Croeso i drafodaeth 'da fi ar y we, gyda newyddion cerddoriaeth, ffilmiau, barddoniaeth, ffuglen, dramau, a storiau byr y Gymru. Welcome to my online symposium, your one source for news and reviews about new and old, Welsh Music, Film, Poetry, Fiction, Dramas, and Short Stories. A (mostly) English language forum of Minority Celtic Language, Culture & Politics in Music and Film.
North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History (NAASWCH)
National Celtic Heritage Center at Marymount University
International Conference on Welsh Studies
Call for Papers
July 22- 24, 2010
Marymount University
Arlington, Virginia/Washington D.C.
The NAASWCH Program Committee seeks diverse perspectives on Wales and Welsh culture -- as well as proposals focused on the Welsh in North America -- from many disciplines including: history, literature, languages, art, sociology, anthropology, economics, political science, philosophy, music, and religion.
NAASWCH invites participation from faculty, postgraduate/graduate students and independent scholars from North America, the United Kingdom and elsewhere.
Those wishing to present a paper suitable for a 20 minute reading may submit an abstract (maximum one-page).
Proposals for thematic sessions, panel presentations, or other formats are also welcome.
Please include a brief (one-page) vita with your submission.
The abstract – proposal deadline is Dec. 21, 2009; but early proposals are encouraged.
Participants will be notified by mid-February.
E-mail submissions are welcome and will be acknowledged promptly.
If you have not received confirmation of your electronic submission within one week, please resend the document.
NAASWCH works to promote scholarship on all aspects of Welsh culture and history; to develop connections between teachers and scholars in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom who are committed to the study of Welsh culture, history, language, and literature; to provide an intellectual forum in which scholars and teachers of Welsh culture may share their research and teaching experience, and to provide support for the study of Welsh-North American history and culture.
See the NAASWCH website for additional information:
Please submit abstracts or session proposals by no later than Friday, Dec. 21, 2009 to:
Dr. John Ellis, History Department, University of Michigan-Flint, Flint, MI 48502 USA;
ellisjs@umflint.edu
Those who are not submitting proposals but would like to receive conference information should contact: Dr. Melinda Gray, NAASWCH Secretary, 15 Woodbridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02140, USA; mgrayk@comcast.net.
Queer Wales, a collection of essays on sexuality, identity, and Wales
In recent years, we have become more aware of the complexity of Welsh identities (national, European, racial, colonial, economic, etc), and a major feature of this complexity is the queering of Welsh history and culture.
Queer Wales is currently being studied, written, performed, legislated, mapped, bought and sold, yet, as far as sexuality is concerned, to what extent is Wales still “The Land of my Fathers” and the “Land of the White Gloves”?
At what point may we begin to articulate a coherent queer history and community in Wales?
As Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick explains in /Epistemology of the Closet/,
gay people, who seldom grow up in gay families;
who are exposed to their culture’s, if not their parents’, high ambient homophobia long before either they or those who care for them know that they are among those who most urgently need to define themselves against it;
…have with difficulty and always belatedly to patch together from fragments a community, a useable heritage, a politics of survival or resistance. (81)
GLBT people in twentieth-first century Wales are engaged in building just such a “useable heritage” and “politics of survival and resistance,” but this heritage, while it may be belated, need not be patchwork and fragmentary.
This interdisciplinary collection of essays seeks to locate a gay tradition, culture and community within a history and nation that have been largely hostile to its expression.
This call for papers solicits essays written from a variety of disciplinary approaches on all aspects of gay life and culture, past and present. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Policing Welsh queerness * Education and sexual identity in Wales * Creative industries and urban Welsh queerness * Rural queer Wales * Welsh regionalism and sexuality * Tourism and sexuality in Wales * Queerness in the Welsh classroom * Queer Wales in television and/or film * Queer Welsh communities * Gay activism in Wales * Intersections of class and gender in queer Wales * Writing the Welsh queer, past and present * Performing Welsh sexual identity: queer Welsh drama * Queering the Welsh past * Sex and sexuality in the Welsh legal system, past and present
Please submit abstracts of 500 words along with brief CVs to Huw Osborne (osborne@rmc.ca ) by January 15 2010.
Sherman Cymru is pleased to announce that it has received a Capital Lottery grant of £3.9 million from Arts Council of Wales in order to undergo a much needed redevelopment which will see the theatre building completely transformed.
Arts Council of Wales has awarded the grant to Sherman Cymru amounting to 74% of the total cost of the redevelopment which will see the public areas modernised, enhancing the audience's experience as well as refurbishing the backstage areas and improving conditions for staff and participants.
Director of Sherman Cymru Chris Ricketts comments:
"This is really great news and we're delighted with Arts Council of Wales's support.
The building work we will be able to do will vastly improve facilities, enhance our profile within the city and really enable us to be more ambitious with the productions we create and the performances we programme."
The redeveloped and refurbished building will have new seating in both theatres, new toilet facilities and the redevelopment of the foyer areas including improved access.
Backstage areas will be redeveloped to improve rehearsal and office space enabling enhancement to the quality of the work.
The building is being designed by Jonathan Adams at Capita Architecture, who also designed the Wales Millennium Centre. Sherman Cymru Chairman Emyr Jenkins said:
"Our redevelopment plans are aimed to give the Capital City of Wales's only producing theatre the venue it, and its audience, deserves - something of which we can all be proud."
The only producing theatre in South Wales, Sherman Cymru produces several new productions a year, most notably the award-winning Deep Cut in 2008 which was a sell-out hit at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2008, before transferring to London's prestigious Tricycle Theatre earlier this year.
Sherman Cymru also annually produces popular Christmas productions.
Sherman Cymru's Learning and Engagement team have worked with almost 7000 young people in the past year alone through the Youth Theatre and Acting Out Cardiff, which allows 14-16 year olds to study for a BTEC in Performing Arts at the theatre, and various other projects with young people, asylum seekers and refugees.
Arts Council of Wales Chief Executive, Nick Capaldi comments:
"Sherman's contribution to the cultural life of Wales is longstanding and well established. We're delighted to be making this significant investment of funding in the theatre's future.
Sherman Cymru is already one of the country's most important theatre producers. It's essential that it has the quality of facilities to match."
Sherman Cymru aims to raise the remaining £1.5 million needed for the scheme from a range of sources and has begun discussions with a variety of potential funders.
A public campaign for individual donations will be launched in September and fundraising activities include Sherman Cymru staff members running the Cardiff Half Marathon.
The current Sherman building will close its doors for the 18 month refurbishment in January 2010 following Sherman's 2009 Christmas production A Christmas Carol.
Sherman Cymru will move to temporary offices in Cardiff and will continue to produce and tour theatre around the UK as well as maintaining its Learning and Engagement work.
The Sherman Theatre building was opened in 1973 as part of University College Cardiff, built through a donation from the Harry and Abe Sherman.
It was bought by the Arts Council in Great Britain (ACGB) in the late 1980s and leased to Sherman Theatre Limited., with ownership transferred to the Arts Council of Wales in 1993 when ACBG disbanded.
In 2007 The Sherman Theatre Company and new writing company Sgript Cymru merged to create Sherman Cymru.
For more press and media information, please contact: jenny.boyatt@shermancymru.co.uk
Sherman Cymru yn Derbyn Grant o £3.9 miliwn gan Gyngor Celfyddydau Cymru ar gyfer yr Ail-ddatblygu
Mae Sherman Cymru yn falch o gyhoeddi ein bod wedi derbyn grant o £3.9 miliwn gan y Loteri Genedlaethol, drwy Gyngor Celfyddydau Cymru.
Bydd yr arian yn ein galluogi i gyflawni'r gwaith adnewyddu sy'n gwbl angenrheidiol er mwyn sicrhau fod adeilad y theatr yn cael ei drawsnewid yn llwyr.
Mae cyfanswm y grant a ddyfarnwyd i Sherman Cymru gan Gyngor Celfyddydau Cymru yn cynrychioli 74% o gyfanswm cost yr ail-ddatblygu.
Bydd hyn yn cynnwys moderneiddio'r ardaloedd cyhoeddus, fydd felly'n gwella profiad y gynulleidfa, yn ogystal ag adnewyddu'r ardaloedd cefn llwyfan ac yn gwella'r amodau ar gyfer staff a chyfranogwyr.
Meddai Chris Ricketts, Cyfarwyddwr Sherman Cymru:
"Dyma newyddion ardderchog, 'rydym wrth ein bodd gyda chefnogaeth Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru.
Bydd y gwaith adeiladu fydd yn bosib i ni ei gyflawni yn gwella'r cyfleusterau'n ddirfawr, yn codi ein proffil yn y ddinas, ac yn ein galluogi i fod yn fwy uchelgeisiol gyda'r cynyrchiadau 'rydym yn eu creu a'r perfformiadau 'rydym yn eu rhaglennu."
Bydd gan yr adeilad ar ei newydd wedd seddi newydd yn y ddwy theatr, cyfleusterau cyhoeddus newydd, a bydd y cyntedd hefyd yn cael ei ddatblygu - bydd hyn yn cynnwys gwella'r mynediad i'r theatr.
Bydd yr ardaloedd cefn llwyfan yn cael eu hail-ddatblygu er mwyn gwella'r ystafelloedd ymarfer a'r swyddfeydd, gan alluogi i safon y gwaith a gynhyrchir yno godi.
Cynllunnir yr adeilad gan Jonathan Adams o Capita Architecture, fu hefyd yn gyfrifol am gynllunio Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru. Dywedodd Cadeirydd Sherman Cymru, Emyr Jenkins:
"Bwriad ein cynlluniau ar gyfer yr ail-ddatblygu yw creu adnoddau teilwng ar gyfer yr unig theatr gynhyrchu ym mhrifddinas Cymru, ynghyd â'i chynulleidfa - adeilad y gallwn oll ymfalchïo ynddo"
Sherman Cymru yw unig theatr gynhyrchu De Cymru, ac mae'n cyflwyno nifer o gynyrchiadau newydd bob blwyddyn.
Y mwyaf nodedig oedd Deep Cut yn 2008 a enillodd sawl gwobr, yn ogystal â bod yn llwyddiant ysgubol yng Ngŵyl Ymylol Caeredin yn 2008 pan werthwyd pob tocyn, cyn symud i theatr nodedig y Tricycle yn Llundain yn gynharach eleni.
Mae Sherman Cymru hefyd yn cyflwyno cynyrchiadau Nadolig poblogaidd yn flynyddol.
Mae tîm Dysg ac Ymgysylltu Sherman Cymru wedi gweithio gyda bron i 7000 o bobl ifanc yn ystod y flwyddyn ddiwethaf yn unig, drwy'r Theatr Ieuenctid ac Acting Out Caerdydd, sy'n galluogi i fyfyrwyr 14-16 mlwydd oed astudio ar gyfer tystysgrif BTEC yn y Celfyddydau Perfformio yn y theatr ei hun, a nifer o brosiectau eraill gyda phobl ifanc, ymofynwyr noddfa a ffoaduriaid.
Meddai Nick Capaldi, Prif Weithredwr Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru:
"Mae cyfraniad y Sherman i fywyd diwylliannol Cymru'n un hir ac wedi'i hen sefydlu.
'Rydym wrth ein bodd gwneud y buddsoddiad ariannol arwyddocaol hwn yn nyfodol y theatr.
Mae Sherman Cymru eisoes yn un o gynhyrchwyr theatr pwysicaf y wlad. Mae'n hanfodol fod yno'r cyfleusterau i gyd-fynd â hyn."
Nod Sherman Cymru yw codi'r £1.5 miliwn ychwanegol sydd ei angen ar gyfer y cynllun o nifer o ffynonellau amrywiol, ac mae trafodaethau eisoes ar y gweill gyda nifer o arianwyr posib.
Bydd ymgyrch gyhoeddus ar gyfer rhoddion unigol yn cael ei lansio ym mis Medi, ac mae gweithgareddau codi arian yn cynnwys aelodau o staff y Sherman yn rhedeg Hanner Marathon Caerdydd.
Bydd y drysau'n cau ar adeilad presennol y Sherman ym mis Ionawr 2010 ar gyfer y cyfnod adnewyddu, yn dilyn cynhyrchiad Nadolig y Sherman yn 2009, sef A Christmas Carol.
Bydd Sherman Cymru yn symud i swyddfeydd dros dro yng Nghaerdydd ac yn parhau i gynhyrchu a theithio gwaith theatrig ledled y DU, a hefyd yn parhau â'r gwaith Dysg ac Ymgysylltu.
Agorwyd adeilad Theatr y Sherman ym 1973 fel rhan o Goleg Prifysgol Caerdydd, ac fe'i adeiladwyd yn dilyn rhodd gan Harry ac Abe Sherman.
Fe'i prynwyd gan Gyngor Celfyddydau Prydain (CCP) yn niwedd y 1980au a'i gymryd ar les gan Theatr y Sherman Cyf.
Trosglwyddwyd perchnogaeth yr adeilad i Gyngor Celfyddydau Cymru ym 1993 pan chwalwyd CCP.
Yn 2007 ymunodd Cwmni Theatr y Sherman a Sgript Cymru, y cwmni ysgrifennu newydd, i greu Sherman Cymru.
Am wybodaeth i'r wasg a'r cyfryngau, cysylltwch gyda: jenny.boyatt@shermancymru.co.uk
Reviews Editor Jennie Hayes University College Falmouth, Dartington Campus j.hayes@dartington.ac.uk
Journal of Arts and Communities will be released in 2009.
[Pictured above: Head of Department for Drama & Music Mr Michael Carklin]
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The Journal of Arts and Communities seeks to provide a critical examination of the practices known as community or participatory arts, encompassing work which incorporates active creative collaboration between artists and people in a range of communities of place and interest.
Colleagues will be delighted to learn that the inaugural issue of the Journal of Arts & Communities has appeared.
Prof Hamish Fyfe is Principal Editor of this international, peer-reviewed journal which is published by Intellect and housed within CCI.
[Pictured above: Prof Stephen Lacey]
Dr Márta Minier assisted in leading the Journal's first issue to fruition and the editorial board includes CCI colleagues Michael Carklin, Dr Rea Dennis and Prof Stephen Lacey.
[Pictured above: Dr Rea Dennis]
Warm congratulations to all involved.
Richard
Prof Richard J. Hand FRSA, Professor of Theatre and Media Drama, Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, University of Glamorgan, The Atrium, 86-88 Adam Street, Cardiff CF24 2FN Wales, UK.
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[Pictured above: Playwright and Director Peter Gill.]
Dyddiad Rhyddhau: 24 March 2009
A new production of a play based in Cardiff, starring Welsh actresses Lisa Palfrey and Helen Griffin, will be on at Sherman, Cardiff until 11 April.
Small Change - Blog 1
Small Change by Peter Gill is a story of growing up in the East Side of Cardiff in the 1950s, and is widely regarded as his finest play. Gerard and Vincent spend their days swimming down the docks, missing school and stealing duck eggs.
But real live begins to smother their childhood and their mothers feel the strain of neglectful husbands. Small Change is a bittersweet story about the lives of two Cardiff families, and about the sometimes tragic effects that result from things going unsaid. Director Amy Hodge comments:
"Small Change is essentially a story of life in post war Cardiff; how fun it could be for kids, how tough it could be for mothers and how fundamentally we are all shaped and often trapped by the events of our past. It's very clearly based in the Tremorfa area of Cardiff, where Peter Gill himself grew up, and is filled with rich imagery of Cardiff as it used to be.
It's a beautifully written play showing Peter, one of Wales leading playwrights, at his best. I'm excited to be part of the team that stages it in Cardiff for the first time since the 1970s."
Amy, alongside designer Patrick Burnier, has researched the Tremorfa area of Cardiff and will be transforming Sherman's studio theatre into the post-war docks area of Cardiff.
Small Change stars Ifan Meredith, whose father Ioan Meredith also starred in Small Change in the only other known Welsh production of the play at The Sherman Theatre in the 1970s, and Kenny Doughty, who has worked extensively in film and TV, as Vincent and Gerard respectively.
Well known Welsh actresses Lisa Palfrey and Bafta Cymru award-winning actress Helen Griffin, play the boys' mothers.
Peter Gill was born in Cardiff in 1939 and his other plays include The Sleepers Den, Kick for Touch and Cardiff East. Also a well established director, Peter directed the first production of Small Change at the Royal Court in 1976.
In 2008, the Donmar Warehouse produced a successful production of Small Change starring Sue Johnston and Lindsey Coulson.
Small Change is on at Sherman from 20 March - 11 April (Previews 20 - 24 March) Tickets are £12, £10, £8 (£10, £8, £6 for Preview performances) New VAT rate will be applied when booking. Tickets can be booked from Sherman's Box Office on 029 2064 6900 or online at www.shermancymru.co.uk (No booking fee)
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'Writers in their Landscape' -Academi's Literary Bus Tours hit the road
[This article will be of special interest to Welsh Americans and to other tourists traveling in Wales this Spring.]
Dyddiad Rhyddhau: 23 March 2009
Have you ever wanted to spend a day out in the country in the company of a National Poet and an Archdruid? Or fancied visiting the Brecon Beacons in the footsteps of one of Wales' leading literary critics? This is your chance.
Academi is pleased to present a new series of Literary Bus Tours in Wales, focusing on six different writers in their landscape - Waldo Williams, Gillian Clarke, Dic Jones, Roland Mathias, Lewis Jones and Dafydd ap Gwilym. On each trip, we will visit important sites and locations from the writer's life and work, hear readings and recitals and learn from experts about the life and history of the writer.
R.S.Thomas - Welsh Landscape
This series of tours is supported by an Arts Council of Wales Beacon Company Award 2008 - 2010, which Academi was awarded last year. Alongside these tours, which form part of a programme of literary tourism, the Award will enable Academi to enhance the Young People's Writing Squads and successful National Poet initiative.
Whether you fancy spending a day with National Poet Gillian Clarke and Archdruid Dic Jones in Ceredigion, a visit to the Clydach Vale in the footsteps of left-wing writer and political activist Lewis Jones, a trip to Brecon to discover the area that shaped and influenced poet, editor and critic, Roland Mathias, a day in Pembrokeshire where one of Wales leading Welsh-language poets Waldo Williams lived or a journey back in time to discover old and new secrets about legendary medieval writer Dafydd ap Gwilym, this series of literary bus tours offers something for everyone.
Peter Finch Live at the Merlin
Academi's Chief Executive Peter Finch said: "Touring the places associated with writers, where they walked, where they lived, where they created, can be enormously fulfilling. To visit the place that sparked their great works is a privilege. Academi tours are all accompanied by erudite and accessible leaders. Expect to be entertained, enlivened, informed and enthralled."
[Pictured above: In the Spring wild Bluebells grow everywhere in the high places along country roads in Wales. Photography by Dr. Mark Leslie Woods.]
All tours include lunch and coffee breaks at carefully selected venues and tickets are £37.00 per person per tour. Academi hopes that you will not only learn more about the writers in their landscape, but also have fun on these five day trips:
Waldo Williams in Pembrokeshire, Saturday 9 May 2009
Tour leader: Dr Damian Walford Davies
Departure/Arrival point: Carmarthen
Welsh language tour: No English translation provided
Welsh Folk Dancing at The National Eisteddfod, Swansea 2006
Roland Mathias at Talybont-on-Usk, Saturday 13 June 2009
Tour leader: Dr John Pikoulis
Departure/Arrival point: Cardiff
English language tour
Gillian Clarke and Dic Jones in Ceredigion, Saturday 11 July 2009
Tour leaders: Gillian Clarke and Dic Jones
Departure/Arrival point: Aberystwyth
Bilingual tour: English translation provided
Lewis Jones in Clydach Vale, Saturday 19 September 2009
Tour leader: Dr John Pikoulis
Departure/Arrival point: Cardiff
English language tour
Dafydd ap Gwilym in Ceredigion, Saturday 24 October 2009
Tour leader: Dr Huw Meirion Edwards
Departure/Arrival point: Aberystwyth
Welsh language tour: No English translation provided
For full details and a booking form, please visit www.academi.org or contact Academi on 029 2047 2266, post@academi.org
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Notes to Editors
For full programme details please visit: www.academi.org
Arts Council of Wales Beacon Company Award
Academi is a recipient of an Arts Council of Wales Beacon Company Award 2008-2010. This award supports a programme of literary tourism, including this series of bus tours.
In November 2007, the Welsh Assembly Government allocated £4.5m to be used by the Arts Council of Wales to reward companies or individuals who showed innovation and excellence in the arts. It was a privilege for the Academi to receive one of these Beacon Company Awards in October 2008, which secured funding to develop a programme of literary tourism, the Young People's Writing Squads and enhance the successful National Poet initiative.
About Academi
- The Academi works in partnership with Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre in Llanystumdwy. The Academi works with the support of the Arts Council of Wales and Welsh Assembly Government.
- The Academi is responsible for organising the Wales Book of the Year award, literary events (conferences, dinners, poetry tours, lectures), writers' bursaries, Writing Squads and various support schemes.
- Academi is pleased to be the recipient of an Arts Council of Wales Beacon Company Award 2008 - 2010.
Climbing Cader Idris (for a Mountaineer) - Gillian Clarke
Awduron a'u Cynefin: Dewch ar wibdaith lenyddol trwy Gymru
Dyddiad Rhyddhau: 23 Mawrth 2009
Hoffech chi dreulio diwrnod yng nghefn gwlad yng nghwmni Bardd Cenedlaethol ac Archdderwydd? Neu ddilyn ôl troed un o feirniaid llenyddol mwyaf Cymru ar hyd Bannau Brycheiniog? Dyma'ch cyfle.
Mae'n bleser gan yr Academi gyflwyno cyfres o Wibdeithau Llenyddol yn seiliedig ar chwe awdur gwahanol yn eu cynefin - Waldo Williams, Gillian Clarke, Dic Jones, Roland Mathias, Lewis Jones a Dafydd ap Gwilym. Bydd y gwibdeithiau'n cynnwys ymweliadau â lleoliadau pwysig ym mywyd a gwaith yr awduron, darlleniadau a chyfle i ddysgu mwy am yr awduron gan arbenigwyr.
[Pictured above: Bright, yellow Gorse grows wild in the high places along country roads in Wales. Photography by Dr. Mark Leslie Woods.]
Boed yn ddiwrnod yng Ngheredigion gyda'r Bardd Cenedlaethol Gillian Clarke a'r Archdderwydd Dic Jones, ymweliad â Chwm Clydach a dilyn ôl troed yr awdur adain-chwith Lewis Jones, ymweld ag ardal Waldo Williams, un o feirdd mwyaf blaenllaw y Gymraeg neu fentro nôl i'r Canol Oesoedd i glywed cyfrinachau hen a newydd am y bardd enwog Dafydd ap Gwilym, mae'r Academi'n gobeithio fod y gyfres hon o wibdeithiau yn cynnig rhywbeth at ddant pawb.
Medley of Welsh Folk Tunes - Improvised
Derbyniodd yr Academi Wobr Cwmni Disglair gan Gyngor Celfyddydau Cymru 2008-2010 a defnyddir y wobr i gefnogi'r gwibdeithiau hyn, fel rhan o'n cynllun twristiaeth lenyddol. Defnyddir y nawdd hefyd i hybu cynllun y Bardd Cenedlaethol a Sgwadiau `Sgwennu'r Ifainc.
Dywed Peter Finch, Prif Weithredwr yr Academi: "Mae ymweld â llefydd sy'n gysylltiedig ag awduron - y llefydd ble buont yn cerdded, yn byw, yn creu - yn gallu bod yn hynod foddhaus. Mae'n fraint ymweld â'r llefydd a daniodd eu gweithiau mawr. Arweinir gwibdeithiau'r Academi gan dywyswyr gwybodus. Paratowch am deithiau bywiog, cynhwysfawr a difyr. "
Mae pob gwibdaith yn cynnwys cinio a seibiannau coffi mewn lleoliadau arbennig a chost tocyn ar gyfer un wibdaith fydd £37. Mae'r Academi'n gobeithio y byddwch yn dysgu mwy am yr awduron ac yn cael diwrnod i'r brenin:
Waldo Williams yn Sir Benfro, Sadwrn 9 Mai 2009
Arweinydd y daith: Dr Damian Walford Davies Man Cychwyn/Gorffen: Caerfyrddin
Gwibdaith trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg: Ni ddarperir cyfieithiad Saesneg
Roland Mathias yn Nhal-y-bont ar Wysg, Sadwrn 13 Mehefin 2009
Arweinydd y daith: Dr John Pikoulis Man Cychwyn/Gorffen: Caerdydd
Gwibdaith trwy gyfrwng y Saesneg
Gillian Clarke a Dic Jones yng Ngheredigion, Sadwrn 11 Gorffennaf 2009
Arweinydd y daith: Gillian Clarke a Dic Jones
Man Cychwyn/Gorffen: Aberystwyth
Gwibdaith ddwyieithog: Darperir cyfieithiad Saesneg
Lewis Jones yng Nghwm Clydach, Sadwrn 19 Medi 2009 Arweinydd y daith: Dr John Pikoulis
Man Cychwyn/Gorffen: Caerdydd
Gwibdaith trwy gyfrwng y Saesneg
Dafydd ap Gwilym yng Ngheredigion, Sadwrn 24 Hydref 2009 Arweinydd y daith: Dr Huw Meirion Edwards
Man Cychwyn/Gorffen: Aberystwyth
Gwibdaith trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg: Ni ddarperir cyfieithiad Saesneg
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Diwedd
Nodiadau i'r Golygydd
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Wales: The National Eisteddfod (1) The Gorsedd Prayer
Dyfarniad Cwmni Disglair Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru
Derbyniodd yr Academi Wobr Cwmni Disglair gan Gyngor Celfyddydau Cymru 2008-2010 a defnyddir y wobr i gefnogi'r gwibdeithiau hyn, fel rhan o'n cynllun twristiaeth lenyddol.
Cyhoeddodd Llywodraeth Cynulliad Cymru ym mis Tachwedd 2007 y byddai cronfa o £4.5m yn cael ei chreu i'w ddefnyddio gan Gyngor Celfyddydau Cymru i wobrwyo cwmnïau neu unigolion a ddangosai flaengarwch a rhagoriaeth ym myd y celfyddydau. Braint felly i'r Academi oedd derbyn Dyfarniad Cwmni Disglair fis Hydref 2008, a sicrhaodd nawdd i ddatblygu'r cynllun Twristiaeth Lenyddol, Sgwadiau `Sgwennu'r Ifainc a chynllun llwyddianus y Bardd Cenedlaethol.
Yr Academi
Derbyniodd yr Academi Wobr Cwmni Disglair gan Gyngor Celfyddydau Cymru 2008-2010.
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[Pictured above: The Grade 2 listed Tŷ Crawshay building on the University of Glamorgan’s Treforest campus.]
My dear and esteemed colleague Dr. Ceri Thomas writes to us:
3/3/09
Colleagues,
The next art exhibition in Ty Crawshay, Pontypridd, runs from 23 March to 24 April 2009. It is:-
Ian Grainger (1942-2007): selected works
Looking forward to seeing you at the private view on Thursday 26 March (6 - 8 pm). Details are attached.
Ceri
Dr Ceri Thomas Curator - University of Glamorgan Art Collections Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries University of Glamorgan The Lodge (A1/13) Pontypridd CF37 1DL
Here is the info taken from the event poster:
Ian Grainger (1942-2007): selected works an exhibition of works on paper Monday 23 March to Friday 24 April 2009 A35 gallery
Tŷ Crawshay, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, CF37 1DL Open Monday - Friday 9 am - 5 pm
Closed Friday 10, Monday 13 and Tuesday 14 April 2009
For more information please contact the curator Dr Ceri Thomas, tel 01443 482077 e-mail cthomas1[at]glam[dot]ac[dot]uk
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Posted below for your information are some highlights of the programme for the 3rd Symposium of the AHRC Ireland-Wales Research Network, to be held at Aberystwyth University on 17-18 April 2009.
The theme of the meeting is ‘Cultural Institutions and Creativity in Ireland and Wales’.
Please contact the organizers Paul O’Leary, Claire Connolly and Katie Gramich at irelandwales[at]aber[dot]ac[dot]uk
3rd Symposium of the AHRC Ireland-Wales Network:
Cultural Institutions and Creativity in Ireland and Wales 17-18 April 2009, Aberystwyth University
Room A12, Hugh Owen Building, Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth University
Friday 17 April
9 am Coffee and registration
10 am Shaun Richards (University of ), ‘Did that play of mine ...? Conflict, Conformity and Commerce in the National Theatre of Ireland.’
Anwen Jones (Aberystwyth University ), ‘Dramas of Devolution - A History of the Idea of National Theatre in Wales and Ireland.’
11 am Coffee
11.30 pm Niamh Hourigan (Cork University), ‘Media Power and People Power: A Comparison of Campaigns for Welsh and Irish Language Television Services’
Steve Blandford (Glamorgan University), ‘Questions of Identity and the Creative Industries in Contemporary Wales’
12.30 am Title: ‘Theatre, Media and the Creative Industries in Ireland and Wales’
Interviews / Readings with Ceri Sherlock (BBC Wales) Lloyd Trott (RADA)
1.30 — 2.30 pm Lunch
2.30-3.30 Michael Houlihan (National Museum of Wales), ‘Can authoritative, cultural institutions be creative? Accountability and creativity in National Museums.’
Andrew Green (National Library of Wales), ‘Making the far near: the National Library of Wales and digitisation’
3.30 pm Tea
4 – 5 pm Fintan Cullen (Nottingham University), ‘The National and the International: Donating Modern Art in Dublin and Cardiff in the Early Twentieth Century’
John Wilson (University of ), ‘Industrialism and Culture: The Civic and National Context of Art in South Wales, c.1800-1914’
5pm Drinks LOCATION TBC
6.00 pm
Prof. John Horgan (Irish Press Ombudsman) and Geraint Talfan Davies (Chairman of the Institute of Welsh Affairs and of the Welsh National Opera) [Public Lecture] ‘Y Drwm’, National Library of Wales
7.30 pm Dinner
Saturday 18 April
10 am Brian O Conchubair (Notre Dame University), ‘The Welsh Influence on the Irish Language Revival’
M Wynn Thomas (Swansea University), ‘Creating a National Consciousness: Cymru Fydd, Young Ireland and the Pan-Celtic movement.’
11.00 am Coffee
11.30 am Rob Savage (Boston College), ‘Finding a Voice? The Irish language and Telefís Éireann 1960-1972’
Jamie Medhurst (Aberystwyth University), ‘ITV in Wales: Broadcasting's Poor Relation?’
