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December events and exhibitionsTo book tickets ring the Dylan Thomas Centre on 01792 463980Thursday, 2 December, 7.30pm Annual fundraising event for the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. The evening will include music and poetry, and further details can be obtained from jack.fell@yahoo.co.uk . Full Price: £7 Sunday, 5 December, 10am – 4pm #3 Twelfth Night A chance to discover in some depth three great plays by William Shakespeare - a tragedy, a history and a comedy - this month looking at Twelfth Night. Peter Richards (Artistic Director of Fluellen Theatre Company) and other actors will explore one text per session for a greater historical and theatrical understanding of the plays, demonstrating how the texts are taken from the page and translated into living pieces of theatre. £10 per day Plays may be booked separately. Please contact Fluellen on 01792 368269 to reserve your place. Wednesday, 8 December, 7.30pm Tensions grow as a mother and daughter wait for a soldier to come back from Afghanistan. Join us for a rehearsed reading of Night Horse, which was first broadcast on Radio 4 in 2009 to great acclaim. All Tickets: £4 Friday, 10 December, 7.30pm National Poet of Wales On Tour, in association with Academi The National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke and Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy read and discuss their work. These two poets have been awarded the highest recognition: to be called on to reflect and interpret the emotions of a nation. Gillian Clarke became National Poet of Wales in 2008. After two successful years in the post, this is your chance to hear new work by the National Poet, as well as a selection from her vast back catalogue. Since becoming Poet Laureate in 2009, Carol Ann Duffy has written on subjects as disparate as the parliamentary expenses scandal, the volcanic ash cloud, and David Beckham's injured heel. We're delighted to welcome her back to the Dylan Thomas Centre. This event is part of the National Poet's Tour of Wales throughout the autumn, organised by Academi. For other tour dates, please visit www.academi.org or contact post@academi.org / 029 2047 2266. The National Poet of Wales project is sponsored by the Arts Council of Wales and administrated by Academi. Full Price: £10 Tuesday, 14 December, 7pm Fluellen Theatre Company's magical celebration, in words and music, of Christmases past and present, featuring a complete performance of their celebrated adaptation of Dylan Thomas's A Child's Christmas In Wales, with Delyth Jenkins on harp. Full Price: £6.00 Wednesday 15 December, 7.30pm Rhys Trimble is a bilingual poet, performer and editor alive in North Wales. He was born in 1977 in Livingstone, Zambia and brought up in Gwent and Pontneddfechan. He is published in Poetry Wales, Tears in the Fence, Seventh Quarry, Coffee House Poetry, Aesthetica, Skald and various other magazines and radio. He happily performs poetry anywhere and recently became editor of ctrl+alt+del (http://www.cad.theabsurd.co.uk); a pdf based pocket sized experimental poetry magazine. He's also a regular contributor to http://www.theabsurd.co.uk; north Wales' online cultural magazine. Recent works include 'Dancing', with Zoë Skoulding and Alan Holmes, on a track for the band, Parking Non-Stop. The evening will also include an open mic session, in which audience members may read a poem in English or in Welsh. Full Price: £4 
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