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The Festival: 6 - 14 November 2026 | Tickets: 01308 424901|bridport.tic@bridport-tc.gov.uk
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Oxenbury's Yard

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    Event 43 | Martin Maudsley | Common Threads

    £10.00

    Martin Maudsley - Common Threads

    Storyteller and writer Martin Maudsley weaves together a performance piece specially commissioned for the festival, mixing folklore, oral history and personal experience. Since moving to Dorset in 2013, Martin has been researching, recording and re-imagining stories about Bridport and its surrounding landscapes. Drawing on many of these colourful strands, Common Threads is a spoken word tapestry of living voices and traditional heritage, delivered for the first time in the newly renovated workshop space of Oxenbury’s Yard. A passionate praise-song to town and country, people and place. “Martin is a master craftsman, telling old tales with new resonance”, Aberystwyth Storytelling Festival.
    When: Wednesday 11 November 2026 @ 8.00 pm
    Where: Oxenbury’s Yard
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  • Event 59 | Lesley-Ann Jones | The Tanya Bruce-Lockhart Event

    £12.00

    Lesley-Ann Jones - The Tanya Bruce-Lockhart Event - David Bowie’s Hunkydory Live

    Lesley-Ann Jones has a very personal perspective on David Bowie. As a schoolgirl, she first came across him when he was just Davie Jones. It was before he was famous. But, in suburban Beckenham, Kent, he was already a local hero. One day she and a friend knocked on his door. He answered in a dirty yellow kimono and invited them in for tea. She was charmed. While Bowie would go on to global stardom, she would become one of the UK’s leading music journalists, her early experiences informing her acclaimed biography, David Bowie: Hero. In this event, introduced by Jamie Giles, Lesley-Ann will lead the audience through Bowie’s iconic 1971 album Hunkydory track by track, using each song to offer insight into his life and work. Having worked as a showbusiness correspondent, Lesley-Ann Jones became a full-time author in 1997 and has written more than twenty books about the music industry, including works on Freddie Mercury, John Lennon and Marc Bolan. This event will be followed by a drinks reception for friends of Tanya Bruce-Lockhart.

    The Tanya Bruce-Lockhart event marks the life and interests of BridLit’s much-missed co-founder. This year we explore one of Tanya’s musical loves, David Bowie, who she described as: “Probably the most intelligent man of popular music I’ve had to interview and spend time with.”
    When: Friday 13 November 2026 @ 8.00 pm
    Where: Oxenbury's Yard
    In association with Clocktower Records
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  • Event 68 | The Bookshop Band | Folklore (Not Taylor’s Version)

    £15.00

    The Bookshop Band - Folklore (Not Taylor’s Version)

    Join us for an end-of-festival celebration with Beth Porter and Ben Please of The Bookshop Band. Since they began playing at Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights in Bath, the playful folk duo have released 13 book-inspired albums, collaborating with more than 100 authors including Philip Pullman, Rachel Joyce, Robert Macfarlane and Margaret Attwood, who has described their work as “an inspiration”. Their most recent album, Emerge, Return and an EP of three songs about the infamous Oz magazine have been produced by Pete Townsend of The Who. They’ll be loosely exploring one of the themes of this year’s festival, our shared folklore. “Achingly good”, New York Times. “Just delightful”, BBC Radio 2.

    When: Saturday 14 November 2026 @ 8.00 pm
    Where: Oxenbury's Yard
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  • Event 72 | Maria Alyokhina | Political Girl

    £15.00

     Maria Alyokhina - Political Girl - Life and Fate in Russia

    In 2012, Alyokhina made headlines around the world when she was imprisoned after Pussy Riot performed their punk prayer, Virgin Mary, Banish Putin, inside Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. She spent nearly two years in a Russian penal colony. Prison did not silence her. After her release, Alyokhina returned to protest and artistic activism as political repression in Russia intensified. She was repeatedly arrested, placed under house arrest and, in May 2022, facing a new prison sentence, escaped Russia disguised as a food-delivery courier. Her new book, Political Girl: Life and Fate in Russia, is at once memoir, testimony and a manifesto of resistance: an account of grassroots dissent, friendship, courage and the determination to keep speaking when silence would be safer. For this special Bridport appearance, readings from the book will come together with live music and conversation with fellow Pussy Riot member Eric J. Breitenbach. Breitenbach is an activist, musician, composer and drummer whose work with Pussy Riot spans live performance, music, sound, creative production and direct action. He performs drums, samples and electronics in Pussy Riot’s Riot Days live ensemble, composes and performs the live score for Political Girl and contributes to the group’s performances, actions and creative projects. Masha and Eric will reflect on the experiences behind their work in Pussy Riot, the role that performance, music and direct action have played in that work and what it means to make art in response to political repression, war and state violence.
    When: Monday 26 October 2026 @ 7 pm
    Where: Oxenbury's Yard
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