dylan thomas brochure september - december
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2 September - December 2010
Dylan Thomas Centre Programme September – December 2010The Dylan Thomas Centre’s autumn programme showcasesestablished names alongside exciting new voices, where writersof the calibre of Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy and DonPaterson rub shoulders with the likes of Tyler Keevil, WillGritten and Richard Jones.We present debut Dylan ThomasCentre readings by Siobhan Campbell, Carrie Etter, Ian Gregson, and RhysTrimble, and round off the year, appropriately, with a magical celebration ofDylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales. We warmly invite you to join us forthis series of events that will entertain, inform and inspire.
Jo Furber, Literature Officer
Saturday, 4 September, 1pm
Lunchtime Theatre: Something Unspoken byTennessee WilliamsFluellen Theatre Company present Tennessee Williams’sSomething Unspoken. Cornelia Scott wishes to realise herlifetime ambition: to be named president of The Daughters of theConfederation. But in the tense hours before the announcementsomething threatens – something unspoken. Tennessee Williams is the great poetof twentieth century American theatre, and the script-in-hand performance of thisintriguing play will be preceded by a talk about his life and work. Tickets: £5
Wednesday, 15 September, 7.30pm
On the Edge: Talking to Wordsworth byGillian Clarke
Gillian Clarke is the much acclaimed National Poet of Wales, andwe’re delighted to be staging a rehearsed reading of Talking to
Wordsworth, which will be introduced by Gillian herself. It will be preceded by arevival of Highjinx Theatre’sWishful Thinking. Tickets: £4
Friday, 17 September, 7pm
Bright Young ThingsRising literary stars Tyler Keevil, Will Grittenand Susie Wild read from their debutcollections from Parthian Books, and discusstheir work with Parthian fiction editor, Lucy Llewellyn.www.brightyoungthings.infoTickets: Free entry and wine, in association with Parthian Books
TennesseeWilliams
GillianClarke
Susie Wild Will Gritten Tyler Keevil
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Thursday, 23 September, 7pm
John Tripp: The Meaning of Apricot SpongeA selection of the writings of John Tripp (1927-1986) - poet, shortstory writer, and journalist - an outspoken and often controversialwriter whose passion and vigour often spilled over the pages hewrote and into his life. This new title includes an essay by PeterFinch, and is edited by Tony Curtis, Professor of Poetry at theUniversity of Glamorgan, who also provides a critical foreword.Tony Curtis, John Tripp Award Winner Mab Jones, and Swanseawriter and Tripp scholar, Nigel Jenkins, will give readings from the book.Tickets: Free entry and wine, in association with Parthian Books
Saturday, 25 September, 7.30pm
Don PatersonOne of Britain’s finest poets reads from his work. DonPaterson’s poetry has won an impressive number ofawards, including the Forward Prize for Best FirstCollection, the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Geoffrey FaberMemorial Award, and the T.S. Eliot Prize on two occasions.Most recently, Rain won the 2009 Forward Prize. He is aFellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and received an
OBE in 2008 and the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2010. Paterson teachespoetry at the University of St Andrews, and since 1996 has been poetry editor atPicador MacMillan. Tickets: Full Price: £6.50 Concessions: £4.50 PTL: £2.60
Sunday, 26 September, 11am – 1pm
Poetry Workshop with Don PatersonDon Paterson will conduct an open seminar-style workshop and discuss all aspectsof the poetic art, looking at the business of poetic composition as a technical,practical and spiritual exercise, and focussing on every stage of the process frominspiration to publication. Please bring pen, paper and two or three good questions.Tickets: £15. Please contact the Centre on 01792 463980 to book your place.
Wednesday, 29 September, 7.30pm
Science CaféThe Swansea Science Café offers opportunities for anyoneto find out more about new, exciting and topical areas ofscience. Designed to be informal and entertaining, the café typically runs on thelast Wednesday of every month. For more information, see www.sciencecafewales.orgTickets: Free entry
DonPaterson
Thursday, 30 September, 7.30pm
Poets in the Bookshop with Siobhan CampbellSiobhan Campbell’s third full collection, Cross-Talk (Seren, 2009),was declared a “cunning sideways take on the pastoral” bythe Irish Times. Siobhan is a Principal Lecturer at KingstonUniversity London. Her work has appeared in journalsincluding Poetry, Agenda and Poetry Ireland, and she has wonawards in the National Poetry Competition as well as inthe Troubadour and Wigtown competitions. She isanthologised in The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing andIdentity Parade, New British and Irish Poets (Bloodaxe). The evening will alsoinclude an open mic session, in which audience members may read a poem inEnglish or in Welsh. Tickets: Full Price: £4 Concessions: £2.80 PTL: £1.60
Sunday, 3 October, 10am – 4pm
Discovering ShakespeareWorkshop #1: MacbethA chance to discover in some depth three great plays byWilliam Shakespeare - a tragedy, a history and a comedy -beginning with Macbeth. Peter Richards (Artistic Director ofFluellen Theatre Company) and other actors will explore one
text per session for a greater historical and theatrical understanding of the plays,demonstrating how the texts are taken from the page and translated into livingpieces of theatre. Tickets: £10 per day. Plays may be booked separately.Please contact Fluellen on 01792 368269 to reserve your place.
Thursday, 7 October, 7.30pm
National Poetry Day event:Paul Henry and Richard JonesPaul Henry is one of Wales’s leading poets, and tonightlaunches The Brittle Sea: New and Selected Poems (Seren).The author of five collections, he has read at festivalsacross the UK and Europe. Originally a songwriter, Henryhas guest-edited Poetry Wales and is a popular creativewriting tutor. He recently presented the ‘Inspired’ series ofarts programmes for BBC Radio Wales. Reading with him isSwansea poet and teacher Richard Jones, who is workingwith Paul under the Academi’s mentoring scheme for talented young writers. Tickets: Free Entry and wine, in association with Seren Books.
SiobhanCampbell
PaulHenry
PeterRichards
4 September - December 2010
Saturday, 9 October, 1pm
Lunchtime Theatre: The Lesson by Eugene IonescoFluellen Theatre Company present Eugene Ionesco’s The Lesson. Ionesco`swonderful absurdist comedy tells of a professor who gives private lessons to apupil who seems to be remarkably gifted. But all is not as it first appears in a playthat has been described as “a coiled spring of contracted violence.” EugeneIonesco was one of the foremost theatrical voices of twentieth century Europeantheatre and the script-in-hand performance of this classic satire will be precededby a talk about his life and work. Tickets: £5
Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 October
Women’s Archive of Wales, 13th Annual ConferenceThe conference provides an unique opportunity for networking among historians ofwomen and those interested in preserving the documentary evidence of women’slives in Wales across the centuries.Members of the public are very welcome to attend some or all of the conference,which includes a celebratory dinner with music from Jazz Heritage Wales’ JenWilson. Tickets: Please see www.womensarchivewales.org for details, and tobook your place.
Wednesday, 20 October, 7.30pm
Science CaféFor more information, see www.sciencecafewales.orgTickets: Free entry
Thursday, 21 October, 7.30pm
Poets in the Bookshop with Ian GregsonIan Gregson’s latest book of poems is How We Met(Salt, 2008). Call Centre Love Song, a selection of hispoems, was shortlisted for the prestigious ForwardPrize. He has published poems and reviews in theLondon Review of Books, the TLS and Poetry Review,amongst others. His critical books include The NewPoetry In Wales (University of Wales Press, 2007). Since1977, he has taught in the English department atBangor University, where he is now Professor.The evening will also include an open mic session, inwhich audience members may read a poem in Englishor in Welsh.Tickets: Full Price: £4 Concessions: £2.80 PTL: £1.60
IanGregson
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27 October – 9 November
Dylan Thomas Festival - “A Home from Home for the Thomases”This year’s festival – programmed by David Woolley with Jeff Towns - takes as itstheme the considerable number of Thomases who have made a significantcontribution to the literature of Wales and beyond. As well as Dylan himself, therewill be events focusing on R.S., Edward, Wynford Vaughan, Gwyn and John OrmondThomas. Participants include contemporary writers of the stature of Andrew Motion,Gwyneth Lewis, Alexis Lykiard, Mike Jenkins, and the superb Canadian poetry andmusic troupe, The Fugitives. We host the first full Swansea performance of a newone man show on David Lloyd George, and Peter Hain discusses his new book onNelson Mandela. This year’s festival exhibition includes a display on theThomases, and the first showing of some doodles by Dylan and artist and illustrator,Dodie Masterman. A separate brochure will be available in September.
Sunday, 14 November, 10am – 4pm
Discovering Shakespeare Workshop #2: Henry VA chance to discover in some depth three great plays by William Shakespeare - atragedy, a history and a comedy - this month looking at Henry V. Peter Richards(Artistic Director of Fluellen Theatre Company) and other actors will explore onetext per session for a greater historical and theatrical understanding of the plays,demonstrating how the texts are taken from the page and translated into livingpieces of theatre. Tickets: £10 per day. Plays may be booked separately. Pleasecontact Fluellen on 01792 368269 to reserve your place.
Wednesday, 17 November, 7.30pm
Booklaunch: Jon Gower - UnchartedJoin two gifted conversationalists who share a passion for booksas they trade words for an hour. Swansea historian and aceraconteur Peter Stead chats with Jon Gower about his latestnovel Uncharted, a book described by Jan Morris as“unflaggingly and unfailingly inventive.” Tickets: Free entry and wine, in association with Gomer.
Saturday, 20 November, 1pm
Lunchtime Theatre: Protest by Vaclav HavelFluellen Theatre Company present Vaclav Havel’s Protest. Havel’salter ego, Vanek, visits the home of an old friend in order to get him tosign a petition to fight the oppressive regime under which they bothlive. But nothing goes according to plan. This powerful play about theresponsibility of the artist to fight social ills is the final part of Havel`s great trilogy ofVanek plays, the previous two (Audience and The Unveiling) having proved so popularwhen previously performed at the Dylan Thomas Centre. This script-in-handperformance will be preceded by a talk about Vaclav Havel`s life and work. Tickets: £5
VaclavHavel
6 September - December 2010
Wednesday, 24 November, 7.30pm
Science CaféFor more information, see www.sciencecafewales.orgTickets: Free entry
Thursday, 25 November, 7.30pm
Poets in the Bookshop with Carrie EtterAmerican expatriate Carrie Etter’s first collection, The Tethers(Seren, 2009), was hailed in the Times Literary Supplement as “oneof the most ambitious and accomplished first collections of recentyears.” She has also edited an anthology, Infinite Difference: OtherPoetries by UK Women Poets (Shearsman, 2010), and her pamphlet,The Son (Oystercatcher, 2009), was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet
Choice. She is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and hasbeen blogging for five years at www.carrieetter.blogspot.com The evening willalso include an open mic session, in which audience members may read a poem inEnglish or in Welsh. Tickets: Full Price: £4 Concessions: £2.80 PTL: £1.60
Thursday, 2 December, 7.30pm
Medical Foundation FundraiserAnnual fundraising event for the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims ofTorture. The evening will include music and poetry, and further details can beobtained from [email protected] Tickets: Full Price: £7 Concessions: £5
Sunday, 5 December, 10am – 4pm
Discovering Shakespeare Workshop#3 Twelfth NightA chance to discover in some depth three great plays by William Shakespeare - atragedy, a history and a comedy - this month looking at Twelfth Night. Peter Richards (Artistic Director of Fluellen Theatre Company) and other actorswill explore one text per session for a greater historical and theatricalunderstanding of the plays, demonstrating how the texts are taken from the pageand translated into living pieces of theatre. Tickets: £10 per day. Plays may be booked separately. Please contact Fluellen on 01792 368269 to reserve your place.
Wednesday, 8 December, 7.30pm
On the Edge: Night Horse by Catrin ClarkeTensions grow as a mother and daughter wait for a soldier to
come back from Afghanistan. Join us for a rehearsed reading of Night Horse,which was first broadcast on Radio 4 in 2009 to great acclaim. Tickets: £4
CarrieEtter
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Friday, 10 December, 7.30pm
Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke:National Poet of Wales On TourIn association with The National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke andPoet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy read and discuss their work. These two poets havebeen awarded the highest recognition: to be called on to reflect and interpret theemotions of a nation. Gillian Clarke became National Poet of Wales in 2008. Aftertwo successful years in the post, this is your chance to hear new work by theNational Poet, as well as a selection from her vast back catalogue. Since becomingPoet Laureate in 2009, Carol Ann Duffy has written on subjects as disparate as theparliamentary expenses scandal, the volcanic ash cloud, and David Beckham’sinjured heel. We’re delighted to welcome her back to the Dylan Thomas Centre. This event is part of the National Poet’s Tour of Wales throughout the autumn,organised by Academi. For other tour dates, please visit www.academi.org oremail [email protected] or call 029 2047 2266. The National Poet of Walesproject is sponsored by the Arts Council of Wales and administrated by Academi.Tickets: Full Price: £10 Concessions: £7, which includes £1 off any new bookpurchased on the night.
Tuesday, 14 December, 7pm
Christmas in WalesFluellen Theatre Company’smagical celebration, in words andmusic, of Christmases past and present, featuring a completeperformance of their celebrated adaptation of Dylan Thomas’s AChild’s Christmas In Wales, with Delyth Jenkins on harp.
Tickets: Full Price: £6.00 Concessions: £4.00, which includes aglass of mulled wine or juice in the interval.
Wednesday 15 December, 7.30pm
Poets in the Bookshop with Rhys TrimbleRhys Trimble is a bilingual poet, performer and editor alive inNorth Wales. He was born in 1977 in Livingstone, Zambia andbrought up in Gwent and Pontneddfechan. He is published inPoetry Wales, Tears in the Fence, Seventh Quarry, Coffee HousePoetry, Aesthetica, Skald and various other magazines and radio.Recent works include ‘Dancing’, with Zoë Skoulding and AlanHolmes, for the band, Parking Non-Stop. The evening includes an open micsession, in which audience members may read a poem in English or in Welsh.Tickets: Full Price: £4 Concessions: £2.80 PTL: £1.60
GillianClarke
Carol Ann Duffy
RhysTrimble
8 September - December 2010
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10 August – 5 September
‘Drawings’ - Alan BicknellAlan Bicknell writes of this exhibition: “things on stilts,bunkbeds, moths, those props and struts that are used tohold up wayward buildings, Morvern Callar’s use of wordslike ‘goldish’ and ‘rampant’, lamps - always lamps, peoplewith pipes in their faces, that wall in Penarth wheresomeone’s written ‘Wolfey 97’, or might be 93, can’tremember, the huge pram me and mum pushed to the jumble sale, the clothes Iwore later that day, makeshift barns, archways and ceilings a little too tall for meto reach…”
7 September – 3 October
Lucy Bevan ‘You went toBelarus, so I went to Paris’
“A trip was made to cheer myself up asmy boyfriend had to go home toBelarus for 2 months. Each day a newstory unfolded and these pictures arethe consequences. The exhibition is a selection of Polaroid SX-70 and imagespectra photographs made in and around Paris.”
5 October – 24 October
‘Taking the LeAP - Moving on to Comp’Taking the LeAP - Moving on to Comp’ is a highly successful multimedia projectdesigned to address the concerns of Year 6 children in their last term ofprimary school. Designed with children from Years 5 - 8, this exhibitionillustrates and celebrates the achievements of those children whom havealready taken part in the project.
26 October – 21 November
Dylan Thomas Festival ExhibitionThis year’s festival exhibition in the Corridor Gallery and the back room of the‘Man and Myth’ exhibiton includes a display on the many Thomases who havemade a contribution to Welsh literature, and the first showing of some doodlesby Dylan and artist and illustrator, Dodie Masterman.
Corridor Gallery
Exhibitions
10 September - December 2010
Become a Friend of the Dylan Thomas CentreAs a Friend, you’ll receive the following benefits, which last for a year:
• Concessionary ticket rate on all Literature Programme events• 10% off new books in our bookshop• Invites to launches and private viewings• Priority mailing and email reminders• Entry into our Friends Prize Draw. Please contact us on 01792 463980 or email [email protected] for further details.
Whilst all effort is made to ensure that the details of this programme are accurate, the City and County of Swansea reserve the right to alter any part of the programme without notice.
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