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In the 21st century Bridport’s arts scene has contributed to the town becoming increasingly popular with people from outside the locality.[38] It has an arts centre, theatre, library, cinema and museum, and several annual events.
Bridport Arts Centre originated in the early 1970s when local activists bought an old Wesleyan chapel and adjacent schoolroom on South Street and converted them into a theatre and art gallery—named the Allsop Gallery in memory of broadcaster and local resident Kenneth Allsop. The centre hosts a diverse programme of cultural events and since the 1990s has received funding from the Arts Council.[39] In 1973 the centre founded the Bridport Prize, an annual international poetry and short story competition described by its patron Fay Weldon as “a prize really worth fighting for in terms of prestige and genuine literary accomplishment.
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