Don’t miss this week...

1. Celebrate National Poetry Day on Thursday. Poole libraries will be hosting special events and activities. Visit poole.gov.uk/libraries for more details.

2. Catch up over a cuppa and help raise funds for a good cause at the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning on Friday for Macmillan Cancer Support. Sign up for your free coffee morning kit at coffee.macmillan.org.uk

3. This week sees the launch of Friday Night Jazz at the Jazz Café in Sandbanks starting with saxophonist Toni Kofi. Doors open at 7.30pm. Call 01202 708346 or visit jazzcafesandbanks.co.uk.

4. Highcliffe artist, Mary Wilson, will be displaying over 30 of her works at the Regent Centre from Saturday, September 30 to Friday, October 20. Mary mainly works in oils with some watercolours.

5. Local Love island contestant Ellisha Jade-Wright launches a new night in Bournemouth called SWAG on Thursday at Truth club.

6. Coronation Street actress Catherine Cusack stars in Judith on Thursday a powerful one-act play reimagining the apocryphal legend of Judith co-produced by Lighthouse and REND Productions.

7. Slim Chance is a brilliant live band, that plays an amazing array of instruments. Ctahc the, at the Tivoli on Friday at 7.30pm

8. Alt-pop heart throbs Amber Run are playing at Bournemouth’s Old Fire Station on Friday.

9. Tickets for Paloma Faith’s 2018 tour go on sale this Friday.

10. Jackson Live in Concert is at Bournemouth Pavilion on Sunday. Described as the most vocally and visually accurate tribute to the King of Pop. He’s got the look, the moonwalk and above all, the voice.