Celebrate with Ty Newydd

Tŷ Newydd Celebrates 21 years  

 

Saturday 4 September and Sunday 5 September
Tŷ Newydd, Llanystumdwy, Cricieth, Gwynedd

Saturday Ticket: £10 (to include all the events on Saturday)
Sunday Ticket: £5 (to include all the events on Sunday morning)
Sunday Lunchtime Ticket: £8.50 for the light lunch on Sunday

Tŷ Newydd is soon to celebrate it’s 21st birthday as the National Writers’ Centre for Wales. Head to Llanystumdwy for a weekend of writing, performances, food, drink and music to look back at Ty Newydd’s achievements, and forward to a new era of dynamic literary activity.

Here's what's happening for the weekend celebrations:

Saturday 4 September

1.30 pm
Opening of the celebrations: Gillian Clarke, President of Tŷ Newydd and Arwel Jones, Chair of the Taliesin Trust.

2.00 pm
The Laureates: Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy and Mererid Hopwood.

3.00 pm
Translators’ House Wales presents
• Gillian Clarke and Menna Elfyn read and discuss their translations of each other’s poems.
• Welsh and Panjabi poetry: Menna Elfyn and Mazhar Tirmazi, the Pakistani born Panjabi poet, read and talk about their poetry.
• Presentation to the English language winner of the Translators’ House Wales Oxfam 2010 Challenge.

4.00 pm
Tea

4.30 pm
Cynghanedd: Karen Owen asks 5 generations of Welsh poets what inspired them to write cynghanedd (simultaneous translation available).

6.00 pm
Launch of ‘The Listening Shell’: An Anthology of Poems for Tŷ Newydd.

8.30 pm
Pluo’r Awen: Cynan Jones strives to control four teams as they battle it out with poems, songs, and stories.

Sunday 5 September

9.15 am
Moths and Fungi: Nigel Brown discovers what kind of moths have been caught in the overnight traps. Followed by launch of Natur Cymru’s writing competition – ‘Inspired by Nature’.

10.00 am
Nature Walk (English) with Nigel Brown
Fungus Foray (Welsh) with Cynan Jones

12.00 noon
Writing the Landscape: Jim Perrin & Niall Griffiths read and discuss their work.

12.00 noon
‘Fy Lôn Wen I’: 5 personal presentations in verse, prose, music and song to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of Dr Kate Roberts, the ‘Queen of Welsh literature’.

1.00 pm
Light lunch and close

For tickets, or further information, please contact:
Tŷ Newydd, Llanystumdwy, Cricieth LL52 0LW
by phone: 01766 522811; by email: post@tynewydd.org 
or visit the Ty Newydd website.

 Ty Newydd works in partnership with Academi, and the above events are supported by Academi.