Dylan Thomas Centre Events Feb - April 2009

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Dylan Thomas CentreProgrammeJanuary – April 2009

Welcome to 2009 at the Dylan Thomas Centre.We begin the New Year with the usual mix ofregular slots, occasional events and one-offs,to tempt you away fromyour firesides!

In the teeth of global recession why not takethe opportunity to be stimulated andentertained at our great value-for-money events?

If you wish to receive our email updates and reminders please [email protected] Please note also that from time to time eventstake place that are not in our printed programme.

The best ways to be kept informed of these are by being on our email list,and visiting our website –www.dylanthomas.com

Wednesday 28 January 7.30pm

Science CaféOur monthly slot, organised by Swansea University, starts a new year of talks anddiscussion on a wide variety of scientific subjects. This month – Dr.Gareth Parry on ‘Otters’.

Tickets: FREE ENTRY

Thursday 29 January 7.30pm

Poets in the Bookshop with Rona CampbellOur monthly poetry reading and open mic session this timefeatures Rona Campbell. Born in England but of Welsh andIrish parentage, Rona’s ‘elemental and sensual poetry’ isheavily influenced by her Celtic roots. She won the SothebysInternational Poetry Competition in 1982, has been widelypublished and broadcast, and has published one fullcollection, The Hedge, from Counter-Point Publications.

Tickets: Full Price £4; Concessions £2-80;Swansea PTL £1-60.


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Thursday 5 February 7.30pm

Poems of Sight and Flight – Chris KinseyIn association with Greyhound Rescue Wales and GowerBird Hospital.BBC Wildlife Poet of the Year 2008, Chris Kinsey, presentsa collection of ‘hound and bird poems’from her collectionsKung Fu Lullabies and Houndlove. All proceeds go to GRW& the Bird Hospital.

Tickets: £5/£4

Wednesday 11 February 7.30pm

Wednesday Play OffsAnother season of our popular showcase events featuring extracts of plays by localwriters, performed by local actors, with a panel of experts and the audience voting fortwo winners.

Tickets: Full Price £4 Concessions £3


Cinnamon Press presents John Powell Wardand Jan Fortune-WoodGower-based John is currently Honorary ResearchFellow at Swansea University. This launches his tenthcollection of poetry, The Last Green Year.Cinnamon supremo Jan will join John to read fromher superb novelised sequence of prose poemsStale Bread & Miracles.Tickets: FREE ENTRY & WINE


ON THE EDGE Presented by Michael KelliganLOOKWHO’S TALKING NOW!Spring 2009 season. New and existing work from theplaywrights of WalesSOLITUDE A new play by Dic Edwards, directed byMichael Kelligan

Brilliant and often surreal, blocked writer Trecci wishes to be left alone on his barge,only stepping out for a riotous visit to the pub and an occasional sexual encounter withhis neighbour’s one-legged wife.

Tickets: All Tickets £3

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Science CaféThis month – Dr. Ben Evans on ‘The Bloodhound Programme, the world land speedrecord programme. (see www.bloodhoundssc.com)Tickets: FREE ENTRY


Poets in the Bookshop with Steve GriffithsGuest is Welsh poet Steve Griffiths, whose latest publication,An Elusive State: entering al-Chwm (Cinnamon Press) is ‘the story ofthe life and death of an imaginary utopia’, extracts of which have beenbroadcast on Radio Three’s The Verb.Tickets: Full Price £4; Concessions £2-80; Swansea PTL £1-60.

27 February to 1 March

Latin-American Festival – Marking 50 Years sincethe Cuban RevolutionSwansea’s Latin American Association (ALAS) presents thisyear’s cultural festival in association with Cymru Cuba. Thefestival will be opened on 27th at 7.30pm with a free displayof music and dance. The rest of the festival will feature film,talks, dance, poetry and workshops for young people, with aheavy emphasis on Cuban culture. There will also be anexhibition of photographs of Cuba by Heather Bennett. Forfull details see www.alas.org.uk or www.dylanthomas.comor contact [email protected]

Friday 6March 7pm

WOMENCENTRESTAGEAn evening of exhibitions and entertainment from localwomen. As well as the current Corridor Gallery exhibitionof artwork and photography, this evening will featuredisplays of jewellery, fabrics, ceramics, glass, books andsculpture, around performances of poetry, drama, music,dance, and video.

Tickets: £3 – all proceeds to Oxfam Women’s Projects.

Wednesday 11March 7.30pm

Wednesday Play OffsTickets: Full Price £4 Concessions £3

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Tuesday 17March 7.30pm

Brian Turner Here, BulletBrian Turner is a soldier-poet whose debut book of poems,Here, Bullet, won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award, the New YorkTimes “Editor’s Choice” selection, the 2006 Pen Center USA“Best in the West” award, and the 2007 Poets Prize, amongothers. Turner served seven years in the US Army, to includeone year as an infantry team leader in Iraq with the 3rd StrykerBrigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. Prior to that, hewas deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1999-2000 with the 10thMountain Division. Turner was featured in Operation Homecoming, an unique documentarythat explores the firsthand accounts of American servicemen and women through their ownwords. Brian Turner’s Here, Bullet is a harrowing, beautiful first-person account of the Iraqwar. The poems in this remarkable collection reflect Turner’s experiences as a soldier withpenetrating lyric power, compassion, sensitivity, and eloquence, while deploring theviolence and acknowledging the grief and terror of war.Tickets: FREE ENTRY

Tuesday 17March, from 3pm – 5.30pm

PoetryWorkshop led by Brian Turnerat the Dylan Thomas CentreTo book a place contact David Woolley: [email protected] phone � 01792 463980Tickets: £10.00


ON THE EDGE Presented by Michael KelliganLOOKWHO’S TALKING NOW!Spring 2009 season. New and existing work from theplaywrights of WalesCARIBBEAN ANGELS by Tony Etoria, directed by the Author

Bringing some delicious Jamaican flavours to WalesTickets: All Tickets £3

Friday 20March 7.30pm / Saturday 21March 2.30pm& 7.30pm

Darren Hembrow Productions presents Funkette by Binda SinghJenny and Sharron are fed up with their jobs, their boss, and their lives. Their day just goesfrom bad to worse, and with a sparkling array of customers breaking up the monotony oftheir day, will they ever see the light at the end of the tunnel? Featuring Beth Jones,Catrin O’Brien, Darren Hembrow, Alana Cater-Sheehan, Carolina Rosati-Jones, RichardPritchard, Gillian Jackson and Margaret Hembrow.Tickets: Full Price £5 Concessions £3

“The day of the first moonwalk,my father’s college literatureprofessor told his class,‘Someday they’ll send a poet,and we’ll find out what it’s reallylike.’ Turner has sent back adispatch from a place arguablymore incomprehensible than themoon—the war in Iraq—anddeserves our thanks...”

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Saturday 21March 7.30pm

Booklaunch - No Soy TuMusa/I’m Not Your MuseAn anthology of Irish Women’s Poetry in SpanishCarlota Caulfield and John GoodbyCarlota Caulfield is a Cuban-born writer of Hispanic and Irish descentwho is currently Professor of Spanish at Mills College in Oakland,California. She studied at Havana, San Francisco and Tulane universities,and is a leading contemporary female Hispanic-American poet. Hernumerous books of her own poems include 34th Street (1987), A las puertos delpapel con amoroso fuego / At the paper gates with a fiery love (1996), and Book of the XXXIXSteps (1999). She has won several awards for her poetry and academic work, including theUltima Novocento international poetry prize in 1988. This anthology of Irish women’s poetrytranslated into Spanish, No Soy Tu Musa / I’m Not Your Muse (2008), is the first of its kind.She will be introduced by Professor John Goodby of Swansea University, poet, critic, andtranslator, who acted as editor, introducer and translation consultant for this project.

Tickets: FREE ENTRY & WINE


Science CaféThis month – Miles Barton, of the BBC Natural History Unit and Series Producer ofBBC TV’s ‘Life in Cold Blood’ on ‘BBC Wildlife Documentaries’

Tickets: FREE ENTRY

Thursday 26March 7.30pm

Poets in the Bookshop with Pascale PetitThis month’s guest poet is Pascale Petit. Pascale’slatest collection - her third – The Treekeeper’s Talefrom Seren demonstrates ‘an intense feeling for thenatural world, allied with a personal response tohistorical incidents’.

Tickets: Full Price £4; Concessions £2-80; Swansea PTL £1-60.

Friday 3 April 7pm

Terry Hetherington EveningNeath poet and writer Terry Hetherington died in August 2006. In February last year theDylan Thomas Centre celebrated Terry’s life and work with a memorial evening for hisfamily, friends and fellow writers. Money raised from the evening, and from subsequentsales of Terry’s books, is being offered to a young writer as a bursary to help themimprove their writing skills and experience. The award of the first bursary will be madethis evening, and once again friends and family will join to remember Terry and his work.

Tickets: FREE ENTRY

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Tuesday 14 April 7pm

Making an ImpressionPoet and art critic Professor Tony Curtis will launch our newexhibition of contemporary prints from Shani Rhys James,David Nash, Ceri Richards, Glenys Cour and others, and givean illustrated lecture on the tradition of print-making in Wales.Tickets: FREE ENTRY & WINE

Wednesday 15 April 7.30pm

ON THE EDGE Presented by Michael KelliganLOOKWHO’S TALKING NOW!STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN (A newly updated version)by Laurence Alan, Directed by David BrittonA considerable figure on the drama scene in Wales, born in Pontypridd in 1954, Laurencesays “I love it. It’s my home, and I hope that my plays are firmly rooted there, and at thesame time absolutely universal.” He has written for almost all the theatre companies inWales. His play Flowers From Tunisia won the best new play in the Theatre In Walesawards. He is currently working on a novel, The Last Buffalo.Tickets: All Tickets £3

Thursday 16 April 7.30pm

Now All the Rage - Duncan BushPoet and novelist, Duncan Bush is one of Wales’ finest writers.He reads from his latest novel, Now All the Rage (ColophonPress),which promises to be provocative and controversial, ‘acompelling tale of fame and pornography, anger and art, lustand obscurity (or any combination of these…)’ !

Tickets: Full Price £4 Concessions £2-80 Swansea PTL £1-60


Wednesday Play OffsTickets: Full Price £4 Concessions £3

Saturday 25 April 1pm

Saturday Lunchtime Theatre The American DreamOur popular lunch-time drama slot returns, with Fluellen Theatre Company presenting a“script-in-hand” performance of Edward Albee`s absurdist and brilliantly vicious satire onAmerican family life. Mommy and Daddy live with Mommy`s mother. One day they arevisited by two guests who turn their world upside down. Albee wrote of his play that it “is astand against the fiction that everything in this slipping land of ours is peachy-keen”

Tickets: Full Price £5 Concessions £4

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Science Café/BooklaunchJonathan Foster – The Death Ray – The Secret Life ofHarry Grindell MatthewsFew will know that inventor Harry Matthews spent the latter part of his life

in Swansea, building a laboratory at Craig-cefn-parc! Matthews invented (amongmany otherthings) the mobile phone, automatic pilot, submarine detection,and a ‘Death Ray’! His biographer will talk about this remarkableinventor, there will be the usual opportunity for discussion, andalso Jonathan’s book for sale.

Tickets: FREE ENTRY

Thursday 30 April 7.30pm

Poets in the Bookshop with Phil MaillardThis month’s guest poet is South Wales based Phil Maillard,whose latest collection Sweet Dust and Growling Lambs(Shearsman Books) is three collections in one. Phil’s work is‘vivid and open-handed…a tersely energetic voice’.

Tickets: Full Price £4 Concessions £2-80 Swansea PTL £1-60

Other Events...From Thursday January 15th at the Dylan Thomas Centre

PoetryWorks – A Course with Stuart JonesA Practical Approach to Poetry - for beginners and more experienced writers - 8 weekcourse £25/concessions available – contact Stuart on � 01792 540820 or email:[email protected]

Every 1st & 2nd Thursday of themonth from February at the Dylan Thomas Centre 7.30pm – 9pm

Junkbox Poetry GroupA lively forum for constructive criticism. For details contact [email protected]

21 and 22 February – 10am – 4pm at the Dylan Thomas Centre

Peter Read –Writing for Pleasure and ProfitPoet, playwright and actor Peter Read has written seven books, including his latestpoetry collection Read Only, published in May last year. He has also had four playsstaged professionally, with three more due in 2009. This course will look at ways ofkeeping your writing fresh and at the same time seeking publication for it.

Tickets: £60. Please contact Peter on � 07931 614180.

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Saturday 21 February 11amGlasfryn Seminar – Ian Davidson – Language Poetries and PlaceThe latest Glasfryn Seminar, supported by Academi and hosted by Lyndon Davies atGlasfryn, Llangattock, Powys, features two sessions and a discussion led by poet,lecturer and literary theorist Ian Davidson.

Tickets: The cost is only £10 and places are limited.Contact Lyndon – [email protected] or call � 01873 810456

Followed at 6pm by: the Launch of Zoe Skoulding’s first issue as editor of Poetry Walesat the Hen and Chickens pub, Abergavenny, 6 – 8 pm (Free Entry)

Wednesday 25 February 8pm

Welsh Gourmet Nightat the Dylan Thomas Centre£30 for 4 delicious courses, and live music from a Welsh harpist. There will also be arange of Welsh wines and spirits available on the night.

For full details see www.dylanthomas.com To book call 01792 463980

3pm – 5.30pm on Tuesday 17th March

PoetryWorkshop led by Brian Turnerat the Dylan Thomas CentreTo book a place contact David Woolley: [email protected] phone � 01792 463980Tickets: £10.00

Wed 25th March 10 - 3pm

Pontardawe Arts Centre presentsA Chain of Voices with Hugh LuptonA beginner’s workshop for adults in the art of storytelling. Suitable for all those whowould love to learn some key basic storytelling skills. Learn from a master craftsmanof storytelling. At the Dylan Thomas CentreTickets: £10.00. Booking necessary - contact � 01792 863772

Exhibitions...January – 1 February

Following the FlameIn August 2011 a major new exhibition on the history ofWales in the Olympic and Paralympic Games will launch inSwansea. As a precursor, the Dylan Thomas Centre housesan inspiring display to encourage local involvement.For more information contact [email protected]

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Exhibitions...Brian Gaylor’s current exhibition – An Alternative Viewalso continues until 1 February.

4 February – 1March

Green Lemons,Photographs from CubaHeather Bennett

4 March – 29March

Womencentrestage ExhibitionArtwork & Photography by local women artists.

April 1 – 3 May

Making an Impression – Contemporary ArtSociety for Wales - Original ContemporaryPrints fromWalesCurated by Professor Tony Curtis who will give a talk toopen the exhibition on 14 April.

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The Hand Mirror, Shani Rhys James MBE

The Dylan Thomas CentreSomerset Place, Swansea SA1 1RR� 01792 463980� www.dylanthomas.com� www.dylan-thomas-books.com� [email protected] events at the Dylan Thomas Centreunless otherwise stated

Travel and AccommodationFor accommodation contact Swansea TouristInformation Centre on � 01792 361302, orvisit � www.visitswanseabay.comFirst Cymru operate a network of local busservices in South and West Wales.For details call � 0870 6082608. Forinformationabout rail servicescontactNationalRail Enquiries on� 08457 484950.

STOP PRESS! STOP PRESS!The Worm’s Head Hotel, Rhossili is starting a series ofinclusive Writing Weekends. The first will be withIris Gower on 24/25 April. For full details contact

Adrian Short: [email protected] 01792 390512


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