Hurrah – it’s Haturday!
Let the hattiness commence! Wondering what’s on? COMPETITIONS: The Bucky Doo-based public ‘fun’ hat competitions are best known, but there are other amazing comps around town… Up at Millennium Green we have the morning’s Best Hatted Dog comp – it’s completely barking – and the afternoon’s brand new ’Most Elegant Ensemble’ – a competition …
It’s Competitions Time!
Have you got your hats ready? Prepare to don your most inventive, whacky, wonderful, crazy, glorious and simply hat-tastic creations as the ‘Best Hatted’ competitions return on Haturday to Bucky Doo Square. With categories for Best Hatted Lady, Gent, Girl, Boy, Couple and Family or Group we’ve got pretty much everybody covered. Shortlisting takes place …
Pop Club!
On Haturday, live in Bucky Doo Square, some of the most exciting young musicians in West Dorset will once again grace our stage as ‘Pop Club’. On from just after 10am, taking a break for the Mass Hatted Photo and the Best Hatted competitions, then back again at around 2pm, these talented young performers never …
Lyric Theatre Artisan Fascinator Workshop
Come and make a fabulous fascinator in preparation for parading it around at Bridport Hat Festival, using a range of luscious trimmings, wire, flowers, feathers and beads – all provided. Workshop leader Susan Carter creates fascinators and leads workshops in making them at festivals in the region. All you need to do is bring your …
Volunteer for the Hat Festival
This year’s festival could use a few more good folks to help out on ‘Haturday’. If you can spare just a couple of hours on the day – stewards are our main need but there are other roles – we would be delighted to hear from you. Remember, Bridport Hat Festival is run entirely by …
‘Confessions from a Hat Shop’
Talk with Sue ‘Darling’ Outhwaite, of local hat emporium T Snook Tall tales and improbable anecdotes from Bridport’s ‘largest little hat shop in the land’, recounted in her own inimitable style – and a succession of hats – by Sue of Snooks. Saturday 1st September, 11am-12noon, in the ballroom of the Bull Hotel, East Street Tickets …
Hat Amnesty!
Please bring your unwanted, preloved, unloved, whatever hats along to Snooks estimable emporium for rehoming at our celebrated Hat Auction. All hats will be treated with the greatest respect and anonymity is guaranteed if you’re too embarrassed to admit that it’s yours!
No Limits Bridport – The Shoe Chorus at 12 noon HatFest Day
After a wonderfully received performance last year, The Shoe Chorus are performing again in the Borough Gardens again on HatFest day 1st September at 12noon. Please give them your support; there are also a few other bits and pieces that would be most gratefully received – please see the request below.
Workshops with Local Milliner Fiona Neylan: Fabulous Fascinators, Pretty Pill Boxes and Flamboyant Flower Garlands.
Please note the dates have changed from those announced previously! New Dates: Tuesday 14th August & Thursday 16th August 2018 10.30 am. to 2.30pm. email: hats@fionaneylan.co.uk , FB: Fiona’s Hat Studio@FionaNeylanHats www.fionaneylan.co.uk AT: Fiona Neylan Millinery, STUDIO 48, Tarworks Cut, St Michael’s, Bridport DT6 4BG. TEL: 07905 999437 “FABULOUS FASCINATORS” workshop – We will make …