What's On in Lyme Regis  Your  Guide to Events and Organisations

Saturday 1st 2022    HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE

Grand Duck Race
A New Year’s Day Tradition!  Watch the ducks race down the River Lym  Raising money for Lyme's Wonderful Christmas Lights. 12 noon Higher Mill Flats, Windsor Terrace.

The Lyme Lunge Rotary Lyme Lunge 2022: Take a Plunge in the sea for Charity 
A fancy dress dip in the balmy waters of Lyme Bay  THIS IS A WEATHER DEPENDENT EVENT
 

13.00 hours at the Sandy Beach, all for charity.   Everyone welcome, whether ‘dipping’ or contributing to our charity collection. “If you would like to raise funds for the chosen Rotary charity:
This year (2022) we will be raising funds for Weldmar Hospicecare  and Macmillan Cancer Support two charities which we all know give outstanding support to local people in times of need.

   sponsors can sign up to Gift Aid if they wish:   If you have your own charity which you wish to raise funds for then please go ahead. It would help our cause if you would just email us with the amount raised.  If you just want a plunge, feel free to join us, there is no obligation”   ...more info

 1pm  from the Sandy Beach (time to watch the Duck Race First).   more.. 

Wet suits allowed, preferably with fancy dress over the top, just a paddle in the sea is enough to say  you've 'done the Lyme Lunge'  for charity.  No doubt the collectors will get as wet as the Lungers!  Whether watching or lunging don't forget to arrive early. 

This event is weather dependent:  see here for Surf at Lyme Regis

2019 was in aid of Dorchester County  Hospital Cancer Appeal

Our chosen  charity for 2018 was SHELTERBOX, the renowned disaster relief charity run by Rotarians.  Watch the 2018 Lyme Lunge  on Youtube in aid of Shelterbox

watch the Lyme Lunge 2017  in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.

watch the Lyme Lunge 2016

Watch the brides in the 2015 Formidable Lyme Lunge here:   The Formidable Lyme Lunge Parade  and   Formidable Lyme Lunge 

Monday 3rd   Bank Holiday
 

Tuesday 4th January 2022

Wednesday 5th 2022  Twelfth Night 
Time to take down your decorations and Recycle your Christmas Tree

Monday 10th January


Technical course launched - see right

 

SATURDAY 15 JANUARY 2022

SUNDAY 16 JANUARY 2022

YOUNG CREATIVES SUNDAY SESSIONS  Calling all young musicians & performers Together with B Sharp, the Marine has a Young Creatives programme, which includes mentoring, performance, and a tech course.If you are a young musician aged 16 – 25, and would like the opportunity to perform at the Marine Theatre, come and take part in one of the Young Creatives open-mic sessions, supported by a professional music leader. The sessions are relaxed and friendly, and suitable for first time performers as well as those that have performed before. To book a performance slot please email info@bsharp.org.uk Free event - no tickets | Starts at 3:00 P.M

FRIDAY 21 JANUARY 2022

MARTIN AND ELIZA CARTHY
The good Doctor Martin Carthy and his twice Mercury nominated daughter Eliza Carthy join forces to perform songs here this month. Martin is a legendary ballad singer and guitarist who influenced a generations of artists, including Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, while Eliza has been twice-nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and a multiple-award winner at the BBC Radio Two Folk awards.£20.00 advance | £23.00 on the door | 10% discount for members  www.marinetheatre.com

Saturday 22nd January, 2022
 

Gambian musician visits Dorset
The sound of the Kora is often described as: beautiful, soft, enchanting, and almost medicinal. Suntou Susso - a Kora player, percussionist, singer, and composer from The Gambia - plays this rare instrument with his full band at the Marine. Born a Griot in a 700-year old tradition, the Kora - harp-lute with 22 strings - is unique to the Griots of the Mandinka people. Griots have a unique societal role as oral historians, transmitting and preserving a people's culture through the generations in song, music and poetry. Suntou's family includes some of the world's most well-respected West African musicians, including Seckou Keita, Solo Cissokho and Sura and Mamudou Susso.

Playing this rare instrument goes beyond being a way of making a living for Susso and his band;  it is truly considered a lifestyle and a culture to them. He describes his work as, ‘music for the soul. It's a peaceful sound that we create together - music that has a purpose in healing. You know so many things are happening in the world nowadays, we are all so stressed. But the music we create is to re-centre, music to heal, music to listen to and music to dance to’.Tickets cost £12 in advance, and the show starts at 8:00 P.M.  www.marinetheatre.com

Tuesday 25th  Burns Night

28th -30th January

The Big Garden Birdwatch 
Watch for one hour: you can do your birdwatch with a cuppa, your favourite biscuit and your feet up. More info:  The Big Garden Birdwatch
 

SATURDAY 29 JANUARY 2022

Other Events January 2022

 

Beach clean
Please wear appropriate clothing.  Children welcome but must be accompanied by a responsible adult.   Meet at 12:20 pm on the slipway opposite the RNLI shop. Equipment provided. Please wear sturdy shoes and dress for the weather. Hope to see some of you there. www.litterfreecoastandsea.co.uk

Dogs regulations

Dogs need to be on a lead all year on
Marine Parade, Cart Road, Gun Cliff, Church Cliff Walk, the Harbour, the Cobb (as a rough guide all solid surfaces)

Lyme Regis's front beach:
No Dogs
from 1st May until 30th September
Dogs on leads 1st October - 30th April

Dogs allowed all year
Monmouth Beach, Cobb Gate & East Beach.

Charmouth Beach:
no dogs from 1st May to 30 September.

Dog waste must be cleared up and disposed of properly and dogs must be under the handler's control at all times.  Failure to comply may result in a fine or prosecution.

Please check notices locally to verify this information

 What's on
in the Galleries

Big Skies, Distant Views
 

Steve Manning is an Exeter based printmaker working out of an attic studio that commands fine vistas of clouds and sky.   The landscapes of Dorset and Devon have understandably become the subject of much of his work, including this exhibition,
Big Skies, Distant Views
at the
Rotunda Gallery of the Lyme Regis Museum
 from 8 December until 16 January 2022.

“I am particularly interested in the cloudscape and it often informs the overall composition of the completed print,” says Steve.  “For me the challenge is to render distant vistas and ethereal skies using a medium—multi-block and reduction printmaking—usually associated with bold blocks of colour.  I achieve this by either lightening colours with white or thinning them with extender. The end results are prints that could be described as having a ‘painterly’ quality. I probably should be a watercolourist, but I love the combination of craft and fine art that printmaking offers.”

For further information about opening times and admission charges for Big Skies, Distant Views, please visit the Museum’s website: www.lymeregismuseum.co.uk.
 

Guided Walks and Tours

Fossil Walks

Daily Fossil Walks Sat - Tues with Brandon Lennon from the anchor, Cobb Gate Tel 07944 664 757

The Big Garden Birdwatch

Taking part is simple and fun: All you need to do is watch your garden or local park: just settle down for an hour watching and recording the highest number of each bird species seen in your garden, or local park (not flying over) at any one time. 

More info:  The Big Garden Birdwatch

Recycle those unwanted Gifts

Please Donate them to:  

RNLI Shop, The Cobb:
Weldmar Hospice Shop, Broad Street:
Tenovus, Broad Street
Jumble Sales

Books to your Door
Unable to get to the Library? Housebound?

'If you are housebound or unable to get to your local library, we may be able to arrange for books to be delivered to your home, free at regular intervals by volunteers.  Read more

  Volunteers wanted

for
  Lyme Regis Regatta and Carnival Committee 
see lymeregiscarnival.co.uk

Something in need of repair or
maintenance around town?

Sign cleaning, clearing and repair.  Unblocking drainage gullies,  small areas of footpath, roadway  or carriageway edge repairs
Report these problems to either Lyme Regis Town Council 01297 445175;
Dorset Direct 01305 221000
or  Click Here