events and swansea News

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.

With another bank holiday weekend and school holidays looming, have a look at what you can do over a glorious long weekend and a week-long holiday in Swansea. For ideas and full details, take a look at the Swansea Bay Summer Festival website.

This Friday 28 May at 3.30pm, the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery presents performance artist Chowchoo Papillon as the free live music Free:30 Sessions get underway this month.

THIS summer’s events at the Brangwyn Hall will be music to the ears of concert-goers everywhere.

A fascinating photographic exhibition offering unique portraits of Welsh football grounds goes on display at the Dylan Thomas Centre from 18 May – 13 June 2010.

The Dylan Thomas Centre presents ‘The Joy of Battered Seaweed – a good laugh is the best pesticide’: an evening with Malcolm Parr on Thursday, 13 May at 7.30pm.

On the Edge presents Deadlier than the Male, Michael Kelligan’s new season of superb and varied script-held performances features plays from Welsh women writers based in Wales.

Hafan Books presents the launch and a reading of John Goodby's Wine Night White on Thursday, 22 April at 7pm.

A FAMOUS and thought-provoking exhibition is on display at Swansea Museum from the end of the week.

The Dylan Thomas Centre and Hafan Books launch Childe Roland’s Ham & Jam and A Pearl: Two One-act Plays on Thursday, 15 April at 7pm.

A nationwide Dr Who roadshow lands in Swansea this Easter to give fans of the TV show a real treat before a new Doctor hits our screens.

Adam Powell of Swansea University delivers this month’s Science Café talk at the Dylan Thomas Centre on Wednesday, 31 March at 7.30pm.

You and your guests are invited to the launch of the latest Corridor Gallery exhibition, Lyndon Mably’s ‘Burning – a random event’, at the Dylan Thomas Centre from 1.30pm on Saturday 27th March. Refreshments will be available.

The recent West Glamorgan Dolls House Club exhibition at Swansea Museum continued its excellent record of fund raising for very worthy causes.

Award-winning writer Carol Rumens headlines Poets in the Bookshop at the Dylan Thomas Centre on Thursday, 25 March at 7.30pm.

Fluellen Theatre Company present Vaclav Havel’s Unveiling on Saturday, 20 March at 1pm.

The Dylan Thomas Centre launches Byron Beynon’s latest collection, Nocturne in Blue, on Friday, 19 March at 7pm.

Jen Wilson gives a lunchtime talk on How African American Music Came to Wales, on Friday, 19 March at 1pm.

The Dylan Thomas Centre hosts the launch of an exciting new exchange project, Dylan Thomas in Wales, on Sunday, 14 March at 7pm.

Michael Kelligan’s new season of drama by women writers based in Wales, ‘On the Edge – Deadlier than the Male!’, continues with Lucy Gough’s Gryfhead on Wednesday, 10 March at 7.30pm at the Dylan Thomas Centre.

Fluellen Theatre Company present March by Alberto Adellach on Saturday, 20 February at 1pm.

On Sunday 14 February Swansea Museum has a free Mask making workshop, where families and children can drop in and design and make their own tattooed Maori mask based on Maori facial tattoos to wear and take home.

Swansea’s annual Latin American Festival takes place in the Dylan Thomas Centre on Friday, 12 February and Saturday, 13 February.

Anne Price Owen discusses the work of David Jones at Art for Lunch on Friday, 12 February at 1pm.

Michael Kelligan’s new season of drama from Wales, ‘On the Edge’, opens with Gwenno Dafydd’s Paying the Full Whack on Wednesday, 10 February at 7.30pm at the Dylan Thomas Centre.

Two recent graduates of the Trinity College Carmarthen MA in Creative Writing launch their first books in tandem on Thursday, 4 February at 7pm.

Swansea is getting ready to raise the roof off the city with a great selection of bands and artists for the St David’s Week Festival, Wales’ only week long celebration of our Patron Saint.

David Greenslade launches The Dark Fairground at Poets in the Bookshop on Thursday, 28 January at 7.30pm.

A GROUP of top American academics was given a treat at Swansea's Dylan Thomas Centre during a visit to the UK.

David Benton, Professor of Psychology at Swansea University, discusses ‘Diet and Behaviour Throughout Life’ at this month’s Science Café on Wednesday, 27 January at 7.30pm.

IT was one of the darkest times in Swansea's history but people who experienced the Blitz are being asked to share their memories.

Mel Kohlke of Swansea University runs a free Holocaust Memorial Reading Workshop at the Dylan Thomas Centre on Saturday, 23 January from 10am to 4pm.

Artist Cherry Pickles discusses her work at this month’s ‘Art for Lunch’ session on Friday, January 15th at 1pm.