Bridport Arts Centre Archives - Bridport Literary Festival

Special Event | Bank of Dreams and Nightmares | Resonate

£5.00

Bank of Dreams and Nightmares - Resonate - Readings, Performance and Poetry
Following the incredible success of last year’s event, The Bank of Dreams and Nightmares are proud to be back for another performance of Resonate. This year they are working with the poet Anthony Anaxagorou and 12 young writers from around West Dorset, to present a performance of spoken word pieces. This is a chance to hear all the creativity and salient issues from the young local talent that surrounds us, which is a focus for this year’s Town of Culture. Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901

When: Sunday 3rd November 2024 @ 7.00 pm

Where: The Bridport Arts Centre

Under 19’s free

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Event 9 | Jo Willett | Sarah Siddons

£12.00

Jo Willett - Sarah Siddons - The First Celebrity Actress

Sarah Siddons grew up as a member of a family troupe of travelling actors, always poor and often hungry. She rose from abject poverty to superstardom before she was 30 and became one of the country’s most celebrated and revered tragic actresses, electrifying audiences with her performances. Jo Willett has written this first biography of the legendary actress who was not only adored and celebrated by everyone but who also had to manage her reputation in an eighteenth-century world of gossip and satire.
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When: Monday 4th November 2024 @ 4.00 pm

Where: Bridport Arts Centre

Sponsored by: Felicity Fairbairn

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Event 23 | Andrew Ziminski | Church Going

£13.00

Andrew Ziminski - Church Going - A Stonemason’s Guide to the Churches of the British Isles

Churches are many things to us: they are places of worship, vibrant community hubs and oases of calm reflection. To know a church is to hold a key to the past that unlocks an understanding of our shared history. Andrew Ziminski has spent decades as a stonemason and church conservator, often acting as an informal guide to curious visitors. Church Going is his handbook to the medieval churches of the British Isles in which he reveals their fascinating stories – a celebration of British architectural history.
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When: Thursday 7th November 2024 @ 10.00 am

Where: The Bridport Arts Centre

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Event 24 | Catherine Coldstream | Cloistered

£13.00

Catherine Coldstream - Cloistered - My Years as a Nun

After the shock of her father’s death, and with her family scattered, 24 year old Catherine Coldstream was left grieving and alone. A search for meaning led her to Roman Catholicism and the nuns of Akenside Priory. Cloistered takes us beyond the grille of an enclosed monastic world with its tight-knit community of dedicated women. Catherine describes her journey as a nun through the 1990s and the dramatic events which led to her flight from the monastery to a wider world of freedom.

in conversation with Deirdre Coates
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When: Thursday 7th November 2024 @ 12 noon

Where: The Bridport Arts Centre

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Event 26 | Harriet Baker | Rural Hours

£13.00

Harriet Baker - Rural Hours - The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamund Lehmann

Harriet Baker shares the story of three very different women, each of whom moved to the countryside and were forever changed by it. Following long periods of creative uncertainty and private disappointment, each of the subjects is invigorated by new landscapes, and the daily trials and small pleasures of making a home. Rural Hours is both a paean to the bravery and vision of three pioneering writers and a passionate invitation to us all: to recognise the radical potential of domestic life in rural places.
in conversation with Olivia Glazebrook Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901

When: Thursday 7th November 2024 @ 2.30 pm

Where: The Bridport Arts Centre

Sponsored by: Sue Orr and Bella Spurrier

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Event 27 | Barnaby Rogerson | The House Divided

£13.00

SOLD OUT - Barnaby Rogerson - The House Divided - Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East

At the heart of the Middle East, with its regional conflicts and proxy wars, is a 1400 year old schism between Sunni and Shia. To understand this divide and its modern resonances, Barnaby Rogerson revisits its origins. The House Divided follows the narratives through the first caliphates and empires forged by Arabs, Persians and Turks to the contemporary Middle East and explains how in 1979 this already complex world was jolted by the seismic shift of three revolutions – in Iran, Mecca and Afghanistan and why it is again at the centre of global crises.

in conversation with Jeremy Seal
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When: Thursday 7th November 2024 @ 4.30 pm

Where: The Bridport Arts Centre

Sponsored by: Felicity Fairbairn

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