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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
Am ragor o wybodaeth a ffurflen archebu, ewch i www.academi.org neu cysylltwch â ni ar 029 2047 2266 / post@academi.org
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.
Am ragor o wybodaeth, cysylltwch â'r Academi:
029 2047 2266 / post@academi.org
www.academi.org
Mae'r Academi yn gweithio mewn partneriaeth â Thŷ Newydd
Cyswllt a'r Cyfryngau
Joanna Davies Uwch Swyddog y Wasg a'r Cyfryngau Ffôn: 07817 291512 / 02920 376593 Ebost: Joanna[dot]Davies[at]celfcymru[dot]org[dot]uk
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Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Welsh-American Family Genealogy, on the World Wide Web.
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