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Headlines 7 Diary Dates BSO: ‘NEW YEAR’S VIENNESE GALA’ 1 January lighthousepoole.co.uk ‘PEOPLE WATCHING’ 31 January - 10 May dorsetmuseum.org DANIEL LEBHARDT 13 and 14 February concertsinthewest.org ‘MURDER AT MIDNIGHT’ 9 - 14 March wiltshirecreative.co.uk PHIL BEER 15 January dorchesterarts.org.uk GEIRTHRUDUR GUDMUNDSDOTTIR AND ANTOINE PRÉAT 13 and 14 March concertsinthewest.org DORSET ART WEEKS 2026 23 May - 7 June dorsetvisualarts.org PURBECK ART WEEKS 2026 23 May - 7 June purbeckartweeksfestival.co.uk SOMERSET ART WEEKS 2026 19 September - 4 October somersetartworks.org.uk ‘MURDER AT MIDNIGHT’ Hope Bourne Hope Bourne (1918 – 2010) was a writer and artist who spent almost sixty years recording the landscape, wildlife, history and changing rural traditions of Exmoor. Fiercely creative and resolutely independent, she led a self-reliant life that gave her the freedom to write, draw and paint. A new exhibition at Glastonbury’s Somerset Rural Life Museum this Autumn considers Bourne’s status as one of the West Country’s most signi fi cant nature writers, whose work and way of life are especially prescient in this time of advancing environmental crisis. It draws on new research by writer and Guardian Country Diarist Sara Hudston, whose book A Life Outside: Hope Bourne on Exmoor will be published next year. Sara is co-curating the exhibition with Kate Best, for the South West Heritage Trust. HOPE BOURNE: ‘A LIFE OUTSIDE’ Until 10 January Somerset Rural Life Museum, Chilkwell Street, GLASTONBURY, BA6 8DB. Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm. £10 / £8 / £4.75. 01458 831197 / srlm.org.uk. Shock Horror A nightmare is about to break free at Lighthouse Poole as Thunder Road Theatre visit with their touring production of Shock Horror . With a blend of live performance and illusion and fi lm, the show is set in an abandoned cinema - the Metropol - making it the perfect treat for fans of classic horror fi lms such as Nightmare on Elm Street , Poltergeist and The Shining .. The story follows Herbert, who grew up in the Metropol. The eerie old cinema was his playground and prison - a place where endless late-night horror fi lms were his only window to the world. Forbidden from leaving by his disturbed parents, Herbert hid in its shadows and gorged on its movies. But what lurked in the Metropol’s darkness? And how did he manage to escape? Now Herbert’s back at the abandoned cinema, searching for answers to long- buried questions. But for him, the real horror has only just begun… 5 November: Lighthouse, 21 Kingland Road, POOLE, BH15 1UG. 7.45pm. 01202 280000 / lighthousepoole.co.uk .