What’s On

This exhibition is part of our exciting 3.5 year collections review project. ‘The Right Stuff’ seeks to find out from our local community what you think we should keep collecting now, and also in the future. We aim to be bold: what should we keep, and why?

We only display about 5% of our collections in the Museum. We have around 20,000 objects in our stores- many of which are of national and international significance like our rope and net and fossil collections.

The exhibition introduces you to some of the challenges that we face in caring for its collections- with lots of opportunities for everyone to have their say!

Exhibition: The Right Stuff? Bridport Museum

Turning the Tide

An Exhibition about Plastics in our Oceans

Tuesday 18th May – 31st October – Everyday the centre is open

11am-4pm

West Bay Discovery Centre

Discover the history of plastic and the problem with single-use plastics. Learn how you can help in the fight to reduce microplastics in our oceans.

Admissions free – donations welcomed

01308 427288

manager@westbaydiscoverycentre.org.uk

http://www.westbaydiscoverycentre.org.uk

In Greek Mythology Gaia is the personification of the Earth. Enjoy contemplating this spectacular artwork in the tranquil woodland of Symondsbury Estate.

Measuring seven metres in diameter, Luke Jerram’s Gaia features 120dpi detailed NASA imagery of the Earth’s surface*. This huge artwork provides the opportunity to see our planet like never before, floating in three-dimensions.

Luke Jerram’s multidisciplinary practice involves the creation of sculptures, installations and live arts projects. Living in the UK but working internationally since 1997, Jerram has created a number of extraordinary art projects which have excited and inspired people around the globe. Jerram has a set of different narratives that make up his practice which are developing in parallel with one another. He is known worldwide for his large scale public artworks.

For further information:  https://activateperformingarts.org.uk/events/gaia-symondsbury-estate/

Great Big Green Week – Parent & Child tree walk, treasure hunt and quiz

Friday 24th September 2021

17:00

Millennium Green, Bridport (Upper part)

As part of the Great Big Green Week events Bridport Tree Planting Group are leading a treasure hunt and tree quiz for children of primary school age with parents accompanying. Bridport Tree Planting Group have planted lots of young saplings this last year at many locations around Bridport including Millennium Green. A short talk about trees and the story of Millennium Green will  also be included free refreshments – cold drinks and cake – provided at the close.  Please note the event is taking part in the UPPER PART of Millennium Green.

 joe@thehacketts.uk

https://www.westdorsetfriendsoftheearth.org.uk/index.php/the-great-big-green-week/

CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF BRIDPORT YOUTH DANCE.

Bridport Youth Dance, Luminous Youth Dance company and the BYD street dance crew present SPELLBOUND and film The Dance Weavers – EMERGING

FILM : The Dance Weavers – Emerging
The Dance Weavers short dance films were created as we emerged from lockdown.

Emerging is about the young people reconnecting with each other once again and reconnecting with the beautiful environment within which we live.

The Dance Weavers – Emerging
Directed and produced by Nikki Northover Choreographed by Nikki Northover and the Luminous Youth Dance company members Music composed by Andrew Dickson with vocals by Georgia Collins Filmed and edited by Elliot Millson

LIVE DANCE : Spellbound
A showcase of live dance by students from Bridport Youth Dance, Luminous Youth Dance Company and the BYD street dance crew.

Choreography by Nikki Northover, Bec Ayles, Aimee Symes, Claire Benson and Polly Constance.

Performance run time 60 mins

Photography by Brendan Buesnel
BYD artistic director Nikki Northover

www.bridportyouthdance.org.uk

Email : bridportyouthdance01@gmail.com

Date:  Friday 24 September 2021

Time: Starts 6pm

Ticket Price: Adult £8.50 / Students & Under 18’s £5.50

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

www.electricpalace.org.uk

Full poster click here!

On Friday 24^th, Symondsbury Estate is hosting a Festival Supper followed by a torchlight walk to experience the awe-inspiring Gaia in the woods. Measuring seven metres in diameter, Luke Jerram’s Gaia features 120dpi detailed NASA imagery of the Earth’s surface. A specially made surround sound composition by BAFTA award winning composer Dan Jones is played alongside the sculpture. This huge artwork which is part of the Inside Out Dorset festival, provides the opportunity to experience our planet like never before.

The festival supper will be served under the new glazed pergola, overlooking Manor Yard and the wider landscape. There are three seating options, INSIDE – The Green Room, Symondsbury Kitchen, leading off the pergola, or The Old Pottery, set behind the pergola or, and OUT, under the heated pergola festooned with lights.

Places are limited and demand is expected to be high, so booking is essential. To book please call 01308 424116 ex 208, stating number of guests, seating preference and menu choice (attached below). Pre-payment is required with booking. Visit our website for full details and terms & conditions.

We hope you will join us for this one-off magical experience.

CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF BRIDPORT YOUTH DANCE

Bridport Youth Dance together with members of Luminous Youth Dance company present

FILM : The Dance Weavers 2 – Freedom/Connection
Freedom/Connection is BYD’s second short dance film created as we emerged from the winter lockdown.

Directed and produced by Nikki Northover
Choreographed by Nikki Northover and the Luminous Youth Dance company members
Music composed by Andrew Dickson with vocals by Georgia Collins Filmed and edited by Elliot Millson followed by

LIVE DANCE : Spellbound
A showcase of live dance by students from Bridport Youth Dance, Luminous Youth Dance Company and the BYD street dance crew.

Choreography by Nikki Northover, Bec Ayles, Aimee Symes, Claire Benson and Polly Constance.

Performance run time 60 mins

BYD artistic director Nikki Northover

www.bridportyouthdance.org.uk
Email : bridportyouthdance01@gmail.com

Date:  Friday 24 September 2021

Time: Starts 8pm

Ticket Price: Adult £8.50 / Students & Under 18’s £5.50

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

www.electricpalace.org.uk

Hidden in the back corners of Dorset, England comes a ramshackle country group unlike any other. The Two Man Travelling Medicine Show is an eight piece group with synchronicity unlike any other boot stompin’, country rockin’ octet. Formed in the small village of Witchampton, The Two Man Travelling Medicine Show has been on the map since 2016. So far they have released the critically acclaimed album Weeding Out the Wicked in May of 2017, clenching three Oscars and a Grammy.

Willow Sculpture Workshop- Chicken or Bird on a rod

Saturday 25th September

9am-3pm (Lunch break 12.45-1.30-bring our own)

Skyrm Room, Beaminster Town hall

£65pp

For more details please visit the website: Workshops 2020/21 | Jo Sadler Forged n Willow (bigcartel.com)

All booking by email. Terms and conditions with booking information. Limited groups. Covid restrictions applied. Flexible re booking if needed. Non returnable deposit. All materials and tutoring included.

Martha Wainwright is beginning again.

The beguiling performer and songwriter returns with Love Will Be Reborn, out in August.

Not since 2012’s Come Home to Mama has a Martha Wainwright record been so full of original written material. Wainwright’s fifth studio album follows recent years of loneliness and clarity in search of optimism and joy.

Wainwright wrote the first song—and what would become the title track— of the record a few years ago.

‘’It was a very dark time’’, she says, ‘’but the positivity and luminosity of “Love Will Be Reborn” signalled what was to come’’. The song simply poured out of her.

Much of Wainwright’s songwriting since 2016’s Goodnight City felt too raw.

“There were several years where I picked up the guitar, and I was so, so sad and depressing. I would just put it down because I was terrible.”

Before writing it out, or writing through it for catharsis, Wainwright had to live it.

Album opener “Middle of the Lake” reinforces Wainwright’s path forward as she sings over voltaic chords and percussion, “I sing my songs of love and pain / Winds of change or simply singing, I’m singing in the rain.”

Her work never shies away from an existential throbbing wound.

“There are a couple major subjects on the record. From what I can tell, there’s really dark and then light,” she says,”It really is reflective of a very difficult period of divorce. Then, after that, it’s meeting somebody new and amazing. And so you hear certain songs about this new love.”

Wainwright enlisted Canadian producer Pierre Marchand for Love Will Be Reborn.

“Hole In My Heart” is an upbeat song, with Wainwright singing, “I got naked right away when I saw you / My love was like the rain when I saw you,” as is the track, “Getting Older,” which is about aging and new love.

Other songs, she says, “represent me trying to shake away the past a little bit, the ball and chain of that anger, try to escape from it.”

There is no song more gripping than “Report Card.”

The song is stripped to essential instrumentals punctuating her anguish.

Wainwright expresses on the sombre track a feeling of deep loneliness, evoking emotional nuances particular to parents and individuals separated from their children because of custody arrangements.

Martha Wainwright’s role as an artist has always been to embrace her wildness and sketch out her raw depth.

This edge is what makes Wainwright uncompromisingly herself and continues to draw in an audience two decades on.

To begin again does not mean starting over. This process of rebirth honours the past to move forward. Love Will Be Reborn captures Wainwright’s heart in transition.

In an effort to rise out of some painful depths, as she says much like a phoenix from the ashes of an existential twilight, Wainwright bore witness to what her heart endured to find a new joy once more.

Promoter : SNG Live.

Date:  Saturday 25 September 2021

Time: Starts 7.30pm

Ticket Price: Advance £33.50 (including booking fee) £35.00 on the door

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

www.electricpalace.org.uk

The Lyric Theatre welcomes audiences through its doors for the first public performance since March 2020.

. Please come and show this wonderful band your support, we are looking forward to welcoming you back into the Lyric.

“If at first you don’t succeed then try, try, try again. A well known maxim that has encouraged us for many years to not lose hope…”

Magdalena and the Mystical Birds came together as a new band in late 2019. Writing original songs that range from light jazz to chanson and folk/blues to festival chants, they planned to launch on 21st March 2020 with a performance at The Lyric.

Good preparation but poor timing, because it was the weekend that lockdown was announced, and they were to have no audience. Undeterred they pressed ahead and became ostensibly the ‘first’ band to play in lockdown.

Until now they haven’t been able to try again but this rescheduled date has offered them the opportunity to be the first band to perform on The Lyric’s stage since lockdown.

Polish-born singer/songwriter Magdalena Atkinson had recorded two albums with Steve Jones (formerly of cult folk band Heron and 11 year member of Mungo Jerry) when they decided to create a band to record a third album. Enlisting the help of ‘punk’ bass player Drew Crow Star and samba percussionist Darren Coleman the resulting chemistry proved irresistible and The Mysticals were born.

Fortunately they had had the foresight to video and multitrack record their first Lyric Theatre performance and will now launch the resultant live album ‘Lockdown Live at The Lyric’ at the gig.

Special guest Marina Renee-Cemmick will add an unexpected and exciting backdrop to the show, literally, because, as a very talented local painter and street artist, she will be creating a theatre backdrop in her own unique style while the band performs.

Lockdown has been a huge challenge for everyone, but Magdalena and The Mystical Birds managed to use it as an opportunity to rehearse and write new songs online. Try, try again has become their motto.

Tickets for the gig are available in advance from Bridport TIC; online streaming tickets are available from https://www.magdalenaatkinson.co.uk.

At the time of going to press we do not know if the bar will be open yet. Please keep an eye on the Lyric’s social media and sign up to their newsletter for updates.

Saturday 25 September 8pm (doors open 7pm)

The Lyric Theatre, 9 Barrack Street, Bridport DT6 3LX

Ticket Price: £12.00 available at Bridport Tourist Information Centre 01308 424901 or

online Magdalena & The Mystical Birds

The Velvet Underground replaced Lou Reed with Val Doonican in the early 70s – a whole new direction for them which, sadly, soon to lead to the demise of the band that had come to represent the complete anarchic anti-music antithesis to the summer of love and to middle-of-the-road cartoon Irish folk music. The Velvet Doonicans (Arnie Cottrell, Graham Bushell and Rick Foot) came to the rescue, however, picked up the torch and ran in the opposite direction. Wherever that is! The rest is history.

The Golden Cap Association presents a fascinating talk by Rob Rhodes. The subject is “Our Work in the Countryside – a National Picture” and takes place at 2.30pm on Monday, 27th September 2021.

Members of the public are welcome. More information from 01308 459 855

The Golden Cap Association (West Dorset) was founded in 1978 and has over 375 members, and organises illustrated talks on the last Monday of the month.

For more information you can contact Mike Nicks on (01308) 459855

Do you like singing?
Bridport Choral Society always welcomes new members.

COVID-19 regulations permitting, our new season of rehearsals starts on Monday, 13 September at 7.30pm in the United Church Hall, Bridport.

No auditions, just an enthusiasm for singing required. An ability to read music is useful but don’t worry, its not essential!

There’s no need to commit straightaway – why not try us out for free – for the first two sessions?

The cost for the term is £40.00.

You can contact us via our website: https://bridportchoral.wordpress.com, or just come along on the night!

Romeo & Juliet
by William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet risk everything to be together. In defiance of their feuding families, they chase a future of joy and passion as violence erupts around them.

This bold new film brings to life the remarkable backstage spaces of the National Theatre in which desire, dreams and destiny collide to make Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy sing in an entirely new way.

Jessie Buckley (Wild Rose, Judy) and Josh O’Connor (The Crown, God’s Own Country) play Juliet and Romeo.

The award-winning cast includes Tamsin Greig, Fisayo Akinade, Adrian Lester, Lucian Msamati, Deborah Findlay.

BBFC: 12A
Running Time: 100 minutes

Date:  Tuesday 28 September 2021

Time: Starts 7pm

Ticket Price: £13.00 advance / £14 on the door

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

www.electricpalace.org.uk

Guided Walks

Every Thursday (until October)

10.30am

Join us at the Discovery Centre every Thursday at 10.30am as we take you on a guided walk around West Bay.

Different walks are available including:

Hidden West Bay Walk (0.5 miles, 1.5 hours, Grade: Very easy) – Discover West Bays hidden history with us.

West Cliff and Eype Walk (2.5 miles, 2 hours, Grade: Medium – good terrain but some steep gradients) – Discover the fascinating landscape between West Bay and Eype.

River and Railway Walk – (2 miles, 1.5 hours, Grade: Easy – one slope to the crest of the beach) Discover the history of the old West Bay railway and the beautiful flora and fauna along the River Brit.

Walks are £5 per person – cash or card accepted upon attendance.

Please book online at westbaydiscoverycentre.org.uk on the ‘What’s On’ page.

01308 427288

manager@westbaydiscoverycentre.org.uk

www.westbaydiscoverycentre.org.uk

Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Oasis Live at Knebworth Park.

On 10th & 11th August 1996, 250,000 young music fans converged on Knebworth Park to see Oasis play two record breaking, era defining shows.

The landmark concerts sold out in under a day with over 2% of the UK population attempting to buy tickets.

This was a time when the UK was slowly recovering from a decade of recession.

A surging confidence in arts and culture ushered in Cool Britannia and Oasis meteoric rise reflected the country’s new-found conviction and swagger.

Featuring a setlist packed from beginning to end with stone cold classics, including Champagne Supernova, Wonderwall and Don’t Look Back In Anger, the Knebworth concerts were both the pinnacle of the band’s success and the landmark gathering for a generation.

Oasis Knebworth 1996 is the story of that weekend and the special relationship between Oasis and their fans that made it possible.

It is told through the eyes of the fans who were there, with additional interviews with the band and concert organisers.

Directed by Jake Scott from extensive concert and exclusive never-before seen footage, this is a joyful and at times poignant cinematic celebration of one of the most important concert events of the last 25 years.

Running Time: 108 minutes

Date:  Thursday 30 September 2021

Time: Starts 7.30pm

Ticket Price: £13.00 (£14.00 on the door)

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

www.electricpalace.org.uk

Bridport Arts Centre

During a series of adrenaline-fueled one-night gigs, punk-metal drummer Ruben (Riz Ahmed) begins to experience intermittent hearing loss. Told by a specialist that his condition will rapidly worsen, he thinks his music career — and life — is over. His bandmate and girlfriend Lou (Olivia Cooke) checks the recovering heroin addict into a secluded sober house for the deaf, hoping it will prevent a relapse and help him learn to adapt to his new situation. But after being welcomed into a community that accepts him just as he is, Ruben has to choose between his equilibrium and the drive to reclaim the life he once knew.

Director Darius Marder uses startling sound design techniques to take audiences into Ruben’s experience, where his journey into a rarely examined world is vividly recreated.

Date: Thursday 30 September 2021

Time: 7:30pm

Ticket Price: Adult £6.00 / Member & Concession £5.00

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

www.bridport-arts.com