The Greenwich Trio play Beethoven & Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel. Described by Bernard Greenhouse as the “New Beaux Arts Trio” this talented trio play Beethoven: Piano Trio, op 1, no 1 +Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: Piano Trio, op 11. 15 May 11:30 am. Tix from £16 https://ow.ly/EwUb50YNB72
Love, loss, rejection & despair!
It's all in Tchaikovsky’s best-loved opera Eugene Onegin. We're broadcasting from the Met Opera Saturday May 9th at 5pm. Tickets for this emotional rollercoaster of a production at
https://www.bridport-arts.com/event/eugene-onegin/
Bridport's film festival, From Page to Screen, begins tomorrow.
Here's an exclusive snippet from David Zucker, one of the writer-directors of Airplane!
Join us at the screening to hear his full introduction, recorded specially for Bridport!
Screening as part of From Page to Screen film festival
Saturday 25th April, 5:00pm
Bridport Arts Centre
Here's an exclusive snippet from Walter Murch, the editor of Touch of Evil.
Join us at the screening to hear more from this festival-exclusive interview.
Screening as part of Bridport Film Festival
Wednesday 22 April, 10:45am
Bridport Arts Centre
www.bridport-arts.com/fpts
With just over a week to go before the start of From Page to Screen, we went down to Symondsbury Estate to challenge them to a game of Guess the Frame from the Film.
Thank you to Symondsbury Estate for being a sponsor of From Page to Screen.
Link in bio for tickets.
For one night only, BAFTA winning writing duo Neal Purvis & Robert Wade, (writers of no less than seven James Bond movies) will be joining Grammy and Emmy winning composer David Arnold for an exclusive Q&A led by Chris Chibnall at this special 20th anniversary screening of Casino Royale.
Surely we can’t be serious? This iconic parody is one of the most daftly influential and expertly crafted comedies of the past 50 years.
"Join us in a guide to the film’s origins, accompanied by in-flight drinks and safety demonstration, before setting your phones to Airplane! mode" Chris Chibnall
From a unique screening of Spacewomen, introduced by Director Hannah Berryman, a free screening of Fantastic Mr Fox for all Year 3 - Year 7's at the Bridport Youth Centre and Pillion, with a Q&A with the films Production Designer Francesca Massariol.
www.bridport-arts.com/fpts for tickets
Join us for our 2.15pm sessions and discover a world of cinema, from Guillaume Canet’s Hitchcockian thriller Tell No One to the classic 1966 Fahrenheit 451, plus the inspiring H is for Hawk, followed by a special Q&A with director Philippa Lowsthorpe.
www.bridport-arts.com/fpts
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A taster of Metropolitan Opera's new production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde.
It's broadcast live at BAC on Sat 28 Mar at 4pm https://www.bridport-arts.com/event/tristan-und-isolde/
We had a full house of film lovers on Thursday night for the launch of this year’s From Page to Screen film festival.
A huge thank you to everyone who joined us - we can’t wait to welcome you back for the festival in April.
Tickets on sale now:
https://www.bridport-arts.com/fpts/
A taster of the films screening in From Page to Screen - Bridport's Film Festival, 22-26 April 2026. Huge thanks and congratulations to Cal Chibnall who created our trailer.
Tickets on sale from 8am on Sat 14 Mar https://www.bridport-arts.com/fpts/
Programme
Gabriel Fauré: Elegy
Robert Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op 73
Edvard Grieg: Sonata for cello and piano in A minor, Op 36
www.bridport-arts.com/event/anna-guomundsdotti...
Tune into BBC South Today (and hopefully BBC Spotlight, too) this evening to hear guest curator Chris Chibnall discussing this year's From Page to Screen - Bridport's Film Festival (22-26 April 2026). Our programme goes goes 'live' online tonight at 7.30pm.
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Martin Scorsese's GOODFELLAS is back on the big screen at BAC - Thu 19 Mar, 7.30pm
https://www.bridport-arts.com/event/goodfellas/
We thought you might like to see the poster design for this year's From Page to Screen - Bridport's Film Festival. There are still a few tickets left for the free programme launch on Thu 12 Mar, hosted by our guest curator, Chris Chibnall www.bridport-arts.com/event/fpts-programme-lau...
Life in the Shadows of Allington Hill - an exhibition exploring the past and present of Allington Hill.
26 March – 4 April, Wed – Sat, 10am – 4pm.
Allsop Gallery, Bridport Arts Centre
FREE admission
www.bridport-arts.com/event/life-in-the-shadow...
On #InternationalWomensDay here are some of the women whose creativity is driving BAC's spring 2026 programme.
Many people go to Tate's Turner & Constable exhibition for the Turners. But they come away with a newly acquired admiration for Constable. Just look at his clouds!
TURNER & CONSTABLE: THE DEFINITIVE EXHIBITION is at BAC on Thu 12 Mar at 7.30pm https://www.bridport-arts.com/event/turner-constable/
BBC South Today has been filming members of the From Page to Screen team for a short feature about this year’s film festival. Here’s our guest curator, screenwriter Chris Chibnall, and festival committee members, BAFTA-winning producer Ines Cavill and director George Earwicker.
In 2012, Alfred Hitchcock's VERTIGO (1958) was named as the greatest film ever made in Sight and Sound magazine's poll of international film directors and critics.
VERTIGO shows on at BAC big screen on Thu 5 Mar at 7.30pm.
https://www.bridport-arts.com/event/vertigo/
Vincent van Gogh died in 1890. John Lennon died in 1980. Both of gunshot wounds to the chest. But what might have happened had the two great artists met?
When Vincent Met John
A new play by Nick Wilkes
BAC, Sat 7 Mar, 7.30pm
www.bridport-arts.com/event/when-vincent-met-j...
We were delighted to welcome members of Bridport Youth Club to the Allsop Gallery to explore Jeremy Diggle's exhibition, Out of Time.
Led by artist Jo Burlington, the group created their own work inspired by Jeremy's paintings.
Out of Time closes on Sat 28 Feb.
Saul Bass's poster design for VERTIGO (1958) is one of the great film poster classics. But originals don't come cheap: up to £15,000! A ticket for Hitchcock's masterpiece at BAC is rather more affordable - from just £5. Thu 5 Mar at 7.30pm https://www.bridport-arts.com/event/vertigo/
