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May 2022
Meet the team behind the Future Is US Project. The Melville Centre for the Arts is opening their doors for a day of creative workshops - this is the place to have your voice heard. This is an open house, free event, aimed primarily at 10 to 24 year olds and their families - do join us for an afternoon of fun!
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LIVE JAZZ NEW ORLEANS STYLE... PURE ENERGY and FUN. A visit by the Bass12 brass band will take BMJ back to basic good-time jazz in highlighting the early days of the music, when the streets and clubs of New Orleans marched and danced and jumped to raw, brassy sounds. Bass12 hails from Cardiff and performs a mixture of New Orleans street grooves and upbeat covers, featuring lots of improvisation. The band is made up of graduates of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and Cardiff University who now perform and teach across the UK. As well as performing, the [...]
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Welcome to the second Poetry Upstairs at The Melville Centre! Tuesday 31st May 7pm £5 Entry Norman Jope (Plymouth) Melisande Fitzsimmons (Plymouth) Mike Jenkins (Merthyr) Please contact us to register your place (you must book in advance), then pay on the door as usual. To register, email info@melvillecentre.org.uk and send your full name/s and telephone contact numbers, or call Emma on 01873 853167. We regret we cannot admit anyone who has not registered beforehand, as we need to know numbers ahead of the evening. Norman Jope was born in 1960 in Plymouth, where [...]
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Come along to The Melville Centre on Saturday 18th June for an exciting series of FREE workshops, and then relax and enjoy delicious snacks and refreshments in our coffee-bar. Many thanks to The Big Skill for providing funding (you can book your places directly on their website, link below). Schedule: *10.00 am - 11.30 am: Sketching Workshop with Alli Neal... So, you think you can’t draw... Think you can’t draw or want to draw better? Want to draw but don’t really know how to begin? This workshop is intended for anyone who has ever picked up a pencil [...]
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Comedy Night at The Melville Centre! Organised by The Big Skill cic, we are delighted to be able to host this comedy night in our Theatre... To book tickets (£5 or £2 concessions) please click the booking link Our MC for this evening of comedy, is Welsh-born performer Sarah Bridgeman - a seasoned comic who has been writing and performing all over the UK since 2008. Always a hit with audiences, her friendly, instantly likeable persona, makes her an ideal MC or opener. Her credits include appearances on BBC Radio Wales and as a finalist in the Welsh Unsigned Standup Awards. [...]
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Please join Rachel Cadman, one of The Big Skill tutors, for a FREE printmaking workshop exploring drypoint engraving. It is a lovely technique and very easy to learn, so no previous experience or drawing skill is needed. As you will be using ink, it would be good to wear old clothes and bring along an apron if you can. You will guided you through the process, from making your design through to the printing using an etching press, and go home with a series of prints you will be proud of. Maximum of 8 people. age 8 plus. . Book via [...]
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BMJ club programme... Drop in anytime from 5.30pm until 10pm Bar opens at 5.30pm VENUE Melville Theatre: Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny, NP7 5UD TICKETS: Free Entry History of Jazz Relax in one of the side rooms with a drink and watch some (or all) of the three videos that we made in 2020 – Jass to Jazz. 5.30pm: Video 1 7pm: Video 2 8.30pm: Video 3 Videos Screening During the first year of lockdown, being unable to have a ‘live programme’ – we produced a number of great videos and streamed them. For this Community Evening we are screening six of them – three [...]
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2022 Reading Series Tuesday 28th June 7pm start (please be there 6:30 - 6:50) £5 Entry (please bring cash for entry - the bar has a card reader for your drinks) David Costello (Liverpool) Chris Hall (Abergavenny) Des Mannay (Newport) Please contact us to register your place (you must book in advance), then pay on the door as usual. To register, email info@melvillecentre.org.uk and send your full name/s and telephone contact numbers, or call Emma on 01873 853167 We regret we may not have spaces for anyone turning up on the night who has not [...]
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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! Stand up for your stripes and join our buzzing friends, as they embark on their World Pollination Tour across South Wales this Summer! These 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, [...]
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Black Mountain Jazz = "At very short notice, we are delighted to welcome back the Shirt Tail Stompers, who played to a capacity crowd at Black Mountain Jazz in 2019. One of the world’s leading swing bands and London’s top vintage band, the Shirt Tail Stompers are firmly established at home and internationally playing Harlem swing and the hot jazz of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. Featuring music from composers such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Benny Goodman, their highlights include appearances at the Royal Albert Hall late night Jazz, Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival and National Theatre River stage. [...]
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