A Virtual Festival The Corona virus pandemic has frustrated plans for most live music events and the need to find alternatives has been a priority. The wall2wall Jazz Festival, promoted by Abergavenny’s Black Mountain Jazz, has been no exception and this year it will be a ‘virtual’ event. There are different ways of producing a ‘virtual’ music event.  Their approach has been to to record the programme live in The Melville Theatre during the summer months and then – keeping to the planned October festival dates – we will stream the resulting videos. To find out more about the [...]

The Melville Centre hosts the Blodeuo Project The Melville Centre hosts the Blodeuo Project which came together in Autumn 2018. The Arts Council of Wales kindly sponsored a  period of action research  in which over 20 individuals participated on a weekly basis in  our studio theatre. A diverse ability drama group took shape and further Arts Council of Wales funding, with  committed local support and  four excellent  facilitators, has  enabled  good work to proceed. The Project takes its name from the drama group’s first performance which told the ancient Welsh story of Blodeuwedd. Somewhere near Castell Mur, overlooking Trawsfynydd, [...]