Keep Fit with Luke

  This year we have decided to give the mad hatters of Bridport some help with their fitness! Local fitness instructor Luke Hayter will be conducting what may well be the UK’s first mass hatted fitness event. It will commence at 9am before the official opening of the Hat Festival, in South Street, which will …

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Beat Safari at the Arts Centre, Haturday Evening!

We invite you to Beat Safari @ the Arts Centre for the Official Hat Festival Fringe Event on Saturday 2nd of September – Doors open from 9pm -1am. Get ready for a night of fabulous dancing music from around the world. From Reggae and Latin to Balkan Gypsy beats and Electro Blues. Something for everyone …

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The Electric Palace HatFest Fund Raising Event: ‘Churchill’

We are pleased to announce that Bridport’s Electric Palace is supporting the Hat Festival. The Electric Palace is hosting an event in support of the Hat Festival by showing CHURCHILL (PG), a newly released film about the final agonising hours before D-Day in 1944, as a fund-raiser for the festival, and which will increase our …

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Bridport Primary – “Gateway to the World”

  Making hats as part of their project, Bridport Primary School Reception pupils focused on a festival very close to home with the Bridport Hat Festival taking centre stage. Accompanied with their teachers, they took a welly walk to Snook’s in town to find out more about their hats. We are pleased to report that they were extremely …

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Mad as Hatters! They need your help!

MEMBERS of the Bridport Hat Festival committee, pictured, have donned their thinking caps and all manner of other headgear – and are working hard to bring this year’s festival to fruition over the first weekend in September. But the group are seeking help, as the festival is entirely run by volunteers and depends on the …

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HatFest 2017 flyer

Liz, our Graphics Guru has designed a new publicity flyer for this year’s festival – and here it is!  

St Mary’s School Night of Honour

St. Mary’s CE Primary School, Bridport held their “Night of Honour” on Thursday 2nd February 2017 at Bridport Arts Centre, during which there was an award ceremony and entertainment by the school. Nominees were put forward by the people of Bridport, and we are pleased to report that the Bridport Hat Festival has won the …

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Brain Tumour Research Wear A Hat Day

Friday 31st March 2017 is National Wear A Hat Day organised by one of the Bridport Hat Festival’s supported charities, Brain Tumour Research. There are many ways to get involved and taking part is easy: first of all, wear your hat! Then for ways to take part or donate check out BTR’s website here.

AnOthermag’s Pick of the Best in Show at Bridport Hat Festival

Photographer Samuel Bradley visits the British town’s annual celebration of millinery, to capture its stars and its stalwarts for AnOther AnOthermag.com, AnOther Magazine and Another Man are part of the independent publishing company Dazed Group, alongside Dazed and DazedDigital.com Click here to read their review and see some stunning images from Photographer Samuel Bradley Image …

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