Ryland Teifi + Mendocino

Date: Friday, 12th October, 2012
Where: Theatr Soar, Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 8UB.
Price: £8 (£6 consessions).
Description: Ryland Teifi is a BAFTA Cymru and Welsh songwriter of the year winner and has toured the world as a singer songwriter and actor sharing stages with the likes Steve Earl, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Liam Clancy and Bryn Terfel. His new album is a reflection of the folk heritage of his native west Wales but also meets the strong traditions of Ireland and America, especially The Clancy Brothers, Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash.
His collaboration with one of Ireland’s hottest new bands, Mendocino is an exciting foray into the fusion of folk and country song writing, singing and musicianship.
Mendocino is the brainchild of Hugh O’Carroll former member of acclaimed bands such as Hank Halfhead and the Ramblin’ Turkeys and The Glee Club. Their debut album, The Steep Ravine blends their original song writing with the echoes of Neil Young, Hank Williams and Nirvana. Tailored beautifully by the multi instrumentalist, Evan Grace, Mendocino and Ryland Teifi is an exciting convergence of songs and music.
Ryland Teifi and Mendocino
“Ryland Teifi has one of the most extraordinary voices on the planet. He draws you in and before you know it you’re hooked.” Frank Hennessy, BBC Celtic Heartbeat
“A certifiable bolt from the Gods.” NME.
“Amazing, inspirational songs.” BBC.
“Pushes the boat out into new folk waters.” Hotpress.
Time: 8pm.
Further information: 01685 722176 / http://www.theatrsoar.com/

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Dyddiad: Nos Wener, 12fed o Hydref, 2012
Lle: Theatr Soar, Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tudful, CF47 8UB.
Pris: £8 (£6 consesiynau).
Disgrifiad: Ryland Teifi a'r Mendocino. Mae cerddoriaeth Ryland Teifi, ein canwr a chyfansoddwr Cymreig adnabyddus , wedi’i drwytho mewn traddodiadau gwerin o orllewin Cymru, Iwerddon ac America. Mae Teifi a’i fand newydd o’r Iwerddon, Mendocino, yn cyfuno dylanwadau sy’n amrywio o werin Cymraeg i Hank Williams, o Neil Young i Nirvana. Band gwerin sy’n wirioneddol arloesol ar gyfer y 21ain ganrif. Mae’n argoeli i fod yn noson wych!
Pryd: 8yh.
Gwybodaeth pellach: Theatr Soar, Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tudful, CF47 8UB.

Open Mic Night / Noson Meic Agored: RED POETS 18

Date: Thursday, 20th September, 2012

Where: Imperial Hotel, High Street, Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 8UH.
Price: £4 (with Red Poets 18)
Description: Open Mic Night and Launch of Red Poets 18. http://www.redpoets.org/our-history.html

Time: 7.30pm.
Further information: arts@merthyr.gov.uk / 01685 725382.

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Dyddiad: Nos Iau, 20fed o Fedi.
Lle: Gwesty'r Imperial, Stryd Fawr, Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tudful, CF47 8UH
Pris: £4 (gyda cylchgrawn "Red Poets 18")
Disgrifiad: Noson Meic Agored a Lawnsiad "Red Poets 18".
Pryd: 7.30yh.
Gwybodaeth pellach: arts@merthyr.gov.uk / 01685 725382.

Nosweithiau Meic Agored / Open Mic Nights

Nosweitiau Meic Agored
Open Mic Nights
 
 Yr Hydref / Gaeaf 2012
Autumn / Winter 2012

Gwesty'r IMPERIAL Hotel

Merthyr Tudful

Mynediad am ddim / Free entry

2/8/12 - David Lloyd*

20/9/12 - Red Poets 18 (£4)

19/10/12 - Ric Hool*

22/11/12 - John Freeman*

17/12/12 - Harry Rogers*

Open Mic Night / Noson Meic Agored

Date: Thursday, 19th July, 2012

Where: Imperial Hotel, High Street, Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 8UH
Price: Free
Description: Open Mic Night with Rhian Edwards and others. http://www.llenyddiaethcymru.org/writers-of-wales/i/133339/desc/edwards-rhian/
Time: 7.30pm.
Further information: arts@merthyr.gov.uk / 01685 725382.

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Dyddiad: Nos Iau, 19eg Gorffennaf, 2012.
Lle: Gwesty'r Imperial, Stryd Fawr, Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tudful, CF47 8UH
Pris: Mynediad am ddim.
Disgrifiad: Noson Meic Agored gyda Rhian Edwards a lleill.
Pryd: 7.30yh.
Gwybodaeth pellach: arts@merthyr.gov.uk / 01685 725382.

Open Mic Night / Noson Meic Agored

Date: Thursday, 14th June, 2012

Venue: Imperial Hotel, High Street, Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 8UH
Price: Free
Description: Open Mic Night with D.E. Oprava and others. http://www.deoprava.com/HOME.html
Time: 7.30pm.
Further information: arts@merthyr.gov.uk / 01685 725382.

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Dyddiad: Nos Iau, 14eg o Fehefin, 2012.
Lle: Gwesty'r Imperial, Stryd Fawr, Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tudful, CF47 8UH
Pris: Mynediad am ddim.
Disgrifiad: Noson Meic Agored gyda D.E. Oprava a lleill.
Pryd: 7.30yh.
Gwybodaeth pellach: arts@merthyr.gov.uk / 01685 725382.

Bedroc 2012

Date: 15th - 17th June 2012

Where: Various venues in Bedlinog TBC
CF46.
Price: TBC
Description: Welsh language music festival. Artists to be announced.
Further information: jamie@cymdeithas.org / 02920 486469.

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Dyddiadau: 15fed - 17eg o Fehefin, 2012.
Lle: Dros yr ardal Beddllwynog.
Pris: I cadarnhau.
Disgrifiad: Gwyl cerddoriaeth Cymraeg.
Pryd: Amrywiol - i cadarnhau.
Gwybodaeth pellach: jamie@cymdeithas.org / 02920 486469.

Global Village / Pentref Byd Eang 2012

Global Village
Sunay, 1st July, 2012

Cyfarthfa Park, Merthyr Tydfil.

A festival celebrating the cultural diversity of Merthyr Tydfil, with performances, workshops, food and stalls. For further information, please visit: www.merthyr.ac.uk/globalvillage/

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Pentref Byd Eang
Dydd Sul, 1af o Orffennaf, 2012
Parc Cyfarthfa, Merthyr Tudful.


Mae Pentref Byd Eang yn dathlu'r amrywiaeth Merthyr Tudful, gyda digwyddiadau, gweithdai, bwyd a stondinau drwy'r dydd.
Am fwy o fanylion ymwelwch â: www.merthyr.ac.uk/globalvillage/

Open Mic Night / Noson Meic Agored

Date: Thursday, 17th May 2012.
Where: Imperial Hotel, High Street, Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 8UH
Price: Free
Description: Open Mic Night with Simone Mansell-Broome and others. http://www.simonemb.com/
Time: 7.30pm.
Further information: arts@merthyr.gov.uk / 01685 725382.

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Dyddiad: Nos Iau, 17eg o Fai, 2012.
Lle: Gwesty'r Imperial, Stryd Fawr, Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tudful, CF47 8UH
Pris: Mynediad am ddim.
Disgrifiad: Noson Meic Agored gyda Simone Mansell-Broome a lleill.
Pryd: 7.30yh.
Gwybodaeth pellach: arts@merthyr.gov.uk / 01685 725382.

Open Mic Night / Noson Meic Agored

Date: Thursday, 26th April 2012

Where: The Imperial Hotel, High Street, Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 8UH
Price: Free
Description: Open Mic Night with Mao Jones and others. For further info on Mao Jones, visit: http://www.weareballoon.co.uk/artists/mao-jones/
Time: 7.30pm.
Further information: arts@merthyr.gov.uk / 01685 725382.

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Dyddiad: Nos Iau, 26ain Ebrill.
Lle: Gwesty'r Imperial, Stryd Fawr, Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tudful, CF47 8UH
Pris: Mynediad am ddim
Disgrifiad: Noson Meic Agored gyda Mao Jones a lleill.
Pryd: 7.30yh.
Gwybodaeth pellach: arts@merthyr.gov.uk / 01685 725382.

Open Mic Night

Date: Thursday 22 March 2012

Dyddiad: Dydd Iau, 22 March 2012

Open Mic Night
with Ann Drysdale

Noson Meic Agored
gyda Ann Drysdale

Ann was born in the North West and brought up in London. She has lived in places as disparate as a narrowboat in the Midlands and a smallholding on the North York Moors where she learned stockmanship by experiment and brought up three children as a single parent. During this time she wrote one of the longest-running by-line columns* in the provincial press.
In 1988 Ann started a degree course in English Literature at York, but having left formal education in the sixties she had not realised that the language of critical theory had developed along entirely different lines from that of literature itself and her vocabulary proved inadequate. She was later awarded an MA in the teaching and practice of creative writing, has been a visiting lecturer at Cardiff University and spent eighteen months as writer-in-residence at UWE, Bristol. She has taught at all levels, from Ty Newydd to special needs primary schools and was poet in residence for the Peterloo Poets Schools Poetry Week in 2002. Most recently she has collaborated with photographer Tim Collier on a book of poems celebrating the changing face of the South Wales valleys.
She is an accomplished and popular reader of her own and other people’s work, has reached the final of the Cheltenham All-comers’ Slam and has made recordings for Isis Audiobooks. She is also the author of four volumes of idiosyncratic memoirs (**)
Her four collections of poetry, Between Dryden and Duffy (2005), The Turn of the Cucumber, Gay Science and Backwork, all from Peterloo Poets, have been very well received.
Her first volume was shortlisted at Aldeburgh in 1995. Individual poems have won prizes in the Manchester, Cardiff, Peterloo, Housman Society, Bridport and National poetry competitions and she is the current holder of the Dylan Thomas Prize for poetry in performance.
* It began as A Woman’s View from the Clevelands in the Northallerton, Thirsk and Bedale Times and developed into the Country Tales which were a feature of the Yorkshire Evening Post for twenty years.
** Faint Heart never Kissed a Pig, Sows’ Ears and Silk Purses, Pearls Before Swine all published by Routledge and Kegan Paul and A Pig in a Passage published by Robert Hale.

For further information please contact: 01685 725382 / arts@merthyr.gov.uk
Am fwy o fanylion cysylltwch: 01685 725382 / arts@merthyr.gov.uk

The Imperial Hotel, Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 8UH.
Gwesty'r Imperial, Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tudful, CF47 8UH.


MTCBC & Literature Wales
CBSMT a Llenyddiaeth Cymru

Times: 7.30pm.
Amseroedd: 7.30yh.

Prices: Free
Pris: Free

Zoom Film Festival / Gwyl Ffilm

Open Mic Night

Date: Thursday 23 February 2012

Dyddiad: Dydd Iau, 23 Chwefror 2012

Open Mic Night
with Paul Groves

Noson Meic Agored
gyda Paul Groves

Paul Groves is a poet. Born Gloucester 1947; has lived in Wales and in the Forest of Dean. Gregory Award recipient and a major prizewinner in numerous competitions. His work has appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, including Introduction 3 (Faber), The Bright Field (Carcanet), Burning the Bracken (Seren). Creative Writing lecturer and Open College of the Arts tutor; has 30 years’ teaching experience.
In 2007 and for an unprecedented second time, Paul won first prize in the Times Literary Supplement competition for his poem ’The Mauve Tam-o’-Shanter’. The prize was judged anonymously, with a reader ballot choosing from a shortlist of eleven poems. ’The Mauve Tam-o’-Shanter’ is included in Paul’s new collection Qwerty which was published by Seren in 2008. Paul also won this award in 1986, came second in 2001, and has recently learnt that his poem ’The Hug’ was placed third in the 2008 competition. Over 3,000 entries were received worldwide.
Selected Publications:
Academe (Seren, 1988)
Ménage à Trois (Seren, 1995)
Eros and Thanatos (Seren, 1999)
Wowsers (Seren, 2002)
Country Boy (Starborn Books, 2007)
Qwerty (Seren, 2008)

For further information please contact: 01685 725382 / arts@merthyr.gov.uk
Am fwy o fanylion cysylltwch: 01685 725382 / arts@merthyr.gov.uk

Imperial Hotel, Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 8UH.
Gwesty'r Imperial, Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tudful, CF47 8UH.



MTCBC & Literature Wales
CBSMT a Llenyddiaeth Cymru

Times: 7.30pm.
Amseroedd: 7.30yh.

Prices: Free
Pris: Free

Open Mic Night

Date: Thursday 26 January 2012

Dyddiad: Dydd Iau, 26 Ionawr 2012

Open Mic Night
with Tim Richards

Noson Meic Agored
gyda Tim Richards

Tim has appeared in 'Red Poets' magazine from the beginning and been very prominent in its performances for 17 years. He has written many scripts for film and TV and contributed on many occasions to 'Private Eye'.

For further information please contact: 01685 725382 / arts@merthyr.gov.uk
Am fwy o fanylion cysylltwch: 01685 725382 / arts@merthyr.gov.uk

The Imperial Hotel, Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 8UH.
Gwesty'r Imperial, Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tudful, CF47 8UH.
MTCBC & Literature Wales
CBSMT a Llenyddiaeth Cymru

Times: 7.30pm.
Amseroedd: 7.30yh.

Prices: Free
Pris: Free

Once Upon A Time

Date: Tuesday 20 December 2011

Dyddiad: Dydd Mawrth, 20 Rhagfyr 2011

Once Upon A Time
A Christmas Show
by Likely Story

When a group of time travelling storytellers crash land in a Welsh town somewhere near you, they dust themselves off and start trying to tell one of their favorite fairytales. Armed with trunks of costumes, musical instruments, buckets of energy and their trusted storytelling engine, they begin where all good stories should begin... "Once upon a time..."
Unfortunately for them, their trusted story engine was damaged in the crash and before they know it they are forced to tell four stories at once! ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, ‘Snow White and The Seven Dwarves’, ‘Hansel and Gretel’ and ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ all get an outing in this fast, furious and fun family Christmas show.
Join our group of hilarious steam punks (think eccentric Victorian explorers with a time machine) on their unique journey through some of the best stories ever told, as they struggle to keep the wolves (and bears) from the door and desperately try to make it to “The End”. With the help of the audience, our brave storytellers will try to answer those all-important Christmas questions, like “Why are her teeth so large?” and “Why does my porridge taste of ginger bread?”
Suitable for children, adults and woodland creatures alike, this is a Christmas show like no other. So book now, and don’t trust old women carrying apples.
http://www.likelystory.org.uk/

Gurnos Social Club / Clwb Cymdeithasol Y Gurnos
28 Chestnut Way, Gurnos, Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 9SB.

A Night Out event
Digwyddiad Noson Allan

Times: 2pm.
Amseroedd: 2yh.

Prices: £3 (Concessions: £2 Disabled, OAP, Unwaged, Children)
To purchase tickets for this event, contact: The 3Gs Development Trust on 01685 350888.
Pris: £3 (Consesiynau: £2 Anabl, Pensiynwyr, Anghyflogi, Plant)
Er mwyn prynu tocynnau ar gyfer y digwyddiad hwn, cysylltwch â:
Ymddiriedolaeth Datblygu'r 3Gs ar 01685 350888.

HUMBUG!

Date: Thursday 15 December 2011
Dyddiad: Dydd Iau, 15 Rhagfyr 2011

HUMBUG!
Clwyd Theatr Cymru
Theatre for Young People / Mae Theatr ar gyfer Pobl Ifanc

HUMBUG!
By Tim Baker
“Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry?” said Scrooge
Starting with Dickens’ famous “A Christmas Carol”, writer/director Tim Baker has turned this timeless story into a fantastic family show for all ages. Expect fun, live music, a bit of skullduggery and theatrical magic!
Tim’s reinvention of “A Christmas Carol” is timely too - touring on the eve of the celebrations commemorating 200 years since Dickens’ birth in 1812.
Don’t be a humbug this Christmas. Come and join us for some Festive fun.

Dowlais Community Centre / Canolfan Gymunedol Dowlais
Station Road, Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil.

A Night Out event
Digwyddiad Noson Allan

Times: 7pm.
Amseroedd: 7yh.

Prices: £3
(Concessions: £2 Disabled, OAP, Unwaged, Children)
To purchase tickets for this event, contact:
Dowlais Community Development Forum 01685 389445.
Pris: £3
(Consesiynau: £2 Anabl, Pensiynwyr, Anghyflogi, Plant)
Er mwyn prynu tocynnau ar gyfer y digwyddiad hwn, cysylltwch â:
Fforwm Datblygu Cymunedol Dowlais 01685 389445.

Noson Garolau

Dyddiad: Dydd Mawrth 13eg o Rhagfyr 2011

Date: Tuesday 13th December 2011

Noson Garolau

Ysgolion a Mudiadau lleol yn perfformio

Local schools and organisations performing

Theatr Soar, Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tudful.

Times: 6.30pm.

Amseroedd: 6.30yh.

Pris: £3 / £2

Er mwyn prynu tocynnau ar gyfer y digwyddiad hwn, cysylltwch â 01685 722176.

Price: £3 / £2

To purchase tickets for this event, contact 01685 722176.

Siôn Corn

Dyddiadau: Dydd Gwener 9fed a Dydd Sadwrn 10fed o Rhagfyr 2011

Dates: Friday 9th and Saturday 10th December 2011

Siôn Corn

Dewch i gael stori gyda Siôn Corn
Come for a story with Santa Clause

Theatr Soar, Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tudful.

Times: 4.00pm.
Amseroedd: 4.00yh.

Pris: £4
Er mwyn prynu tocynnau ar gyfer y digwyddiad hwn, cysylltwch â 01685 722176.
Price: £4
To purchase tickets for this event, contact 01685 722176.

Open Mic Night

Date: 8th December 2011
Dyddiad: 8fed o Rhagfyr 2011

Open Mic Night
with Ellie Evans

Noson Meic Agored
gyda Ellie Evans

Imperial Hotel, High Street, Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 8UH.
Gwesty Imperial, Stryd Fawr, Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 8UH.

MTCBC & Literature Wales
CBSMT & Llenyddiaeth Cymru

Times: 7.30pm.
Amseroedd: 7.30yh.

Prices: Free
Pris: Am ddim

Noson Lawen Iawn

Dyddiad: Dydd Iau, 8 Rhagfyr 2011

Date: Thursday 8 December 2011

Noson Lawen Iawn

Noson o adliniant i'r teulu cyfan
An evening of entertainment for the whole family

Theatr Soar, Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tudful.

Times: 7.00pm.
Amseroedd: 7.00yh.

Pris: £5 (Consesiynau: £3.50 Anabl, Pensiynwyr, Anghyflogi, Plant)
Er mwyn prynu tocynnau ar gyfer y digwyddiad hwn, cysylltwch â 01685 722176.
Prices: £5 (Concessions: £3.50 Disabled, OAP, Unwaged, Children)
To purchase tickets for this event, contact 01685 722176.

The wizard, the goat and the man who won the war

Date: Friday 26 November 2011

Dyddiad: Dydd Gwener, 26 Tachwedd 2011

The wizard, the goat and the man who won the war

Written and directed by DJ Britton
Featuring Richard Elfyn as Lloyd George

Ysgrifennwyd a chyfarwyddwyd gan DJ Britton
Perfformiad gan Richard Elfyn fel Lloyd George

Coalition government. Political scandal. David Lloyd George took it in his stride and still found time for a colourful personal life. The Welsh Wizard was a giant of 20th Century global politics, yet the nation remains divided about him. How could a Welsh-speaking chapel boy become the steely statesman who saw Britain through the Great War? How could the champion of non-conformist Christianity become a womaniser living a double life?


How could this protector of the poor risk so much in the pursuit of wealth? Writer/director D.J.Britton and BAFTA-winning actor Richard Elfyn have created an exhilarating solo performance, finding mystery, charm, poetry and much humour in Lloyd George's extraordinary life. Set in Antibes, France, on his 50th wedding anniversary, this speculative drama follows Lloyd George's imagination through his imperfect past into dreams of further conquests.

"Lloyd George is a dramatist's dream, a mass of contradictions: charismatic, intelligent, foolish, implusive, clinically decisive and painfully human... It may be a one-man play, but don't expect a monologue. Richard Elfyn becomes all the people in Lloyd George's world and somehow manages to sing and dance his way into the great man's soul". D.J.Britton

"Richly enteraining" Sally Baker, Director, National Writers' Centre


"Absolutely spell-binding: beautifully conceived...superbly acted" Professor Neil Reeve, Swansea University

Llywodraeth glymblaid… gwarth gwleidyddol… roedd David Lloyd George yn feistr ar y sefyllfa ond roedd ganddo amser o hyd i gael bywyd personol lliwgar. Roedd y Dewin o Gymru’n gawr yng ngwleidyddiaeth fyd-eang yr 20fed Ganrif, ond eto mae amrywiaeth barn yn y genedl amdano o hyd. Sut gallai Cymro Cymraeg o fachgen capel droi’n wleidydd haearnaidd a lywiodd Prydain drwy’r Rhyfel Mawr? Sut gallai hyrwyddwr Cristnogaeth anghydffurfiol fod yn ferchetwr â bywyd dwbl? Sut gallai hwn a amddiffynnai’r tlodion fentro cymaint ar drywydd cyfoeth?

Mae’r ysgrifennwr/cyfarwyddwr D.J. Britton a’r actor Richard Elfyn, sydd wedi ennill BAFTA, wedi creu perfformiad unigol gwefreiddiol, gan ddod o hyd i ddirgelwch, swyn, barddoniaeth a llawer o hiwmor ym mywyd hynod Lloyd George. Wedi’i gosod yn Antibes, Ffrainc, ar ei hanner canfed pen-blwydd priodas, mae’r ddrama synfyfyriol hon yn dilyn dychymyg Lloyd George drwy ei orffennol amherffaith i freuddwydion o goncwestau pellach.

Perfformir y ddrama hon yn Saesneg.

Theatr Soar, Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tudful.

Times: 7.30pm.
Amseroedd: 7.30yh.

Prices: £10 (Concessions: £8 Disabled, OAP, Unwaged, Children)
To purchase tickets for this event, contact 01685 722176.
Prisiau: £10 (Consesiynau: £8 Anabl, Pensiynwyr, Anghyflogi, Plant)
Er mwyn prynu tocynnau ar gyfer y digwyddiad hwn, cysylltwch â 01685 722176.