Flash Creativity
Head 4 Arts is a community arts organisation covering the eastern Heads of The Valleys area (Merthyr Tydfil, Blaenau Gwent, north Caerphilly and north Torfaen). H4A is working towards a project called Fflach / Flash: a large-scale, bilingual community production which will be presented as part of the 2010 Ebbw Vale Eisteddfod celebrations. Over the next year H4A will be visiting communities across the area gathering stories, ideas and inspiring creativity for this exciting and unique project. If you or your community group are interested in being involved, whatever your interest – we want to hear from you! For further information, please contact: info@head4arts.org.uk or 01495 357816 or visit http://www.head4arts.org.uk/.
Poet’s Visit
The next Open Mike Night at The Imperial Hotel welcomes Welsh Book of The Year Finalist; Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, who will be reading together with others on 24th September. Samantha grew up in New Quay, Ceredigion where she still lives. She read Classics at Cambridge followed by an M.A. in Writing at Cardiff University. She lived in Oxford, Paris and the Isles of Scilly before returning to New Quay. Samantha was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2005 to write her debut collection for Picador, Not In These Shoes, published in June 2008. This title was on the 2009 Wales Book of the Year Short List. Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch’s debut collection for Picador introduces a young poet with a remarkable range of imaginative tactics at her disposal, and seems to announce not one, but several new voices. Not In These Shoes is an act of uncanny ventriloquism, and a distinct spirit seems to haunt each of Wynne-Rhydderch’s meticulously drawn spaces. Whether conjuring the interior of a toy snowstorm, a flooded valley, a woman in a backless dress, a ship’s figurehead or a matador in a hotel room, Wynne-Rhydderch finds a voice that perfectly commands our attention. For further information on Samantha visit http://www.rhydderch.com/ or for information on Open Mike Nights please contact: (01685) 725382 arts@merthyr.gov.uk.
Welsh Poetry Competition Winners Announced!
The eagerly awaited results of the 3rd international Welsh Poetry Competition 2009 have been announced. This year’s judge, Merthyr’s very own Mike Jenkins, has discovered some wonderful writers to continue the competitions’ success. The overall standard of the top 20 was exceptionally high once again. The winners were as follows: 1st Prize – “The Origami Lesson” by John Gallas. 2nd Prize – “Nan Follows The Bikers On A Day Out” by Eluned Rees. And 3rd Prize – “Rails” by Lynn Roberts
All winning poems plus the seventeen runners up can be read on the competition website – www.welshpoetry.co.uk along with judges comments.
Open Art Exhibition
The 2009 Open Art Summer Show at Rhondda Heritage Park is now showing daily from 10am until 6pm until 23rd September. The exhibition is free with a cafe and gift and book shop also on site. For further information email please visit http://www.rhonddaheritagepark.com/ or contact 01443 682036.
Head 4 Arts is a community arts organisation covering the eastern Heads of The Valleys area (Merthyr Tydfil, Blaenau Gwent, north Caerphilly and north Torfaen). H4A is working towards a project called Fflach / Flash: a large-scale, bilingual community production which will be presented as part of the 2010 Ebbw Vale Eisteddfod celebrations. Over the next year H4A will be visiting communities across the area gathering stories, ideas and inspiring creativity for this exciting and unique project. If you or your community group are interested in being involved, whatever your interest – we want to hear from you! For further information, please contact: info@head4arts.org.uk or 01495 357816 or visit http://www.head4arts.org.uk/.
Poet’s VisitThe next Open Mike Night at The Imperial Hotel welcomes Welsh Book of The Year Finalist; Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, who will be reading together with others on 24th September. Samantha grew up in New Quay, Ceredigion where she still lives. She read Classics at Cambridge followed by an M.A. in Writing at Cardiff University. She lived in Oxford, Paris and the Isles of Scilly before returning to New Quay. Samantha was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2005 to write her debut collection for Picador, Not In These Shoes, published in June 2008. This title was on the 2009 Wales Book of the Year Short List. Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch’s debut collection for Picador introduces a young poet with a remarkable range of imaginative tactics at her disposal, and seems to announce not one, but several new voices. Not In These Shoes is an act of uncanny ventriloquism, and a distinct spirit seems to haunt each of Wynne-Rhydderch’s meticulously drawn spaces. Whether conjuring the interior of a toy snowstorm, a flooded valley, a woman in a backless dress, a ship’s figurehead or a matador in a hotel room, Wynne-Rhydderch finds a voice that perfectly commands our attention. For further information on Samantha visit http://www.rhydderch.com/ or for information on Open Mike Nights please contact: (01685) 725382 arts@merthyr.gov.uk.
Welsh Poetry Competition Winners Announced!
The eagerly awaited results of the 3rd international Welsh Poetry Competition 2009 have been announced. This year’s judge, Merthyr’s very own Mike Jenkins, has discovered some wonderful writers to continue the competitions’ success. The overall standard of the top 20 was exceptionally high once again. The winners were as follows: 1st Prize – “The Origami Lesson” by John Gallas. 2nd Prize – “Nan Follows The Bikers On A Day Out” by Eluned Rees. And 3rd Prize – “Rails” by Lynn Roberts
All winning poems plus the seventeen runners up can be read on the competition website – www.welshpoetry.co.uk along with judges comments.
Open Art Exhibition
The 2009 Open Art Summer Show at Rhondda Heritage Park is now showing daily from 10am until 6pm until 23rd September. The exhibition is free with a cafe and gift and book shop also on site. For further information email please visit http://www.rhonddaheritagepark.com/ or contact 01443 682036.
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