Events

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.

Date & Time: Wednesday 22 May at 7pm

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

Tickets: £5.00 available from Bridport Tourist Information Centre. Tel no. 01308 424901 or book online here

Also available from LSI and Eventbrite

Story Cafe’s third presentation at The Lyric is The Green Road, by Amy Douglas and Lucy Wells.
Two parallel worlds, tangled yet separate. Only the green road bridges the gap. This is a story of time shifts, bold rescues, accordion music and fairies. There have always been whispers of the other world and the dangers of crossing its borders, but are they more than stories? Perilous and beautiful, mysterious and alluring, the Green Road beckons.
Amy Douglas is a gossip, wordsmith and lover of the spoken word in all its forms. A storyteller of integrity, wit and subtle humour, she has been an integral part of the re-emergence of storytelling in Shropshire in particular and Britain in general. Amy is also an award-winning author, stunning ballad-singer and a passionate advocate for spoken word storytelling.
Lucy Wells is a musician, performer and artist. The gold thread of narrative runs bright through all her multi-faceted work. She has a deep-rooted love of the natural world and sees traditional story as the heartbeat of our connection with the world around us.  Lucy is a Tai Chi practitioner, a plant spirit medicine healer and an initiated Fire keeper with the Sacred Fire community.

Date & Time: Wednesday 22 May at 7:30pm

Price: £10.00

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

Tickets price available from Bridport Tourist Information Centre, Bridport Town Hall. Tel: 01308 424901 or book via our ticket page here

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 3:  24/05/19

Bread: Making Paleo Bread, Buckwheat Bread and Ketogenic Bread Rolls.

The Fos Brothers

A fast-living, cynical London music executive (Daniel Mays) heads to a remote Cornish village on a stag weekend where he’s pranked by his boss (Noel Clarke) into trying to sign a group of shanty singing fishermen (led by James Purefoy).

He becomes the ultimate ‘fish out of water’ as he struggles to gain the respect or enthusiasm of the unlikely boy band and their families (including Tuppence Middleton) who value friendship and community over fame and fortune.

As he’s drawn deeper into the traditional way of life he’s forced to re-evaluate his own integrity and ultimately question what success really means.

Date: Friday 24 May 2019

Time: Starts 7:30pm

Ticket Price: £5.00

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

www.electricpalace.org.uk

Day of Mindfulness

25th May

10am for 10.30 finishing around 4pm

Quaker Meeting House, 95 South Street, Bridport, DT6 3NZ

Benefit from a day of calm and peace, with Go As A River Sangha.

We’ll be enjoying guided and walking meditation, a dharma talk with Lesley Collington, eating together and deep relaxation.

Please bring some lunch to share.

There is no cost, but donations welcome.

David Will 07950959572   d.h.will@me.com

OPEN TOWER – Weather Permitting

Saturday 25th May 2019

10.30am- 1pm

Free- Donations are Welcome in aid of bell maintenance

St Mary’s Parish Church, South Street, Bridport

The View from the top of the tower is wonderful!

See Ringing Chamber where bell ringers ring bells

Look at the clock room on your way up

It may inspire you to become a bell ringer!

(Internal Spiral Staircase to the roof. No children under 8)

Any Queries please contact the Tower Captain by email: bridport@sdgr.org.uk

Wonder Park … a magical amusement park run by animal creatures that entertain and dazzle children of all ages.

Born from the imagination of a wildly creative girl named June, Wonder Park comes alive and flourishes, until her mum becomes unwell and has to go away.

Scared and anxious June retreats into herself, leaving Wonder Park to fend for itself without her. She eventually rediscovers the park only to find it in disarray and overrun by Chimpanzombies, formerly the park’s Wonder Chimps, who have now become terrible troublemakers.

Can June and the Wonderland animal hosts win out against the darkness?

A movie all about love, friendship, teamwork, creativity, thinking outside the box, and perseverance in the face of adversity.

Date: Saturday 25 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

Mandeville present Under an English Heaven

A recital of music for clarinet and piano by British Composers

Performed by: Anne Scolding-Perrett & Clare Sydenham

The Salt House, West Bay

Saturday 25th May-3pm

Tickets £9 at the door

Under 16 free

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Tea and Biscuits after the concert

WEST BAY’S PIRATES DAY!

Sunday 26th May

12-5pm

West Bay

FUN FOR ALL THE FAMILY

Games Galore!

Fancy Dress Competition- Judging 2.30pm

Plus: West Bay Days Cafe for tea and cakes

Northern Ballet’s Elves & the Shoemaker stomps onto the big screen as part of our fantastic season of interactive ballets for children, narrated by Anita Rani.

A hard-working shoemaker struggles to support his family. But when he sees a poor lady in need of help, he gives her his final pair of shoes. The next morning he awakes to find that his last piece of leather has been transformed into the most magnificent pair of magical shoes. But who has mysteriously made them?

With playful characters and spellbinding music, this adorable ballet is sure to have your little ones dancing all the way home with excitement!

PLUS: Before each of the ballets, meet Elephant, Monkey or Polar Bear from the animated series Jungle Beat and join in their hilarious adventures via a 5 minute episode before the main event begins.

Northern Ballet’s Bite Sized Ballets are the perfect way for your little ones in primary school, pre school or even younger to enjoy the magic of dance, music and storytelling on the big screen!

Date: Wednesday 29 May 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

Event  – Weather, Waves and West Bay – Stepping into Nature

Time  – Meet  at 10:40

Location -West Bay Discovery Centre, Chapel on the beach, West Bay DT6 4EN

Details – Join us for a leisurely walk to discover how the elements have affected West Bay. Open to all ages, suitable for over 55’s and dementia friendly. This is a free event but donations are welcome and booking is required.   manager@westbaydiscoverycentre.org.uk / 01308 4272888

Burton Bradstock Festival of Music and Art Spring Concert

Date: Friday 31 may, 7.30pm

Venue: Village hall, Burton Bradstock

An evening of music for violin and guitar.

Bach – Schubert – Piazzolla – Paganini

Tickets: £10, available from the village Post Office or call Gill Redford 01308 897203

www.burtonbradstockfestival.com

The new thriller from renowned British theatre director Trevor Nunn, Red Joan casts Judi Dench in a rewardingly complex role as a retired physicist who late in life is revealed to be a long-serving spy for the former Russian KGB.

Adapted by Lindsay Shapiro from the bestselling novel by Jennie Rooney and inspired by the life of British KGB agent Melita Norwood (known as the ‘granny spy’ when she was unmasked in the late 90s), the film follows Joan Stanley, a seemingly unremarkable and inconspicuous retiree who, in 2000, is living in a London suburb when she is arrested and charged with providing intelligence to Russia during the Cold War.

Flashing back to 1938, we revisit Joan’s younger self (played by Sophie Cookson) as, studying physics at Cambridge, she falls for young socialist firebrand Leo (Tom Hughes) and becomes more and more politicised before making the eventual, difficult decision to work with the Soviets and betray British atomic secrets.

A well-crafted historical thriller that seamlessly transports the viewer into the past and feels especially topical in this time of new threats from Russia to the UK and the West, Red Joan explores both the intimate strangeness of espionage at large and its fascinating effects on an individual life, bolstered by excellent performances from both Dench and Cookson.

Date: Friday 31 May 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