One of the things that we wanted to make sure of when we set up NTW was that, despite having a very small staff team,  there were roles at the core of the company for people at all stages of their creative lives.  With this in mind two of the first roles we ever appointed at NTW (just after me and Lucy) were our Creative Associates - two year positions at the heart of NTW for theatre practitioners who had a track record of exciting work, but were still at relatively early stages in their…

Here's my TEAM panel intro - at last!

http://youtu.be/FfLfhv3TyeQ

Here's my latest blog about the launch of my Gallery Installation at The National Botanic Garden of Wales today.

Despite the snow 196 people came to view in just 2 hours!! And it's there all week in the lead up to the Live Music and Dance, Film showing and book launch next Saturday 26th January

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Howdy all!

During the big Riots of Rhayader back in October I met Henry Alles from PeerGroup. We decided that I should go out to Netherlands and see what all the fuss was about with PeerGroup and his P.A.I.R...

The P.A.I.R (Portable Artist In Residence) is a pair…

Dai Collage is installed at The National Botanic Garden of Wales ready for the launch of The Dragon Tree next Saturday 26th January ...

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Here's a link to my blog! Today's the day that we're packing up my Installation The Dragon tree to place at The Gallery National Botanic Garden of Wales!!! Ploughing through the snow!!! lol

http://fusioninspire.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/prep-for-installation.html

"Much Madness is Divinest Sense" by Emily Dickinson from OTHNIEL SMITH on Vimeo.

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The CLN have just released their spring programme which includes art courses. The Spring 2013 Launch takes place at St David's Hall, Cardiff on Saturday 26th January 11am to 2pm. There are lots of free talks for you to enjoy, as well as free refreshments and a 10% discount off all course enrolments made on the day!

Art Today - 4 weekly class

Exploring the recent Artes Mundi exhibition held at the National Museum Wales and other contemporary exhibitions…

My first being being in the snow, made me alil snowman. Workshop today is a no go with all the snow falling, still excited

Actors & extras wanted for a short film being produced and shot on location in Pontypridd over several days in February.

Hi, I'm a student filmmaker in my final year at the Atrium, Cardiff. I am producing and directing a Short Film based on a short story called Voices written by myself several years ago. The film has the running title of "The Market". It is a fictional piece, a dark comedy style paranoia film. If your familiar with the films "The…

Molecule: Artists In Residency

There is a space and a place for makers of new theatre/performance /live art and it's in Newport South Wales.

Molecule: Artists In Residency is a new Artists Residency scheme that offers theatre/performance makers and practitioners free space, time, equipment and opinion to help nourish and…

So i arrived into Wales lastnight, yes mega cold!! But being really excited  to workshop with The Valleys Kids and Mess Up The Mess, makes it not as cold as it is! If that makes sense?? LOL! can't wait to see and hear their responses to the "PROVERCATIONS"

A day of lighting the office at National Theatre Wales. 

Some very useful chat with colleagues about the state of Lighting Design in Wales. 

Lighting design is Technique, Taste…

Just got this from the fantastic David Tse (former Artistic Director of Yellow Earth Theatre) and thought I'd share it:

Opening The Door for BEA Theatre Practitioners 

Arts Council England, Equity, SOLT/TMA, CDG and the Young Vic are hosting an Open Space event to address the lack of employment opportunities for British East Asian (BEA) artists in UK theatre. 

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We're delighted to announce today that Lisa Maguire will be NTW's new Executive Producer, starting on April 29 just a few days after Lucy finishes.  Here's the press release:

Lisa Maguire has been named as the new Executive Producer of National Theatre Wales. She will take up the post in April 2013, when Lucy Davies leaves to become Executive Director of the Royal Court Theatre in London.

Lisa joins NTW from leading physical theatre company Frantic Assembly, where she…

Thank you so much to all the creative folk who shared their ideas and work as part of our search for NTW Artist* of the Year 2013.  The entire staff team at NTW spent an epic day exploring and enjoying all of the images, writing, boxes of light, poems, daft ideas, recipes, videos and stories that you sent us.  There are lots of ideas and people that we are going to be following up with over the coming weeks and months, but for now we have managed, with difficulty, to choose a shortlist of…

Remember back in October 2012 when Archbishop Desmond Tutu visited the Temple of Peace in Cardiff? Here is a film of what happened. It was fantastic to film Desmond Tutu and meet him in person! Thank you to Bulldozer Films for the opportunity to film. Filming alongside me was Gavin Owen. For Royal Commonwealth Society of Wales.…

Hi my name is Dan and am intrested in getting involved, I have intrest in drama, creative writing, politics and general media, I would like to create a shop in Newport that is an ideas shop where you can have debates, tlak though isues and matters of the day with hopefully a postive feed back we can acives this.

please text to my in box if you are intereted in working with me Ill be in touch.

The Forge is back!

After the success of our first night back in November, we are running our second event of The Forge this coming Thursday 17th January, in Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff. 

The Forge starts at 7.30pm and is £3 pay-on-the-door. …