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Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 20h

We're recruiting an interim Deputy Director. £37,000 – £40,000 pro rata – 22.5 hours per week – 12 months fixed-term/interim contract.

Closing date for applications: 5pm, Tuesday 21 October 2025

Recruitment pack: www.bridport-arts.com/jobs/

Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 1d

Here are some of the portraits taken on Sunday by professional photographer Carole Evans as part of our latest exhibition, Laura Eldret: From and To. She'll be back on Wed 15 Oct from 1-4pm. Details of how to book your own FREE portrait bridport-arts.com/event/portra...

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Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 1d

Tangle Theatre's fast-moving, African-inspired production drives through the political chaos, power struggles and friendship betrayals at the heart of Shakespeare’s greatest thriller.

Bridport Arts Centre, Fri 17 Oct, 7.30pm
bridport-arts.com/event/julius...

Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 1d

This week at BAC - www.bridport-arts.com/whats-on/

NB the Free Reading event takes place at The Poor House Reading Rooms, not BAC.

#bridport #dorset #westdorset #BridportArtsCentre

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Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 3d

Join us today (until 4pm) and Sunday (11am-3pm) in BAC's Allsop Gallery for free events marking the launch of our latest exhibition - Laura Eldret: From and To www.bridport-arts.com/event/from-a...

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Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 4d

Our latest exhibition, Laura Eldret: From and To, opens this weekend. We have FREE events across the weekend including live music, making activities, an opening reception and the opportunity to have your portrait taken. Full details www.bridport-arts.com/event/from-a...

From and To Opening Weekend - Bridport Arts

To launch our new exhibition, From and To, we will be hosting free events across the opening weekend. Saturday 11 Oct Open 10am – 4pm. 12-2pm – catch buskers performing in the gallery. 2-4pm – From a...

www.bridport-arts.com

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Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 4d

If you're planning to watch A NEW KIND OF WILDERNESS (2024) at Bridport Arts Centre on Sat 11 Oct at 7.30pm, this article provides some fascinating (and very moving) background to the film.

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ap...

‘The grief takes your breath away’: how death transformed a loving family – and shaped a remarkable film

Nik and Maria Payne were raising their ‘wild and free’ children in the Norwegian countryside when cancer turned their lives upside down. The reluctant stars of A New Kind of Wilderness talk about a wo...

www.theguardian.com

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Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 4d

Master of the modern melodrama, Pedro Almodóvar, created his greatest film with VOLVER (2006) - a remarkable tale of mothers, daughters and sisters starring Penélope Cruz.

Bridport Arts Centre
Thu 23 Oct, 7.30pm
bridport-arts.com/event/volver/

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Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 4d

We look forward to seeing you this weekend for the opening of our latest exhibition - Laura Eldret: From and To.

If you would like your portrait taken for free by professional photographer Carole Evans, booking is essential. Details here bridport-arts.com/event/from-a...

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Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 5d

A beautiful and deeply moving documentary about a Norwegian-British family whose idyllic wilderness lives are suddenly and brutally upended.

Sat 11 Oct, 7.30pm
www.bridport-arts.com/event/a-new-...

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Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 6d

Photographer Carole Evans will be taking portraits of individuals and groups in the From and To exhibition. You can book a FREE slot via the links below.

Sun 12 Oct, 11am-1pm bridport-arts.com/event/from-a...
Wed 15 Oct, 1-4pm bridport-arts.com/event/portra...

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Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 6d

Family activities, portrait photography sessions, buskers, opening reception... We have a weekend of FREE events for everyone to mark the launch of our new exhibition, Laura Eldret: From and To.

Sat 11 Oct, 10am-4pm
Sun 12 Oct, 11am-3pm
www.bridport-arts.com/event/from-a...

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Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 7d

We're looking for an interim Deputy Director. £37,000 – £40,000 pro rata – 22.5 hours per week – 12 months fixed-term/interim contract. Closing date for applications: 5pm, Tuesday 21 October 2025

Recruitment pack: www.bridport-arts.com/jobs/

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Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 7d

Our latest exhibition, Laura Eldret: From and To, opens at the Allsop Gallery, Bridport Arts Centre on Sat 11 October.
Full details of the exhibition, accompanying free events (including special events across the opening weekend) and how you can take part here www.bridport-arts.com/event/from-a...

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Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 9d

This week at BAC www.bridport-arts.com/whats-on/

#bridport #dorset #westdorset #BridportArtsCentre

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Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 10d

Our Halloween screening is an under-seen folk horror classic – an extraordinary exploration of paganism, sexuality and the British countryside.

PENDA'S FEN (dir. Alan Clarke, UK, 1974)
BAC - Friday 31 October, 7.30pm
www.bridport-arts.com/event/pendas...

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Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 12d

The colours! The costumes! The wigs! THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT (1972), Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s emotional and visual extravaganza about relationships between women, was inspired by 1950s Hollywood.

Sat 1 Nov, 7.30pm
Bridport Arts Centre
www.bridport-arts.com/event/the-bi...

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Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 13d

@lukewrightpoet.bsky.social is back with a sticky-floored celebration of the ordinary, conjuring up a world of Tuesday lunchtimes and small town boozers in poems that burst with inventive language.

BAC, Fri 24 Oct, 8pm
www.bridport-arts.com/event/luke-w...

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Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 14d

Here's a taster of the new production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar by Tangle Theatre - coming to BAC on Fri 17 Oct at 7.30pm www.bridport-arts.com/event/julius...

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Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 14d

2/2. Many thanks to Melody Newman for loaning the programme to us. Melody played Patty, a rope walker, in the production.

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Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 14d

1/2. Our celebration of Bridport’s legendary 1981 community play, The Poor Man’s Friend, on Sat 4 October is sold out, but we thought you might like to see this rare surviving copy of the original programme.

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Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 15d

Kenji Mizoguchi's THE LIFE OF OHARU (1952), an epic portrait of the fall from grace of an imperial lady-in-waiting, is one of the most poignant and beautiful films ever produced.

Sat 15 Nov, 2.30pm
Bridport Arts Centre
www.bridport-arts.com/event/the-li...

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Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 17d

It's almost October... www.bridport-arts.com/whats-on/

Tickets for The Poor Man's Friend: A Play for Bridport (Sat 4 Oct) and Steve Knightley and the Winter Yards Band (Thu 16 Oct) have sold out.

#bridport #dorset #westdorset #BridportArtsCentre

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Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 18d

METROPOLIS (Fritz Lang, 1927) accompanied by Palooka 5 in London last week. Palooka 5 will be accompanying this science fiction film classic live at BAC on Fri 10 Oct at 7.30pm bridport-arts.com/event/metrop...

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Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 20d

★★★★★ "A deeply humane and emotionally literate piece of work." - Peter Bradshaw, Guardian

A NEW KIND OF WILDERNESS
Dir. Silje Evensmo Jacobsen, Norway, 2024. 12A
BAC - Sat 11 Oct, 7.30pm
www.bridport-arts.com/event/a-new-...

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