The Pantry, Bridport Arts Centre, Bridport, Dorset UK

Bridport Arts Centre
South Street
Bridport
Dorset
DT6 3NR

01308 424 204

 Web site

Creative Café Project Activities 

• art exhibitions
• comedy
• film
• live music  
• theatre
• writer in residence 

Read about a writing residency here.  

The Short and Sweet Company, Wimborne, BH 21

5A Mill Lane

Wimborne

Dorset
BH21 1JQ 

United Kingdom

01202 880444

Web site

Creative Cafe Project Activities  

• book events 
• book crossing
• writer in residence  

Read about a residency here.

The Floral Hall Café, Hornsea Review

The Floral Hall café , bookshop, sits next to the Floral Hall on the sea front at Hornsea.  Even on a Thursday afternoon in February it is inviting. Inside there are red hearts, ready for Valentine’s Day. Outside the waves tumble energetically on to the firm sand. The café offers a sanctuary for those who have braved a walk in the cold. Several have. And goodness, it’s cold enough out there.  

I arrive just in time for lunch.  I order a cheese and onion quiche with chips and salad. The pastry is light, the filling beautifully cheesy with the texture just right and the chips are cooked to be crisp on the outside and fluffy inside. All for under £6.00.  Later I indulge in a piece of excellent chocolate cake and a large cup of builder’s tea – for just £2.50.  No wonder the trade is brisk.

Delicious for All

Delicious offers the following Creative Cafe projects:

• provides information about the arts.
• hosts book readings / launches
• hosts Writers in Residence 
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Delicious for All
13 George Street, Western Court, LE17 4EG.
01455 559151

Putting the Creative into the Creative Café

I was at a conference yesterday and we talked a little about what is being creative. One suggestion is that it is about using what is there, reordering it and bringing forth something different and perhaps surprising. Finding solutions to problems is as much a creative act as writing a poem, painting a picture or composing a piece of music.  Baking glorious cakes, providing an appropriate atmosphere for creative practitioner networking, and offering a comfortable space where audiences can enjoy the arts are perhaps surprising – and delightful  - solutions  to some of the problems that the arts are currently facing: the Arts Council can award fewer  grants, the universities are having to cut back on humanities provision and as we go into austerity measures, fewer can afford to support the arts directly by going to the theatre and to concerts or by buying books and music.

Somehow, though, we still manage to eat and drink and occasionally that might be in a café.  Can we reorder that and make it an opportunity also for enjoying the arts?

We’ve reordered thus so far by creating in cafés:

Writers in residence

Book launches

Gallery spaces

Literary salons

Book swaps

Open mic

Jazz evenings

Poetry readings

CaféLit  

Reading groups

Writers’ critique groups

What else could we do? Can you help us to reorder yet again?