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Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 21h

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-...

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

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...

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

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 · 2d

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/

Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 4d

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

#bridport #dorset #westdorset #BridportArtsCentre

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

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 · 7d

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 · 8d

@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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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 · 10d

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 · 13d

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 · 13d

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 · 15d

★★★★★ "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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Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 16d

From today's Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Malik Al Nasir will be discussing Searching for my Slave Roots – From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge at BAC on 6 Nov as part of Bridport Literary Festival www.bridport-arts.com/event/malik-...

Letters found on eBay cast light on UK families who benefited from slavery

Researcher Malik Al Nasir bought historical documents while investigating his family history – and began building an archive

www.theguardian.com

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

We love this poster by @sparklymouse.bsky.social designed for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's classic melodrama, THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT (West Germany, 1972).

The film shows at BAC on Sat 1 Nov, 7.30pm bridport-arts.com/event/the-bi...

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

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

NB Ant Law and Brigitte Beraha: Ensconced - scheduled for Fri 26 Sep - has been cancelled.

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

Maria's dance performed by Brigitte Helm in METROPOLIS (Fritz Lang, 1927) - music by Palooka 5. Few films are packed with so many extraordinary, iconic moments.

Palooka 5 will be accompanying METROPOLIS live at BAC on Fri 10 Oct, 7.30pm bridport-arts.com/event/metrop...

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Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 21d

There are still a few places left if you would like to join us for a drinks reception and two-course lunch with acclaimed author Kit de Waal. As part of the event Kit will read from her new novel, The Best of Everything.

Sun 19 Oct, 12.30pm
www.bridport-arts.com/event/lunch-...

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Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 21d

Tickets now on sale bridport-arts.com/event/cally-...

#bridport #dorset #westdorset #BridportArtsCentre #callybeaton

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Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 21d

★★★★
"Absolutely hilarious." - Scotsman

★★★★
"Master of one-liners" - One4Review

Bridport Arts Centre
Sun 29 March 2026, 8pm
www.bridport-arts.com/event/mark-s...

Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 24d

Boris Bilinsky's poster design for the original French release of METROPOLIS (Fritz Lang, Germany, 1927).

METROPOLIS will be accompanied live by @palooka5.bsky.social at Bridport Arts Centre on Fri 10 Oct at 7.30pm www.bridport-arts.com/event/metrop...

Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social · 24d

“Genuinely magical” - Trad Folk

★★★★
“Gorgeous, vivid songwriting” - Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2

★★★★
Guardian - Folk Album of the Month

★★★★
“Truly in a league of their own” - RNR Magazine

BAC Fri 19 Sep, 8pm www.bridport-arts.com/event/the-rh...

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