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Hay Festival (Hay-on-Wye)
This year’s Hay Festival starts on Thursday 23rd May with a packed programme of literary, arts and music events taking place across the period. In addition, the site will play host to a number of other features including the festival bookshop and the Sky Arts Studio. The full programme is available to view on the festival website. Thursday 23rd May: ‘Relationships with Pictures’, Peter Lord (Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea) Peter Lord will be discussing his new book, published by Parthian, which describes the evolution of his own sense of self from post-War childhood, art college in the 1960s, through the tension between incomers and local people in Wales in the 1970s and 80s and finally through his exploration of the influence they have had in the lives of the artists who created them. Tickets cost £5 (or £3.50 for concessions) and can be booked through the Dylan Thomas Centre website. Plenty of events including workshops, festivals and readings taking place across Wales over the coming week. Download the Writing Wales Weekly e-newsletter to find out more: Friday 17th - Saturday 18th May: Gwyl Pili Pala Festival (Venues across Swansea)
The Gwyl Pili Pala Festival will be held on 17th – 18th May at venues across Swansea. Annie Bell-Davies, Peter Murphy, Rachel Trezise and Horatio Clare are among those taking part in the literary events at the festival which is being held in support of the West Glamorgan Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Ltd. Further information is available through the festival website. Saturday 18th – Sunday 19th May: Fiction Fiesta (Cardiff University) Cardiff University will host the second Fiction Fiesta on Saturday 18th – Sunday 19th May, with a range of writers and academics taking part. Sessions will include translation duels, discussions and readings from a number of Welsh and international writers. Tickets are free but must be booked by emailing [email protected]. Award-winning poet and Aberystwyth Arts Centre writer in residence, Rhian Edwards will be reading poetry from The Universal Doodle of Birds and Clueless Dogs in this special evening event on Wednesday 15th May. Edwards will be joined by Damian Walford Davies who will be reading from his forthcoming poetry collection Judas, as well as from Witch and Suit of Lights. The event starts at 7.45pm in The Studio, Aberystwyth Arts Centre and tickets range from £3.50 to £7.00. Further information can be obtained from the Aberystwyth Arts Centre website.
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To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first performance of Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood, the Dylan Thomas Centre will be hosting a series of events over the coming weekend including a workshop for young writers and a presentation by the Fluellen Theatre Co. on Saturday 11th May at 1pm.
Following on from the success of last year’s event, the Dylan Thomas Centre will also be presenting further extracts from Under Milk Wood on Twitter. This year’s exchange will include a total of 31 separate messages, which will be tweeted between 10am and 4.30pm on Friday 10th May. Follow the play as it unfolds on Twitter through @DTCSwansea or use the hashtag #milkwood to take part in the discussion. The 2013 O’Donnell lecture will be delivered at Cardiff University on Tuesday 7th May by Professor David Austin. This year’s lecture is entitled 'English topography and Welsh Community: Reflections on studying the historic Welsh landscape' and will offer a conscious reflection on the experience of recording and analysing the evidence for the making of the Welsh upland landscape. The lecture, which starts at 5.30pm, is free but booking is required and can be completed online.
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