Bridport Literary Festival: Day 7
Event Details
Day Seven: Saturday 08 November
Event 39 | Mary Portas | I Shop Therefore I Am
10am at The Electric Palace, 35 South Street, Bridport DT6 3NY
Tickets: £16.00 from Bridport Tourist Information Centre 01308 424901 or online Mary Portas
It’s the 1990s and Mary Portas has been brought in to revitalise the department store Harvey Nichols. With two babies at home, a sceptical, all-male senior management team to impress and the pressure on to bring in new brands and customers, Mary would need to roll up her sleeves like never before to prove she was the woman for the job. Told with her trademark wit, grit and candour, Mary takes us behind the shop window – to the people who kept the show on the road and the early lessons that have shaped her career.
Event 40 | Fee Greening | Illustration Workshop | Brigg’s Dictionary of Fairies
2-4pm at Human Nature, 25 East Street, DT6 3LJ (please note this time has changed from the brochure)
Tickets: £45.00 THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT
Fee Greening is a dip pen and ink illustrator inspired by medieval illuminated manuscripts and gothic fairytales. Her latest work illustrates the beautiful new edition of Briggs’s Dictionary of Fairies – a re publication of folklorist Katharine Briggs’s book of banshees, boggarts and other creatures. Fee’s work is rich in detail with beautiful black and white line drawings, from Shetland selkies to Cornish spriggans. In this two-hour workshop she will use her knowledge to guide you through your own illustrations, taking inspiration from the book. A truly unique and beautiful opportunity.
Event 41 | John Crace | Taking The Lead
12noon at The Electric Palace, 35 South Street, Bridport DT6 3NY
Tickets: £16.00 from Bridport Tourist Information Centre 01308 424901 or online John Crace
Clothes are important. They define who we are, impact our mood and influence how people think of us. Last year 100 billion garments were made worldwide, most workers paid virtually nothing and 70% from plastic textiles made from oils that do not not recycle. Less is Patrick Grant’s passionate and revealing book about loving clothes but hating how they are made. Judge of the BBC’s Great British Sewing Bee, he considers the crisis in the global fashion industry and how to set it right.
Event 42 | Andrew Graham-Dixon | Vermeer
2pm at The Electric Palace, 35 South Street, Bridport DT6 3NY
Tickets: £16.00 THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT
Andrew Graham-Dixon’s book places Vermeer’s work in the context of its time and paints a dramatically new picture of the artist, revealing many of the painter’s hitherto unknown friendships as well as his previously undetected allegiance to a radical movement driven underground by persecution. In the past Vermeer has been imagined as a remote and enigmatic figure but in this account he emerges as a man deeply engaged with his own society, well read and well travelled and greatly affected by the struggles that shook his world. Graham-Dixon reassesses both the paintings and their meanings. Starmer. This is the story the politicians didn’t want you to know. Herbert Hound, finally, tells all.
Event 43 | Steve Richards & Iain Dale | Tony Blair & Margaret Thatcher
4pm at The Electric Palace, 35 South Street, Bridport DT6 3NY
Tickets: £16.00 from Bridport Tourist Information Centre 01308 424901 or online Steve Richards & Iain Dale
In conversation with Howard Davies
Margaret Thatcher was Iain Dale’s childhood heroine and the woman who inspired him into politics. In his book, he offers an intelligent and challenging look at the Iron Lady on the 100th anniversary of her birth.
Event 44 | Martin Clunes
6pm at The Electric Palace, 35 South Street, Bridport DT6 3NY
Tickets: £16.00 from Bridport Tourist Information Centre 01308 424901 or online Martin Clunes
Martin Clunes celebrates the intelligence, loyalty and companionship of extraordinary animals ranging from mine-sniffing rats to therapy horses and life-saving dolphins. He recounts the fascinating, moving and astonishing ways animals have enriched our lives. Inspired by his own adoption of a former guide dog, Martin tells of his life-changing encounters with animals across the world.
More information about the festival can be found at http://www.bridlit.com
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