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.

TAKING a free dip during the Christmas holidays sounds like something only the Aussies would get to enjoy in the waters off Bondi Beach.

Innovation is key to the Success of this project. Crimson Consultants have been helping University College Falmouth take giant steps to deliver exciting and sustainable growth in student numbers.

Motaquote are pleased to announce the re-opening of their Swansea branch, along with a new customer referral scheme.

Families can enjoy an afternoon of film fun when the popular teen sensation High School Musical 3 comes to Swansea's Big Screen

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.

Be part of the celebrations at Swansea as the city celebrates the Olympic Year

Swansea based artist Fern Thomas has been invited to show her video work Divination (Near Qi Ming Temple, Xiamen), 2011 at The Curator's Egg, Altera Pars, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London.

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.

Channel 4's Location Location Location presenter Phil Spencer will be offering property advice at Taylor Wimpey's latest Welsh development in Swansea named Bryn Newydd this Saturday, 4th February between 11am and 4pm.

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.

The landmark Vetch field in Sandfields, at the heart of Swansea city centre, has been transformed into an urban utopia, as part of a socially engaged artwork created in association with the Wales Cultural Olympiad projects.

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

All the matches from the 2012 RBS 6 Nations rugby tournament will be screened on Swansea's Big Screen in the city centre

SWIMMERS in Swansea will be making a splash for charity this spring as they complete the Swimathon 2012 challenge - a series of 2.5km and 5km distance challenges for Marie Cure Cancer Care and the Big Splash Mile raising money for Sport Relief.

This weekend, artists in Swansea will be coming together to celebrate the 1,000,049th international anniversary of Art’s Birthday.

The extraordinary tale of one of the world’s most famous polar expeditions is to be explored at a special talk at Swansea Museum on 19 January.

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.

Ice skate at Waterfront Winterland in Swansea right up until 8 January 2012! Swansea’s biggest festive attraction is open for fun until Sunday, 8 January at 10pm.

Jack and the Beanstalk, this winter’s pantomime at Penyrheol Theatre, will be a glittering family show full of beans. Presented by the Friendship Theatre Group, the show runs on selected days from Thursday 12th to Saturday 21st January 2012.

DONKEYS will join the scorpions, snakes and iguanas for a festive party at Plantasia this weekend.

Entries are open for the 2012 Terry Hetherington Young Writers Award, worth £1,000.

Santa is still in Swansea but you do need to hurry down to his Grotto at Waterfront Winterland by 23 December for a visit he leaves with his elves for their busiest day of the year!

A NEW documentary capturing personal memories of one of the darkest times in Swansea’s history is about to have its premiere.

TAKING a free dip during the Christmas holidays sounds like something only the Aussies would get to enjoy in the waters off Bondi Beach.

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.

December has arrived! Head down to Waterfront Winterland this weekend and beyond and get into the festive spirit as the Swansea Christmas countdown begins!

A small but significant piece of history was made this week when Swansea admitted its first women hereditary freemen.

West Glamorgan Archive Service is selling a variety of unique Christmas cards featuring familiar views of Swansea, Neath and Port Talbot from bygone eras.

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.

A SERIES of road closures will be in place this weekend to accommodate the annual Christmas Parade and festive lights switch-on.

A SWANSEA gallery expert who’s made art more accessible to thousands of people across South Wales has been named one of the UK’s top art educators.

Innovation is key to the Success of this project. Crimson Consultants have been helping University College Falmouth take giant steps to deliver exciting and sustainable growth in student numbers.

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

With the successful ‘Sparks in the Dark’ fireworks display at St Helen’s over for another year, the public’s attention has now turned towards the Christmas countdown.

Although the Dylan Thomas Festival ends on 9th November, there’s still plenty to look forward to at the Dylan Thomas Centre.

The relationship between Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas is to be explored in an evening of talks and music on Friday 4 November at 7.30pm at the Dylan Thomas Centre.

ART fans across the city can browse thousands of the Glynn Vivian’s paintings, sculptures and ceramics with the click of a mouse at Swansea Civic Centre.

There will be a number of road closures in effect on Friday 4 November coinciding with the Sparks in the Dark fireworks display at St Helen’s Rugby Ground, Swansea.

Two of Swansea’s finest writers Joe Dunthorne and Sarah Coles are taking part in this year’s Dylan Thomas Festival.

Entertainment has been announced for Swansea's Sparks in the Dark fireworks display 2011

A large audience packed into the Dylan Thomas Centre for the launch of the Dylan Thomas Festival on Thursday.

It’s not just Santa’s Elves who will be busy over the next few weeks. Community groups from across Swansea are also working hard as they prepare to unveil their themed floats at this year’s Christmas Parade.

HE’S one of the world’s most famous artists ever and now a photographic exhibition dedicated to his life is about to be unveiled in Swansea.

For the first time ever Swansea's annual Sparks in the Dark fireworks display will take place on Friday 4 November.