31st Dec 09
2010 Poetry
2010 looks to be every bit as varied and interesting as 2009, with a number of poets an authors already booked as guests for the Open Mike Nights at the Imperial Hotel. January 14th starts the season with guest author Kevin Mills who has recently completed a collection of poems for Cinnamon Press and a critical/creative crossover book for Sussex Academic Press. Both published in 2009. He is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glamorgan where he teaches on Shakespeare, English Renaissance literature, and myth and narrative. His research interests include theory, literature and the Bible, and Victorian literature, as well as the relationship between critical and creative writing. Other interests include the work of Bob Dylan and British sit-coms. Kevin Mills’ critical work explores how the traces of Christian thought and ideology, especially the uses of biblical material in literature and criticism, are perceived and understood in a post-Christian culture. He has contributed articles to a number of publications including The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Vol. IX, and The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature. 2010 continues with visits by guest authors Richard Marggraf Turley and Damien Walford Davies, both on 11th February, then David Greenslade on 11th March, Philip Gross in April and Meic Stevens for a bilingual evening, using both English and Welsh in June. All are welcome to the Open Mike Nights. Come and read, sing or do you thing or just relax and enjoy listening to the others. All Open Mike Nights at the Imperial Hotel are free entry and start at approximatley 7.30pm. Supported by MTCBC and Academi (and Menter Merthyr for the bilingual night). For further information please contact: (01685) 725382 arts@merthyr.gov.uk.
Modern Bodies
Modern Bodies explores the way artists such as Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Henry Moore have chosen to represent the human body, and is on display at National Museum Cardiff until 31st January 2010.
Throughout history, artists have used the body to express a range of social, cultural and artistic values. Modern Bodies explores the importance of the human figure for artists working in the twentieth century. The beginning of the century saw many artists rejecting the idealised, classical body that had dominated western art since the Renaissance. Subjected to the latest developments in modern art, the body became increasingly distorted and fragmented. However, many artists continued to use more traditional and realistic approaches that preserved the physical integrity of the body. Woman artists had greater freedom to represent their own bodies, free from the restrictions of the male gaze. The end of the twentieth century has seen a resurgence of interest in the body amongst progressive artists. Many contemporary artists now draw directly on the human figure as subject and inspiration for their work.
Welsh Prince
The mystery of Jack of Kent and the fate of Owain Glyndwr are explored in a talk by Alex Gibbon on 23rd January at 10.30am in National Museum Wales, Cardiff. Admission to this Friends of National Museum Wales event is £8, payable at the door, to include tea/coffee & biscuits following the talk.
2010 Poetry
2010 looks to be every bit as varied and interesting as 2009, with a number of poets an authors already booked as guests for the Open Mike Nights at the Imperial Hotel. January 14th starts the season with guest author Kevin Mills who has recently completed a collection of poems for Cinnamon Press and a critical/creative crossover book for Sussex Academic Press. Both published in 2009. He is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glamorgan where he teaches on Shakespeare, English Renaissance literature, and myth and narrative. His research interests include theory, literature and the Bible, and Victorian literature, as well as the relationship between critical and creative writing. Other interests include the work of Bob Dylan and British sit-coms. Kevin Mills’ critical work explores how the traces of Christian thought and ideology, especially the uses of biblical material in literature and criticism, are perceived and understood in a post-Christian culture. He has contributed articles to a number of publications including The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Vol. IX, and The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature. 2010 continues with visits by guest authors Richard Marggraf Turley and Damien Walford Davies, both on 11th February, then David Greenslade on 11th March, Philip Gross in April and Meic Stevens for a bilingual evening, using both English and Welsh in June. All are welcome to the Open Mike Nights. Come and read, sing or do you thing or just relax and enjoy listening to the others. All Open Mike Nights at the Imperial Hotel are free entry and start at approximatley 7.30pm. Supported by MTCBC and Academi (and Menter Merthyr for the bilingual night). For further information please contact: (01685) 725382 arts@merthyr.gov.uk.
Modern Bodies
Modern Bodies explores the way artists such as Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Henry Moore have chosen to represent the human body, and is on display at National Museum Cardiff until 31st January 2010.
Throughout history, artists have used the body to express a range of social, cultural and artistic values. Modern Bodies explores the importance of the human figure for artists working in the twentieth century. The beginning of the century saw many artists rejecting the idealised, classical body that had dominated western art since the Renaissance. Subjected to the latest developments in modern art, the body became increasingly distorted and fragmented. However, many artists continued to use more traditional and realistic approaches that preserved the physical integrity of the body. Woman artists had greater freedom to represent their own bodies, free from the restrictions of the male gaze. The end of the twentieth century has seen a resurgence of interest in the body amongst progressive artists. Many contemporary artists now draw directly on the human figure as subject and inspiration for their work.
Welsh Prince
The mystery of Jack of Kent and the fate of Owain Glyndwr are explored in a talk by Alex Gibbon on 23rd January at 10.30am in National Museum Wales, Cardiff. Admission to this Friends of National Museum Wales event is £8, payable at the door, to include tea/coffee & biscuits following the talk.
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