Events

Bridport Charter Fair 

Theme: Bridport – Categories: Landscape, Portrait, Street, Architecture, Smart Phone

Opening Date: 4 June Closing Date: 29 July

The winning entries will be displayed in the foyer of Bridport Arts Centre from 25 September for 2 weeks.

For entry information and rules of entry visit Bricport Charter Fair facebook page or email charterfairphotocomp@hotmail.com

Summer Solstice

Song & Dance Camp

Friday 22nd June – Sunday 24th June

Broadoak Land CO-OP Field

Dances of universal peace ~ Circle dancing ~ Acapella harmony singing ~ Free dance ~ Yoga ~ Storytelling ~ Bhajans

Bookings for the weekend £45 in advance

Gate £50

Daytime & evening tickets available on gate

Children Free

For Bookings & Info please contact Christina 07544 695789 christina.harmonydance@gmail.com

Simon Quadrat Artist’s Talk

Friday 22 June 6.30pm

Tickets: £10 or £25 with dinner to follow available from Sladers Yard 01308 459511

Artist Simon Quadrat will give an entertaining illustrated talk about his own work and the paintings that he studied when learning to paint. A highly acclaimed and successful painter now, Simon taught himself to paint while working as a young barrister in London. His love for art and painting won through when he gave up the law to paint professionally in the year 2000.  Since then he has shown regularly in London, Bristol and at Sladers Yard where his work now fills the first floor gallery. He paints his memories of growing up in run-down 1950s London with trips to the seaside, caravanning, Punch and Judy, fun fairs as well as still life, landscapes and very touching figure painting.

Victoria Hole & Co presents SPANDEX BALLET

Date: Friday 22 June 2018

Time: 7:30pm

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

Ticket Price: £14.00 available from Bridport Tourist Information Centre on 01308 424901 or online via our ticket page

Spandex Ballet celebrates the 80s workout in all its neon glory! Think high legged leotards, sweatbands, ankle warmers and some serious back combing. Come wearing something bright, leave with new muscle definition or at the very least a smile on your face. Colour, energy and high kicks are all you need to clear that hazy head and motivate yourself for more partying. Our favourite 80s electronic tracks feature New Order, Human League, Kim Wilde, Van Halen, a-ha and of course Spandau Ballet.

Part workshop, part comedy act… Jane Fonda-Yu will have you touching your toes in no time with her motivational moves and her sinewy Spandex Ballet backing dancers are always ready to demo those tricky stretches. No one has a passion for 80s aerobics quite like they do.

The workshop is accessible to a range of different abilities and features a warm up, a classic aerobic section, an opportunity to choreograph your own 80s moves along with a cool down.

Fancy dress is compulsory! For ages 16+

Doors open 7pm for a 7:30pm start.

“They were young, educated, and both virgins on this, their wedding night.”

Adapted by Ian McEwan from his own Booker Prize-winning novella, On Chesil Beach is the directorial debut of former Royal Court Theatre head Dominic Cooke.

Starring Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn, Lady Bird) and Billy Howle (Dunkirk) and featuring Emily Watson, Anne-Marie Duff and Samuel West.

England, 1962: two young lovers marry and begin their honeymoon on the Dorset coast. Edward (Howle) and Florence (Ronan) hail from very different backgrounds but, deeply in love, the full complexity of their relationship only becomes clear on their wedding night as they struggle to reconcile their approaches to sex. Confused, uncertain and hopelessly ill-equipped to talk honestly of their fears and desires, they do not yet know that this tragicomic situation will shape the rest of their lives.

A beautifully precise and searching film exploring the repressive effects of ‘propriety’ – a notion still hard at work in English society in the early ‘60s, and perhaps entirely antithetical to love and passion – On Chesil Beach leads to a shattering conclusion.

Date: Friday 22 June 2018

Time: Starts 7:30pm

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

At Bridport Literary and Scientific Institute, 51 East St., Bridport DT6 3JX

Chess Club on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month, Starts 23 June.

10-12pm

All welcome, All abilities, All ages, no need to book

FREE!

Bring your own chess set or borrow one of ours. Introductory tuition available for new players

Saturday 23rd June 2018

11.00am – Midnight

Line up 

♦ London Gay Men’s Chorus ♦ WTF Band ♦ The Leylines ♦ Mad Hatters ♦ The Leggomen ♦ The Million Dollar Bash ♦ Slipstream ♦ Comedy Hour ♦ XTALK ♦ Dean Dyson ♦ Seren ♦ Pop Club ♦

www.chesilrocks.com

23^rd  June to 1^st July

Bringing the Best to Beaminster. 

This year as well as maintaining a core of excellent classical music the Festival Organisers  have broadened the scope both in terms of instruments and repertoire, including brass, choral, solo voice, piano and organ duo, string trio, piano quintet and piano and wind ensemble.  Look out for two BBC Young Musicians and the return of Tom Poster and enjoy a fascinating study in music of the life and times of Frida Khalo by Morgan Szymanski and Lizzie Ball who also join with Tom for our first informal late night concert.  For those who want to let their hair down we have a Beamfest comedy singalong as well as a swinging 60s night.

The Festival welcomes Gordon Corera, the BBC Security Correspondent, who will be talking about The Secret Pigeon Service and Tom Cox who has written a wonderfully lyrical book, 21st-Century Yokel, about wandering in the south west countryside.  Daisy Goodwin will discuss her book and TV series about Queen Victoria and Helen Rappaport comes just one day after the launch of her brand new book The Race to save the Romanovs.

This year the Festival is very pleased to have Frances Hatch as their artist in residence with an exhibition and workshops in the Bridge House Hotel in Beaminster, and for theatre lovers, The Winter’s Tale at the beautiful Meerhay Manor in Beaminster.

The organisers will also be taking music to people who cannot come to events.   There is a whole series of concerts and workshops for Mountjoy and other local schools in the area, as well as for residents who are elderly or living with dementia.

The Festival kicks off at 5pm on Saturday 23^rd  June with the Street Party in Beaminster Square where everyone is welcome, young and old.   It finishes on Sunday 1^st July, with a community picnic with bands and family entertainment at Beaminster Manor from 12 noon to 5pm , followed in the evening by the President’s Concert – Choir of Clare College, Cambridge – at St Mary’s Church in the evening.

For information on the whole programme and to buy tickets visit www.beaminsterfestival.com

A feature length documentary celebrating the lives and careers of four of our most iconic actresses; Dame Eileen Atkins, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Joan Plowright and Dame Maggie Smith.

From time to time four old friends, all extraordinary actresses, meet up in the English countryside to gossip, to remember and to laugh. For once they let the cameras in…
All four women have gone from being fledgling actresses in the 1950s to acting royalty. They’ve watched each other’s careers grow and bloom and have celebrated life’s ups and downs together. Nothing Like A Dame invites you to spend time with these acting legends as they talk about their lives and their professional experiences across Theatre, Television and Film.

Directed by Roger Michell (My Cousin Rachel, Notting Hill), the film invites you to spend time with these icons as they talk about their lives now and then, it also includes a range of astonishing archive material.

Candid, funny, caustic, irreverent, poignant and utterly engrossing, this unmissable release is proof that there is truly nothing like a Dame…

Date: Saturday 23 June 2018

Time: Starts 7pm

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

Explore the Meadow with Allington Hillbillies.

Wednesday 27 June 5-7pm

Venue: Main Gate, Cooper’s Field hospital lane, North Allington, Bridport. DT6 5RG

Guided walk by nick Gray from Dorset Wildlife Trust.

Free Event but donations to Dorset Wildlife Trust welcome.

Juliet Harbutt, International Cheese Expert, Presents English Artisan Cheeses & Furleigh Wines

Thursday 28th June 2018, 7 – 9pm

We are delighted to announce that Juliet Harbutt, author, educator and judge, will be presenting an introduction to English artisan cheeses with a selection of Furleigh Estate wines at the vineyard on Thursday, 28th June 2018. We are very fortunate to have secured this evening with Juliet on her whistle stop tour around Europe while she is visiting from her native New Zealand where she returned to last year.

In 1994, Juliet created The British Cheese Awards and in 2000, The Great British Cheese Festival.

Her books include Guide to the Finest Cheeses of Britain, The World Encyclopaedia of Cheese and The British Cheese Directory.

Juliet will introduce you to the art of tasting cheese and guide you through the seven styles of English Artisanal Cheeses. Victoria Bishop of Furleigh Estate’s Wine Club will then take you through four wines in preparation for everyone to work out their own personal favourite combinations under Juliet’s experienced eye. Be prepared for some unusual pairings and an enjoyable educational evening.

Please join us from 6.45pm for a glass of Furleigh Estate Classic Cuvée for a 7pm start.

Tickets are £25 each. Please book here.

Over time, the dogs develop a reluctant hierarchy led by Chief (Bryan Cranston), who guides a host of offbeat breeds, including Rex (Edward Norton), Boss (Bill Murray), Duke (Jeff Goldblum), and King (Bob Balaban).

The dogs rule their garbage sanctuary, isolated from the wider community, until one day a boy named Atari (Koyu Rankin) turns up looking for his dog, Spots (Liev Schreiber).

Fed up of being separated from humanity, the dogs welcome Atari and work with him to locate Spots, and protect Atari from the Japanese authorities who have come to bring him back home. Together the dogs and Atari embark on an epic adventure that will decide the fate and future of the country.

A stop-motion animation from the incomparable mind of Wes Anderson (The Fantastic Mister Fox, The Grand Budapest Hotel) who has written, directed and produced this film.

Date: Friday 29 June 2018

Time: Starts 7:30pm

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

Friday 29th June

7.15pm for 8pm start 

If you could imagine the love child of Bill Bailey and Victoria Wood that would be Polly Morris. Her observational comedy songs about such things as supermarket shopping or the perils of e-mail, are songs that you can instantly identify with. These are peppered with more thoughtful acoustic numbers that are reminiscent of Karen Carpenter.

Polly has been performing her songs as a solo artist from an early age but, in the last few years, has been performing with her Dorset Based Comic-Folk band. The tag line ” Expect the Unexpected” has become linked with this band that combine fun with musicality. It is certainly Music to make you smile.

The Polly Morris Band comprises vocals, guitar, harmony vocals, fiddle, saxophone, flute, accordion, bass double bass and piano. The musicians in the band are Polly Morris, Mandy Stansfield, Steven Faulkner, Kate Hunter, Brian Harries and Joel Solomons.

Ticket: £10.50 (£10.00 + £0.50 booking fee)

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A popular arts and craft fair held on busy Saturday Market Day in Bridport. Items sold include handmade jewellery, cards, cushions, photographs, wood turned items and gifts.

Wheelchair access via the lift in The Tourist Information.

Entry to the public is free.

If you are interested in having a craft stall please contact Bridport Tourist Information on 01308 424901 or email bridport.tic@bridport-tc.gov.uk for more information or click the links below.

Town Hall Craft Fair Letter 2018

Bridport Town Hall Arts & Craft Application 2018

Craft fair dates 2018: 24th March, 28th April, 26th May, 30th June, 14th July, 25th August, 22nd September, 20th October, 17th November, 8th December. 

“They were young, educated, and both virgins on this, their wedding night.”

Adapted by Ian McEwan from his own Booker Prize-winning novella, On Chesil Beach is the directorial debut of former Royal Court Theatre head Dominic Cooke.

Starring Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn, Lady Bird) and Billy Howle (Dunkirk) and featuring Emily Watson, Anne-Marie Duff and Samuel West.

England, 1962: two young lovers marry and begin their honeymoon on the Dorset coast. Edward (Howle) and Florence (Ronan) hail from very different backgrounds but, deeply in love, the full complexity of their relationship only becomes clear on their wedding night as they struggle to reconcile their approaches to sex. Confused, uncertain and hopelessly ill-equipped to talk honestly of their fears and desires, they do not yet know that this tragicomic situation will shape the rest of their lives.

A beautifully precise and searching film exploring the repressive effects of ‘propriety’ – a notion still hard at work in English society in the early ‘60s, and perhaps entirely antithetical to love and passion – On Chesil Beach leads to a shattering conclusion.

Date: Friday 30 June 2018

Time: Starts 7:30pm

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