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7.30pm, Chapter, every Thursday



In June 2014, Chapter Arts Centre is hosting a new International Performance Festival, directed by James Tyson (Intangible Studio). The festival will provide an opportunity to engage with artists whose works in some way extend notions of the possibilities of art, as developed from a sense of place, social change or community. From February, James will lead a weekly workshop/discussion/study…

Film Team tour MOSTYN's Return Journey on their first night at the Cylch project with Tomos Jones, Programme Co-Ordinator for Young People at MOSTYN Llandudno 

Cylch participants with Allie from …

The Romani Cultural & Arts Company has received £84,700 from Heritage Lottery Fund for an exciting new project, Family Lines, Family Trails, in South Wales. Thanks to this second grant from the HLF, Isaac Blake and The Romani Cultural & Arts Company are able to continue their excellent work charting the stories and heritage of some prominent Gypsy and…

I just wanted write a blog about some very exciting news! 

Table#21 Productions has launched! We are a new and exciting, multi-media production company, looking to tell stories in new and imaginative ways by tackling difficult, tricky and unexplored subjects that test human behaviour and response.  We are drawn towards real stories – sometimes biographical, always honest and truthful.

The company is the brainchild of Welsh actor …

Last year I had a brilliant time working on the Summercamp in Anglesey. It served not only as an introduction to the Company (I joined NTW only 4 weeks beforehand) but also to WalesLab, Matt Ball, and the wonderful and intriguing artists we took away with us. It was also a very long overdue re-introduction to the Isle of Anglesey. Some very fond memories!

Over the past few months i've been thinking hard about Summercamp 2014; what changes we might want to make to the structure of the…

Here's an interesting initiative from James Tyson:

International-Peformance-Festival-Cardiff-Workshop-Group

7.30pm, Chapter, every Thursday till June

In June 2014, James Tyson (Intangible Studio) is directing a new International Performance Festival in Cardiff, at Chapter Arts Centre and around the city. The festival will provide an opportunity to engage with artists whose works…

So here we are in west Wales and occasionally there is the strange sound of a lawn mower above your head. What? !    Who’s trimming the clouds today? Ahh it’s another DRONE test. A few months ago one fell out of the sky and landed in a field  “NOT IN MY BACK YARD” But of course this is not just a N I M B Y subject, drones could get everywhere. We need the space for our community to creatively discuss this controversial subject and share different views.

Is it just a distraction that…

The Great Outdoors Expedition - call for outdoor art commissions

Deadline coming up this Friday 21^st Feb. For full details visit here.

Articulture has come together with the Wye Valley River Festival, the National Eisteddfod and Pontio Arts & Innovation…

Film Team's Addie, Adam & Euan have a Skype intro to the Cylch project with MOSTYN's Tomos Jones.

Cylch/Circuit is a PlusTate initiative currently running at Mostyn contemporary art gallery for 15-25 year olds -

for more…

Thrilled that the next Producers Place meeting, we are joined by Nick Sherrard provoking us to think about audiences: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/producers-place-with-nick-sherrard-tickets-10628749877

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xeIuvjLAtA

Have your say on where the next Assembly should be and what the subject should be.

We have shortlisted three brilliant ideas for Assembly and the voting opened yesterday, running through until 3rd March.

Go to www.nationaltheatrewales.org/assembly…

Catherine Dyson will be working at the Park and Dare Theatre all next week (24th - 28th Feb) on her WalesLab project - 'Slideshow'. Have a look at her blog post to get a sense of the themes Catherine will be working with.

We will be having a sharing of her work on Thu…

On Wednesday the 12^th of February I went along to experience performance storytelling at Chapter Arts Canton, Cardiff. This was an art form I hadn’t experienced before, by the trio; Tree of Leaf and Flame. The stories in store for us that evening involved classic Welsh folktales from The Mabinogion, a collection of tales passed through generations.

Storyteller Daniel Morden began by gracing our ears in animatedly and…

Review of Manon Lescaut  Opera in Four Acts. 

Welsh National Opera, Wales Millennium Centre Cardiff

Music: Giacomo Puccini

Libretto: Ruggero Leoncavallo, M.Praga, D.Oliva,L.Illica, G.Giacosa and G.Riccordi

After the novel by Abbé Prévost

Director: Mariusz Trelinski

Conductor: Lothar Koenigs

Reviewer:…

The Perfect Lesson in Understanding                                …

Very proud to say (and still rather stunned that it's actually real), but, yes, that's us, Acquire Community Choir, performing on Mike Peters latest album… have a listen on 

http://youtu.be/CZakZqn1U6A

And this is what the very fabulous Mike Peters had to say on his website...

Declaration 2014 features an unexpected yet most welcome collaboration with Acquire Choir (a community singing group from…

Looking forward to being in Wales in March for  Waleslab project ''The Ballad of Ivor Jones''- an enquiry into the poignancy of childhood , leaving home, and memory. Nerea Martinez de Lecea and I will be facilitating the making and creating of modern day Fables with children in Treorchy. Encouraging the children to ''converse in images'' using drawing, photography, soundscape…

Hi all, Thursday 20th Feb at 3pm in our offices NTW will be hosting a creative visit by Stewart Laing. So if you'd like to hear more about Stewart and his work please email me gavinporter@nationaltheatrewales.org to let me know that your coming along.

For more info visit http://www.untitledprojects.co.uk/