11 June 09
Make Time For Play
National Playday will be held on Wednesday 5th August, 11.00am – 3.00pm at Cyfarthfa Park. National Playday is the annual celebration of the child’s right to play. Through play, children explore the world around them. Play is essential for physical & emotional growth, for mental, intellectual & educational development. Tri County Play Association are responsible for the planning of National Playday, which is run purely by volunteers. For more information, contact Sarah Williams 01685 353959: sarah@tricountyplay.co.uk
Exhibition Ends
This Sunday, 14th May will be your last chance to catch the exhibition Merthyr Tydfil: Our Landscape at Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery. The exhibition is a collection of artwork produced by Glamorgan Gates art classes, using the Merthyr Tydfil landscape as a theme. Entry is free of charge.
Community Choir
Tomorrow, (Friday, 12th June) Glamorgan Gates are running a New Community Choir and Voice Workshops for six weeks. You will be able to learn some beautiful harmonies from different musical traditions. No experience needed – all songs taught by ear. Also, if you’re interested in Jewellery Making or Lovespoon Carving please register your interest now! For more information or to book on please call Jenna on 01685 729940 or call into 121 High Street Merthyr Tydfil.
Worldly Author’s Visit
The next Open Mike Night welcomes guest author for the night Nigel Jenkins. Born in Gower, 1949, Nigel Jenkins was a newspaper reporter in the English Midlands for four years, and then, following a period of travel, studied literature and film at the University of Essex. After working on a circus in the USA, he returned to live in Wales in 1976. He has earned his living since then as a writer and lecturer, and co–edited the Academi’s Encyclopaedia of Wales. He has worked as a
journalist and has written for the stage. Nigel has also written ’site specific’ poetry. In 1997 he did a reading tour of the USA with Menna Elfyn and Iwan Llwyd, and is a member of the blues and poetry trio the Salubrious Rhythm Company. Nigel is Winner of the Welsh Arts Council Young Poets Prize (1974), Eric Gregory Award (1976), John Morgan Writing Award (1992) and the John Tripp Poetry Slam (1999). His travel book Gwalia in Khasia (Gomer Press, 1995), is an account of Welsh missionaries among the Khasi people of north-east India. It won the Wales Book of the Year award in 1996. All are welcome to this free event. Anyone wishing to read or perform acoustic music, can register their intention on the night with local author Mike Jenkins. This month’s Open Mike Night will be next Thursday, 18th June, at the Imperial Hotel. Open Mike nights are supported by MTCBC Arts and Academi. Please contact 01685 725382 or arts@merthyr.gov.uk for more details.
Her-story
The Women’s Archive of Wales will be holding a Women’s History Roadshow at Cyfarthfa Castle, this coming Saturday, 13th June, at 11am-3pm. Women’s stories are part of everyone’s history. If you have photographs, letters, diaries, scrapbooks, household accounts, flyers or any other material relating to the lives of women in Wales – The Women’s Archive of Wales want to record them for future generations. For further information visit www.womensarchivewales.org or pop into Cyfarthfa Castle on Saturday for this free event.
Make Time For Play
National Playday will be held on Wednesday 5th August, 11.00am – 3.00pm at Cyfarthfa Park. National Playday is the annual celebration of the child’s right to play. Through play, children explore the world around them. Play is essential for physical & emotional growth, for mental, intellectual & educational development. Tri County Play Association are responsible for the planning of National Playday, which is run purely by volunteers. For more information, contact Sarah Williams 01685 353959: sarah@tricountyplay.co.uk
Exhibition Ends
This Sunday, 14th May will be your last chance to catch the exhibition Merthyr Tydfil: Our Landscape at Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery. The exhibition is a collection of artwork produced by Glamorgan Gates art classes, using the Merthyr Tydfil landscape as a theme. Entry is free of charge.
Community Choir
Tomorrow, (Friday, 12th June) Glamorgan Gates are running a New Community Choir and Voice Workshops for six weeks. You will be able to learn some beautiful harmonies from different musical traditions. No experience needed – all songs taught by ear. Also, if you’re interested in Jewellery Making or Lovespoon Carving please register your interest now! For more information or to book on please call Jenna on 01685 729940 or call into 121 High Street Merthyr Tydfil.
Worldly Author’s Visit
The next Open Mike Night welcomes guest author for the night Nigel Jenkins. Born in Gower, 1949, Nigel Jenkins was a newspaper reporter in the English Midlands for four years, and then, following a period of travel, studied literature and film at the University of Essex. After working on a circus in the USA, he returned to live in Wales in 1976. He has earned his living since then as a writer and lecturer, and co–edited the Academi’s Encyclopaedia of Wales. He has worked as a
journalist and has written for the stage. Nigel has also written ’site specific’ poetry. In 1997 he did a reading tour of the USA with Menna Elfyn and Iwan Llwyd, and is a member of the blues and poetry trio the Salubrious Rhythm Company. Nigel is Winner of the Welsh Arts Council Young Poets Prize (1974), Eric Gregory Award (1976), John Morgan Writing Award (1992) and the John Tripp Poetry Slam (1999). His travel book Gwalia in Khasia (Gomer Press, 1995), is an account of Welsh missionaries among the Khasi people of north-east India. It won the Wales Book of the Year award in 1996. All are welcome to this free event. Anyone wishing to read or perform acoustic music, can register their intention on the night with local author Mike Jenkins. This month’s Open Mike Night will be next Thursday, 18th June, at the Imperial Hotel. Open Mike nights are supported by MTCBC Arts and Academi. Please contact 01685 725382 or arts@merthyr.gov.uk for more details.Her-story
The Women’s Archive of Wales will be holding a Women’s History Roadshow at Cyfarthfa Castle, this coming Saturday, 13th June, at 11am-3pm. Women’s stories are part of everyone’s history. If you have photographs, letters, diaries, scrapbooks, household accounts, flyers or any other material relating to the lives of women in Wales – The Women’s Archive of Wales want to record them for future generations. For further information visit www.womensarchivewales.org or pop into Cyfarthfa Castle on Saturday for this free event.
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