2 May - August 2010

Dylan Thomas Centre Programme May – August 2010By the time you receive this brochure I will no longer be working atthe Dylan Thomas Centre. After fifteen years I am moving on.I will still be organising the Dylan Thomas Festival however, and I hope to see all of you then. I would like to say a big thank-you toeveryone who has supported the events programme over the years. I also think that the City & County of Swansea should be applauded forshowing such a substantial commitment to literature for so long, and long may itcontinue. It will be continuing in the capable hands of Jo Furber, and I would like to say aspecial thank-you to Jo, and to everyone who has worked at the Dylan Thomas Centreover the years, and to all the many artists and writers who have worked with us in thattime. You have helped us create something which has been very special for me, and Ihope for you and many other people too. It’s been a lot of fun.David Woolley

Thursday 6 May 7.30pm

Ilija TrojanowWe welcome a Bulgarian born writer of travel, literary reportage and novels, who writes inGerman. In association with Swansea University German Dept, and introduced by thedepartment’s Julian Preece. Tickets: Full Price £4-00 Concessions £2-80 Swansea PTL £1-60

Saturday 8 – Sunday 16 May Swansea Bay Film FestivalThe Swansea Bay Film Festival 2010 promises an evengreater mix of films and videos for its 5th year. An exciting and varied selection of filmsoriginating from across the globe will screen for FREE between 10am and 5pm daily. Thefestival, which runs from Saturday May 8th till Sunday May 16th, will also feature introductionsand Q&A sessions by many of the film directors and producers featured in this year’s event.For listings see: www.swanseafilmfestival.com

Thursday 13 May 7.30pm

The Joy of Battered Seaweed – a good laugh is the bestpesticide, An evening with Malcolm ParrSwansea poet, translator, lecturer and raconteur, Malcolm Parr willentertain, with a mix of tales, jokes and anecdotes in his own inimitablestyle. Tickets: £3-00

Thursday 20 May 7pm

Shadow Plays – Trinity College Carmarthen Creative Writing MA LaunchStudents from the College’s MA Course present work from their annualanthology. In association with Parthian Books. Tickets: Free entry & wine

MalcolmParr

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Saturday 22 May – 2.30pm

Beth Mitchell For the love of the game Launch of Beth Mitchell’s exhibition of photographs from the WelshPremier League Tickets: Free entry & wine

Wednesday 26 May 7pm

Dylan Thomas Society EventGwen Watkins in conversation with Jeff Towns. A rare chance to hearGwen – widow of Vernon, friend of Dylan, and scholar and writer in herown right – talking to bookseller and Dylan authority Jeff. Tickets: Full Price £5-00; Concessions £3-00

Wednesday 26 May 7.30pmScience Café: The Deadly 2009 Wildfires near Melbourne: UnpredictableCatastrophe or Foreseeable Event?Stefan Doerr, Swansea UniversityTickets: Free entry

Thursday 27 May 7.30pm

Poets in the BookshopPatrick McGuinness and Richard Gwyn both launch theirnew collections – Richard’s Sad Giraffe Café (Arc) ‘is acollection of prose poems, which together form a shiftingprogressive narrative … treads an unerringly unsteadyline along the borders between dream and vivid

observation, between sensual and laconic, between prose and poetry’. (Philip Gross).Patrick’s Jilted City (Carcanet) is a Poetry Book Society Reccomendation. Plus open mic.Tickets: Full Price £4-00; Concessions £2-80; Swansea PTL £1-60

Friday 4 June 7.30pm

Zimbabwean Poets Blessing Nusariri and Ethel Kwabato, two women writersfrom Zimbabwe on a tour sponsored by the British Council,Cinnamon Press and Academi. Blessing Musariri is anaward -winning children’s author and poet. Ethel Kwabato isa poet and short story writer. Tickets: Full Price £4-00; Concessions £2-80; Swansea PTL £1-60

Tuesday and Wednesday 8 June - both start at 7.30pm

Rough DiamondsA range of exciting dramatic extracts presented over two nights from Swansea University’sMA Creative Writing students. Introduced by playwright and course tutor David Britton, andperformed by Fluellen Theatre Company.All Tickets: £3

GwenWatkins

RichardGwyn

PatrickMcGuinness

BlessingNusariri

EthelKwabato

4 May - August 2010

Friday 11 June - 7pm

Pursued by a Bear David WoolleyDavid launches his latest poetry collectionfrom Headland Press, with poems rangingfrom the personal elegy to the wry and wittyobservation to a sequence on paintings byEdward Hopper.

Tickets: Free entry & wine

Wednesday 16 June - 7pm

Gordon Stuart - Studies for PortraitsExhibition launch of studies by Swansea’s Canadian-born acclaimed Gordon Stuart of themany writers visiting the Dylan Thomas Centre whom Gordon has painted over the past 15years, since his interest in painting writers began with the last portrait of Dylan Thomasshortly before the poet’s death. Tickets: Free entry & wine

Thursday 24 June 7.30pm

Poets & Music in the BookshopDave Jones and friends with Clare Potter plus usualopen micSwansea pianist Dave launches his new CD whichincludes settings of poems by Blackwood poet ClarePotter.Tickets: £5-00 but £2-00 can be redeemed against thesale of the CD on the night.

Wednesday 7 July 7pm

Terry Hetherington eveningThe third memorial evening for the late Neath poet and writer Terry Hetherington sees thepublication of Cheval 3 – selected writing by and about Terry. There will be readings andtributes from his friends, and the award of the second Terry Hetherington Bursary to apromising young writer from Wales. Tickets: Free entry

Friday 9 July – 7.30pm

The Shoeshine by Richard LloydThe Shoeshine has manned his pitch for more than forty years at theFoyer of a Sussex Railway Station. He goes mostly unnoticed whilstobserving every last detail of the passing world. People who visit him mayfind he knows more about them than they find comfortable. This two-actplay by Swansea writer and actor Richard Lloyd is an extension of lastNovember’s successful production, with Richard himself as theShoeshine, and featuring Julie-Anne Grey, Cathy Morris and RobStradling. All Tickets: £5-00

DavidWoolley

ClarePotter

RichardLloyd

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Saturday 24 July and Saturday 21 August Both start at 1pm

Saturday Lunchtime TheatreOne State of Happiness - Fluellen Theatre CompanyOne State Of Happiness is how Dylan Thomas described living inthe Boat House in Laugharne. Fluellen returns with this look at the happiest – and last –years of the poet’s life through the words of his family, his friends and, of course, Dylanhimself. All Tickets: £5-00

Thursday 29 July 7.30pm

Poets in the Bookshop – Joe DunthorneGuest is multi-talented Swansea born Joe, whose debut novel Submarinewas long-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize among others. Joe was alsoshort-listed recently for the BBC Short Story Award, and will read tonightfrom his debut poetry collection from the Faber New Poets series.Tickets: Full Price £4-00; Concessions £2-80; Swansea PTL £1-60

Saturday 31 July 1pm

Saturday Lunchtime TheatreThrow away your bed socksWho is the best interpreter of poetry? The poet or the reader?Should poetry be read or heard? Using Dylan Thomas’ poems as abase, Adrian Metcalfe – most recently seen as Daniel Jones in theacclaimed Warmley - asks the question - is it better to be MogEdwards than Eli Jenkins? All Tickets: £5-00

Saturday 7 and 14 August - Both at 1pm

Saturday Lunchtime Theatre - The Tongue of theWave - Fluellen Theatre CompanyFluellen`s new glimpse into the life and work of Swansea’s othergreat poet Vernon Watkins, who was described by his friend Dylan Thomas as “the mostprofound and greatly accomplished Welshman writing poems in English”All Tickets: £5-00

Saturday 28 August 1pm

Saturday Lunchtime Theatre Dylan in America – Peter ReadThe only chance this year to see Peter’s stunning and ever-popular tragi-comic tour de force, as Dylan’s bitter-sweet tours of America take their ultimately fatal toll.All Tickets: £5-00

AdrianMetcalfe

PeterRead

6 May - August 2010

EXHIBITIONS

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18 May – 13 June

Beth Mitchell – For the love of the gameThe focus of this exhibition of photographs is on theWelsh Premier League, exploring themes ofcommunity spirit, loyalty and the identity of Welshpeople and landscapes. Football in Wales has a long tradition and a strong local flavour ateach ground. Every club has its proud history, its own uniqueness and its own dedicatedcharacters who travel relentlessly to stand in cold terraces with pie and Bovril in hand.

15 June – 11 July

Gordon Stuart - Studies For PortraitsGordon Stuart became artist in residence at theDylan Thomas Centre in 1995. He has more portraitsin international collections than any other livingWelsh painter. The prices are staggeringly low in thisexhibition and should not be missed.

13 July – 8 August

Valerie Ganz - Studies of Gower Festival Musicians‘A chance remark I made last year, that I had worked for manyyears with Jazz, and expressed a wish to study ClassicalMusicians, led to an invitation to have access to rehearsals forthe Gower Festival 2009. I spent a delightful two weeks studyingthe musicians as they were honing their concerts. This was a

fascinating experience and I really appreciated their generosity for allowing such closecontact while they worked’ Valerie Ganz

10 August – 5 September

Drawings by Alan Bicknell

22/23 May

Playwriting CourseSwansea playwright, poet and actor Peter Readis running another of his popular two-day FromPage to Stage Workshops on 22/23 May at theDylan Thomas Centre. Cost £60. For moreinformation contact Peter on 07931614180or petersamread@hotmail.co.uk or send SAE to14 Overland Road, Mumbles, Swansea, SA3 4LS.

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