COMING EVENTS
All our art exhibitions are free. Tickets for other events can be booked in advance from the Bridport Tourist Information Centre, South Street, Bridport on 01308 424901.
Smugglers Start the Show
Eype dope smugglers start the arts season at The Eype Centre for the Arts in the melodramatic film Dope Under Thorncombe on Saturday March 6th. Made by local Bridport and West Bay people in 1939 the film about dope smuggling on the coast around West Bay and Eype has all the classic ingredients of the theme: glamorous heroine, handsome hero, rough matelots, evil gang boss from London, cadish behaviour, pursuit, kidnap, fisticuffs and escape. There is a gunfight and the hero is thrown from a cliff, but right triumphs in the end.
The Trevett family were amongst the main people behind the film and the story was specially created by a local writer. Trillith Films who are bringing the showing to St. Peter’s has arranged for an entirely new score to accompany the action. It is the first time the film has had music and this will be the second public showing in the film’s new guise. There will be a full accompanying programme including the second showing of the 1930’s Symondsbury film. The showing is at 7.30pm on Saturday March 6th and tickets available from the Bridport Tourist Information Centre are £7.50 for adults, £6.00 for Friends of the Eype Centre for the Arts and £5.00 for children under 14.
Book ‘n Author Week – a Literary Festival
The Eype spring programme continues in April with the Eype Spring 2010 ‘Book ‘n Author’ Week – a Literary Festival. The dates are from Monday 19th April to Friday 23rd April. So far confirmed authors are Sir Ghillean Prance, Christopher Booker, Jennifer Kavanagh, Candida Lycett Green, Sarah Bakewell, Posy Simmonds and Mario Petrucci. Mario Petrucci won the 1999 Bridport Prize for Poetry and is currently the Poet in Residence at BBC Radio 3, and formerly the Poet in Residence at the Imperial War Museum. We will also be showing the award winning film Heavy Water; a Film for Chernobyl, which accompanies his poetry.
Spring Concert
The week ends with a Spring Concert of classical and modern compositions on Saturday April 24th featuring Viennese musicians Florian Kitt and Rita Medjimorec.
Patric Morrisey Lectures
During this period local Arts and Architecture historian Patric Morrissey will give his series of Spring 2010 Lectures starting on Wednesday March 3rd and running for a further seven weeks each Wednesday at his home in Higher Eype. This year he concentrates on Greece and its art from the pre-history of Mycene to Sinan and Ottoman architecture. The series intends to make visits to Greece, the British Museum and the new Ashmolean Museum in Oxford more enjoyable. Tickets for these lectures are available on the door at £5.00 each and include refreshments.
Dorset Arts Week
In visual arts local painter Stephen Bishop returns to St. Peter’s during Dorset Arts Week between Saturday May 29th and Sunday June 13th and an added attraction during that week is a spectacular Flamenco evening on Saturday 5th June with Mi Tierra flamenca, a genuine group very much grounded in Jerez de la Frontera in Andalucia, the home of flamenco.
Arts Fair
The spring programme ends on the weekend of July 3rd with an Arts Fair organised by the avant-garde photographer Sally Davies.