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.

An exhibition of design and fine craft by 25 of Dorset’s leading makers.

Ceramics|Glass|Metal|Wood|Textiles|Jewellery|Paper|Print

Making Dorset is a long term initiative of Dorset Visual Arts, producers of Dorset Art Weeks.

9 – 30 March

Monday – Saturday 11am – 5pm

Meet the Makers: Thursday 21st & 28th March, 1.30pm – 4pm

www.making-dorset.org / www.furleighestate.co.uk

01308 488991

Sladers Yard Exhibition

The Great Heath – Brian Graham.

Exploring Thomas Hardy’s Egdon Heath

Venue: Sladers Yard, West Bay

Date: 16 March – 6 May 10am-4.30pm

Brian Graham is in conversation with Prof Simon Olding on Friday 26 April at 6.30pm, tickets £10/£28 inc dinner

6 Bridport Artists

Venue: Eype Centre of the Arts

Date: 13-28 April 2019

Time: 10.30-4.30pm

6 painters who had studios at St Michaels’ Studios in Bridport, until the devastating fire in the Summer of 2018, reunite to present an exciting exhibition of their new work. The artists are: John Boyd, David Brooke and Caroline Ireland, Kit Glasiyer, Charlotte Miller and Marion Taylor.

www.stmichaelsartists.com

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.

Rupert Sheldrake, the internationally renowned environmental biologist, explains in his book ‘The Science Delusion’ how materialism has gradually hardened into a kind of anti-Christian principle, claiming authority to dictate theories and to veto enquiries on topics that don’t suit it, such as unorthodox medicine, let alone religion.

Sheldrakes’ insistence on the need to attend to possible wider ways of thinking is surely right. His engaging and provocative book and this talk will make you question the basic assumptions of western science.

Tickets £12 each inc. glass of wine.

This is an LSi Fundraising event.

About the Speaker

Dr Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than eighty-five technical papers and nine books, including Ways To Go Beyond, And Why They Work, and the co-author of six books. He studied at Cambridge and Harvard Universities. As a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, he was Director of Studies in Cell Biology, and was also a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. From 2005-2010, he was Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project for the study of unexplained human and animal abilities, funded from Trinity College, Cambridge. He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, California and of Schumacher College in Dartington, Devon. He lives in London. His web site is www.sheldrake.org.

Date & Time: Thursday 25 April 2019 at 7:30pm

Venue: The Literary & Scientific Institute, 51 East Street, Bridport DT6 3JX

Tickets: £12.00 available from Bridport Tourist Information Centre on 01308 424901 or online here

Tickets can also be purchased from Eventbrite, and The LSI

For more information visit www.lsibridport.co.uk

Askerswell Jumble Sale

Good quality jumble, new to you, bric-a-brac, produce, coffee

Date: Saturday 27 April, 10am

Venue: United Church Hall, East St., Bridport

Entrance 20p, children free!

Friends of Beaminster Festival Concert

Winston Lees on Trumpet and Martin Schellenberg on the Organ playing pieces from Albinoni, Bach, Handel, Krebs and Malcolm Archer.

Venue: St Mary’s Church, Beaminster

Date: Saturday April 27th 2019 @ 3pm

Tickets: £12 from Church Office, Hogshill St., Beaminster 01308 862715 and

Bridport Music, 33a South St., Bridport 01308 424707 or on the door.

Jurassic Fields Festival in a Day

Date: Saturday 27 April

Time: 3pm-12am

Venue: Salway Ash Village Hall

Featuring The Leggomen, Arcade Hearts, Last One Home, Sinful Maggie, Jordan Lindsay, Tattoo’d Beat Messiah, Eve Appleton

Tickets available at www.festivalinaday.com

Melplash Cider Festival

Formerly the Powerstock Cider Festival

Featuring The Skimmity Hitchers

Date: Saturday 27 April 2019

6pm-10:30pm

Melplash Village Hall, DT6 3UD

www.melplashciderfestival.org

Tickets £6.00 available from Bridport Tourist Information Centre 01308 424901

Also available from The Woodman, Bridport or The Corner Garage, Melplash.

The Rotary Club of Bridport present: 

Dorset Police Male Voice Choir

Date: Saturday 27 April

Time: 7.30pm (doors 7pm)

Venue: The United Church, East St., Bridport

Tickets: £10.50 each from Bridport TIC 01308 424901 or online here

Enquiries: 01308 458168 

Bridport Folk Dance Club are celebrating 100 years of dancing in town with a

dance display, raffle and bring and share supper!

Miss Mayne’s Party Annual Dance with music from Weston Country Dance Band, caller Dick Williams.

Tickets: £8

Date: Saturday 27 April, 7.30-11pm

Venue: St Mary’s Church House, South Street, Bridport.

Cyanotype/ Lampshade Workshop

Make your own unique lampshade with photographic artist Angela Heron Watkins

James Hargreaves Hall, Morecombelake

Sunday 28th April

10am-2pm

The Cyanotype is a Victorian photographic printing process that creates lovely blue prints. You don’t need any previous skills and it is a creative and hugely rewarding way to spend a few hours. I will show you how to light-sensitise watercolour paper and work with leaves, grasses and other found objects to create a design. You will then be shown how to make a paper drum lampshade to take home, using your unique design. ( The group will be small which means i can give you lots of help if you need it)

£58, including all materials & tea and coffee.

PLEASE BOOK YOUR PLACE IN ADVANCE

01305 837299/ songsfromthehalls234@gmail.com

Friends of the Bridport Literary Festival 2019

A Very Special Event

Scratch and Spit

A brand new bi-monthly night showcasing open-mic work in progress, followed by a professional headline show.

Monday 29th April, 7:30 pm

At The Lyric Theatre

pay what you can, suggested £10

Doors and Bar open 7pm- Cash only!

The spit: One foot in the Rave, Alexander Rhodes. A disillusioned 23 year old Jehovah’s Witness breaks free form the controlling cult and lands on the ecstasy-fuelled dance floors of the 90’s clubland (1 hours aprrox)

The Scratch: 5 minute Open Mic Slots. Sign up on the night to preform or pre-book a 10 minute slot: robertcasey@hotmail.co.uk

Beyond Old Harry- A Talk by Rod Lawrence

Monday 29th April 2019

7:30pm

At Bridport United Church Main Hall, East St, Bridport

Rod is a retired professional ecologist who has spent most of his life travelling the World exploring its forests, their ecology and what makes the World tick. In this talk he will share his vision of how we could build on what we have here and the Jurassic Coast to create one of the best and most biodiverse places in the world.

Presented by the Golden Cap Association (West Dorset).

Non-members welcome. Admission £3. Includes tea or coffee and biscuits.

The Golden Cap association (West Dorset) is a local group of the National Trust members and accredited volunteers who support the work of the National Trust throughout West Dorset whilst also taking part in a full and varied programme of social events. For more details, call 01308 863577.