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Moonbury Rings
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Moonbury Rings

Fifty years ago – man went to the moon. Dorchester will be celebrating this landmark in human history with a huge free outdoor event for the community. Over the weekend of July 19th to 21st July, Maumbury Rings will become Moonbury Rings with a three day festival for all ages featuring some great entertainment and…

First Man Festival
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First Man Festival

Join the team from Go Stargazing for this family friendly weekend festival celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing… The event comprises two nights camping with enthusiastic amateur astronomers hosting family orientated activities including: – indoor planetarium shows – virtual reality rocket launch experience – astronomy talks and presentations – introduction to…

Moon Festival
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Moon Festival

Moon Festival is a week long exploration of the Moon’s significance in culture taking place all around the borough of Greenwich (London) between July 19 – 26 2019. The festival showcases an eclectic programme including a series on women and the moon headlined by The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood; a lecture by The Sky…

Bluedot Festival
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Bluedot Festival

The bluedot festival 2019 is celebrating fifty years since the Moon Landing with a four-day spectacular combining music, science, cosmic culture and more beneath the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory.

Summer in Southside
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Summer in Southside

This year, our FREE family festival goes intergalactic and explores the spectacle and wonders of outer space. Celebrating 50 years since the first moon landings, the streets of Southside around the theatre will be transformed into a lunar landscape for a whole weekend packed with performances, installations and extra-terrestrial antics from a list of ‘out…

Meet the Moon
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Meet the Moon

The Earth’s celestial companion is a familiar sight in the night sky. But go there, and you’d find a very unfamiliar world: a world of extreme hot and cold, light and dark, a world where footprints last millennia, and where the light plays tricks on your senses. Even the journey to the Moon packs a…