Sherman Cymru Receives £3.9 million Arts Council of Wales Grant for Redevelopment

[Pictured above: Architect's impression, (c) Capita Architecture (image subject to change)]

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.

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Cardiff ATRiuM: CCI and Intellect Launch International Journal 'Journal of Arts and Communities'

Journal of Arts and Communities

Principal Editor
Hamish Fyfe
University of Glamorgan
hfyfe@glam.ac.uk

Associate Editors
Huw Champion
The Mailout Trust
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Stephanie Knight
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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.

The Journal of Arts and Communities

[Pictured above: Prof. Richard Hand]

Our colleague Prof. Richard Hand writes:

Dear All,

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,
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Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries,
University of Glamorgan,
The Atrium,
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Cardiff CF24 2FN Wales, UK.

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Peter Gill's Cardiff Play 'Small Change' Opens with First Welsh Production in over 30 years, Now on at Sherman, Cardiff until 11 April

[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.

Click here to read more about Playwright Peter Gill.

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 / Awduron a'u Cynefin: Dewch ar wibdaith lenyddol trwy Gymru

'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

Ends

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.

For further information contact Academi:

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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

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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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Arts Council Wales Chair Dai Smith to Speak at University of Glamorgan in Treforest on 20 Feb 2008

[Pictured above: Professor Dai Smith.]

Reminder:

Centre for Modern and Contemporary Wales seminar series

Wednesday 20 February

Speaker : Professor Dai Smith, Chair of the Arts Council for Wales
Topic: ‘Developing the Arts in Wales’
Venue: H230
Date: Wednesday 20 February
Time: 2.00 - 3.30

H230 is located on the Treforest campus of the University of Glamorgan in Pontypridd, Rhondda-Cynon-Taf, South Wales.



Forthcoming, for your diaries:

Speaker: Dr Martin Johnes (Swansea)
Topic: ‘Where have all the Britons gone? History, Wales and Britishness’
Date: Wednesday 16 April
Time: 2.00
Venue : tba



Information sent to us by:

Professor/Yr Athro Gareth Williams
Centre for Modern and Contemporary Wales
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Glamorgan
Pontypridd
CF37 1DL

tel. 01443 483205



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Seren Launches Important New Book by David Alston about Welsh Artist Brendan Stuart Burns Cardiff ATRiuM 30 January 2008

[Pictured above: Edging West, Oil on canvas 2001 by Brendan Stuart Burns] To learn how you can buy copies of the paintings of Brendan Stuart Burns please visit:

http://www.brendanstuartburns.co.uk/home.htm

‘Brendan Stuart Burns is one of Wales’ most renowned and prolific painters.

Winner of the National Eisteddfod Gold Medal in Fine Art on two separate occasions, and Welsh Artist of the Year in 2000 and 2003, Burns concentrates his subject matter on the Pembrokeshire coastline, and its seductive tidal landscape.’

'His small paintings are epic entities in themselves.'

'Burns' enterprise and commitment to a landscape stimulus is not without echoes in Ian McKeever, Michael Porter and John Virtue'.

David Alston, Former Keeper of Art, National Museum & Galleries of Wales,
now Arts Director for the Arts Council of Wales.



Estynnir Gwahoddiad cynnes gan Seren
a Prifysgol Morgannwg i lansiad llyfr

Seren and University of Glamorgan
warmly invite you to the launch of

Into Painting: Brendan Stuart Burns
by/gan David Alston

6.30pm Dydd Mercher 30 Ionwar
ATRiuM, Ysgol Diwydiannau Chreadigol a
Diwylliannol Caerdydd, Stryd Adam, Caerdydd
Os nad ydych chi’n gallu bod yn y lansiad, ond os hoffech i ni gadw copi
wedi’i arwyddo i chi, e-bostiwch seren@seren-books.com
neu ewch i www.seren-books.com i brynu copi o’r llyfr
RSVP: Seren, 57 Stryd Nolton
Penybont-ar-Ogwr, CF31 3AE
seren@seren-books.com
01656 663018

6.30pm Wednesday 30 January
ATRiuM, Cardiff School of Creative
& Cultural Industries,Adam Street, Cardiff
If you are unable to attend the launch but would like to reserve a
signed copy, please email seren@seren-books.com or visit
www.seren-books.com to buy a copy of the book
RSVP: Seren, 57 Nolton Street
Bridgend, CF31 3AE
seren@seren-books.com
01656 663018


For additional info please contact Dr. Mark Leslie Woods at mwoods[at]glam.ac.uk

AIM: ATRiuM Intelligent Media

AIM -- ATRiuM Intelligent Media, Cardiff, Wales, U.K. on Face Book

Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries

mwoods[at]glam[dot]ac[dot]uk

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Welsh-American Family Genealogy, on the World Wide Web.

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Welsh Music, Film, and Books Symposium, on the World Wide Web.

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Celtic Cult Cinema on the World Wide Web.

Visit the UK Film Studies and World Cinema and Music Import Showcase

© 2007 Mark Leslie Woods

Smart & Sexy? Your Queer Advantage is waiting!

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Queer Advantage, on the World Wide Web.

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Mordechai Razing Ziggurats, on the World Wide Web.

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Mordechai's Post-Evangelical-Granola on the World Wide Web.

© 2007 Mark Leslie Woods