events and swansea News

Welsh tenor Wynne Evans is to headline the St David’s Week festival in Swansea with the Morriston Orpheus Choir joining him for a special concert at the Brangwyn Hall on Saturday February 25.

An African writer is to travel from his homeland to deliver a free talk at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea on Saturday 4 February at 12.30pm.

Three exciting orchestra concerts perform at the Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts this year.

SAMBA Tawe will start festivities when the annual World Party event comes to Swansea on Saturday.

Join us for a special Poets in the Bookshop event to celebrate the release of Sarah Coles’ first collection, Here and the Water (Gomer). The launch will take place at the Dylan Thomas Centre on Thursday, 23 February at 7.30pm.

Welsh tenor Wynne Evans is to headline the St David’s Week festival in Swansea with the Morriston Orpheus Choir joining him for a special concert at the Brangwyn Hall on Saturday February 25.

Fluellen Theatre Company present Harold Pinter’s A Slight Ache at the Dylan Thomas Centre on Saturday, 18 February at 1pm.

The latest play in Michael Kelligan’s On the Edge season, Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, comes to the Dylan Thomas Centre on Wednesday, 15 February at 7.30pm.

PATRIOTIC people in Swansea have a lot to look forward to this month with the start of the Six Nations and St David’s Week on the horizon.

CHRISTMAS may seem like it’s only just gone but planning for an exciting events programme this summer has already started.

Mae Dinas a Sir Abertawe a'i phartneriaid yn cyhoeddi dychweliad Wythnos Gŵyl Ddewi – wythnos o ddathlu a fydd yn coffáu nawddsant Cymru ac yn dathlu etifeddiaeth Gymreig gyfoethog y ddinas o gerddoriaeth, bwyd, dawns, barddoniaeth a diwylliant.

The Dylan Thomas Centre launches Delyth Jenkins’ new album, Llais, on Saturday, 4 February at 7.30pm. Join us for an evening of wonderful music and readings.

An African writer is to travel from his homeland to deliver a free talk at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea on Saturday 4 February at 12.30pm.

The City & County of Swansea and partners announce the return of St David’s Week – a week long celebration which will commemorate Wales’ patron saint and celebrates the city’s rich Welsh heritage of music, food, dance, poetry and culture.

Deryn Rees-Jones headlines the Dylan Thomas Centre’s Poets in the Bookshop event on Thursday, 26 January at 7.30pm.

A photography exhibition which features the life of world famous artist Pablo Picasso has proved exceptionally popular with visitors to Swansea's Dylan Thomas Centre.

The Dylan Thomas Centre’s new programme of events has been released, featuring a varied mixture of literature, drama and music.

The Dylan Thomas Centre has a reputation for bringing big names from the world of literature to Swansea as part of its events programme.

Gary Owen’s Free Folk will be performed at the Dylan Thomas Centre on Wednesday, 14 December at 7.30pm.

Swansea is famous for producing one of the world’s most famous poets and it is evident that poetry in the city is just as popular as it has ever been.

Keele University’s George Truscott discusses ‘Life, Death and the Carotenoids’ at this month’s Science Café, on Wednesday, 30th November at 7.30pm. The talk has been organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

The Dylan Thomas Centre has two exciting events coming up at the end of November.

Visitors to Swansea have been enjoying a selection of new and exciting public art works across the city over the last week.

It may be a little early – or late – for Easter Egg Hunts, but the Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts is inviting the people of Swansea to a Golden Egg Hunt on Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 September at 11am

Three exciting orchestra concerts perform at the Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts this year.

SAMBA Tawe will start festivities when the annual World Party event comes to Swansea on Saturday.

VISITORS to a hit Swansea event later this month will be transported to Ireland and the Deep South.

This Friday 29 July at 1pm, join art historian, writer and Friend of the Glynn Vivian, Barry Plummer, in a guided tour and talk of the life and works of celebrated Swansea-born artist, Evan Walters (1893-1951).

The first two acts for the annual World Party event have been unveiled.

A GROUP of talented over 55-year-olds will be showcasing their skills at the Glynn Vivian this month as the gallery displays some of the best artwork from the Wednesday Afternoon Adult Art Class.

Heats 7 & 8 of the RYA ThunderCat National Championship will take place on Swansea beachfront, Saturday 23rd – Sunday 24th July.

Racers from all over the UK will be battling it out on Swansea’s beachfront for Rounds 7 & 8 of the RYA Thundercat National Championship on 23rd-24th July….

October 2011 will see an amazing twenty-three events performed over seventeen days at seven venues throughout the City at the Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts

An award-winning American soldier-poet proved a big hit at the Dylan Thomas Centre.

Swansea Bay Summer Festival is set to host the highlight event of the summer.

Local formation air display is set to wow crowds above Swansea Bay during the Wales National Air Show on 9th and 10th July.

The City and County of Swansea has announced that The Blades are confirmed in the air display line up for the Wales National Air Show.

The Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea celebrates talented new writers at the Terry Hetherington Awards evening on Friday, 1 July at 7pm.

Everyone needs a helping hand when starting out on a career – especially when it’s a career in the competitive world of professional music.

The Dylan Thomas Centre and Parthian launch a new poetry anthology, Ten Of The Best, on Thursday, 9 June at 7pm.

Entries are now open for the annual Admiral Swansea Bay 10k road race and junior races.

Speed dating in Swansea, Thursday 24th March in Oceana. Hosted by Spark Dating.

There are lots of events taking place in Swansea which are part of the St David’s Week celebrations.

DEADLINE day for event organisers wanting to get their event included in the Swansea Bay Summer Festival brochure is fast-approaching.

For those who like a traditional St David’s Day concert, Swansea's Brangwyn Hall is hosting a singing extravaganza on Tuesday 1 March.

Waterfront Winterland in Swansea has reached a milestone with over half a million visitors since the Christmas attraction opened in 2006.

WINTER'S gloom may still be lingering but summer event organisers in Swansea are already being asked to forward plan.

With Christmas now well and truly over, preparations to honour Wales’s patron saint in Swansea are now underway.

This Friday 10 December at 7pm, the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery will be showing Ffilm 1, the first of 3 exciting seasons of exhibitions presenting a wide range of recent film and video from well known and emerging artists from Wales and the UK.

Sparks in the Dark postponed until Tuesday

Dylan Thomas Festival Opening Events - 27 October until 9 November 2010

Swansea's annual fireworks display returns to St Helen's Rugby Ground on Friday 5 November

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, and award winning writers Don Paterson and Gillian Clarke, are among some of the big names headlining the Dylan Thomas Centre’s Literature Programme this autumn.

Theatre goers who attended the first of this summer’s Outdoor Theatre events, not only enjoyed the good weather, but the performance was hailed as a great success too.