Winners of the 2018 Fun Hat Competition

Best Hatted Girl £30 first prize sp0nsored by Nantes Solicitors Best Hatted Boy £30 first prize sponsored by Nantes Solicitors Best Hatted Lady £50 first prize sponsored by John Halifax Hatters LTD and The Susquehana Hat Company Best Hatted Gentleman £50 first prize sponsored by John Halifax Hatters LTD and The Susquehana Hat Company Best …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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‘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 …

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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!