WOMENCENTRESTAGE UPDATE: 17 June 2008
“You will all be excited to learn that our total fundraising from the 2008 WOMENCENTRESTAGE event of March 2008 was £425:85p! This came from £289:35 raised by the raffle and donations on the night, and we have recently received £136:50 from The Dylan Thomas Centre for ticket sales. All of the £425:85 went directly to Women 4 Resources, who support women’s projects in Africa.
“We have booked the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea for the 2009 celebration of INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY on FRIDAY MARCH 8TH 2009, so put this in your diaries please! We need lots of lovely women to showcase their work and help with the organisation in advance and on the night!
“Thanks to everyone again for making this year’s event so special, and hope to see you all March 8th 2009!”
Contact: womencentrestage@hotmail.co.uk
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Booklaunch - Oh Dad! by Lloyd Robson
The Dylan Thomas Centre
Wednesday, 18 June at 7pm
The Dylan Thomas Centre and Parthian Books launch Lloyd Robson’s Oh Dad! on Wednesday, 18 June at 7pm.
Oh Dad! is Cardiff poet Lloyd Robson’s search for one of Hollywood’s most complex characters, Robert Mitchum. This fascinating book tells the story of Mitchum as Lloyd follows in his considerable footsteps, from hobo to screen giant, from teenage poet to legendary drinker and womaniser. It is also a remarkable personal journey for Robson himself, relayed in his own inimitable style.
Entry is free, and free wine will be available. Please contact the Dylan Thomas Centre on 01792 463980 for more information.
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Glynn Vivian Gallery Talk This Friday 13th June
EXHIBITION: FRIENDS OF THE GLYNN VIVIAN – 50TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION (1958-2008)
Guided Tour & Talk: Kirstine Brander Dunthorne, curator of this exhibition, will give a guided tour and talk about the show. Kirstine is a free-lance researcher and lecturer in art history. She teaches part-time at the Dynefor Centre for Art, Design and Media, Swansea Metropolitan University .
Galleries 6 & 7, lst floor, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery , Swansea
This Friday 13 June 2008, 1pm
Admission free to all gallery events
Back to the Present
The latest issue of New Welsh Review is out now. In this issue Alan Riach reviews the recently published Poetry 1900-2000: One hundred poets from Wales; Andrew Green, Librarian of the National Library of Wales, argues for a digital ‘theatre of memory’; Kirsti Bohata considers three recent publications that offer a feminist perspective on the Anglo-Welsh canon; and Imogen Rhia Herrad traces the cultural history of sheep. Issue 80 showcases the poetry of Kathryn Simmonds and Tamar Yoseloff, amongst others, and fiction from Lloyd Jones and Penny Simpson. You can find more details of this latest issue on New Welsh Review’s website www.newwelshreview.com
Ifor ap Glyn named Bardd Plant Cymru 2008-9
From the Academi newsletter:
In a ceremony on the main stage at the Eisteddfod yr Urdd in Llandudno on Tuesday 27 May, Ifor ap Glyn was named as the Children’s Poet Laureate - Bardd Plant Cymru - for 2008-09. Following Caryl Parry Jones’ incredibly succesful year in the post, Ifor will take over the task of inspiring children across Wales to write poetry.
Prize-winning Poet Sails Away with £5000
From the Academi newsletter:
The results of the 2008 Academi Cardiff International Poetry Competition were announced at a floating ceremony aboard cruise vessel Seren Y Bae on Tuesday 3 June 2008.
Rose Flint from Wiltshire sailed away with the first prize of £5000 for her poem The Field. Judges Jo Shapcott and U A Fanthorpe commented that her poem ‘practically jumped out of the pile, fuelled by its own energy and exuberance. The poet has caught precisely the explosive force, the juice and joy, the spectacular and unreasonable diversity of growth in a single patch of ground’. Rose Flint is a multi-award winning poet as well as an artist and art therapist. She teaches Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes at Bristol University. Rose describes herself as ‘a long term Green’ and is involved in local sustainability projects. Her fourth collection of poetry will be published this summer by Avalon press.
Wales Book of The Year Shortlist
From the Academi newsletter:
The Short List Announced at the Guardian Hay Festival
The Short Lists for the Wales Book of the Year 2008 were announced on Monday 26 May 2008, on the Segovia Stage at the Guardian Hay Festival in the presence of the Minister for Heritage, Rhodri Glyn Thomas.
Judges Trevor Fishlock for the English-language Award and Aled Islwyn for the Welsh-language Award announced the Short Lists of three books which are now in contention for the £10,000 award.
For the English-language Short List the judges have chosen poet Dannie Abse’s remarkable memoir about his late wife; novelist Tom Bullough’s powerful drama set in the Welsh borders and Nia Wyn’s moving account of her son’s cerebral palsy.
The Short List is:
Dannie Abse, The Presence (Hutchinson)
Tom Bullough, The Claude Glass (Sort Of Books)
Nia Wyn, Blue Sky July (Seren / Penguin)
And I Was Bound For Wales by George Borrow
Fluellen Theatre Company Presents…
7 and 14 June at 1pm
The Dylan Thomas Centre’s series of Saturday lunchtime theatre performances by Fluellen Theatre Company continues at Saturday 7 and Saturday 14 June at 1pm with And I Was Bound For Wales by George Borrow, adapted by Francis Hardy.
Peter Richards plays George Borrow in this humorous new adaptation of Borrow’s famous Wild Wales. Travel through 19th century Wales with this eccentric observer of Wales as it used to be. With music specially written and performed live by Delyth Jenkins.
Tickets are £5 full price and £4 concessions, and are available from the Dylan Thomas Centre on 01792 463980.
Janice Moore Fuller
Friday, 13 June at 7.30pm
Lunchtime Theatre – Saturday, 7 and Saturday 14 June at 1pm
The Dylan Thomas Centre
Acclaimed poet Janice Moore Fuller reads at the Dylan Thomas Centre on Friday, 13 June at 7.30pm.
Writer-in-Residence and Professor of English at Catawba College in Salisbury, North Carolina, Janice Moore Fuller has published three volumes of poems—Archeology Is a Destructive Science (Scots Plaid Press), Sex Education (Iris Press), and Séance. (Iris Press. Séance was launched at London’s Troubadour Club in 2007.
She has also written plays and libretti, and been a Fellow at the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Fundación Valparaíso in Spain, Hawthornden Castle in Edinburgh, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Obras Centre in Portugal.
Please contact the Dylan Thomas Centre on 01792 463980 for more information and tickets: Full Price £4-00 Concessions £2-80 Swansea PTL £1-60
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