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| We apologise that due to unforseen circumstances the event Writers of the Black and Green featuring Professor Dai Smith at the Big Pit Museum, Blaenafon on 8 May has been postponed until Autumn 2008 Friday 4th April, 6pm Almanac, Katie Gramich Gregynog Hall, Newtown. Sunday 6th April, 10am Rachel Trezise will be launching Swansea's National Year of Reading. Central Library, Swansea. Saturday 12th April, 1.00pm Gee Williams will be available to chat and sign copies of her books at Borders Bookstore, Cardiff Wednesday 23rd April, 6pm Gee Williams will be signing copies of her book Blood etc Blood etc is a collection of short stories set mainly in a north east corner of Wales, with other locations such as parts of England and America. Its main themes include issues of power and balance, class conflict, fatherhood, and of nature and human attempts to control it. The stories are gentle, but also sophisticated and perceptive. Thursday 24th April, 5.30pm Almanac, Katie Gramich Blackwells, Cardiff University.
Thursday 1st May, 6pm Dai Smith, Warrior's Tale Open University in Wales, Cardiff. Friday 2nd May Just Another Mzungu Passing Through Borders Jim Bowen will be touring Borders throughout the day: 12 noon - book launch, Borders, Cardiff 2.30pm - signing, Borders, Llantrisant 5pm - signing, Borders, Swansea Saturday 3rd May, 7.30pm Mzungu at the MwldanLocal writer and farmer Jim Bowen will be in conversation with Elin Jones AM discussing the experiences in Kenya that have coloured his first novel Just Another Mzungu Passing Through. Jim Bowen was a VSO participant in Kenya during the late nineties where he coached cricket in Nairobi. In his new book Jim tries to come to terms with his perception of Africa and the reality that confronted him. It's an engrossing story and a social commentary that foreshadows the current situation in Kenya. 'I wish I could remember it the way I first saw it - through the fresh and innocent eyes I had then and not the cynical ones that I have now...' Jim Bowen Elin Jones AM is the Rural Affairs Minister in the Welsh Assembly Government and Assembly Member for Ceredigion. She has a family background in farming and a professional interest in rural development both in Wales and abroad. Theatre Mwldan, Aberteifi. Reserve Seats. Book Launch and Performance Tickets £6 including a glass of wine Katy Cawkwell has developed a reputation for dramatic and powerful reworkings of epic material. Here she retells a classic tale from the great Welsh mythological cycle, the Mabinogion. Rhiannon follows a woman’s journey from her world into our own, from eternal youth to mortal suffering, from passionate first love to the strength of love rediscovered, from vision to understanding. The performance will be followed by a book signing in the Glass Room and the chance to meet the author over a glass of wine. For further details and to buy tickets please click here
Saturday 10th May, 2pm Dai Smith will be in conversation with Eric Hobsbawm. Birkbeck College, London. Thursday 15th May, 7.30pm ReWind Archbishop's Childs Hall, Trinity College, Carmarthen Friday 16th May, 7pm Out with it, Aled Islwyn Swansea University Monday 26th May, 2pm Dai Smith will be featuring in 'The Raymond Williams Lecture' Tuesday 27th May, 6.30pm Otherland, David Lloyd and Margaret Lloyd Wednesday 28th May, 6.30pm Otherland, David Lloyd, Margaret Lloyd, Jon Dressel, Joseph Clancy. Arts Centre Bookshop, Aberystwyth
Friday 30th May, 10am ReWind
Wednesday 4th June, 7pm Otherland, David Lloyd and Jon Dressel Thursday 5th June Otherland, David Lloyd. Jon Dressel and Lloyd Robson Monday 9th June, 7pm This year's Trinity Arts Festival has a large literary programme, including a number of events from Parthian. Otherland book launch with poets Jon Dressel and David Lloyd Archbishop Childs Hall, Trinity College, Carmarthen Tuesday 10th June, 7pm Ffrinj Festival. Black Beach: Catalan Drama. Script in Hand Readings. Tuesday 10 June 7.30pm A Warrior's Tale Professor Dai Smith in coversation with Professor M. Wynn Thomas on the life and work of Raymond Williams at the Dylan Thomas centre, Swansea Wednesday 11th June, 7pm Ffrinj presents Friday 13th June, 7.30pm This year's Trinity Arts Festival has a large literary programme, including a number of events from Parthian. Two Continents meet Wales. Tishani Doshi and Jim Bowen Archbishop Childs Hall, Trinity College, Carmarthen Monday 16th June, 7.30pm 'Crossing Literary Borders'. As part of the Trinity Arts Festival. Gee Williams, Caryl Lewis and Gwen Davies Archishop Childs Hall, Trinity College, Carmarthen
Wednesday 18 June 7.30pm Launch of Oh Dad! A search for Robert Mitchum Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea Reading, conversation and wine with Lloyd Robson
Monday 23rd June, 7.30pm Rachel Trezise, Jeni Williams and Owen Sheers will be giving readings as part of the Trinity Arts Festival Archbishop Childs Hall, Trinity College, Carmarthen Thursday 26th June, 2pm Blood etc, Gee Williams. Abingdon Library, Oxfordshire
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