SHOPS around Bridport are being encouraged to get creative and decorate their windows with butterfly-inspired designs. A competition is being held to promote Dorset Wildlife Trust’s Wild about Bridport Butterfly Bonanza on June 4. The contest is meant to colour Bridport's streets with the splendour of butterflies and to show…
The novelist Jonathan Coe on Bridport's forthcoming film festival From Page to Screen. …
Splendid photographs of Bridport Hat Festival by the brilliant portrait photographer George Wright, who lives in Bridport. Check out a big crowd photograph to see lots more people and read more about Guy Heathcote (pictured above). …
SOMETIMES it can seem that every school and village hall in Dorset is putting on drumming workshops. I went to one watch the end of one in Loders village hall earlier this year, and the racket was indescribable in words; it was rather like all the letters of the alphabet…
THE first phase of the redevelopment of Bridport Art Centre begins next Monday (August 9). Sturminster Newton firm Jordan & Faber will repaint the Grade II Listed façade in Farrow & Ball’s Savage Ground, a kind of neutral stoney colour. Architectural features will be picked out in a slightly darker…
BRIDPORT ARTS CENTRE is expanding its activities for families, starting with a production of Alice in Wonderland. Many families have apparently asked the arts centre about doing things there on a Sunday, and so it’s heading off down the rabbit hole… Alice in Wonderland, based on Lewis Carroll’s book, will…
NEARLY £30,000 is going to be spent in Dorset on a scheme to get young people writing and performing poetry. The county is to get a Young Poet Laureate and several poets in residence. £29,950 has been given by the Arts Council as part of the preparations for the 2012…
