Wales Arts Review Critics Roundtable
Event Details
Time: November 17, 2012 all day
Location: Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
Event Type: discussion, public debate
Organized By: Dylan Moore and Gary Raymond
Latest Activity: Oct 18, 2012
Event Description
On November 17th 2012, Wales Arts Review will launch its new website, ushering in a new and exciting era for arts criticism. To mark this occasion we are hosting the first of our annual Critics Roundtable events at the fabulous Richard Burton Theatre in the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff. The new Wales Arts Review website. Our new site will be the culmination of months of consultation, development and design to create the most cutting edge arts hub anywhere on the net, ushering in a new age in how arts criticism is delivered. Wales Arts Review will become a state-of-art multi-media digital publication, and it will be the only place to visit for the best arts coverage in Wales and beyond. The Roundtable. To mark the launch, Wales Arts Review will be hosting a series of live panel debates throughout the afternoon chaired by our editors. Topics up for discussion will include ‘Theatre and Truth’, ‘High Art versus Popular Culture’, and, in a nod to the man who gave his name to our host venue, ‘Richard Burton and the Myth of the Celtic Firebrand.’ Panellists include Guardian theatre critic Lyn Gardner, National Theatre Wales director John McGrath, legendary arts journalist Linda Christmas, writer and broadcaster Jon Gower, novelist Niall Griffiths, ITV political editor Adrian Masters, arts critic Jasper Rees, and members of the Wales Arts Review team. More names will be announced in the upcoming weeks. The Roundtable is free to attend, but you will need to register via our website. Details of how to do this, along with more information about the content and format Not only will the Roundtable see the launch of the site and promise some exhilarating debate between some of the leading figures in arts journalism, but it will also be an opportunity to meet members of the Wales Arts Review team and, more importantly, be a chance for us to meet you, our readers. It’s going to be a great day and we look forward to your company. In the next few weeks more information will follow as Wales Arts Review's Roundtable takes shape, with new announcements and exciting news. Please be sure to pass on the news to anyone you feel would be interested in coming along. |
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Comment by Dylan Moore on October 18, 2012 at 8:26
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Thanks for the good wishes, Mike. I'd ask you to reconsider your views, possibly by coming along! It might be a good opportunity to explore some of the issues you've raised: who would you say are the 'well-known arts journalists and critics from [Wales]'? One of the reasons for Wales Arts Review's existence is to try to raise the profile of such people. As you rightly say yourself 'coverage by external media is virtually non existent'; we need more critics in Wales - the visiting critics with a UK profile will only inspire those such as myself (and the many, many new critics to whom WAR has given a platform these last six months). On your point that 'sadly so few people read WAR', you are mistaken: 2500 regular readers each month is pretty respectable for a site in its infancy. And the 'working arts journalists from Wales' aren;t highlighted above perhaps because of modesty: that's us!
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Comment by Mike Smith on September 20, 2012 at 3:08
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I cannot see the relevance of this event with no well-known arts journalists and critics from the nation hosting the event (yes, a couple of former journalists I see). Sadly so few people read Wales Arts Review it is a well-meaning but peripheral event compared with the arts coverage in the mainstream media in Wales. Coverage by external media is virtually non existant, apart from a few obvious NTW and WNO pieces from the usual suspects. But good luck for an event that clearly means well. I would suggest inviting someworking arts journalists from Wales.
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