wales Arts News (United Kingdom)

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

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

Ffilm 2 is the second of three exciting seasons of exhibitions at Glynn Vivian, presenting a wide range of recent film and video in various spaces across the gallery.

Artists and artist groups from Swansea will be gathering at the Glynn Vivian from 1pm this Friday 14 January, as the gallery begins the annual celebrations for Art’s Birthday.

Youngsters aged four to six will get the chance to get creative this January, as the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery begins its new series of free art classes for 2011.

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.

The Glynn Vivian will host another free lunchtime talk this Friday 26 November with arts professionals from Axis, the online resource for contemporary art for Wales and the UK.

EXPERTS from one of the world's top animation companies have visited Swansea to help local schoolchildren contribute to a movie being made next year.

This Friday 19 November, at 1pm, the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery invites Welsh artist Sean Edwards to talk about his new film Maelfa, as the lunchtime series of free events continues.

The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery has commissioned six Welsh artists to consider the past, present and future of the art gallery in a new collaboration, The Book Project.

Journalist and dedicated blogger, Emma Geliot, will be at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery on Friday 5 November, to offer an exclusive and revealing look at the world of art criticism and writing for online audiences.

Children and parents will get a real fright this half term as the Glynn Vivian gets into the Halloween spirit with free art and craft workshops.

Swansea based artist and lecturer of Fine Art at Swansea Metropolitan University, Tim Davies, recently named as the artist representing Wales at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011 will be present at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery on 22 October from 3.30pm.

Catrin Finch has been lined-up to take the stage at the city's Brangwyn Hall on October 12 as part of the Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts.

A two-day craft fair is taking place at Swansea Museum on Saturday and Sunday (August 21 and August 22) complete with quality-made crafts from across the city.

The Dylan Thomas Centre’s programme of summer Saturday Lunchtime Theatre continues on Saturday, 24 August at 1pm, when Fluellen Theatre Company presents One State of Happiness .

News from the month long Cardiff festival, taking place throughout July 2010

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.

Acclaimed Welsh writer Rachel Trezise will be visiting the Glynn Vivian this week, as the art gallery continues with its’ series of free alternative events at the attraction on Alexandra Road.

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.

A GROUP of Gowerton schoolchildren have been transported back to the Second World War with a talk at the city's Glynn Vivian Art Gallery.

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

Youngsters will be given chance to get creative this June, as the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery is planning free art and craft workshops for children of all ages.

Now on at the bigger, better elysium gallery, a huge three floor exhibition featuring 60 artists.

The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery has now launched its free activities programme for May and June to accompany the new exhibitions which opened at the beginning of May.

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.

Acclaimed Welsh author Niall Griffiths will be visiting the Glynn Vivian this spring, to give a one-off talk and book reading as part of the art gallery’s continued series of alternative events, talks and performances.

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.

Welsh singer songwriter Al Lewis will be performing the at the Glynn Vivian this Friday 19 March, as the Art Gallery continues with its series of live music events in the Free:30 Sessions.

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.

There’s plenty to discover and enjoy this spring as the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery launches its new free events programme for March and April.

A Swansea Art Gallery is appealing to the local community this week by organising a series of free events and activities for the half term holidays.

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.

On Friday 19 February at St David’s Hall Cardiff at 7pm and Saturday 20 February at 7.30pm at Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, BBC National Orchestra of Wales will perform two of Tchaikovsky’s famous works.

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

Staff at Swansea's Glynn Vivian Art Gallery have been working with Engage Cymru and mosaic artist Maureen O'Kane to give older people in the community the chance to learn some creative new skills.