Bridport 24 Events
As part of Dorset’s Town of Culture, Bridport have brought together an exciting programme of events.
Quilt Walk About
6-14 September
Bridport Arts Centre Forecourt
Event lead partner and local business The Fabric Larder will launch ’The Patchwork of Thoughts.’ This community project invites people to contribute a thought and a fabric square to a community patchwork that will be worked on throughout the week. In the spirit of the Amish ‘Airing of the Quilt,’ local businesses, including the Museum, the Chapel in The Garden (East St) and the Post Office, will be exhibiting a quilt that celebrates the history and culture of fashion and textile across town.
A map of all contributors will be available to download from the Fabric Larder website at the start of next month.
This event launches at 4pm on September 6.
Image: Bridport Town of Culture Launch by Michael Armstrong
Small World Festival
14 September
Bridport Community Orchard and Bridport Arts Centre
This new mini festival from Jurassic Multicultural will celebrate the diverse cultures that make our community so vibrant. Events will be held at the following locations:
Bridport Community Orchard: Activities for all ages, delicious free food from around the world (just bring your picnic blanket, plate and cutlery), performances, art demonstrations, drumming workshops, and stands from Bridport and Dorset-based community groups and businesses.
Bridport Arts Centre: World food stalls and crafts on the forecourt, and inside the Marlow Theatre you’ll find opportunities to learn more about your Multicultural neighbours through conversations and an “Alphabet of Togetherness”.
In the evening Bridport Arts Centre will host a Screening of Complicite’s “Can I Live”, a vital new digital performance about the climate catastrophe conceived, written and performed by Fehinti Balogun. This is followed by “Around the World in 80 Beats,” where Chiman101 will take you on an auditory global journey through music’s cultural influences.
Programme of events:
10:00-12:00: Crafts on the Forecourt
11:00-13:00: Conversations in the Marlow Theatre
19:30: Can I live?
20:30: Q&A
21:00: Exclusive track (Chima and Elijah Wolf – To be announced later)
21:30 – 23:30: Around the World in 80 Beats
Sky Lines Exhibition
21 September - 3 November
Sladers Yard, West Bay
Portland 173, Alex Lowery, 2024, 25 x 40cm, oil on linen
Sky Lines is an exhibition of three Artists that take us out into the landscape, the rugged and the urban, the natural and the man-made.
Alex Lowery’s stunning new paintings of Portland and Lyme Bay (with Orkney, Greece and Sicily) introduce bright new colours and an upbeat mood.
Showing for the first time at Sladers Yard, ceramicist Lise Herud Braten, a Norwegian rising star based in London, whose highly textured vessels and forms reflect a strong natural environment.
She joins our resident Norwegian, Petter Southall, whose creations in wood bring a Scandinavian design sense and world-class craftsmanship to magnificent, sustainably grown, Northern European trees.
Her Song III
20 October
The Lyric Theatre
Produced for and with the women of Bridport, and co-produced with Tociya. More information will be on the Lyric Theatre website in the near future.
Bridport Literary Festival
3- 9 November
The 20th Bridport Literary Festival will bring you an exciting and varied programme which takes place at venues all across town.
16 & 22 November: Tociya Take Over The Arts Centre
Bridport’s newest collective curate and produce a unique takeover of the centre: expect the unexpected