March events and exhibitions

To book tickets ring the Dylan Thomas Centre on 01792 463980

Thursday 4 March World Book Day

We will be celebrating World Book Day with offers in our bookshop and with an evening event. For full details see www.dylanthomas.com or contact jo.furber@swansea.gov.uk

Booklaunch - Stevie Davies Into Suez

Tuesday 9 March

Swansea's Stevie Davies is the author of eleven novels, two of which have been listed for the Booker Prize. Her most recent novel is set in the run up to the Suez Crisis, a template for future invasions (Iraq and Afghanistan being the most recent). Through the story of Joe, an ordinary working man on the front line, Stevie explores how imperialist attitudes to the Middle East have failed to change since 1950. Join us to discuss these very contemporary and current themes and listen to readings from a hugely enjoyable historical novel.

Free Entry & Wine in association with Parthian Books.

On the Edge presents Deadlier than the Male! 

Wednesday 10 March 7.30pm

Michael Kelligan's new season of superb and varied script-held performances features plays from Welsh women writers based in Wales.

Gryfhead by Lucy Gough: In a bleak landscape of run down housing a woman comes to terms with the a life defined by the lack and loss of love.

Lucy has been writing plays since 1986.  Many of her stage plays have been professionally performed and she was a finalist for both the John Whiting Award and BBC Wales Writer of the Year Award (1994) with her play Crossing The Bar.  Her first BBC broadcast was in 1994 with Our Lady of Shadows (BBC Radio 3).  Since then she has a play of the week on the BBC World Service and has had five plays on BBC Radio 4. Her Radio dramatisation of Wuthering Heights for Radio 4 was broadcast as the classic serial in Woman's Hour in 2003.

http://www.lucy.gough.care4free.net/index.html

All tickets £4-00

Writers' Squad Day

Saturday 13 March

With support from Academi and Welsh Books Council we mark World Book Day week with a day of events and workshops for members of our Swansea Young Writers Squad and their parents, in partnership with the Pontardawe Writers' Squad. The day will also be open to anyone interested in joining our Writing Squads – a Welsh Language Squad is also being set up. For details contact david.woolley@swansea.gov.uk

Dylan Thomas in Wales Visiting American Students Project 2010

Sunday 14 March 7pm

Dylan Thomas in Wales is a 12-week literary seminar offered by Knox College (Illinois, America), in cooperation with the Carl Sandburg Birthplace (America), The Seventh Quarry Swansea Poetry Magazine (Wales), Cross-Cultural Communications (New York), and in association with the Welsh Assembly Government in New York. At Knox College, students will study the life and literary works of Dylan Thomas; in Wales, they will study the impact of Wales's natural history and cultural dynamics on Thomas's work.

To celebrate the arrival in Wales of the first group of American students participating in the project, we invite you to join us for an evening of poetry, drama and song, introduced by the Wales guide and organiser, at the Dylan Thomas Centre.

Free Entry

Art for Lunch - Jen Wilson How African American Music Came to Wales

Friday 19 March 1pm

Jen, from Jazz Heritage Wales, formerly known as Women in Jazz, now based at Swansea Metropolitan University, will give an illustrated talk on How African American Music Came to Wales, how the media represented it and the Women pioneers who contributed to what would become Jazz.
£5 includes 45 minute talk, soup and sandwich.

Book Launch - Byron Beynon - Nocturne in Blue

Friday 19 March 7pm

Swansea poet and lecturer Byron's poems have appeared in many publications including Agenda, Poetry Salzburg Review, Planet, The French Literary Review, Quadrant (Australia) and the Istanbul Literary Review. His collections include: The Girl in the Yellow Dress, The Restaurant of Mud and Cuffs. Nocturne in Blue is published by Lapwing Publications (Belfast). Byron is a former co-editor of Roundyhouse Magazine.

Free entry and wine.

Lunchtime Theatre - Fluellen Theatre Company presents - Unveiling by Vaclav Havel

Saturday 20 March 1pm

After the success of Havel`s play Audience last year, here is the sequel; a satire in which his alter ego, Vanek, is the dinner guest of a couple who have embraced their country`s oppressive system with open arms.

All Lunchtime Theatre plays are script-in-hand presentations and will be preceded by a talk about the writer and the background to the play.

All tickets £5

Poets in the Bookshop - Carol Rumens

Thursday 25 March

Carol has published many collections, the most recent Blind Spots, from Seren, and won many awards for her poetry. She currently teaches creative writing at University of Wales Bangor. Plus usual open mic session.

Full Price £4-00 Concessions £2-80 Swansea PTL £1-60

Poet, reviewer, occasional translator. Carol was born in South London in 1944 and educated at the University of London and Manchester City College. She has published eleven volumes of poetry, one novel,(Plato Park) many reviews, and has had a couple of plays produced. Her most recent honour, before being invited to join the Academi, was to be shortlisted for the Belfast City Arts Award in 1999 for Holding Pattern (Blackstaff, 1998). She teaches creative writing at the University of Wales, Bangor and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Science Café

Wednesday 31 March

Free entry