]

The Mac Gloinn brothers – Brian and Diarmuid – first performed in the streets together as buskers and have since evolved into a robust collective – a sonically unique ensemble featuring layered acoustic and electric guitars, trumpet, upright bass, Moog synthesizer, harmonium, bouzouki, fiddle, and the blood harmony of the siblings’ distinctive, multi-hued voices. Having been […]

Come and explore the beautiful art of Glass Fusing in a fun and relaxing  workshop   Create your very own Seahorse picture with a variety of glass materials  including coloured glass, beads, frits & stringers. Use my hand drawn  template or design your own   Your Seahorses will be fired after the workshop and available for  collection […]

  Join us for the second of 2026’s two day raku workshops that uses a variety of hand building techniques to take you from raw clay to finished, fired, glazed work ready for you to take home. This fun and relaxed workshop, led by local ceramicists Richard Jeffery and Jayne Cunliffe, is suitable for absolute […]

SOLSTICE SOUNDS 2026 Join us for SOLSTICE SOUNDS, celebrating light, renewal and the start of summer at Sandy Hill Arts! When: Sat 20 June 2026, 2:30-9:30PM Where: Sandy Hill Arts, Sandy Hill Lane, Corfe Castle, Wareham, Dorset BH20 5JF Tickets: £15 (standard) / £13 (concession) Live music | DJ | food | bar Expect an intimate […]

In Pieces, Sandy Hill Arts' Textiles Exhibition takes place 20-28 June and features work from Ceridwen Sooke, Jane Colquhoun, Charlotte Fereday and Emma McGinn

Members of the Soothsayers and Youthsayers will join forces to deliver a workshop covering the fundamental aspects and musical ingredients that have fed into the legacy of Soothsayers and nurtured the community that has resulted from their  long term commitment to youth music education. Participants will learn about groove, use of melody and improvisation using afrobeat, […]