Beat Safari are holding a HatFest Fringe Event! Chapel in the Garden East Street, Bridport Sat 3rd Sept – 8.00-12.30 An Alice in Wonderland themed night – Eat Me – Drink Me! Fancy Hats Groovy Dancing Ska , Reggae, Latin , Swing and Funk Over 18’s only The Cerne Abbas Brewery Bar & street food …
Tower Open Day St Marys Parish Church, South Street, Bridport is holding an open day (Weather permitting) on HatFest day, Saturday 3rd September 2016 10:30am – 12:30pm The view from the top of the tower is wonderful, but mind your hat does not blow off! See the ringing chamber where Bellringers ring bells. Look at …
‘No Limits’ will be performing in the Borough Gardens at 12 noon on Hat Festival Day. Summertime Together is an inclusive community performing arts project organised by No Limits Bridport and supported by West Dorset District Council and West Dorset Mencap. During the summer, a group of adults, children and young people with and without …
On Friday 2nd September the Electric Palace are hosting Hank Wangford & the Lost Cowboys to get this year’s Hat Festival off to a brilliant start. Appearing with Hank are his four all-star hard-core country musicians, including B.J. Cole, a leading UK exponent of the pedal steel guitar. An authentic country singer/songwriter, with a wide emotional range, …
Last year’s Tea Dance was a great success and we are thus holding another on Sunday 4th September 2016. Arrive at 1.45 for a 2pm start. Hosted by Glenn Bayliss in the Bull Hotel ballroom, tickets £ 10 from Bridport TlC and on door. The price includes afternoon tea. Tuition available from your host – …
The Bridport hat Amnesty has been declared! Any unwanted headwear can be taken to Snook’s Hat Shop in West Street, where it will receive the respect and sympathetic treatment that it deserves. All the hats received will be re-homed at our Hat Auction which will be held this year on Thursday 1st September at 8pm …
The Art of Hat Making Develop your own style and learn different techniques for your hat and fascinator creations. Using your individual flair and imagination and a range of fabric and trimmings you will be shown the various techniques necessary to create stunning headpieces. Historically Inspired Millinery This course introduces the materials and techniques for …
Pi Productions are a television production company run by John Silver, who created the TV series Grand Designs, and reinvented MasterChef. They’re currently casting for a new prime-time UK Channel 5 documentary series capturing the journeys of six ambitious people who are following their dreams, and are uprooting to start a whole new life. They …
This year the Hat Hurling will be sponsored by Symonds & Sampson – and Partner Jim Rowe will also again be conducting the Hat Auction at the Bridport & West Dorest Club in South Street on Thursday 1st September. We will be hoping for the auction to equal if not exceed the £1000 that this …
The following tribute is taken from the HAT Magazine We were also shocked to hear of the death of milliner Isabelle Mazzitelli, who had been battling with cancer for a year. Apart from her two grownup children, millinery and hat making dominated Isabelle’s whole life. Isabelle loved couture millinery and idolised Marie O’Regan, and up …