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.
- Literary Festival
- Spring Concert
- Patric Morrisey Lectures
- Easter Art Exhibition
- Mi Tierra Flamenca
- Dorset Arts Week
- Arts Fair
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 (The O of Home), Simon Hall (www.thetvdetective.com) , Sarah Bakewell, Blake Morrison (www.blakemorrison.com) and Mario Petrucci (www.mariopetrucci.com) . 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 by his poetry. Read more...
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. Read more...
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. Read more...
Easter Art Exhibition with Andrew Leppard and John Rabbetts
Well-known Bridport artists Andrew Leppard and John Rabetts host a two-man show of their figurative and landscape oil paintings.
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This will run from Good Friday April 2nd for one week until Sunday April 11th and will be open from 10.30am until 4.30pm. Admission is free.
Dorset Arts Week
Saturday May 29th – Sunday June 13th
Stephen Bishop returns for his third Dorset Arts Weeks at St. Peter’s where he has enjoyed ever increasing popularity with his colourful and distinctive style of painting.
Mi Tierra Flamenca
SATURDAY JUNE 5TH AT 7.30PM – A VIBRANT EVENING OF FLAMENCO WITH MI TIERRA FLAMENCA
As a lead-up to their forthcoming theatre tour this is a chance to catch a spectacular glimpse of some of the cast of International Flamenco Company, Mi Tierra Flamenca, with their fiery, passionate flamenco performance. Largely based in Jerez de la Frontera, the birthplace of flamenco, this professional group of artists bring an authentic, raw and breathtakingly entertaining show that is a sell-out in venues throughout the country.
TICKETS ARE £12.00 (Friends of the Eype Centre for the Arts £10.50) from the Bridport Tourist Information Centre on 01308 424901.
Arts Fair
The spring programme ends on the weekend of July 3rd with an Arts Fair organised by the avant-garde photographer Sally Davies.