Posts Tagged ‘Wales’
This weekend is Focus Wales weekend in Wrexham, a four day music festival and conference held at multiple venues across the town. The festival showcases live performances by some of the best Welsh bands and international acts, alongside music industry panels and discussions. This is its 3rd year. So, you arrive in Wrexham on Friday […]
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Wrexham Victorian Market
After the ridiculous mega crush of Manchester‘s European Markets, which seem to run from late November right up to Christmas, the Victorian Market at Wrexham this year was a pleasant surprise. I haven’t ever been before and I have to say, it was a lively mix of food, drink, entertainment, local crafts and christmassy things. […]
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Tags: Christmas, Elihu Yale, George Borrow, Giles, manchester, Mulled wine, North Wales, Wales, Welsh National Opera, wrexham, Wrexham F.C., Yale University
Tryweryn from my Scrapbook
The village of Capel Celyn and the Tryweryn valley near Bala were drowned in 1965 in order to supply water for the City of Liverpool. Eight hundred acres of land was drowned, as well as the school, the post office, the chapel and the cemetery, in order to create the Llyn Celyn (Celyn […]
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Tags: Afon Tryweryn, Capel Celyn, City of Liverpool, Harold Macmillan, Liverpool City Council, Llyn Celyn, Member of Parliament, Wales
Conference report: Evidencing the Impact of the Arts | News | a-n. The arts sector in Wales, as elsewhere in the UK, is facing big challenges. It is more important than ever to show what benefits the arts can deliver. In England there is much anxious anticipation about what the next government spending review might bring for […]
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Tags: Arts, England, Local government, Newcastle, Newcastle New South Wales, Organization, Spending Review, Wales
This summer there’s a major selling show of Anita Klein‘s work at Oriel Wrecsam, in Wrexham NE Wales. This is the first time that such a large group of work by the collectable artist has been seen in North Wales. The gallery offers Arts Council of Wales and Principality Building Society‘s Collectorplan scheme.
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A couple of weeks ago I made a visit to Caernarfon to see the Gwyl Arall Celf exhibition. It was great! Here’s what one of the exhibitors, Badge, wrote about a previous show: Last year I took part in a local arts festival called ‘Gwyl Arall‘ [which translates as 'Another Festival'] with my series of […]
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Tags: Arts festival, Caernarfon, Contemporary art gallery, Gwead.com, Juno Award for Artist of the Year, Morgan Griffith, mostyn, Wales
The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp preview 1 June 2012 Paul R Jones, oraculum petere After a major relocation and reimagining of G39, we are pleased to announce the first exhibition in our expansive new premises. June sees Oxford Street, Cardiff open its doors for the first time as an exhibition space with work from thirteen […]
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Tags: Autobiography of A Super-Tramp, Cardiff, Cerith Wyn Evans, June, Oxford Street, United States, Wales, welsh
Rhôd | An Urban/Rural Dialogue
Rhôd | An Urban/Rural Dialogue. I can’t get to this at the weekend but it looks great. Rhôd is now in its fourth year at Melin Glonc, each year the show has been curated by different artists who have previously been exhibitors. This year the curator is Kathryn Campbell Dodd : “Over the previous 3 […]
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Tags: Cardiff, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, conwy, Pembrokeshire, sheffield, swansea, Wales
A great morning in Wrexham to welcome the London 2012 Olympic Torch. Wrexham-based band Heal the Last Stand got the crowd in the mood for the arrival with their wonderful folky acoustic song “and celebrate” I love this one too… P1060921.JPG P1060922.JPG My new favourite people Heal the Last Stand P1060923.JPG P1060924.JPG P1060925.JPG P1060926.JPG The […]
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Tags: 2012 Summer Olympics, Mayor, Olympic Flame, Olympic Games, Torch, Wales, wrexham, Ysgol Morgan Llwyd
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/jones The David Jones Collection ‘…and Mr Jenkins takes them over / and don’t bunch on the left / for Christ’s sake.’ In Parenthesis Part VII (the moment of ‘going over the top’ during the Battle of the Somme). on this page biography search the collection find a specific draft find other items related resources […]
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Tags: Battle of the Somme, David, David Jones, James Jones, Jones, london, National Library of Wales, Royal Welch Fusiliers, Wales, welsh, World War I
