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SUMMARY:Who were the worst "Bad Guys" in Welsh History
DESCRIPTION:TV history expert and author Graham Loveluck-Edwards is touring venues across Wales to bring you stories about the worst bad guys from Welsh history. Tales of pirates\, highwaymen\, tyrants and murderers. Including ancient folk songs to demonstrate all the different ways we get our history. \nAudiences who have seen this tour to date have given it rave reviews. Performances throughout West Wales\, Mid Wales and the Border Counties. Tickets for adults £12\, children under 12 go free. \nFor all information\, and to buy tickets\, click the link below 👇  \nhttps://grahamloveluckedwards.com/etn/who-were-the-worst-bad-guys-in-welsh-history-live-in-the-melville-theatre-abergavenny-friday-27th-march-2026-at-7pm/ \n 
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/who-were-the-worst-bad-guys-in-welsh-history/
LOCATION:The Melville Theatre\, The Melville Centre\, Pen-y-Pound\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5UD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:storytelling,talks
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SUMMARY:ReVibe Fest - ReLaunch\, ReFresh\, ReVive
DESCRIPTION:Program of events & activities:\nFRIDAY 13th JUNE \n6.30pm – Poetry Cafe – Open mic with Ric Hool – (Free Entry) \n6.30pm – Youth Circus Cabaret @ Dance Blast – Monmouthshire Youth Circus Company will amaze you with their skills in this cabaret of circus.With Trapeze\, Hoop\, Rope and  Silks in the air and acro on the ground\, there will be something for everyone. https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/danceblast/t-lnqnvop \n8.30pm – Gin & Karaoke Cafe – Feel like a star on our mini stage: Fun 4 all \n9.15pm – Bliss out with the Harp by Josie Felce. A late session relaxing with improvised sounds on the 34 string folk harp.  Please bring a mat or blanket to lie on to make yourself comfortable.  This aims to really relax you\, taking you to the ‘island of the self’ within you. (Donations accepted for Entry/Participation) \n10pm – Fire Side Fables – Stories around the camp fire (Bring along your marshmallows\, a stick and a scary story) \n  \nSATURDAY 14th JUNE \n\nDance Blast’s Aerial Rig (Give it a Go) and Aerial Demonstrations from 11am to 5pm.\n\n11am – Mad Hatter fun\, games and activities – Aimed for children under eight\, but fun for all the mad amongst us… (Free Entrance) \n11am – Creative Drop in: Join us for a relaxed\, creative drop-in session where we’ll co-create a large\, shared artwork that explores the question: What do the arts mean to you? This is a space for everyone — all ages and abilities — to take part in a collaborative drawing. You can doodle\, write words\, add colour\, draw memories\, symbols\, or simple marks. Whether the arts have inspired\, comforted\, challenged\, or connected you\, this is your chance to express it visually – together with others. \n\nNo art skills required — just bring your curiosity and imagination. 🎨 Materials will be provided. 🤝 Come for five minutes or stay for the full two hours — your contribution matters. \n\n12pm – Stories to change your life (Theatre) by Josie Felce. Open to all ages. Come and hear stories that will amaze and surprise you!  In stories you can find the way to sort out your challenges in life\, meet kindred spirits\, realise that everything is possible if you are inspired.   (Donations accepted for Entry/ Participation) \n2pm – Family Dance Session – A family dance session for parents and their under 5’s. Come and have fun\, moving together. Led by Dance Blast’s wonderful Zoe 🙂\nThis session is under the tent on the front lawn of The Melville Centre  – Saturday June 14th at 2pm. The session is free. However numbers are limited so please book ahead to guarantee a place. https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/danceblast/t-vvrxxpn \n2pm – Textile Rosettes Workshops with Emma Bevan: Celebrating special moments – Join Emma Bevan for an enjoyable and relaxed workshop\, making your own ‘rosette-brooch’\, inspired by The Community Shawl and using pre-loved and recycled fabrics. This is a free workshop; donations welcome towards materials.\nWe will use needle-felting and/or sewing to create your own rosette\, with the intention of commemorating an achievement or celebration of your own\, or of a woman you admire\, such as a family member\, a friend\, or a public figure\, for example. No prior experience or skills are required\, and the workshops are suitable for anyone aged 14 years old (all minors are to be accompanied by an adult). The maximum number for the workshop is 8 participants. You will have the fabulous opportunity to also view The Community Shawl in person\, and find out more about its history. The workshop will run for 2 hours\, from 2pm to 4pm. You are very welcome to bring a favourite button\, shell or other treasured object\, including a scrap of fabric\, to include in your rosette. We will take some photos of your creations at the end\, and then you can take home your rosette\, to wear\, to display\, or to gift to someone you love. To book\, please email Emma at communityshawlproject@gmail.com \n3pm – Rock Choir on the lawn – Rock Choir Abergavenny\, Monmouth\, Chepstow and Newport (led by Karl Montgomery-Williams) is a contemporary choir experience with no auditions and no sheet music requirement. We focus on fun\, friendship and community. We aim to create a life affirming experience for our members\, fostering a sense of belonging and confidence through singing. Our Abergavenny choir meet at The Priory Centre every Wednesday. \n4pm – Suitcase Showcase – Enjoy scenes from our latest productions and get the inside scoop on Suitcase Theatre – how we work and why we love it\, and why we think theatre is for everyone. (Free Entrance) www.suitcasetheatrecompany.com \n5pm – “Film & discussion – “Dawn” – Tickets £5 https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/revibe-fest-dawn/ \n6pm – Story Slam Cafe – With Andy North – The Monmouth Story Slam is inspired by the long running ‘Moth Hour’ (https://themoth.org/) broadcast across the US and UK on public Radio. And also by our friends in Boston\, Massachusetts who founded the Story Slam in the City of Newton and regularly attract an audience in the hundreds. \n\nVolunteers from the audience share true stories about themselves\, their friends\, families (pretty much anything) that can be funny\, uplifting\, sad or touching.\n\n\nOften you will find that a story inspires you to tell your own and you can submit your name at any point in the evening.\n\n\nThe rules are….\n\n\nYou get FIVE minutes (and no more)\n\n\nNotes are allowed (but it’s much better without)\n\n\nEnjoy yourself (The great thing about story telling is that the crowd will ALWAYS be with you)\n\n7.30pm – Albino Frogs (Funk) – Be prepared for Funky Grooves – Tickets £8 https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/albino-frogs-are-back/ \n7.30pm – Space to Dance – with Keef Wesolowski-Miles aka Hummingbird Dreamer.  Eclectic music\, partly guided\, sober space to dance\, connect and awaken the wild dancer in you. Liberating structures designed for freedom and unity. From 7:30PM to 10:00PM  – £14 in advance / £20 on the door https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/danceblast/t-rpmpxjx \n10pm – Fire Labyrinth – Face your fears and Face the Fire! Hummadruz\, Theatr Uwchfioled Cymru\, are known throughout the Festival scene for their Ultraviolet Fire shows and Labyrinths. Combining UV and Fire spectacle and circus with the finest DJ mixed soundtrack\, this half hour show is an exhilirating experience as our performers do death-defying tricks and light our fire labyrinth. Everyone is then invited to walk\, dance and party through the labyrinth! Great music and great vibes! Suitable for ages 7 and above (under 16’s must be accompanied by a responsible adult) All tickets: £5 https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/hummadruz-uv-fire-labyrinth/ \n  \nSUNDAY 15th JUNE \n10:30am – Creative/Contemporary dance class for Adults & Teens @ Dance Blast. This is an open\, creative class for all abilities\, Led by Fran. Participation is Free… Reserve your space at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/danceblast/t-jzozqxp \n11am –  Soundings – Acoustic music on the lawn (Free Entrance) \n12pm – An introduction to Flamenco (Workshop) – Bring along your shoes and skirts and enjoy some Flamenco time. \n1pm – Cinders Lost their Dance Shoes (Adults)\, Dance workshop with Joon Dance https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/danceblast/t-krkrozj  \n2pm – Ukelele on the Lawn \n3pm – Cinders Lost their Dance Shoes (11 – 18 yrs)\, Dance workshop with Joon Dance https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/danceblast/t-vvrvepj \n3.30pm – BMJ’s Improv Workshop – This workshop\, which has been specially arranged for the Revibe Fest\, is designed for people of any age who would like to explore playing and improvising jazz. All instruments are welcome – including voice. https://www.blackmountainjazz.co.uk/event-details/playing-and-improvising-jazz-workshop-1 \n6pm – Gin & Karaoke Cafe – Feel like a star on our mini stage: Fun 4 all \n7.30pm – Jazz Pick ‘n’ Mix  Presented by Black Mountain Jazz (Free Entrance) https://www.blackmountainjazz.co.uk/event-details/jazz-pick-n-mix-at-the-revibe-fest \n  \n 
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/revibe-fest/
LOCATION:Monmouthshire
CATEGORIES:childrens events,Dance,Drama,film,Jazz,music,Poetry,storytelling,talks,theatre,workshops
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SUMMARY:METTLE
DESCRIPTION:“Mettle”\nWritten and performed by Nicholas Collett and directed by Gavin Robertson.\nFollowing the performance of “The Ghost Of A Smile”\, award-winning solo performer\nNicholas Collett (British Arrows Best Actor\, Special Performance Award World Duo\nFestival\, Seoul South Korea\, Best Theatre Award Adelaide Fringe 2023) tells the\nstory of his father’s service during the Atlantic Convoys of World War Two. A true\nodyssey\, that takes us from Sheffield to Liverpool to Nova Scotia\, Boston to West\nAfrica and home again\, amidst the constant threat of U-Boat attack and treacherous\nweather. Physical theatre and storytelling\, with a dramatic soundscape and 40’s\nmusic\, this is a tribute to those who served\, those who were lost – and those who\nlived to tell their story.\nIn association with the Daparian Foundation – committed to those on trauma\njourneys\, supporting veterans and blue lights personnel.
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/mettle/
LOCATION:The Melville Theatre\, The Melville Centre\, Pen-y-Pound\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5UD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Drama,storytelling,theatre
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SUMMARY:Grandma's Gingerbread Tale
DESCRIPTION:Think you know the story of the Gingerbread Man? Well think again\, as we bring you a brand new twist on this classic tale. Grandma is busily baking in her kitchen\, when one of her Gingerbread unexpectedly springs to life. After chasing it down\, the pair form an unlikely friendship and work together to outsmart the cunning Mr Fox.\n\nTickets will be available to purchase via our ticket website…\n\nwww.ticketsource.co.uk/loubyloustories
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/grandmas-gingerbread-tale/
LOCATION:The Melville Theatre\, The Melville Centre\, Pen-y-Pound\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5UD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:childrens events,storytelling
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SUMMARY:Daughter of Bala
DESCRIPTION:Daughter of Bala \nby Adele Cordner \n  \nDive into the remarkable tale of Betsi Cadwaladr\, a name lost in the annals of history but not forgotten on the stage! In this gripping new play\, written by Newport playwright Adele Cordner\, witness the extraordinary life of a 19th-century Welsh woman whose adventures spanned continents and whose bravery helped reshape the course of wartime nursing history. \nJoin Her Story Theatre Company as we journey through Betsi’s captivating life story: from her humble beginnings in Wales to her globetrotting escapades in service\, where she encountered fellow Welsh souls in the most unexpected corners of the world. But it was in her sixties\, against all odds\, that Betsi embarked on her most daring venture yet. \nJourney alongside Betsi as she defies conventions and expectations\, setting sail for the Crimean battlefield to heed the call of duty as a nurse. Along the way\, she finds herself at odds with none other than Florence Nightingale herself\, in a clash of wills that reverberates through the corridors of history. \nPrepare to laugh\, cry\, and be swept away as Betsi’s indomitable spirit shines through in every scene. Through a tapestry of flashbacks and poignant interviews with her biographer\, Betsi’s tale unfolds with heart-stopping excitement and tender humanity. \nDon’t miss your chance to experience the triumphs and tribulations of a true trailblazer. Daughter of Bala promises an unforgettable theatrical experience that will leave you inspired and uplifted. \nBook your tickets now and join us on this unforgettable odyssey through the life of a woman whose indomitable\, independent spirit cannot fail to inspire. \n  \nTickets: £15/£12 for under 25s and NHS employees
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/daughter-of-bala/
LOCATION:The Melville Theatre\, The Melville Centre\, Pen-y-Pound\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5UD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:storytelling,theatre
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SUMMARY:Myths\, Scars & Wanderings
DESCRIPTION:Myths Scars and Wanderings  \nThis collection of new work\, explores the themes of Greek Myths\, the Sea\, Human Resilience and Strength. The group have developed this original work together over the past three months\, through an exciting creative process\, facilitated by Liz Pearce. \nJoin us for the group’s performance of their own writing\, poetry and prose  – infused with pathos and humour. \nSaturday 8th June at 7.30. \nTickets £12 (including a printed copy of the work)
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/myths-scars-wanderings/
LOCATION:The Melville Theatre\, The Melville Centre\, Pen-y-Pound\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5UD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Poetry,storytelling
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SUMMARY:POETRY UPSTAIRS
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Upstairs at The Melville Centre for the Arts \n2024 Reading Series \nTuesday  30th April 7pm                                                 £5 Entry \nJohn Barnie                          Simone Mansell Broome           Nigel Jarret \n(Aberystwyth)                       (Carmarthen)                            Abergavenny) \n  \nJohn Barnie was born and raised in Abergavenny. He taught at Copenhagen University (1969-82)\, and was editor of the cultural magazine Planet: The Welsh Internationalist (1990-2006). A poet and essayist\, his latest books are Tsunami Days (essays) and Dunes of Cwm Rheidol (poems). He is also a blues guitarist and has played in a number of bands\, including Y Bechgyn Drwg/The Bad Boys with Twm Morys\, Iwan Llwyd and Nigel Jenkins. \nSimone Mansell Broome is a Welsh-born writer. She studied English with American Studies at Sussex University\, qualified both as a teacher of Speech and Drama and of EFL Simone’s poems have been read on Radio 4\, including BBC’s ‘Poetry Please’\, ITV and Radio Wales. Fifty of Simone’s poems were translated into Romanian in 2020 as part of a Bucharest University M.A. dissertation.   She has published three full collections of poetry. \nNigel Jarrett is the author of eight books. His first poetry collection\, Miners At The Quarry Pool\, was published by Parthian. This year Cockatrice Books published his second poetry collection\, Gwyriad. Nigel Jarrett is a winner of the Rhys Davies Prize for short fiction and the inaugural Templar Shorts Prize. For many years\, he was chief music critic of the South Wales Argus. \nHe reviews poetry for Acumen magazine and also writes for Jazz Journal (a regular column called Count Me In)\, Wales Arts Review. \n 
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/poetry-upstairs-6/
LOCATION:Melville Centre Cafe-Bar\, The Melville Centre\, Pen-y-Pound\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5UD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Poetry,storytelling
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SUMMARY:Telyn Tales
DESCRIPTION:Telyn Tales | Trwy’r Tannau \nTwo friends. Four hands. Telling tales.   \nDwy ffrind. Pedair llaw. Sawl stori.  \nJoin Mair Tomos Ifans\, a well-known storyteller and folk singer\, and Sioned Webb\, an acclaimed performer and harpist\, for a show full of delightful folktales with traditional and original music celebrating the harp in Wales. \nYmunwch a Mair Tomos Ifans\, cyfarwydd â chantores werin adnabyddus\, a Sioned Webb\, perfformiwr a thelynores\, am gyfuniad cyffrous o chwedlau a cherddoriaeth\, draddodiadol a gwreiddiol\, sy’n dathlu’r delyn yng Nghymru.
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/telyn-tales/
LOCATION:The Melville Theatre\, The Melville Centre\, Pen-y-Pound\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5UD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:folk music,music,storytelling
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SUMMARY:Poetry Upstairs
DESCRIPTION:Established Monthly Poetry Session in the Melville bar\, hosted by Ric Hool.  Bringing local and international poets to Abergavenny to celebrate the art of words and the story of our time that is expressed by current poets.  £5\nThis Months Guest Poets:\nThe Annual Chris Torrance Reading\nA celebration of an influential but marginalised poet whose work and extramural teaching class at Cardiff University\, Adventures in Creative Writing\, opened a new consciousness for many aspiring poets. Chris died 21st July 2021.\n\nJanet Sutherland was born in Wiltshire and grew up on a dairy farm\, she is the author of five poetry collections\, most recently The Messenger House (Shearsman Books\, 2023) which is about her great great grandfather’s travels to Serbia in the 1840’s with his friend\, Mr Gutch\, who was a Queen’s Messenger. George Davies\, her great-great-grandfather\, grew up in Crickhowell. Her poems are widely anthologised and are published in magazines such as Poetry Ireland Review\, New Statesman\, The Spectator and The North.  A critical essay on the poet Charles Reznikoff appeared as an afterword to two new editions of his work\, Holocaust\, in the UK (Five Leaves Publishing\, 2009) and USA (Black Sparrow Press\, 2007). She won the 2017 Kent and Sussex Poetry Prize and received a Hawthornden Fellowship for 2018.  She has an MA in American Poetry from the University of Essex. She lives in Lewes\, East Sussex.\nIan Brinton’s most recent publications include Language and Death\, a translation of poems by Philippe Jaccottet (Equipage\, 2022)\, Paul Valéry’s Selected Poems (Muscaliet Press\, 2021\, prefaced by Michael Heller)\, Paris Scenes\, a translation of Baudelaire’s ‘Tableaux Parisiens’\, (Two Rivers Press\, 2021) and Islands of Voices\, the selected poems of Douglas Oliver (Shearsman Books\, 2020). His translation of de Nerval’s Les Chimères will appear from Muscaliet Press in 2023. He reviews for The London Magazine\, PN Review\, Litter\, Long Poem Magazine and Golden Handcuffs Review; he co-edits SNOW and helps curate the Cambridge University Library Archive of Modern Poetry. \nPlease email melvillecentrearts@gmail.com to book your space.
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/poetry-upstairs-5/
LOCATION:Melville Centre Cafe-Bar\, The Melville Centre\, Pen-y-Pound\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5UD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Poetry,storytelling
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SUMMARY:Poetry Upstairs
DESCRIPTION:Established Monthly Poetry Session in the Melville bar\, hosted by Ric Hool.  Bringing local and international poets to Abergavenny to celebrate the art of words and the story of our time that is expressed by current poets.  £5\nThis Months Guest Poets:\n\nRobert Minhinnick is a Welsh poet\, essayist\, novelist and translator. He has won two Forward Prizes for Best Individual Poem and has received the Wales Book of the Year award a record three times (in 1993\, 2006 and 2018).An environmental campaigner\, he co-founded the charities Friends of the Earth (Cymru) and Sustainable Wales. His work deals with both Welsh and international themes. \nHe has published a dozen poetry collections and several volumes of essays. Robert edited the magazine\, Poetry Wales from 1997 until 2008. He has also translated poems from contemporary Welsh poets for an anthology\, The Adulterer’s Tongue. He is also the author of three novels. \n\nChristopher Meredith: In 2014 Shifts was shortlisted for the title of ‘Greatest Welsh Novel of All Time’ by Wales Arts Review\, coming a very close second to the winner. His poetry collection\, The Meaning of Flight\, was long-listed for The Book of the Year Award 2006. His fourth novel\, The Book of Idiots\, was published to acclaim in 2012. A collection of poems\, Air Histories\, was published in 2013. His short story collection\, Brief Lives – six fictions\, appeared in 2018. His latest fiction\, the short novel Please\, and latest poetry collection\, Still\, were published simultaneously in April 2021. \n\nChris has broadcast on radio and TV and given readings and talks all round Britain as well as in the Czech Republic\, Egypt\, Estonia\, France\, Germany\, Finland\, Ireland\, Slovenia and the USA.  Born and brought up in Tredegar and now living in Brecon\, he has been a steelworker\, a schoolteacher and a university professor.\n\n\nLiz Pearce is writer and actor working in theatre\, TV and radio.. She co-founded Rareseed Youth Theatre in 2014 and wrote and directed plays for this company. Written work includes These Foolish Things\, a series of humorous monologues based on people’s significant life changes\, and While the Kettle Boils\, a poetic montage concerning people in the workplace. A nation-wide poetry project\, My Creative Time was commissioned by Creative Lives and Literature Wales. Hydro Psyche (Water Spirit)\, to be exhibited at Aberystwyth Arts Centre in summer 2023\, is a multi-media collaborative project\, using rivers as a central theme.\n\n\n\n\nPlease contact us to register your place\, and then pay on the door as usual. \nTo register\, email info@melvillecentre.org.uk and send your full name/s and telephone contact numbers\, or call The Melville on 01873 853167 \nIt is very helpful to know the number of attendees ahead of the evening in order to provide the correct seating.
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/poetry-upstairs-2/
LOCATION:Melville Centre Cafe-Bar\, The Melville Centre\, Pen-y-Pound\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5UD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:storytelling
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UID:4301-1692126000-1692133200@melvillecentre.org.uk
SUMMARY:Poetry Upstairs
DESCRIPTION:Established Monthly Poetry Session in the Melville bar\, hosted by Ric Hool.  Bringing local and international poets to Abergavenny to celebrate the art of words and the story of our time that is expressed by current poets.  £5\nThis Months Guest Poets:\nPauline Plummer is of Irish/Welsh mix from Liverpool who has lived in the North East England since the 1980s where she became a founding editor of Mudfog Press and a former poet laureate of Middlesbrough.  She has 4 collections of poetry\, most recently ‘Life Pours Ordinary Plenty’ – Red Squirrel Press 2022\, a verse novella ‘From Here to Timbuktu) Smokestack 2012\, a collection of short stories ‘Dancing with a Stranger’ Red squirrel 2011. She has taught creative writing in UK\, Greece\, Sierra Leone and now works with asylum seekers\, teaching English and cooking. \nJosephine Scott was born in Northumberland but spent her childhood in Australia. In When Rain Becomes Memory (her third collection\, following Sparkle and Dance and Rituals) poetry is rooted in matters historical and domestic concerning her coastal place of residence\, whilst also responding and sensually exploring the minutia of daily life.Poems have recently been included in This Cullercoats (Iron Press\, 2019) and poetry magazines throughout Europe and the United Kingdom.  She is a graduate of Northumbria University. \nFrank Olding writes in Welsh\, reads his work in both English and Welsh.  Frank was poet in residence at the Art Exhibition of the National Eisteddfod in Ebbw Vale in 2010 and is a member of the Gorsedd of Bards. He was honoured with an Ovate at the 2011 Eisteddfod in recognition of his services to Wales.                                             Frank Olding’s new collection of poems Eilun\, published by Gwasg y Bwthyn\, is rooted deeply in the magical and suggestive relationships between history and mythology.
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/poetry-upstairs-4/
LOCATION:Monmouthshire
CATEGORIES:Poetry,storytelling
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SUMMARY:An evening with James Roberts discussing his book Two Lights
DESCRIPTION:In association with Book-Ish.  Join us for an evening with James Roberts discussing Two Lights\n \nWednesday 26th July at 7.30 p/m. \nCosts are £5 for admission only\, or £20 with a copy of the book. \n\nAn extraordinary account of searching for the wildness left in our world – spanning continents and geological eras\, skies and oceans\, animals and birds\, and even the planets and stars. With dizzying acuity and insight Roberts paints a portrait of a life and its landscapes\, creating precious connections with wild creatures and places\, from swans in the Cambrian Mountains to wolves in the Pacific Northwest. By walking at dawn and dusk\, in the two lights of awakening and deepening\, through the stripped\, windswept hills of Wales\, and the jungles and savannahs of Africa\, he tries to navigate from a soul-stripping sense of loss towards hope in the future. \nIn the presence of wild creatures he finds a way back to life.
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/an-evening-with-james-roberts-discussing-his-book-two-lights/
LOCATION:Monmouthshire
CATEGORIES:storytelling
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230717T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230918T203000
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SUMMARY:Story Telling Live!
DESCRIPTION:An opportunity for storyteller’s to practice their art.\nThese sessions provide the space to tell traditional myth\, legend and more modern tales in the oral storytelling tradition as well as giving the chance to listen to other storytellers. \n3rd Monday of the month\, 7 – 8:30pm \n£3 with light refreshments\nCall 01873 853167 to book
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/story-telling-live/
LOCATION:Melville Centre Cafe-Bar\, The Melville Centre\, Pen-y-Pound\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5UD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:storytelling
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230712T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230712T213000
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SUMMARY:Shaping the Wild - An Evening with David Elias
DESCRIPTION:In association with Book-Ish – Join us for an evening with David Elias discussing Shaping the Wild\n \nWednesday 12th July at 7.30 pm. \nCosts are £5 for admission only\, or £20 with a copy of the book. \nGET TICKETS HERE \n\nWhat can one Welsh hill farm tell us about how we can help nature to thrive? In recent times\, farming has often been viewed as harmful to nature and the environment\, causing friction between those wanting to protect wildlife and the farmers whose livelihoods depend on upon the land. Conservationists and governments frequently propose well-meaning ideas and policies to enable farming and conservation to work together\, but all-too-often these do not have the intended results. At the heart of this is a lack of understanding about the realities of farming life and managing the land for nature. \nIn this captivating debut\, conservationist David Elias explores a farm in the Snowdonia National Park and unpacks what it shows us about the gritty reality of trying to reconcile hill farming and caring for nature. Visiting through the seasons\, he forms a deep relationship with the land and the people who work it\, coming to understand their particular way of life\, history and concerns about the future. It is also a farm rich in nature and he brings his experienced eye to how its habitats and wildlife have been shaped by changing farming practices over the generations. \nThrough lyrical prose and first-hand conversations with farmers\, Elias also shows what current government policies have achieved – or not achieved – and why it is so important for us to understand what it really takes ensure farming families remain on the land while simultaneously allowing nature to flourish.
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/shaping-the-wild-an-evening-with-david-elias/
LOCATION:Monmouthshire
CATEGORIES:storytelling,talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230704T183000
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UID:4140-1688495400-1688504400@melvillecentre.org.uk
SUMMARY:Poetry Upstairs
DESCRIPTION:Established Monthly Poetry Session in the Melville bar\, hosted by Ric Hool.  Bringing local and international poets to Abergavenny to celebrate the art of words and the story of our time that is expressed by current poets.  £5\nThis Months Guest Poets:\nPeter Hughes lives on the northern margins of Snowdonia where he runs Oystercatcher Press. He also teaches\, and has been Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Poetry at Cambridge University. Shearsman published Peter’s Selected Poems alongside a volume entitled ‘An intuition of the particular’: some essays on the poetry of Peter Hughes. His other poetry publications include innovative versions of Petrarch\, Cavalcanti and Leopardi. His most recent books are A Berlin Entrainment (Shearsman)\, and Arrangements (Aquifer)\, a collaboration with Eléna Rivera. \nLesley Burt lives in Christchurch\, Dorset. Her poetry has been published in magazines such as Tears in the Fence\, Prole\, Sentinel Literary Quarterly and Dreich\, and online\, including by The Poetry Shed\, The High Window\, The Blue Nib and Ink\, Sweat and Tears. She is a long-standing member of the Tears in the Fence Workshop and Festival groups. \nHer first pamphlet\, Mr & Mrs Andrews Reframed\, is published by Templar Poetry in their Iota Shots Series. It was a winner in the 2022 iOTA Shot Pamphlet Awards. \nPhilip Rush lives in Stroud where he runs a small poetry press. Yew Tree Press of Stroud prepares and publishes pamphlets by local and not-so-local poets which accompanies readings in the town\, usually at the Museum in the Park. His own poems have been in many British and Irish magazines and in anthologies from Carcanet\, Bloodaxe and Seren. Philip thinks that poems help us to see the world in new ways and that the best poems help us to see ‘into the life of things’. The means at any poem’s disposal to achieve this end are almost infinitely broad.
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/poetry-upstairs-3/
LOCATION:Monmouthshire
CATEGORIES:storytelling
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230627T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230627T120000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Cafe
DESCRIPTION:Social group for beginner Poets\nFor beginners – this is a chance to come and spend some time with words; find your voice\, share ideas and develop your work.\nWe encourage you to bring along poems that you are working on as well as those by other authors\, which inspire. \nThis is a group where people come together\, simply for the love of poetry! \nPrice: Donation to cover cost\nTeas and coffees available to buy
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/poetry-cafe-2/
LOCATION:Monmouthshire
CATEGORIES:storytelling
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230622T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230622T213000
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SUMMARY:Join us for an evening with Rachel Dawson\, author of Neon Roses\, in celebration of and by association with Abergavenny Pride!
DESCRIPTION:Thursday 22nd June at 7.30. \nTickets are priced at £7 for admission only or £20 with a copy of the book.\nClick here to book \nA portion of ticket fees will go to support Abergavenny Pride. \n\nFrom the Valleys to the nightclubs of Cardiff\, London and Manchester\, a funny\, heartwarming and a little bit filthy queer coming-of-age story with a cracking ’80s soundtrack\, from an exciting new voice in Welsh fiction. \nEluned Hughes is stuck. It’s 1984 in a valley in south Wales: the miners’ strike is ravaging her community; her sister’s swanned off with a Thatcherite policeman; and her boyfriend Lloyd keeps bringing up marriage. And if they play ’99 Red Balloons’ on the radio one more time\, she might just lose her mind.\nThen the fundraising group Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners comes down from London\, and she meets June\, a snaggle-toothed blonde in a too-big leather jacket. Suddenly\, Eluned isn’t stuck any more – she’s in freefall. \nJune’s an artist and an activist\, living in a squat in Camden. With June\, Eluned can imagine a completely different – and exciting – life for herself. But as her family struggles with the strike\, and her relationship with her sister  eteriorates\, should she really leave it all behind? \n\nRachel Dawson is a lesbian\, working-class Welsh writer. In 2020\, she was awarded a bursary by Literature Wales\, which enabled her to write her debut novel\, Neon Roses. She was born in Swansea and has done a variety of jobs\, including selling sausage rolls and vibrators (not at the same time)\, and volunteering for an MP. She now works in the third sector and lives with her wife in Cardiff.
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/join-us-for-an-evening-with-rachel-dawson-author-of-neon-roses-in-celebration-of-and-by-association-with-abergavenny-pride/
LOCATION:Monmouthshire
CATEGORIES:storytelling
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SUMMARY:Finding Your Voice
DESCRIPTION:Following the positive feedback from Workshops held at Aber Writing Fest 2023\, we are delighted to host 2 more ‘Finding Your Voice’ sessions with writer\, Liz Pearce \nJoin us for these next two sessions where will be continuing to work through a fun and creative process and building our collection of writing work\, towards a performance and display at the Melville next autumn. \nSat June 10th  – 2.00pm – 5.30pm\nTuesday June 27th  – 6.00pm – 8.30pm \nTo secure a place on both or either of these dates\, please email lizapearce@hotmail.co.uk
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/finding-your-voice/
LOCATION:Monmouthshire
CATEGORIES:Poetry,storytelling
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230523T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230523T120000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Cafe
DESCRIPTION:Social group for beginner Poets\nFor beginners – this is a chance to come and spend some time with words; find your voice\, share ideas and develop your work.\nWe encourage you to bring along poems that you are working on as well as those by other authors\, which inspire. \nThis is a group where people come together\, simply for the love of poetry! \nPrice: Donation to cover cost\nTeas and coffees available to buy
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/poetry-cafe/
LOCATION:Monmouthshire
CATEGORIES:storytelling
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230516T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230516T213000
DTSTAMP:20230505T105309Z
CREATED:20230321T141357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230505T105309Z
UID:3983-1684261800-1684272600@melvillecentre.org.uk
SUMMARY:Poetry Upstairs
DESCRIPTION:Established Monthly Poetry Session in the Melville bar\, hosted by Ric Hool.  Bringing local and international poets to Abergavenny to celebrate the art of words and the story of our time that is expressed by current poets.  £5\nThis Months Guest Poets:\nXavier Panadès has produced a striking bilingual collection of poetry that explores the world of Catalan exile\, where the themes of the environment and belonging mix with intensely personal experiences and wider political reflections. \nCatalan born Xavier Panadès I Blas was brought up in a peasant family and educated to the revolutionary values of solidarity\, justice\, and freedom. This led to Xavier to have been involved in social-political and environmental movements since the mid-1980s. \nXavier has been instrumental in the internationalisation the culture of the Catalan Lands. He has been stunning audiences for the last 20 years with his explosive performances in Catalan around the globe. \nHe is known for his passionate performances of poetry and stories.He is the author of the book of poetry in The Ear of Eternity (Francis Boutle: 2019)\, and his work is regularly published in international journals.  Xavier is also a great interpreter of poetry in Catalan\, Castilian\, and English and his live interpretations are often backed with music. \nKelvin Corcoran lives in Brussels.  He is the author of numerous books of poetry\, including New and Selected Poems\, For The Greek Spring from Shearsman\, and most recently Facing West\, 2017\, the Medicine Unboxed sponsored Not Much To Say Really\, 2017\, Article 50\, 2018\, Below This Level\, 2019 and The Republic of Song\, Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press\, (America) 2020\, and Orpheus Asymmetric\, 2020.  2023 will see the publication of his Collected Poems and Transparent Blue of Everything\, a collaboration with the artist David Rees. \nThe sequence ‘Helen Mania’ was a Poetry Book Society choice and the poem ‘At the Hospital Doors’ was highly commended by the Forward Prize jury 2017.  His work is the subject of a study edited byAndy Brown\, The Writing Occurs as Song\, 2013 and is discussed in The Return of Pytheas: Scenes from British and Greek Poetry in Dialogue\, Paschalis Nikolaou\, 2017.  Kelvin Corcoran has also edited an account of the poetry of Lee Harwood in Not the Full Story: Six Interviews with Lee Harwood\, 2008.  He’s the co-editor with Robert Sheppard of The New Collected Poems of Lee Harwood. \nJonathan Richards is a former general practitioner and Health Board Clinical Director. He has been writing poems for twenty five years. He participated in the Masters in Writing course at the University of South Wales in 2015-2017. \nHe was commended by the Hippocrates Poetry Competition in 2019 for his poem ‘Rapids’. \nHis poems have appeared in anthologies including Red Poets\, These Are The Hands\, The Saccharin Poetry collection Vol 1 and Onward/Ymlaen. \nHis first collection was River Days\, a collaboration with an artist Ruth End. Published in 2019.  His second\, published in June 2022\, is Fall\, Falling\, Fallen.
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/poetry-upstairs/
LOCATION:Melville Centre Cafe-Bar\, The Melville Centre\, Pen-y-Pound\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5UD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:storytelling
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230422T100000
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SUMMARY:Abergavenny Writing Festival
DESCRIPTION:A whole day of workshops and performance at The Melville\n\n10:00 – Noon. Place and Landscape in Your Fiction – workshop with Katie Munnik & Tyler Keevil.\nTickets are £16.26 (including booking fee) and can be purchased here (link opens in new tab)\nMany writers see plot as paramount\, while others claim character is the key. The importance of setting in writing fiction is often overlooked\, or viewed as secondary. In this two-hour prose fiction workshop\, award-winning Welsh-Canadian authors Katie Munnik and Tyler Keevil will examine the ways place and landscape can enhance our stories.  Through sharing examples from favourite works\, and reflecting on their own writing practice\, they will encourage participants to consider how they use place in their writing\, and offer advice on making it more effective.  The workshop is open to aspiring and emerging writers of all levels and experience – and it only requires a pen and notebook\, and some creative enthusiasm!Katie Munnik is a Canadian writer living in Cardiff\, UK. In 2017\, she won the Borough Press Open Submission\, and her debut novel The Heart Beats in Secret was a USA Today Bestseller. Her second novel The Aerialists was published in April 2022 by HarperCollins.\nTyler Keevil grew up in Vancouver\, Canada and moved to Wales in his twenties.  He is the author of several novels and the short story collection\, Burrard Inlet.  He has received a number of awards for his work\, including the Wales Book of the Year People’s Choice and the Writers’ Trust of Canada Journey Prize.  He lives in Abergavenny and is the director of the Creative Writing MA at Cardiff University.  His most recent books are No Good Brother (The Borough Press) and Your Still Beating Heart (Myriad Editions). \n10:30-11:15am – Hamed Amiri’s Journey: from Afghanistan to Cardiff\, a bestselling book & theatre production\nTickets are £5.42 (including booking fee) and be purchased here (link opens in new tab) \n \nHamed Amiri is the author of the bestselling book and the theatre production of The Boy With Two Hearts. Hamed will share his story of fleeing Afghanistan with his family when he was just ten years old and their perilous journey to seek refuge in the UK in an attempt to prolong his brother Hussein’s life. Why he was driven to write about this and the subsequent adaptation of his bestselling book to theatre production.\nMaking a promise to his brother has been Hamed’s new mission in life. To share the story with the wider audience and showcase diversity in a truly unique version\, while ensuring his late brother’s legacy lives on through the journey and reliving his contribution to the NHS.\nCurrently working as a senior leader in the tech sector while an influencer in the education sector. Hamed has learned the key ingredients to break down the perception in society and has become a role model to the younger generation\, which was recognized when he was awarded “Inspiring the next generation.” \nAll ticket proceeds for this event will be donated to https://daringtodream.wales/ Supporting the emotional health and wellbeing of patients in Wales \n12:15 – 13:15 – Amser Cinio gyda Lowri Haf Cooke\nTickets are £7.59 (including booking fee) and be purchased here (link opens in new tab) \n \nYmunwch â Lowri am sesiwn fywiog o flasu a sgwrsio am bopeth yn ymwneud â bwyd.  Ar y fwydlen\, bydd sôn am wahanol flasau\, nostalgia\, atgofion\, teithio\, gramadeg bwyd a chyfle i ofyn  unrhyw gwestiynau fel adolygydd bwyd.Ar hyn o bryd\, mae gan yr awdur o Gaerdydd nofel\, a dau lyfr bwyd ar y gweill ac mae hi hefyd  yn gwneud gwaith creadigol gyda gwahanol ysgolion. Hi oedd golygydd cyntaf a sefydlwr y cylchgrawn Taste/Blas. Mae hi hefyd yn ysgrifennu i gylchgrawn Barn\, Y Dinesydd a Croeso Cymru/ Visit Wales.\nLlyfr diweddaraf Lowri yw Bwytai Cymru (Gwasg Gomer) dathliad o’r 50 bwyty gorau yng Nghymru. Hi hefyd yw awdur Canllaw Bach Caerdydd –  llyfr sydd yn tywys y darllenydd o gwmpas Caerdydd. Ei llyfr arall yw Caffis Cymru adolygiad o gaffis gorau Cymru.\nAr ôl ennill gradd mewn Daearyddiaeth a Chymraeg ym Mhrifysgol Aberystwyth aeth Lowri ymlaen i ennill M.A ym maes Theatr\, Ffilm a Theledu.\nMae Lowri hefyd yn wyneb a llais cyfarwydd ar S4C a Radio Cymru yn adolygu ffilmiau. Felly dewch a’ch tips sinema ynghŷd a’ch chwant bwyd i’r sesiwn hwn! \n13:30 – 14:30 – Comedy Writing with AberLaugh \nTickets are £7.59 (including booking fee) and be purchased here (link opens in new tab) \n \nHave you ever wanted to try stand-up comedy but no idea where to start? Join local comedians Huw Davies and Mike Reed for a short workshop/discussion where you can learn more about the South Wales Comedy Scene\, how to get started and even have an opportunity to try some of your own material.Huw Davies has been performing and compering for several years across South Wales and runs a popular monthly stand-up comedy night (Aberlaugh) at the Kings Arms Hotel in Abergavenny.\nMike Reed is a British Comedian of the year semi-finalist and has gigged all over the UK\, from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to Hawthorn Community Centre. \n  \n\n15:00 – 17:30 – Finding a Voice – Creative Writing Workshop for Women \nTickets are £16.26 (Including booking fee) and can be purchased here (link opens in new tab) \n \nLiz explains what to expect from the session: “I welcome those with some writing experience and those new to writing. Working with a group\, I use a creative process which starts with your individual experience and develops this into writing which resonates with others. The session will include creative exercises to stimulate and develop your writing and shared examples from different published writers to inspire you. This workshop builds on previous sessions\, but is equally valuable as a stand-alone session.”\nAbout Liz Pearce\nLiz has over 30 years’ professional experience as an actor\, writer and facilitator\, working in education\, the community\, theatre\, TV and radio. Her work is diverse\, due to her drama background\, and she writes drama\, prose\, poetry and poetic monologues. She also facilitates creative writing workshops\, encouraging writers to find a unique voice of their own.\nFor further information please visit www.elizabethpearce.co.uk \n\n15:30 – 16:30 – Readings from Where the Birds Sing Our Names \nTickets are free but pre-registration is required – register for tickets here (link opens in new tab) \n \nEditor Tony Curtis is joined by contributors Rhian Edwards and Chris Meredith to read from Where the Birds Sing Our Names\, the remarkable anthology of poems about childhood\, parenting and birds\, published in support of the Ty Hafan Children’s Hospice in Sully which serves the whole of south Wales. All the proceeds of this book go directly to the charity and copies will be on sale at the reading.\nwww.tyhafan.org/ \nRhian Edwards   www.rhianedwards.co.uk/ \nChris Meredith   https://christophermeredit9.wixsite.com/website \nTony Curtis         http://tonycurtispoet.com/ \n\n16:30 – 17:30 – Illustrating text with Adam Hayes\nTickets are £7.59 (including booking fee) and can be purchased here (link opens in new tab) \n \nJoin Adam Hayes for a workshop on developing an image from a short piece of text. As an illustrator\, Adam often only receives plain text [from an author or agent] which he then needs to read and work out for himself what the accompanying image should be. The session will be based around; reading the text and working out how best to apply an image to enhance it. Adam will give examples before the group gets started. Participants will be invited to pick a piece of text\, perhaps just a sentence or a paragraph – some very simple & some more challenging – all of them plain text and without much context\, think about which part of the text you want to illustrate and sketch out as many different ideas as you can on separate sheets of paper. Pick out your favourite ideas and create your final illustration!\nAdam Hayes is a typographer and illustrator. He works on a broad range of projects from quick editorial illustrations to large-scale international campaigns. Since his graduation from the Royal College of Art in 2006 he has developed a solid roster of clients that include Apple\, Google\, Honda\, Ikea\, Shake Shack and Whole Foods – whilst also devoting time to personal projects. \nhttps://mrahayes.com/info \n  \n17:45 – 18:45 – Memoir Writing in an Hour with Jude Rogers\nTickets are £7.59 (including booking fee) and be purchased here (link opens in new tab) \n\nWant to turn your life story\, or someone else’s\, into a compelling narrative? Where – and how – do you start? How do you give shape to your experiences? How do you make the past come alive?Critically acclaimed memoir writer and journalist Jude Rogers is here to help with a lively hour of tips\, lessons learned and short exercises to help you make your writing breathe and sing.\nJude Rogers is the author of the acclaimed memoir about music\, memory and growing up\, The Sound Of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives\, published by White Rabbit Books (“Fascinating” – Ian Rankin; “What a joy” – Ruth Jones). A teacher of memoir writing for the Arvon Writing Foundation\, she is also a busy freelance journalist regularly working for The Guardian\, The Observer and BBC Radio 4. She lives in Monmouthshire with her husband and son. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/abergavenny-writing-festival/
LOCATION:Monmouthshire
CATEGORIES:storytelling
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SUMMARY:Abergavenny Writing Fest - Events for Young People
DESCRIPTION:Events for Young People\n\n\nAll events take place on Saturday 22nd April 2023 at Melville Centre for the Arts.Tickets are per child\, accompanying adults are free (parents / carers – you are welcome to join your child or wait in the nearby café area) \n\n10:15 – 11:15 – Illustration with Max Low \nTickets are £4.34 (including booking fee) and can be purchased here (link opens in new tab) \nJoin Max in an exploration of illustration\, and how you really don’t need to be good at drawing to be a good artist (which Max has spent a career demonstrating).Max Low is an illustrator\, animator\, writer\, photographer\, teacher and occasionally washes the dishes. Max loves un-perfect things\, absurdity and imaging what an Alien would think if they had just landed on Earth. He is most known for illustrating The Mab\, a retelling of the Welsh saga The Mabinogion\, but is also the author and illustrator of the Ceri & Deri series. \nSuitable for age 4 +  \n  \n  \n  \n\n  \n  \n\n11:30 – 12:30 – Magnificent Mash-Ups with Claire Fayers\nTickets are £4.34 (including booking fee) and can be purchased here (link opens in new tab) \n \nCan you imagine Cinderella in space? Who’d win in a fight between unicorns and dinosaurs? Mash-ups are great fun to write and can send your imagination off in all sorts of strange directions. Claire Fayers has made a career of mixing different genres and stories in her books. Join her for a wild and wacky session creating your own mash-up masterpieces.\nClaire Fayers grew up in South Wales where\, thanks to her local library\, she developed a lifelong obsession with myth and magic. Her previous books include the award-winning Accidental Pirates duo\, Storm Hound\, and Welsh Fairy Tales\, Myths and Legends\, nominated for the Carnegie medal. When she’s not writing\, she spends her time visiting schools and libraries to share her love of stories. Recommended for ages 7-12 (please note this is only for guidance) \n  \n  \n  \n\n13:00-14:00 –  Dreigiau Drwg a Bwystfilod Barus gyda Huw Aaron\nTickets are £4.34 (including booking fee) and can be purchased here (link opens in new tab) \nDewch i chwilio am Boc y ddraig\, hela angenfilod gyda Gwil garw\, a chreu bwystfilod doniol a direidus eich hun gyda’r arch-ddwdlwr ei hun! Dewch â phensil! (Oed – 4 – 10) \nWedi ei leoli yn Nghaerdydd mae’r awdur\, y darlunydd a’r cartwnydd Huw Aaron. Mae Huw wedi dwdlan a sgriblo ar draws cannoedd o wahanol lyfrau – fel arfer gyda chaniatad! Rhai o’r ffefrynnau yw cyfres ‘Ble mae Boc’ a ‘Sbarc a Seren. \nHuw Aaron Dreigiau Drwg a Bwystfilod Barus  (Bad Dragons and Greedy Beasts)\nCome to search for Boc the dragon\, hunt monsters with Gwil garw and create funny\, mischievous monsters with the arch-doodler himself! Bring a pencil! (Age 4 -10) \nCardiff-based author\, illustrator and cartoonist Huw has doodled and scribbled across the pages of hundreds of books – usually with permission! Favourites include the Find the Dragon series\, and Seren a Sbarc. \n\n  \n  \n\n14:15-15:15 – The Power of Poetry with Connor Allen\nTickets are £4.34 (including booking fee) and can be purchased here (link opens in new tab) \nCome and discover the power of poetry and words as Children’s Laureate for Wales Connor Allen makes poetry cool again and empowers you along the way.\nConnor is the current Children’s Laureate of Wales. Since graduating from Trinity Saint David as an Actor\, has worked with companies such as Sherman Theatre\, Tin Shed Theatre and National Theatre Wales. He is a member of National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and was also the winner of Triforce’s Cardiff MonologueSlam\, representing Wales at the London winners edition.\nAs a writer he was a member of the BBC Wales Welsh Voices and The Welsh Royal Court writing groups and has written for BBC Wales\, BBC Radio 4\, Sherman Theatre\, Literature Wales and Dirty Protest. Connor’s work is heavily inspired by elements of his own life such as grief\, love\, masculinity\, identity\, and ethnicity. Most recently he wrote and starred in the Wales Millennium Centres production The Making of a Monster\, Won the Rising Star Wales Award 2021 and was a Jerwood Live Work Fund recipient. He is associate artist of his hometown theatre The Riverfront in Newport. Recommended age range 10+  \n  \n15:30 – 16:30 – Family Singing Session with Tanya Walker \nTickets are £4.34 (including booking fee) and can be purchased here (link opens in new tab) \nAn opportunity for all ages to have fun singing songs in harmony from all over the world!  Inclusive\, inspirational\, connecting singing sessions for the whole family. Includes fun voice & body warm ups & tips on how to look after & find your most natural self-expressed voice. Songs will be taught by ear and participants will build the confidence and freedom to sing in beautiful harmony with other voices as well as leaving the session feeling inspired and uplifted!Tanya is a professional choir & singing workshop leader\, musician and singer-songwriter/performer with over 38 years of experience\, based in Brecon. She leads five community choirs in Wales and also works as a vocal and performance coach and singing workshop leader for all ages. Her choirs & amp sessions are for EVERYONE who loves to sing and no experience is necessary!\nAs well as sessions being an opportunity for participants to learn fun\, engaging body and voice warmups & learning to sing as a group\, Tanya’s workshops utilise music and singing as a way of enhancing feelings of wellbeing\, health\, happiness\, self-acceptance & confidence in participants. \nSuitable for all ages. 
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/abergavenny-writing-fest-events-for-young-people/
LOCATION:Monmouthshire
CATEGORIES:Poetry,storytelling
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SUMMARY:Spoken Word Open Mic - Part of Abergavenny Writing Festival
DESCRIPTION:As part of Abergavenny Writing Festival we’re celebrating inclusivity and diversity in the world of writing in Wales.\nThe Writing Festival kicks off social proceedings with an accessible spoken-word open-mic event here in the cosy and easy to access bar area.  The event will be hybrid so both audience and participants are able to join either in person or via a zoom link.  There will be closed captioning and BSL interpretation for the performance.\nThis event is delivered with the support of write4word through its ‘Press Speak Not Delete’ project\, creating a hybrid of physical performance and digital channels to develop a more diverse and accessible arts sector. \nThe open-mic programme is limited to 8 participants in the physical venue and 8 participants on-line. Performance slots are 4 minutes in length. \nGeneral entry £5\, entry for participants is also £5 but includes an additional complimentary ticket for a friend or family member. Please contact dominic@write4word.org to book a slot. \nClick this link to buy tickets
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/spoken-word-open-mic-melville/
LOCATION:Melville Centre Cafe-Bar\, The Melville Centre\, Pen-y-Pound\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5UD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:comedy,community,Event,music,Poetry,storytelling,talks,theatre
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SUMMARY:The Tap Dancing Mermaid
DESCRIPTION:We’ve all heard thousands of stories written about The Moon but now the time has come to hear his magical\, mystical story about a young tap dancer who he watches at night.\nMixing up tap dance\, stunning puppetry\, live ukulele-ing and a beautiful story\, The Tap Dancing Mermaid is the\nsmash hit solo production from Tessa Bide Productions Ltd and it will make you want to stick\n50ps to your shoes and join in! \nGather round\, gather round for the Moon’s magical\, mystical story about a tippetty-top tap dancer who he has been watching at night. Marina Skippett creeps out of her house every night to shuffle and stomp on the boardwalk to the sounds of the sea. She can’t tap dance at home anymore since her evil\, tractor-sized Aunty banned it\, threatening to feed Marina’s dinners to the dog! But then\, one moonlit night\, Marina meets a mysterious\, watery boy called Leo\nswimming in the sea and her life is never the same again! \nThe “truly amazing one woman power house” Tessa Bide brings you her celebrated devised solo production\, called “just everything a children’s theatre experience should be” (Childplays). There are stunning puppets\, original live music to sing along to and tap dancing that will make you want to stick 50ps to your shoes and join in! For everyone aged 3 to 133. \nClick here to take a peek at The Tap Dancing Mermaid \nTickets: \nAdult: £9\nChildren (up to 12yrs): £5\nFamily (2 adults & 2 children): £25 \nCall 01873 853167 or email melvillecamanager@gmail.com to reserve your ticket.\nLimited Tickets.  Tickets on a first come first served basis.
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/the-tap-dancing-mermaid/
LOCATION:The Melville Theatre\, The Melville Centre\, Pen-y-Pound\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5UD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:childrens events,community,Event,music,storytelling,theatre
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SUMMARY:An evening with Robin Ince
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with Robin Ince to discuss his newest book Bibliomaniac! The event will take place in Melville Theatre\, Abergavenny on November 22nd at 19:30. \nTicket options: \nEvent access £10 \nEvent access with book £20 \nBook tickets here: \nhttps://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-robin-ince/ \n\n‘A unique\, funny picture of Britain… A love letter to bookshops and the vagaries of public transport.’ Richard Osman \nWhy play to 12\,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021\, Robin Ince’s stadium tour with Professor Brian Cox was postponed due to the pandemic. Rather than do nothing\, he decided instead to go on a tour of over a hundred bookshops in the UK\, from Wigtown to Penzance; from Swansea to Margate. \nPacked with witty anecdotes and tall tales\, Bibliomaniac takes the reader on a journey across Britain as Robin explores his lifelong love of bookshops and books – and also tries to find out just why he can never have enough of them. \nIt is the story of an addiction and a romance\, and also of an occasional points failure just outside Oxenholme.
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/an-evening-with-robin-ince/
LOCATION:Monmouthshire
CATEGORIES:storytelling,talks
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220805T220000
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SUMMARY:Believe it or not! Storytelling evening
DESCRIPTION:  \nAn Evening of Storytelling and Music\nIndulge in a spell-binding evening with the accomplished storytellers Guto and Megan – prepare to be transported into other worlds!\n\nBELIEVE IT OR NOT! is an evening of Storytelling and music\, featuring:\n\nGuto Dafis and Megan Lloyd\, introduced by Richard Berry.\n\nThe performance begins at 7.30pm\, with the bar open from 7pm.\n\nSuitable for adults and children 12 years and over.\n\n\nGuto Dafis tells stories with energy and humour\, wryness and warmth. He is also a musician; he punctuates and enlivens his storytelling performances with song and the music of his melodeon\, and he has a musician’s sense of pace and dynamics in his delivery of a tale. \nHe has performed many times at the Beyond the Border International Storytelling Festival (St Donats\, and latterly Llandeilo)\, as well at other festivals in Wales and England (Mekonville\, Suffolk; Tafwyl\, Cardiff; Aberystwyth Storytelling Festival; Festival at the Edge\, Shropshire). He has also delighted audiences as far afield as Brittany (The Welsh Pavilion at the Festival Interceltique de Lorient)\, the Netherlands (Galerie Josine Bokhoven\, Amsterdam)\, Italy (Suns Peraulis Musichis des Menorancis\, Udine) and the UAE (Tales on an Island\, Sharjah). \nHistoric sites at which he has appeared this year include Tretower Court\, Castell Coch\, Caerleon Roman Baths and Chepstow Castle. \n“a gifted teller … with a relaxed and easy style that is guaranteed to draw you in” (Carl Gough\, Swansea Storytelling) \nwww.gutodafisstoryteller.weebly.com \n  \nMegan Lloyd – Storyteller – Dancer and Artist \nMegan Lloyd has told stories from Tashkent to Tenby\,  Harduf to Haverfordwest and Cardiff to Carmarthen. She even told stories in Lapland for the Farther Christmas himself.\nMegan tells stories for all ages\, in venues as wide ranging as Theatres\, Libraries\, Castles\, Schools and Bishops Palaces.\nShe has regularly performed at Beyond the Border Storytelling Festival as a Storyteller and Bharata Natyam Dancer with India Dance Wales. Megan was also part of the Storytelling Company of the same name that was born at the Festival touring venues through out Wales.\nShe received the Roald Dahl Trust commission for a family story show “ Giants”.\nMegan’s dance hand gestures that she uses as part of her storytelling language brought about a project “Talking Hands” where she worked along side a BSL story teller.\nShe has worked on many Welsh Arts Council Creative School’s Projects combining Storytelling with her others skills as a visual artist and Indian Classical Dancer.\nHer performances are often described as “ Mesmerising“ .\nA cunning turn of phrase\, a gesture of the hand and a tune on the fiddle bring the tales alive. \nhttp://www.head4arts.org.uk/megan-lloyd/ \n\n\nClick “website” to book tickets:\n£10 or £5 conc
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/believe-it-or-not/
LOCATION:Monmouthshire
CATEGORIES:Event,storytelling
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SUMMARY:The Bee Hive - with LoubyLou Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:30 minute outdoor theatre experience! Bring your blankets\, chairs and picnics. Join Bumble and Bee in this vibrant and fun performance\, as they fill you in on all things bee through song\, dance and some rather silly sketches. Join them on their quest for world pollination! \nStand up for your stripes and join our buzzing friends\, as they embark on their World Pollination Tour across South Wales this Summer!\n\nThese little bees are on a quest to save their species and they need your help. Join them on the Melville Centre lawn and watch them spread their message through catchy songs\, fun filled sketches\, a little bit of waggle dancing and plenty of audience interaction. Get ready to shake your stingers\, warm up your wings and prepare for world pollination! You won’t want to miss out on this un-BEE-lievable experience!  \nOur Bee Hive experience is a fun and rather wacky theatre performance for children (and adults) of all ages. The aim of the performance is to demonstrate the importance of bees in our ecosystem in a vibrant\, and entertaining way. The set up is very relaxed and children are encouraged to engage throughout. \nThe performance will take place OUTDOORS on the Melville Centre lawn. You are welcome to bring camp chairs\, blankets or whatever you like to make yourself comfy and watch the show in comfort. Please note\, if the weather is poor on the day\, an alternative indoor space will be available. \nThe duration of the performance is 30 minutes. There are FOUR performance times to choose from; please see website link for times and tickets \n\n\nLouby Lou’s is an interactive storytelling company that is passionate in delivering high quality sessions to parents & children. We take classic stories or themes & bring them to life using action\, sound\, props\, puppets\, role play & parachute work. Our sessions have a strong focus on using the imagination & getting lost in the wonderful world of make believe. \n\n\n\nFor more information\, visit the website\, Facebook Page or Twitter Feed.
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/the-bee-hive-with-loubylou-storytelling/
LOCATION:Monmouthshire
CATEGORIES:childrens events,Event,storytelling
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