BridFringe: Short Film Competition for Dorset Filmmakers

Theme: The Moon

The 50th Anniversary concert of the Moon Landing lifts off with a short film competition for local filmmakers offering award prizes of £100, £50 and £25 for the 3 most popular films chosen by the evenings audience.

Films should be a maximum length of 3 minutes, MP4 format, Aspect ratio 16:9,

closing date for entries is 30 June.

To take part in the competition please email clocktowermusicbridport@gmail.com and provide your contact details and agree permission that your film may be shown on social media and be suitable for viewing by all age groups.

Dorset Art Prize 2019 Call for Entries!

This Year’s Theme is Reflection

Enter Now – Submissions close on 15 July 2019

For full details on categories and how to enter visit www.thecollege.co.uk/artprize

An exhibition of work from the short-listed artists and the prize-giving ceremony will take place at Poole Museum in November 2019.

For 7-18 year olds.

Opportunities to participate in sport, outdoor activities, growing and preparing your own food can be fundamental formative experiences to develop yourself in lots of ways.

It challenges you to do something new, commit to practising and training. As your competency and skills grow so does your confidence! You will also make connections with others. As you develop further, you may become a leader with a growing compassion and care to help others gain similar benefits that you’ve enjoyed.

It doesn’t matter what the activity is, this is a great local club that is committed to nurturing interest and ability. Push your boundaries!

There are 40 places for young people – free opportunities to try at least 2 exciting outdoor pursuits!

All equipment provided.

Download booking forms from here

 To book- complete forms and send a picture of them to 07802 422630

www.supernatured.org.uk

 A Talk with Daisy Goodwin: The Queen & I

Daisy Goodwin, the creator of ITVs acclaimed series ’Victoria’ will give an illustrated talk on ‘what I have learnt about life, love and motherhood from Queen Victoria’

All proceeds will go to the Dorset Branch of the Family Counselling Trust

Date: Monday 17 June 2019

Time: Tea and cake at 3.30pm / talk starts at 4pm followed by Q&A

Venue: Symondsbury Tithe Barn, Symondsbury, Bridport DT6 6HG

Tickets: £15.00 available on the door

Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera is packed full of sentimental pirates, blundering policeman, absurd adventures and improbable paradoxes.

Frederic, a pirate’s apprentice, falls head-over-heels in love with Mabel, the daughter of Major-General Stanley.

Frederic is due to be released from his apprenticeship on his 21st birthday, but there’s a snag.

Born on 29 February, Frederic discovers that he is technically still a youngster. Although very much in love, his dedication to duty is unshakeable. Can he find a way to live happily-ever-after with Mabel?

Performed by the English National Opera and Directed by Mike Leigh (Palme d’Or winner and 5 times Oscar nominee), Gilbert & Sullivan’s popular comic opera features much-loved favourites including ‘A Policeman’s Lot is not a Happy One’ and ‘I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General’.

Date: Tuesday 18 June 2019

Time: Starts 7pm

Ticket Price: Advance £12.00 (£11.50+50p bf) / Door £13.00

Tickets available from Bridport Tourist Information Centre, Bridport Town Hall, South Street DT6 3LF. Tel: 01308 424901

www.electricpalace.org.uk

Bridport Multi-Cultural Meet-Up

Come together with other local residents from diverse backgrounds to share experiences, support each other and celebrate our global heritage.

Thursday 20 June, 12 noon-2pm

Venue: Mountfield lawn, Bridport DT6 3JP (inside if rain)

Refreshments provided.

Contact 01202 392954, jane.jones@dorsetrec.org.uk for more information

Double-meanings, disguises and dirty laundry abound in The Merry Wives of Windsor as Sir John Falstaff sets about improving his financial situation by wooing Mistress Page and Mistress Ford. But the ‘Merry Wives’ quickly cotton on to his tricks and decide to have a bit of fun of their own at Falstaff’s expense…

The Merry Wives of Windsor is the only comedy that Shakespeare set in his native land, and with its witty mix of verbal and physical humour, the play celebrates a tradition that reaches right down to the contemporary English sitcom.

Directed by Nicole Charles and Elle While, and staged at the beautiful and iconic Globe Theatre in London, a reconstruction of an open-air Elizabethan playhouse on the bank of the River Thames, this new production of The Merry Wives of Windsor will be broadcast live and will feature exclusive behind-the-scenes insights into the play.

Please note: Screening begins at 7.20pm, Play begins at 7.30pm
Run time: 180 mins (TBC) including 1 interval
BBFC certificate: 12A as live

Date: Thursday 20 June 2019

Time: Starts 7:20pm

Ticket Price: Advance £12.00 (£11.50+50p bf) / Door £13.00

Tickets available from Bridport Tourist Information Centre, Bridport Town Hall, South Street DT6 3LF. Tel: 01308 424901

www.electricpalace.org.uk

Summer Solstice Song and Dance Weekend

Date: Fri 21st – Sun 23rd June

Tickets available at the gate –

Weekend ticket, including camping £40, All-day Saturday £25, Morning/afternoon/evening £8-10, Children free

Dances of universal Peace – Circle Dancing – Acapella Harmony Singing – Meditation – Yoga – Storytelling

Location: Broadoak land co-op field, DT6 5NR

For more information contact Christine 07544695789 christine.harmonydance@gmail.com

6-week Nutritional Therapy Cooking Course

This 6-week cooking course is designed to equip you with methods and techniques for making your own anti-inflammatory food and drinks. Registered nutritionist Helen Ross will run the course explaining the nutritional value of healthy foods, and why we need them. Each class will run on a Friday morning for 2 hours.

This course is ideal if you struggle with gut-related health issues, skin issues, allergies and/or food intolerances, low mood, thyroid problems, chronic stress, or you would just like to optimise your health. All recipes are plant-based, free from gluten, dairy and refined sugar.

Cost: £20 per individual class or £100 if you book all six (limited spaces)

          Where: Yellow Gorse (upstairs), 25 East Street, Bridport, DT6 3JX.

Date/Time

All classes run on Fridays from 10am – 12pm

Week 6:  21/06/19

Sprouting, Juices, and Smoothies.

Join us for our Anniversary 25th Axe Vale Show!

Axe Vale Festival is a fantastic annual event that celebrates our local area, raises money for local causes and provides a great family day out for all visitors. Originally started to raise money to help build a local swimming pool, the first festival celebrated gardening and crafts and welcomed 1000 people through its gates. Today the festival has widened its appeal to include food, antiques, trade stands, skilled demonstrators, toys & hobbies, live music, and entertainment as well as retaining its strong links to horticulture, gardening and crafts.

Today, many thousands of people visit the show each year which is still run and organised by volunteers. To date over £300,000 has been donated by the Festival to local good causes to benefit the community. We are looking forward to this year’s show and hope you come along, support us and enjoy a great day out!

Tickets are available here in the Bridport TIC! You call also call us on 01308 424901

Discounted tickets are available now or purchase tickets on the gate.

For more information on the event, please visit: www.axevaleshow.com

Guided wall: Eype

Saturday 22nd June

Join Jurassic Coast Trust Ambassador Geoff Rowland for a leisurely walk from Highlands End Holiday Park to Eype and back, taking in stunning views of the Jurassic Coast from Thorncombe Beacon.

This walk will take in a trip to the gorgeous beach at Eype Mouth, geological point of interest ‘Fault Corner’, as well as Thorncombe Beacon. The route from Highlands End will be a gentle, inland route, following the coastal path on the way back.

Meet at Highlands End Holiday Park reception at 10am. Walk will be a 2-3 hour round trip, returning to Highlands End in time for lunch.

Tickets £5 per person, or half-price for Jurassic Coast Trust Members – visit our Membership page for more info.

To book, visit our shop: https://jurassiccoast.org/product/eype-walks/  or call 01308 807 000.

Quilt Exhibition by Eype Schoolroom Quilters

Venue: St Peter’s Church, Mount Lane, Eype DT6 6AR

Date: 22 & 23 June, 10.30am-5pm

Parking – refreshments – free entry – donations

Some quilts and quilting supplies for sale.

Proceeds to be shared by Friends of St Peter’s and West Dorset MND Assoc.

The first-ever live-action Pokémon movie, “POKÉMON Detective Pikachu” stars Ryan Reynolds as the titular character in the first-ever live-action movie based on the iconic face of the global Pokémon brand—one of the world’s most popular, multi-generation entertainment properties and most successful media franchises of all time.

The story begins when ace private eye Harry Goodman goes mysteriously missing, prompting his 21-year-old son Tim to find out what happened.

Aiding in the investigation is Harry’s former Pokémon partner, Detective Pikachu: a hilariously wise-cracking, adorable super-sleuth who is a puzzlement even to himself. Finding that they are uniquely equipped to communicate with one another, Tim and Pikachu join forces on a thrilling adventure to unravel the tangled mystery.

Chasing clues together through the neon-lit streets of Ryme City—a sprawling, modern metropolis where humans and Pokémon live side by side in a hyper-realistic live-action world—they encounter a diverse cast of Pokémon characters and uncover a shocking plot that could destroy this peaceful co-existence and threaten the whole Pokémon universe.

Fans everywhere can now experience Pikachu on the big screen as never before, as a talking detective Pikachu, a Pokémon like no other.

The film also showcases a wide array of beloved Pokémon characters, each with its own unique abilities and personality.

Date: Saturday 22 June 2019

Time: Starts 11am

Ticket Price: £4.50

Tickets available from Bridport Tourist Information Centre, Bridport Town Hall, South Street DT6 3LF. Tel: 01308 424901

www.electricpalace.org.uk

Supporting Samaritans

Chesil Rocks

Date: Saturday 22 June 2019, 11am – 11pm

Venue: Higher Farmhouse, Langton Herring, Weymouth DT3 4HX

Tickets from Bridport Tourist Information Centre and www.chesilrocks.com

In 1971, Aretha Franklin, the undisputed Queen of Soul, brought producer Jerry Wexler, her backup singers, and the legendary Atlantic Records rhythm section to The New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles to record an album of gospel music before an enthusiastic live audience.

The result, “Amazing Grace”, went on to become one of the biggest albums of Aretha Franklin’s career and one of her most beloved works.

But even as the album gained fans around the world, few realized that those inspirational sessions had not only been recorded, they had been filmed by a camera crew led by Oscar winning filmmaker Sydney Pollack.

Pollack and his team spent two nights capturing Franklin at the height of her powers, as she thrilled a shouting and dancing audience that included Franklin’s father, Reverend C.L. Franklin, gospel legends Clara Ward and Mother Ward of the Ward Family Singers, Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts, and the members of The New Temple Missionary Baptist Church.

But due to technical problems the film has never been seen. Until now.

No one who loves music will want to miss this thrilling film, which is both an extraordinary look at a key moment in American musical and social history, and an invaluable record of one of America’s greatest artists doing what she did best.

Date: Saturday 22 June 2019

Time: Starts 7:30pm

Ticket Price: £5.00 (£4.80+20p bf)

Tickets available from Bridport Tourist Information Centre, Bridport Town Hall, South Street DT6 3LF. Tel: 01308 424901

www.electricpalace.org.uk

Rain or Shine Theatre Company Presents

As You Like It

Al fresco Summer theatre

Sunday 23rd June

2.30pm

Beaminster Manor

Tickets £15, Child £5, Family £35

01308 862943 0r boxoffice@beaminsterfestival.com

www.beaminsterfestival.com – for online tickets

Gates open 12.30pm, Bring own seats, rugs, picnic

Connecting creativity to nature in Dorset for health, wellbeing and community

Free event, all welcome, booking is essential via Eventbrite or email blackvenpress@gmail.com

Workshops and walks. The walks are 10am-11.30am and take place at:

Bridport Community Orchard on 24 June and 30 September

Orchard walk:  We meet at the entrance nearest the back of the church and will go for coffee if it is wild and wet. All materials provided, everyone welcome!  We will be walking (a little) and reading/ listening/ thinking about the orchard and the seasons together. It is a gentle activity suitable for all ages and abilities. Dementia Friendly.

Bridport Mountfield on 29 July

and various other locations, contact Black Ven for details on the workshops and various locations.

A bi-monthly night at Bridport’s experimental theatre showcasing open-mic works in progress followed by a professional headline show!

The Scratch:

5 Minute open mic slots.

Sign up at 7pm on the night to perform!

The Spit:

My Cloth-Eared heart Melanie Branton

A show about love, failure, stubbornness and being single in a couple-centric world.

Doors & bar open at 7pm – Cash only

Pay what you can, Suggested £10.

www.the-lyric.com

Down the Slipway- An exhibition about Shipbuilding in West Bay

Tuesday 25th June- Sunday 27th October 2019

 Open daily 11am-4pm excluding Mondays.

At West Bay Discovery Centre

The harbout at West Bay no longer shows any visible signs of its shipbuilding past. However, during the period 1769-1879 over 350 ships were built here. We will be bringing the shipyard back to life and discovering some of its secrets in this anniversary year (Part of Turner events in Bridport #TurnerinBridport)

Passion, tragedy, fierce devotion. Queen Victoria’s diaries revealed a life so fascinating that her daughter Beatrice tried to rewrite history.

Queen Victoria’s irrepressible love for Albert sparked a royal dynasty, but his untimely death brought the world’s most powerful woman to her knees with grief.

In celebration of her bicentenary year, Northern Ballet, famed for their outstanding narrative works, bring the sensational story of Victoria to life in dance.

Choreographed by Cathy Marston, creator of Northern Ballet’s acclaimed Jane Eyre, with an original score by Philip Feeney, this major new production reveals the often-conflicting faces of one of Britain’s most iconic monarchs, told through the eyes of her youngest child and lifelong companion Beatrice.

Filmed in front of a live audience and shown on the big screen at the Electric Palace.

Date: Tuesday 25 June 2019

Time: Starts 7pm

Ticket Price: Advance £12.00 (£11.50+50p bf) / Door £13.00

Tickets available from Bridport Tourist Information Centre, Bridport Town Hall, South Street DT6 3LF. Tel: 01308 424901

www.electricpalace.org.uk

DORMEN (Dorset Business Mentoring) invite you to a discovery event

GROW YOUR BUSINESS WITH A MENTOR

If you own a small business of any type, are in the fledgling years or want to grow your business then this event is for you!

Come along to an informal event and discover why 1:1 business mentoring is such an effective form of tailored support and how you can benefit.

You will also hear from a current local client who will share their experience with you.

Places are limited so booking is essential.

Book online by searching Dormen on eventbrite.com or call 01202 607530

Who Owns England? A book launch with Guy Shrubsole 

Date & Time: Wednesday 26 June 7pm-9pm

Venue: The United Church, 34 East St, Bridport DT6 3LJ

Tickets: £6.50 (including booking fee) available from Bridport Tourist Information Centre on 01308 424901 or online here

Who Owns England? Behind this simple question lies our country’s oldest and best-kept secret.

Small Island embarks on a journey from Jamaica to Britain, through the Second World War to 1948 – the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury.

The play follows three intricately connected stories.

Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Hope and humanity meet stubborn reality as the play traces the tangled history of Jamaica and the UK.

A company of 40 actors take to the stage of the National Theatre in this timely and moving story.

Adapted by Helen Edmundson and based on Andrea Levy’s Orange Prize-winning novel; Small Island comes to life in an epic new theatre adaptation.

Experience the play in cinemas, filmed live on stage as part of National Theatre Live’s 10th birthday.

BBFC classification: 12A as live TBC
Running time: 170 mins TBC

Date: Thursday 7 June 2019

Time: Starts 7pm

Ticket Price: Advance £12.00 / Door £13.00

Tickets available from Bridport Tourist Information Centre, Bridport Town Hall, South Street DT6 3LF. Tel: 01308 424901

www.electricpalace.org.uk

400 Years of the Guitar

Recital and talk by Anthony Dodds & Colin Thompson

Featuring music from 1550 to the present day and including 19th Century duets played on original early guitars.

Venue: LSI, 51 East St., Bridport DT6 3JX

Date: Thursday 27 june, 7.30pm (doors 7pm)

Tickets: £10 available from TIC, LSi Canteen and Eventbrite.

www.lsibridport.co.uk

A coolly elegant, critically acclaimed comic masterpiece, Kind Hearts and Coronets is classic black comedy from Ealing Studios.

Louis Mazzini’s mother belongs to the aristocratic family D’Ascoyne, but she ran away with an opera singer. Therefore, the D’Ascoynes rejected her and Louis.

Once an adult, Louis (Price) decides to avenge his mother and himself, by becoming the next Duke of the family. Murdering every potential successor – all famously played by Alec Guinness – is clearly the safest way to achieve his goal.

Louis employs a variety of imaginative murder techniques in order to achieve his aim, and gradually his goal seems to be moving towards his grasp.

Originally released in June of 1949, this British black comedy remains a firm favourite on Top British Film lists and features an all-star cast including Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson and Alec Guinness; with Guinness playing nine characters.

The story follows Louis D’Ascoyne Mazzini (Dennis Price), the son of a woman disowned by her aristocratic family for marrying out of her social class.

After her death, Louis decides to take revenge on the family, and to take the dukedom by trying to murder the people ahead of him who are in line for succession of the title.

Regarded by many as Ealing comedy’s greatest film, come and relish this 70th Anniversary restoration in sparkling 4k on our big screen.

Date: Friday 28 June 2019

Time: Starts 7:30pm

Ticket Price: £5.00 (£4.80+20p bf)

Tickets available from Bridport Tourist Information Centre, Bridport Town Hall, South Street DT6 3LF. Tel: 01308 424901

www.electricpalace.org.uk

She Speaks is the magical realist testimonial of a young woman who has rebuilt herself. Poetry and spoken word meets puppetry and physical theatre in a new age form of storytelling.

Pay what you feel on the night. Doors and bar open 7.30 (cash only)

Venue: Lyric Theatre

Date: Friday 28 June, 8pm

Artists

Caroline Liddington & Lynne Grace

present their return exhibition of recent paintings

Eype Centre for the Arts

www.eypechurcharts.co.uk / 01308 888095 / 07747 033433

Lynne Grace

www.lynnegrace.co.uk / 07739 905501

Caroline Liddington

www.carolineliddingtonart.com / 07958 756368

Art Lecture

Saturday 29th June

2pm-3.30pm

Uplyme Village Hall. Free Parking

Fee £10.

Paul Rego and Jenny Saville, two contemporary figurative artists. These artists have very different styles of painting and subject matter, but they share some common ground and I think they make an interesting pairing. Paula Rego refers to art history, Portuguese and other fairy tales, magical realism, allegory  and her own biography. There is a museum dedicated to her work in  Portugal, her country of origin, a very rare thing for a living artist! Jenny Saville is a consummate painter, who has studied the nude in relation to art history, but her own take on portraying the female body is unique and thought provoking.

Tutor: Pam Simpson MA,  is a professional Art and Design historian, who has taught in London art colleges for 30 years. Currently teaching at Bath Spa University. She is an enthusiastic lecturer who loves her subject and conveying her knowledge to others. She has been teaching Art and Design History courses in Bridport in recent years.

For information or to book: contact Pam Simpson on:    chris.pamsimpson@btinternet.com    or tel: 01300 321715.

Gloria!  Beautiful songs for Summertime

Performed by Cantamus at The Othona Community, Burton Bradstock, Dorset, DT6 4RN

Date; Sunday 30 June, 4pm

Tickets: £10 on the door, includes a drink in the interval.

www.cantamus-dorset.org

Acclaimed experimental landscape painter, Jeremy Gardiner, will give a talk about his tecniques, his life, his work – as a painter and also as an art-school teacher in New York, elsewhere in the US and Bath – and most of all about ideas and landscapes that stimulate and inspire his painting.

The talk accompanies Jeremy Gardiner’s current exhibition of multi-layered, textured relief paintings, including a series of works on paper plus a selection of paintings on panel. He shows alongside Akiko Hirai, one of the leading ceramic artists in this country. Her highly individual, instantly recognisable work is collected nationally and internationally and seems to answer a need in this age of mass-production and consumerism. Likewise, Petter Southall’s distinctive curved-solid-wood furntiture with its stylish clean lines and deeply satisfying designs stand out for their clarity and craftsmanship.

Tickets for the talk are £10 or £28 with dinner.

For more information click here.