I've been seeking out different people to meet to talk with about the weather each time I'm on a research trip. This month I'm meeting a couple who used to work for the Met Office. This is the email I got back in reply to my request to meet:
"We will happy to meet you on Saturday 30th of January at home, if you’re willing to make the effort to come here. After 3 weeks of drifting snow, the minor road from Marchlyn to Dinorwic past our house (Garreg Wen ) has just been dug out by…Continue
Here I am, my third day as TEAM Coordinator at National Theatre Wales. I've sat in on auditions, had my first team meeting, learnt about communications and been taken out to lunch. Already feeling like I’ve been here for a while!
Theatr Cynefin is a Sensory Labyrinth Theatre company.
They are coming to visit National Theatre Wales to talk about their work on WEDNESDAY 27th JANUARY. The session will last 2.00pm - 4.00pm in our offices at 30 Castle Arcade, Cardiff.
Theatr Cynefin describe themselves as making "a kind of theatre which employs all the senses and which is performed in purpose built labyrinths with and for communities.
Hello, I took a break from re-drafting A Good Night in the Valleys: Go As You Please to go to the panto at Blaengarw Institute tonight and it was brilliant. It was glorious and truly bonkers. It’s the first time I’ve seen a blow up doll, George W Bush and Mother Earth in a panto and it contained a hilarious version of Flash Dance. It was Jack and the Beanstalk, by the way, and me and intern Hannah stayed to do the World In Union dance at the end. Will blog a bit more about the first draft and… Continue
Added by Alan Harris on January 14, 2010 at 12:49 —
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Another passionate, humorous, and intensely human play for children and their families, Scarecrow is a brand new production written for Theatr Powys by Chris Cooper.
Coming to South Wales:
Cardiff, Llanover Hall on Tuesday 26th January
and
Ystradgynlais, The Welfare, Thursday 4th February www.theatrpowys.co.uk for more information and full schedule.
Added by Ian Yeoman on January 14, 2010 at 2:46 —
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"ARE SHOPS TOO ARCHAIC A CONCEPT TO SURVIVE THE NEXT DECADE?"
Come and join us next Wednesday at Troutmark bookshop, Funky Monkey Feet and City Surf shop- all in Castle Arcade- to discuss the future of shops at this time of internet shopping and Cardiff city regeneration.
Our experts Jennie Savage, artist and author of the Museum of… Continue
Added by Mathilde Lopez on January 13, 2010 at 7:30 —
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Hello! Just to let people know I've a short play on in London if anyone fancies making it along. Link with all the info's here: http://www.totalbeast.co.uk/sixminute.html. Lisa.
Forest Fringe began in Edinburgh as a space where artists could experiment and play in the midst of the festival. In only three years we’ve created one of the most exciting spaces at the festival, filled with new artistic experiments and unusual encounters, everything from intimate, hidden audio experiences to epic rambling folk operas. Just as importantly Forest Fringe has become a… Continue
Happy New Year and I would like to flag up the training opportunities for programmers and producers offered by SPACE -Supporting Performing Arts Circulation in Europe-
This new organisation is a Pilot Project for Artist Mobility dedicated to Support the Performing Arts Circulation in Europe.
Its objective is to give priority to the mobility… Continue
Added by Mathilde Lopez on January 5, 2010 at 5:30 —
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Porthmadog, on The Cob, looking towards the mountains.
The arrival of the sky.
The whole sky (the clouds, the light, the mist, the breaks where the blue shows through) moving inland. What are clouds to begin with become ground mist as they reach high ground. Haze clouds hang still over the low tree covered slopes. The sky is mirrored in the marsh water.
The arrival of the sky. The arrival of later’s…Continue
Added by David Harradine on January 4, 2010 at 8:30 —
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Let your voice be heard!
Welsh National Opera is looking for over 100 enthusiastic singers to form a community choir to perform in an exciting new performance project, Shelf Life.
The community choir will work alongside Volcano Theatre and National Theatre Wales in a performance project that will take over the evocative domed reading room of Swansea’s Old Library.
Tracing music back to it roots, and exploring the… Continue
The Classical Education Forum, Cardiff, has just released its 2010 Spring prospectus of weekly courses, saturday schools and trips. As part of this programme we are planning a trip to Aeschylus’ The Persians, Brecon: National Theatre Wales.