What’s On

Writing and Printmaking Workshop: Foliage - Evening workshop for 4 weeks with Sarah Jackman and Kara Seaman. Building on a long and successful tradition of combining text with printmaking, novelist Sarah Jackman and Kara Seaman, an experienced and popular Swansea-based printmaker, work together to lead a series of nature inspired workshops. Each workshop is ideal for beginners as well as more experienced printmakers who wish to explore the possibility of a larger text and image project. Participants will build a close relationship between the two art forms around the theme to produce a small number of original prints. Participants of this third writing and printmaking course will discuss examples in visual arts and literature which take Plants as their inspiration or focus. Encouraged to produce a piece of their own text alongside photographic images and flat objects such as stems and leaves and dried flowers using the cyanotype technique. Cost: Full member: £55 Ordinary Member: £60 Non-member: £70. From 6.00 pm to 8.15 pm, workshops take place at Swansea Print Workshop, 19a Clarence Street, Swansea. SA1 3QR. Please contact Sarah for further details or to book on: sarah_jackman@hotmail.com or phone 07941 432 883. For further details go to: www.swanseaprintworkshop.org.uk

Pembrokeshire Libraries: Local studies workshops with Phil Carradice focusing on stories about the history of Haverfordwest. Haverfordwest Library, all day. For more information contact George Edwards at george.edwards@pembrokeshire.gov.uk. Supported by Academi (contact 029 2047 2266 for information on funding for events).

Neath Port Talbot Libraries: Discussion and talk with Sarah Jackman on her writing. 6.30 pm at Briton Ferry Library. Tickets £1.50. For further information contact Paul Doyle at p.a.doyle@npt.gov.uk or on 01639 860000. Supported by Academi (contact 029 2047 2266 for information on funding for events).

Gomer Press: The launch of Not Quite White by Simon Thirsk, 7.00 pm at the Queens Hall Gallery, Narberth. For details contact Lowri Walters on lowriwalters@gomer.co.uk

Poets At the Castle: Writing poetry with Paul Henry. 1 pm - 5 pm at Subud Hall, Brecon. Tickets cost £15. For further information contact Amanda Lloyd at epona66@hotmail.com or by telephoning 07984 859905. Supported by Academi (contact 029 2047 2266 for information on funding for events).

Pontardawe Arts Centre: Pomes penyeach session with Patrick Jones. Evening event. For further information contact Angie Dickinson on 01792 860355 or visit www.npt.gov.uk/theatres. Supported by Academi (contact 029 2047 2266 for information on funding for events).

Academi Literary Bus Tours 2010: Lynette Roberts in Carmarthenshire. Departure point: National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. Departure time 7.30 am. Ticket price: £45.00 per person / per tour Or £42.00 per person / per tour for Academi Members & Associates. Fee includes tea/coffee, lunch, coach travel and lectures/talks. No other discounts are available. To book or for more information contact Academi on 029 2047 2266 / post@academi.org

Caffe Vista: An evening of poetry and music. Join Tenby-born performance poet Simone Mansell Broome and guitarists Richard Ellin and Paul Uden for an evening of verbal and musical entertainment. 7.30 pm at Caffe Vista, Tenby, Pembrokeshire.Tickets £6.00. For more information please visit the Tenby Arts Festival website at http://www.tenbyartsfest.co.uk. Supported by Academi.

Neath Port Talbot Libraries: Talk by Mavis Nicholson on her book What Did You Do in the War Mummy? (Pimlico, 1996). 6.30 pm at Neath Library. Tickets £1.50. For further information contact Paul Doyle at p.a.doyle@npt.gov.uk or on 01639 860000. Supported by Academi (contact 029 2047 2266 for information on funding for events).

Neath Port Talbot Libraries: Meet the author talk with Bernard Knight, alongside presentation of Summer Reading Challenge for children 2010. Free entry. 2 pm at Blaengwynfi Library. For further information contact Paul Doyle at p.a.doyle@npt.gov.uk or ring 01639 860000. Supported by Academi (contact 029 2047 2266 for information on funding for events).

Academi: Annual General Meeting 2010. This year’s meeting will be held at The Castle Hotel, Merthyr Tydfil at 2.00 pm. For further details contact Academi on 029 2047226.

The Collective: An evening with Frances Presley, Richard Gwyn and Patrick McGuiness, 8.00 pm at the Hen and Chicks, Abergavenny. For further details contact Ric Hool on richardhool05@aol.com   Supported by Academi (contact 029 2047 2266 for information on funding for events).

National Library of Wales: An evening with Owen Sheers. 7.30 pm at The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. For more information contact Cyril Evans at cye@llgc.org.uk. Supported by Academi (contact 029 2047 2266 for information on funding for events).

Ceridwen Centre:  Centre for the Spoken Word presents ‘Still Kicking’, a hotpotch of humour, histories and hormones written and performed by Jo Bousfield and Marcus Moore. 7.30 pm at The Old Dairy, Ceridwen, Drefach-Felindre, Carmarthenshire. Adult content. Tickets £6 from www.ceridwencentre.co.uk / 01559 370517.

Community of St. David: Poetry workshop and talk with literature lecturer Chris Hall. 10 am - 12 am at Courthouse, 20 Cross Square, St. Davids, Pembrokeshire, SA62 6SE. For further information contact Deborah Kearsley-Evans at courthousestdavids@googlemail.com or 01437 720811. Supported by Academi (contact 029 2047 2266 for information on funding for events).

The Dylan Thomas Centre: Paul Henry reads from his new book, The Brittle Sea: New & Selected Poems, at The Dylan Thomas Centre Swansea. Further details from Jo Furber: tel: 01792 463980.

The Collective: With Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch and Lyndon Davies, 8.00 pm at the Hen and Chicks, Abergavenny. For further details contact Ric Hool on richardhool05@aol.com  Supported by Academi (contact 029 2047 2266 for information on funding for events).

Wyeside Arts Centre: National Poet Gillian Clarke and Paul Henry read from their latest collections, at Wyeside Arts Centre, Builth Wells. Event details and tickets from the Wyeside box office, phone 01982 552 555.

Academi Writer’s Retreat: The 2010 weekend retreat will be tutored by Deborah Kay Davies, who won the 2009 Wales Book of The Year with her collection of short stories Grace, Tamar and Lazlo the Beautiful (Parthian). The residential weekend will take place at Clynfyw Cottages nr Abercych in Pembrokeshire. Cost: £125.00 for a single room or £85.00 / £75.00 (Academi Members and Associates) for a twin room. Places are limited, book early to avoid disappointment. To book your place or for further information contact Academi: 029 2047 2266 / post@academi.org

Pontardawe Arts Centre: Pomes penyeach session with David Greenslade. Evening event. For further information contact Angie Dickinson on 01792 860355 or visit www.npt.gov.uk/theatres. Supported by Academi (contact 029 2047 2266 for information on funding for events).

National Library of Wales: 'Wales on the Map' with the travel author Mike Parker. 7.30 pm at Drwm, The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. For more information contact Cyril Evans at cye@llgc.org.uk. Supported by Academi (contact 029 2047 2266 for information on funding for events).

Pontardawe Arts Centre: Pomes penyeach session with Ann Drysdale. Evening event. For further information contact Angie Dickinson on 01792 860355 or visit www.npt.gov.uk/theatres. Supported by Academi (contact 029 2047 2266 for information on funding for events).

Agora: Lecture on the Encyclopedia of Wales by Nigel Jenkins. 10 am - 12 am at the Scout & Guides HQ, Bryn Road, Brynmill, Swansea. For further details contact Dr J.A. Galloway at jimgalloway@clara.co.uk or 01792 774832. Supported by Academi (contact 029 2047 2266 for information on funding for events).