What's On and Things To Do Around Leiston

A talk by Sue Liddell: a whimsical consideration of the ways in which writers have reconstructed historical characters and events – was Richard III a villain?

10-acre wildlife and butterfly garden. Ornamental salad and vegetable gardens with companion planting. Herbaceous borders, ferns and Mediterranean plants. Pond and wild flower acid grassland with a small wood. Skirting the wood are 100 buddleia in eccess of 30 varieties forming a perfumed tunnel.

The garden, started in 2012, is a wildlife friendly garden with formal planting, an orchard, a vegetable plot and areas of woodland. There are layered hedges, a pond supporting amphibians and dragonflies, a wild flower meadow and an abstract garden sculpture by local artist Paul Richardson.

Kelsale Open Gardens 2018 Come and visit our lovely Suffolk village, enjoy the open gardens , large and small, gardens of all descriptions, refreshments and raffle. Tickets available on the day from Kelsale Village Hall. The event will be signed locally.

Celebrate our solar system’s star! DASH Astro will be here with fun activities to do and special equipment so you can safely view the sun and its atmosphere. Suffolk-based group, DASH Astronomical Society, will be joining us to mark International Sun Day!

A special opportunity for a close up look at some of the birds which make their homes here at Dunwich Heath. Find out more about bird ringing and how it provides a fascinating insight into the lives of the nation’s birds.

Each year thousands of sea birds and marine mammals are injured or killed by the nation’s discarded litter. If you have a couple of hours, please join us to help keep our beach a beautiful and safe place.

Join our Ranger for an evening walk around Dunwich Heath to search for the elusive and mysterious Nightjar. Learn more about these unusual birds which visit our heathlands during the summer months. Watch for them as they churr from the trees and fly low across the heath, hunting for moths and other insects.

There is a stunning array of insects to discover at Dunwich Heath from bejewelled dragonflies skimming over the heather to mini-monsters lurking beneath sandy banks! This summer walk is the perfect treat for insect lovers.

A special opportunity for a close up look at some of the birds which make their homes here at Dunwich Heath. Find out more about bird ringing and how it provides a fascinating insight into the lives of the nation’s birds.

Westleton Village Hall Yard Sale. Collectables, Bric- a - brac and other goods for sale in gardens and in the Village Hall grounds. Start your journey with a tour map purchased for 50p in the Vilage Hall. Home made refreshments in the Hall. In aid of Westleton Hall Development Fund.

Join us for a Clay Workshop in your area for both Beginners and the more Experienced. Groups and Individuals catered for. Emma is a practising Ceramic and Applied Artist and highly qualified Tutor, offering various Clay Workshops and has many years experience working with all ages and abilities.

Explore this once secret site. A five minute boat ride leads to a five mile walk and talk with a ranger, looking at various aspects of this unique site - once a Top Secret military test site now a National Nature Reserve. Will include access to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment. Booking Essential.

Brighton Rock (1947) D. John Boulting – 90mins Richard Attenborough in a role that defined his career, as the vicious criminal Pinkie Brown in Graham Greene’s classic adaptation by Boulting brother, John. A dark, suspenseful gangster thriller and highlight of 1940’s British Cinema.

Visit the unique museum at the former RAF Bentwaters, housed in the former hardened wing operations command post, the only such one open to the public in Europe, an ideal all weather attraction.

People will be selling jumble, home wares, paintings, jewellery, vinyl and more! Commercial sellers £25 a pitch, private sellers £15. Further donations welcome! All pitch fees and donations will be going to charitable causes in the community. Tea, coffee and snacks available. Please contact ellie@oldjet.co.

Held on the first Saturday of every month, The Old Jet Market is an excellent array of stalls, makers, secondhand shifters and sometimes even live music. With pizza, cake, coffee and music! It’s a smash. Bring the family.

Special open day with display aircraft, stalls, static display, airfield tours & acces to the former museum housed in the former hardened wing operations command post, the only such one open to the public in Europe, an ideal all weather attraction.

A wide and ever-changing range of local foods and produce, crafts, plants, home-baking and pre-loved treasures. Refreshments available from the on-site cafe.

Artisan Craft Market held every Friday. Selection of local crafts including textiles, pebble art, photography, jewellery, homemade natural toiletries, paper cutting, prints, home knits, homemade cards, homemade cakes and more. Meet the makers! Everything you see is created by the stallholder.

Artisan Craft Market held every Friday. Selection of local crafts including textiles, pebble art, photography, jewellery, homemade natural toiletries, paper cutting, prints, home knits, homemade cards, homemade cakes and more. Meet the makers! Everything you see is created by the stallholder.

Allow Seraphim’s eight "sublime" female voices to surround you with music specially chosen to enhance the glorious spaces of the recently redesigned interior of St Edmund’s, one of East Anglia’s glorious celebrated churches.

This performance of the Petite messe solennelle, which commemorates the 150th anniversary of the death of Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) is presented by Pakefield Singers, conducted by their Director of Music, Vetta Wise, who is well known in the area for directing concerts to a high standard with great attention to

Deep in the beautiful Northumbrian countryside a terrifying mystery and a legendary nemesis await the arrival of the world’s greatest detective. When the wife of Doctor Watson suddenly disappears, a desperate quest to find her begins.