THE ARTS COUNCIL OF WALES SPRING 2008 NEWSLETTER

This will be my final piece for the ACW newsletter prior to my departure for pastures new.  It comes at the end of a very busy period for ACW which has included the 2008 Creative Wales Awards, the first meeting of the board of the new English Language Theatre Company for Wales, the launch of the Heads of the Valleys community arts project, the opening of the latest Artes Mundi exhibition and the announcement by Academi of the long list for Book of the Year.

It was particularly pleasing to attend the first play in English by Sherman Cymru, ‘The Almond and the Seahorse’.  Its excellent reviews set a real marker for its future work.  It’s the culmination of a long period of change and development and a credit to all of those involved.

On a similar note, Diversions’ first stand-alone production on the main stage of the WMC showed that the company’s aspirations can be realised on the scale and quality which is commensurate with that of a national company.  Taken alongside the triumphant appearance of Bryn Terfel in ‘Falstaff’ with the WNO, it’s a tribute to the companies themselves and also to the WMC, and particularly to the Welsh Assembly Government and Heritage Minister Rhodri Glyn Thomas, who have made the investment which has secured the future of the Centre which offers such a fitting home for its residents.

On a smaller scale, the ‘Agor Drysau’ festival in Aberystwyth used for the first time the new home of Cwmni Theatr Arad Goch.   Set in a converted chapel and manse, those of you who remember their original premises will be astonished by the quality of the new facilities and the architecture and artwork.  The festival itself saw Welsh companies showcase their work alongside that from companies around the world.  I was lucky to see an excellent Danish production of ‘Hamlet’ starring two actors and two double basses which gripped and enthralled a substantial audience.

It’s very fair to say that the arts in Wales are showing real vigour and quality, and that it will be a major challenge to sustain and develop this in the years ahead.  One huge asset in this task will be the additional funding for Beacon Companies provided by the Welsh Assembly Government, and the proposals for this funding were discussed at the consultation seminars that were held across Wales about the Draft Art Form Strategies.  More details can be found at: www.artswales.org.uk/page.asp?id=224

In a short introduction like this, it is not possible to do justice to all that is going on and inevitably some highlights have not made it in. I could have mentioned, for example, ‘Y Pair’, Theatr Genedlaethol’s production of ‘The Crucible’, or the opening of the exhibition of work by the artists who represented Wales in Venice, at Oriel Davies and Chapter.  There is also much to look forward to, the re-opening of the Torch Theatre and Ruthin Craft Centre not least amongst it.

This prompts me to mention a less artistic, but nonetheless significant event at the National Assembly, when the Audit Committee considered a positive report on the management of ACW’s capital programme.  The staff I have worked with at ACW have been a real asset to the arts in Wales, and much of what I have written of would not have happened without their dedication, expertise and passion.  It’s also right that I should pay tribute to successive Chairs and Council Members who have brought wisdom, vision, commitment and inspiration to their roles.

But without the artists, creative individuals and arts organisations of Wales, we would live in an infinitely poorer place.  I have valued my opportunities to get to know your work and to support it.  Your capacity to touch, to question and to inspire is a priceless asset and I am grateful and honoured to have had the opportunity to work with you.  I look forward to continuing to experience and appreciate your work in the future.

It was reported in the last Council meeting that the sifting of the applications for new Council members had taken place and out of the strong field of twenty or so candidates, six had been invited to attend interview. The Minister of Heritage will announce the successful candidates shortly. (More news on this in the next external newsletter).

On Thursday, 6 March 2008, 16 professional artists from across the arts disciplines received a Creative Wales Award from The Arts Council of Wales, at a reception held at The Point in Cardiff Bay.  

Funded by ACW, Creative Wales Awards of up to £25,000 are available for Welsh artists every year and for 2007/08, 16 artists have been awarded nearly £300,000. The awards guarantee artists an income for a period, enabling them to take time out to experiment, innovate, and take forward their work. It's a chance to think, to branch out, to take risks - room to breathe.
 
Currently funded through the National Lottery, the Creative Wales Awards represent a significant investment by ACW in individual artists living and working in Wales.

CREATIVE WALES MAJOR AWARDS:  (£20-25k)
Applied Arts and Crafts: Walter Keeler
Visual Arts: Tim Davies, Anthony Shapland, André Stitt
Dance: Darius James
Drama: Tim Baker, Kaite O'Reilly
Literature: Menna Elfyn, Robert Minhinnick

CREATIVE WALES AWARDS:  (up to £12k)
Visual Arts: Richard Powell, John Rowley
Music: Richard James, Jeremy Huw Williams
Drama: Gary Owen, Ian Rowlands
Literature: Richard Gwyn

At the Award reception, some 200 guests were entertained by Paula Gardiner's acclaimed Jazz band and a short documentary film, commissioned from Jon Gower of Boomerang, presenting the work and ambitions of the Major Creative Wales artists.

To read more, please click on: www.artswales.org/viewnews.asp?id=789

To access the Creative Wales Awards micro-site and view the documentary film, please click on: www.artswales.org.uk/creativewales

On 21 February 2008, Rhodri Glyn Thomas, AM, Minister for Heritage, announced a new Arts Council of Wales investment of £125,000 for the development of new community arts provision across the Heads of the Valleys Eastern area.

The successful organisation, 'Head for Arts' is a partnership of four local authorities working together: Blaenau Gwent, Merthyr Tydfil, Torfaen and Caerphilly. Funding of £125,000 will provide revenue support for this initiative and will be supplemented by in-kind support from each of the local authorities.

The announcement was made at y Ganolfan Gymraeg (The Welsh Centre) in Merthyr Tydfil in the company of ACW Chairman Dai Smith and Chief Executive Peter Tyndall, together with representatives of the four local authorities and a special dance performance by pupils from Ysgol Santes Tudful Welsh Primary School.

To read more, please click on: www.artswales.org/viewnews.asp?id=777

The Arts Council of Wales announced on March 4, 2008 the Board Members for the new English Language National Theatre for Wales.

In December 2007, Phil George, was appointed Chair of the new organisation.  The Board Members will have an active involvement in the development of the ethos and structure of the new company under the leadership of the Chair. The newly appointed board members are:

Chris Ryde - Vice Chair
Steve Blandford
Jon Gower
Richard Hogger
Gemma McAvoy
Deborah Martell Powell
Judi Richards
Peter Stead

To read more, please click on: www.artswales.org/viewnews.asp?id=783

ACW’s Annual Conference, ‘Crossing Borders’ will take place this year at Aberystwyth Arts Centre from 12-13 June 2008. Please mark these dates in your diaries!

The Arts Council of Wales has been funded by the Welsh Assembly Government (£1.5 million a year) to implement the Beacon Company proposal outlined in the Wales Arts (Stephens) Review.

Draft evaluation and eligibility criteria for Beacon Company status were agreed at ACW's Council meeting on 25 January 2008 and published in ACW’s website for general comment. Proposals were presented to the Arts Strategy Board on 21 February 2008 and the final application details were published on 4 March 2008.

To download the criteria for the evaluation for Beacon Companies in Wales, please click on:
www.artswales.org/publication.asp?id=636

Please consult with your Lead Officer at ACW before making your application.

The Senedd building was buzzing on the 1st of February 2008, with guests congregating to launch the Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales to the world!

The launch at the Senedd was jointly hosted by the Arts Council of Wales and Academi.  The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales is an Academi project with the University Wales Press as publisher, funded by a significant Lottery grant from the Arts Council of Wales.  Ten years in the making, the book is a magnificent achievement and a must for all Welsh households.

Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas, AM and Presiding Officer at the National Assembly for Wales, opened the evening by greeting the guests and Editors, Dr John Davies, Nigel Jenkins, Peredur L Lynch and Menna Baines and welcoming them to the Senedd, a fitting location to launch this important entry in Welsh History.

The Encyclopaedia is already making its mark on the world stage and was recently presented to the New York Public Library to mark World Book Day by Deputy First Minister, Ieuan Wyn Jones, during his five day trade mission to the States.

To read more, please click on: www.artswales.org/viewnews.asp?id=769

The new Wales Arts International partnership agreement between the Arts Council of Wales and the British Council will be signed in March 2008.

Wales Arts International's five year strategy will be published for public consultation through our website later this month.

The partnership’s ability to develop, share and transfer knowledge and expertise between local and international networks as well as its ability to raise new funds for international work will be critical to its success over the period of this strategy. So will be the notion of excellence, for which international work is a good benchmark.

Developing an infrastructure that allows artists and arts organisations to take up a variety of international opportunities will be a priority of the WAI partnership for the next five years.

To help WAI deliver the new strategy, the British Council will be creating a new post in Cardiff. Also both ACW and the British Council are investing in the creation of an European cultural desk, based at Wales Arts International to help inform artists and arts organisations in Wales of European opportunities.

The British Council is also currently consulting on its new arts strategy and are keen for a UK-wide view on their proposed approach. The consultation period finishes in mid April. Please visit their website for the copy of the strategy and details about how to send your responses: http://www.britishcouncil.org/arts-consultation.htm Wales Arts International and The Arts Council of Wales worked with the dance sector to raise the international profile of independent dance practice from Wales at the British Dance Edition, the biennial showcase of new British dance. Marc Rees and Tanja Råman presented work during the event, which attracted promoters and programmers from across the globe.
www.wai.org.uk/bdeA profile publication of Dance from Wales highlighting twelve independent dance practitioners can be accessed on WAI’s website: www.wai.org.uk/dance Ceramic artist, David Cushway, is taking the second artist in residence opportunity in Philadelphia as part of the three-year agreement between Wales Arts International and The Clay Studio.  David Cushway is currently based at the Fireworks Studio, Cardiff, of which he is a founder member.
The third residency will be advertised shortly on our website.
www.wai.org.uk/news232 The Québec/Cymru season in Wales 2008 is a celebration of Quebéc’s 400th anniversary. This year also, Wales Arts International and partners are celebrating ten years of the long standing Québec/Cymru international artistic collaboration.  For more information please click on: www.wai.org.uk/quebec Creative Wales Award Winner 2008, Ian Rowlands, will undertake a two part residency at The Lark Theatre in New York between May and October 2008 during which his fast paced drama ‘Blink’ will be performed for a three week run at the Brits off Broadway Festival in May 2008.
www.wai.org.uk/news245www.wai.org.uk/news227Eight emerging artists from China exhibited their work as part of Wales Week in Chongqing ahead of a month long residency at University of Wales Institute Cardiff, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Trinity College, Carmarthen and Regional Print Centre, Wrexham organised by Wales Arts International and British Council China and funded by the Welsh Assembly Government.
www.wai.org.uk/news239 Celtic Connections & Showcase Scotland 2008 celebrates a range of Celtic music and connected cultures. The festival and showcase offer participants opportunities to meet world music producers, festival directors and venues from Scotland and partner countries. Welsh harpist and singer, Bethan Nia, won the Celtic Connections festival competition this year.

Wales Arts International invites musicians and record companies from Wales to send samples of work to be presented to the festival director to be considered for 2009.
www.wai.org.uk/news241Music from Wales was featured at the ‘South by Southwest’ (SXSW) Music and Media Conference in Austin, Texas at the beginning of this month. This is the largest music showcase in the world and seven acts from Wales were playing: Duffy, Neon Neon, (Gruff Rhys from Super Furry Animals & American producer, Boom Bip), Cate Le Bon, People in Planes, The Victorian English Gentlemens Club, Christopher Rees and Los Campesinos!  Read more on:  www.wai.org.uk/news247 Regular news features on Wales Arts International's projects and international opportunities can be accessed online at: www.wai.org.uk/news

Following its successful showing at Oriel Davies Newtown, the re-presentation of the Wales exhibition at the Biennale in 2007, And so it goes, comprising of work by Richard Deacon, Merlin James and Heather & Ivan Morison, is currently at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff, with the exhibition closing date extended for one week to Sunday April 13th. 

Funding from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the Colwinston Charitable Trust, with additional support from Oriel Davies and Chapter enabled the Arts Council to bring an experience of the exhibition in Venice to a wider audience here in Wales.  The programme has been enhanced by artist and curator talks as well as an organised visit to Coed Gwynant in Arthog on a crisp, sunny December day to view ‘Pleasure Island’, the sister sculpture to ‘Fantasy Island’ that Ivan & Heather Morison constructed in the garden of the Ex-Birreria at Giucecca, home for the last three Biennale of the Wales Pavilion in Venice.  An illustrated Education Resource Kit, funded by ACW, Oriel Davies and Chapter has been compiled for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 as a basis for discussion on contemporary art, with suggestions for practical work and activities based on the artwork from the exhibitions in Venice and Wales and is available to download from the Wales at Venice website

During the six months duration of the Biennale in Venice students and young artists from Wales assisted with the important work of invigilating the exhibition, acting not only as exhibition assistants but also ambassadors for Wales to visitors from all over the world.  They have also reaped additional long-term career benefits as a result of funding from Arts & Business Cymru which enabled them to attend a bronze casting course at Castle Fine Arts in Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant and attend the exhibition installation at Chapter Arts Centre.

At Castle Fine Arts, under the guidance of Director Chris Butler, they learnt about casting techniques and the range of work undertaken by the foundry, including being able to view some molten bronze pouring, before getting hands-on experience making their own lost-wax models for casting.  The course also included an insight into how a macquette is scaled up for large-scale public art projects and concluded with a visit to Corwen to see the new Owain Glyndwr sculpture that was cast by Castle Fine Art. 

During the day in Chapter, Wales at Venice Commissioner Michael Nixon gave an illustrated talk and the students were then given the opportunity to observe the exhibition curator, Hannah Firth, working with Merlin James on the critical decisions behind the selection and placement of his work. They were invited to participate in the discussions and assist with the practical work of hanging the paintings. One of the students, Melissa Hinkin, currently studying sculpture at Wimbledon, has written of her experience  ‘I’ve had the opportunity to help install pieces of work before but not with the artist present.  Having Merlin in the gallery highlighted the importance of the relationship between curator and artist.  It was fantastic to talk to both of them; about their decisions and the way they installed the work in Venice and in Wales’.  As a result of the Art & Business Cymru funded course, Melissa, who became known to us through the excellent Young Curators scheme at Oriel Davies, will shortly be undertaking work experience at Castle Fine Arts.

In January 2008 the Arts Council of Wales made a formal commitment to go to a further three Venice Biennale, the first one being in 2009.  ACW will continue to work with the WAG and other partners on the presentation from Wales at the Venice Biennale of Art.

After arriving safely back from Belfast, the location of Academi’s successful conference this year, Academi is now proceeding with its packed spring programme of literary events.  It’s an excellent time for many Welsh writers –with at least 40 of them celebrating the fruits of their labour. 

Menna Elfyn, Robert Minhinnick and Richard Gwyn are amongst the Creative Wales Award winners this year-an excellent opportunity for them to experiment further with their craft.  Academi recently announced the 18 authors who have received bursaries.  This is the most effective way of assisting authors, to buy time and valuable opportunities. The bursaries are a modern day version of the sponsors of the Middle Ages.

On March 12, Academi also announced the 20 authors who have succeeded in reaching the long list for Wales Book of the Year 2008.  The short list will be announced in the Hay on Wye Festival on 26 May and the golden envelopes will be opened to see who has won the main prize of £10,000 in a ceremony at the Hilton Hotel in Cardiff on 1st July.  For more details, please click on: www.artswales.org/viewnews.asp?id=801

The new National Poet for Wales will be announced shortly after Professor Gwyn Thomas, the current National Poet’s tenure ends this month.  This scheme is supported by ACW and Gwyn Thomas succeeded Gwyneth Lewis in 2005-6. 

Gwyn Thomas’s tenure has been highly successful.  He wrote a number of public poems on numerous subjects from Senior Police Officer Richard Brunstrom to a tribute to Ray Gravell which was broadcast in a special ‘Sports Wales’ programme.  It was also a question topic on the quiz game, ‘The Weakest Link’. 

Two events are being held to welcome the new Poet – in Moreia Chapel, Llanystumdwy on 16 Ebrill and in the National Museum for Wales, Cardiff on 18 April.  A warm welcome to all is extended. 
For more information, please click on:www.academi.org or contact: post@academi.org / 029 2047 2266

‘Nocturne’, a new feature film funded by the Film Agency for Wales will be shooting later this year in and around South Wales.  The film tells the story of protagonist Caleb, a man lost on the road to nowhere.   One night he discovers that he has entered a brutal and savage world; he has staggered into a secret lost war where he must find the faith and courage to save his own life as he is hunted by the Silure Sect who will stop at nothing to slaughter him.

‘Nocturne’ is the debut feature of Cardiff-born writer/director Christopher Nurse. Christopher has created a number of well-received shorts before moving on to a feature.  The Executive Producers are Paul Higgins and Huw Pennalt Jones.  The cast include Patrick Bergin, Richard Brake and Joseph Milson.

The Film Agency for Wales has also recently launched a brand new website with a clear user-friendly focus, featuring all the latest news about the vibrant film industry in Wales: www.filmagencywales.com, 

Visitors to the website can view the working strategies and guidelines of the Film Agency for Wales. Importantly, application forms for funding can also be accessed and further information is available on projects supported to date.

For further information please contact

Lisa Jenkins, Press Officer, Film Agency for Wales Tel:029 20 467480 or visit www.filmagencywales.com

Rhodri Glyn Thomas, Minister for Heritage, recently visited Rhuthin Craft Centre to see the renovation work that is currently taking place there. The Centre is currently undergoing a £4.4 million transformation;  £3.1 million of which was a Capital Lottery grant from ACW, (one of the largest grants of its kind in North Wales) and will open in Summer 2008.

On the 25th January, Rhuthin Craft Centre also took its exhibition of 13 makers in the Applied Arts from both Wales and the UK to London as part of the 'Collect 2008' exhibition at the V&A Museum where it was launched to the public and on show until 29th January.

A rare opera that launched Liverpool's Capital of Culture on New Year's Day was premiered in North Wales at the end of last year. The work, a tragi-comedy by Donizetti - Emilia di Liverpool was written in 1824 and was rehearsed by the singers and musicians from across Europe at the Llangollen International Pavilion. Llangollen was chosen as a rehearsal venue because of its global reputation for classical opera and successful choir competitions. The opera has only been performed four times before in Naples, Vienna, Paris and Liverpool itself.
Carys Hughes from Aberdaron in Gwynedd, who received an HRH award to study at the Cardiff International Academy of Voice with Denis O'Neill, has just secured her first lead role with Scottish National Opera.

Bedwyr Williams has been selected to be part of Massey University, New Zealand’s Litmus Research Initiative One Day Sculpture. The 20 or so projects, each with its own curator, are to be staged around the country from March next year until early 2009.

North Wales artists John Brown and Wanda Zyborska have taken part in a group show ‘Body’ curated by Antonio Manfredi in Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Napoli, Italy.
ACW also attended a Joint Lottery Distributors Event in Anglesey on 12 October.
Merville Jones was appointed Artistic Director of North East Wales Dance. Merville was formerly a dancer with Phoenix Dance in Leeds.

Award winning director Tim Baker has been appointed Artistic Director of the National Youth Theatre of Wales from 2008 and also won one of the Major Creative Wales Awards for Drama.  (see Creative Wales news)
Sioned Webb has been appointed to succeed Elinor Bennett as Artistic Director of Canolfan Gerdd Williams Mathias based at Galeri Caernarfon.

World renowned photographer Philip Jones Griffiths has met with potential stakeholders in Caernarfon regarding locating his collections there in the near future.

Wales’s Venice Exhibition transferred to Oriel Davies in Newtown. The private view was attended by the Heritage Minister.

Elen ap Robert, Artistic Director of Galeri Caernarfon was nominated for Welsh Woman of the Year (Arts Category).
Helfa Gelf opened in October with a VIP trip around several artists’ studios. This year the ambitious open studio project included not only artists in Conwy CBC but also Denbighshire. This has been so successful that there are now plans to extend it to Flintshire next year.

Clwyd Theatr Cymru received much critical acclaim for Terry Hands’s Production of ‘The Cherry Orchard’. The production marked their 10th Anniversary.

Flintshire was awarded funding for a community visual arts project on an environmental theme.
Visual artists Maria Hayes, Helen Grove-White, Ian Phillips, Jonathan Brier and Rebecca Gould and dancer Uma O’Neill received individual awards this quarter.

Age Concern received an award to commission a new play that will be performed at the Stiwt, Rhos, Clwyd Theatr Cymru and the Unity Theatre in Liverpool as part of the Liverpool 08 City of Culture.

A year long programme of outreach activities and educational workshops at the Regional Print Centre, Yale College Wrexham.
Welsh Chamber Orchestra received funding for a series of workshops and concerts based at NEWI, Wrexham. This will lead into a three year funding agreement between the college and the orchestra to sustain its work beyond the ACW funding period.
Tŷ Newydd’s Gŵyl Gynganeddu was held between 16th and 18th November 2007.

Dawns i Bawb was awarded a training grant to provide training for its team of dancers and freelance staff.
The 30th Annual Holyhead Arts Festival was held in October and featured concerts by the European Chamber Orchestra and Llŷr Williams amongst others

A traditionally busy season featured some of the following highlights:

The Young Composer of Dyfed in association with Carmarthenshire Theatres held a concert at The Miners’ Theatre in Ammanford at which Rhodri Glyn Thomas presented his vision for the Arts; and the Dylan Thomas Festival celebrated its 10th anniversary with numerous events in and around Swansea. Also in the City the Glynn Vivian Gallery held the innovative and provocative exhibition “Displaced: Contemporary Art from Columbia” co-curated by Karen MacKinnon and attracting national and international public and press interest; and the Swansea Festival attracted sizeable audiences in its 59th year.

Other events of note include Theatr na n’Og’s 25th anniversary celebration and the launch of Rhayader and District’s Community Museum hosted by CARAD (Community Arts Rhayader and District). ‘Undercurrents Foundation’ presented its 8th annual Documentary Film Festival “Beyond TV” at Taliesin Arts Centre featuring national and international films covering issues from climate change and bush-craft to democracy and fair-trade.

Arts Outside Cardiff highlights include The Wales Theatre Company touring  Carlo Goldoni’s “The Servant of Two Masters” featuring Les Dennis to positive reviews and the Torch Theatre Company’s productions of “Flora’s War” written by Tim Baker. Theatr Mwldan launched two co-productions including the innovative musical collaboration featuring Catrin Finch and Cimarron, and also “The Eagle Dances” – an insight into the lives, beliefs and historical treatment of Native American Indians. This list is by no means exhaustive, but gives just a taste of the richness and diversity of work in the Region.
Previous award recipient, Dr Heike Roms, continues her series of debates to record an oral history of performance art in Wales – “What’s Welsh for Performance?” – a two-year series of events devoted to key artists who have shaped the development of performance art in Wales since 1968. 

Theatr Felinfach was awarded funding towards a seminar/event focussing on the culture of Celtic nations including Wales, Scotland and Ireland. This is hosted alternately by the countries involved and has historically been funded by the respective Arts Councils.
 
A number of smaller organisations received funding to support their annual programmes including Cymdeithas Cymrodorion Abergwaun a’r Cylch, Llanelli Choral Society, Oystermouth Arts Society, Lampeter Music Club, Presteigne Festival, St David’s Festival, Ystradgynlais Miners’ Welfare Hall and Swansea Jazzland. 

Visual and applied arts projects were particularly well supported, with an emphasis upon gallery education and outreach work. Recipients included Engage (National Association for Gallery Education), Ceredigion Museum, Mission Gallery, Oriel Myrddin, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Oriel Mwldan and Locws International. 

Two local authorities received funding towards their innovative and transformational community and/or schools based programmes. The City and County of Swansea was awarded funding for its extensive work involving children and young people with professional artists throughout the County which has been highlighted as a model of good practice. Neath Port Talbot  received support for its comprehensive programme of community based activities targeting mainly disadvantaged groups and geographical areas of deprivation.

The Hay on Wye Festival held its third festival in Cartagena, Colombia between 24th- 27 January 2008, gathering writers from across the world to share ideas and stories.  The Festival was a great success.  For a full report, please click on: www.artswales.org/viewnews.asp?id=763

Mission Gallery, Swansea, presented its first show of 2008, 'Bad Company May Need Positive Advertising' by Neath based artist, Neale Howells. Neale had his first solo painting show at Mission Gallery in 1997. He received a Creative Wales Award from the Arts Council of Wales last year and has since been working with new media.  To read more, click on:
http://www.artswales.org/viewnews.asp?id=754

Arad Goch Theatre Company’s new bilingual play, ‘Burning Monkey’ has been a great success touring Wales since 15 January 2008 (tour ended 20 February 2008). Audience numbers were high and the subject matter thought provoking. To read more, click on: www.artswales.org/viewnews.asp?id=752

Arad Goch also held its Welsh International Theatre Festival for Young Audiences, which took place between 11-15 March 2008 as well as being hosts for a giant Lottery ball, as part of the National Lottery’s Good Causes campaign, which is currently on show outside the Theatre. To read more, please click on:

www.artswales.org.uk/viewnews.asp?id=784
www.artswales.org.uk/viewnews.asp?id=795

Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown launched its new Young Curators Scheme in February 2008, which will run until December 2010. This scheme enables young people aged between 15 and 24 years to get directly involved with exhibition organisation. The Young Curators Group will organise at least one exhibition, to show at Oriel Davies in August 2008.

The first year’s programme runs from February through to late summer 2008, with sessions held at the gallery outside school/college hours. The programme includes trips out to other galleries and artists’ studios.  To read more, please click on: www.artswales.org.uk/viewnews.asp?id=780

Volcano Theatre Company, Swansea’s new production, “What Am I Doing Here?” can be seen between 25 – 29 March where a bus leaves Taliesin Arts Centre at 7.30pm to take you to a mystery location...

‘What am I Doing Here’ will be a unique and memorable experience for the audience, however well or badly they fare in the tests lined up for them! It is a mystery-history tour with songs, video, personal testimony and performance – funny, moving, disorientating and shocking. The mystery location is rich in strange objects – reminders of things that link Swansea to the rest of the world. It tells tales of stowaways and sea-borne rescue, (and of those left behind to drown), from Noah’s Ark to the Mumbles Lifeboat to the Vietnamese Boat People. Volcano has teamed up with various kinds of Swansea people, all with stories to tell about where they came from and how they ended up here.

Aberdare-born actor Matthew Parish played the lead role in The Barbican’s touring production of ‘Hergé’s Adventures Of Tintin’ at WMC in November. Tintin is about to become a worldwide phenomenon all over again with Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson announcing a trio of movies, starting in 2009. For now, the audience were very content to enjoy a filmic experience live on stage.

Later that week the New Theatre hosted the Royal Shakespeare Company’s superb ‘A Comedy of Errors’, confirming yet again why this company is so widely respected for its work.

Music Theatre Wales's production 'Julie' (written by Philippe Boesman, based on Strindberg's 'Miss Julie') was performed at the Linbury Studio at the Royal Opera House in November, receiving a glowing review in The Guardian and on BBC Radio 3. The intimate, intense and strikingly beautiful new opera played at the New Theatre in early December.

The Shakespeare theme continued the following month when Penarth’s Stanwell School presented their week of performances of extracts from five plays. Already renowned for the quality of its performing arts outputs, the school excelled yet again with some very exciting interpretations of underlying themes and key dramatic moments.

The Sherman presented the Wales premiere of Eddie Ladd’s ‘Cof y Corff / Muscle Memory’ in December, re-imagining for Wales an original piece commissioned by ROH2 at the Royal Opera House. Presented in Welsh one night and in English the next, the production wowed audiences and is touring to four other theatres around Wales.

December also saw a week of performances at Rubicon, where all the many groups of dancers were brought together to share some exciting and in your face choreography.

The long-awaited reopening of the Llanhilleth Institute took place in Blaenau Gwent in December, beating the new railway line by about a month. The Manager there was formerly the ACW-funded Arts Development Officer for the area and a programme of community activities will be provided, including the arts.

Dance House at WMC presented another vibrant evening of new choreography that included work by several members of the Diversions Company and a new piece by Tanja Raman, a Creative Wales Award recipient in 2007.

Over the Christmas period, The Riverfront’s pantomime ‘Jack & the Beanstalk’ was a runaway success, starring Bryan Hibberd. Audience reaction was so positive that 2,000 tickets have already been sold for the 2008 panto!

Congratulations are due to Ann Sholem, Artistic Director at Diversions, for winning the ‘Woman in Arts & Media Award’ category as part of the prestigious Welsh Woman of the Year Awards in November. Diversions will be holding their 25th anniversary performances across Wales throughout 2008. For more information please click on: http://www.artswales.org/viewnews.asp?id=760 Early in January, the launch of the new Sherman Cymru organisation and brand identity attracted a large crowd to The Sherman Theatre, to hear speeches from Chris Ricketts, Emyr Jenkins, Dai Smith and the Minister for Heritage.  For more information, please click on: http://www.artswales.org/viewnews.asp?id=746

Sherman Cymru has also received rave reviews for its latest production by recent Creative Wales Award Winner, Kaite O’ Reilly, ‘The Almond and the Seahorse’ including a ‘must see’ from The Guardian.  To read more, please click on: http://www.artswales.org.uk/viewnews.asp?id=798

g39 contemporary art gallery in Cardiff has secured substantial funding from ACW and the Esmée Fairbairn Trust to develop a new Professional Development Programme for Artists across Wales that will provide training, advice and information tailored specifically for artists at the beginning of their career. This will run alongside and complement its well-established and successful exhibition programme showcasing the work of emerging Welsh artists. g39 have also hosted artist Neil McNally’s new exhibition, ‘Death is Colder Than Love’ from 15 February – 16 March.  For more info see:
www.artswales.org/viewnews.asp?id=774

Ffotogallery brings the Tale of the Pied Piper to Wales as Clare Richardson’s new photography exhibition, ‘Beyond the Forest’ opens at Turner House Gallery, Penarth.   To read more, please click on: http://www.artswales.org.uk/viewnews.asp?id=787 2006/2007 Creative Wales Award winner, Jill Greenhalgh presents her Creative Wales project at Chapter Arts Centre on March 28th and 29th 2008.
 
The ‘Acts – Vigia’ is a performance piece involving young female performers
resident in Wales, Colombia, Peru, Argentina and Spain. The piece is a contemplative response to the brutal femicide that has been perpetrated on the US/Mexico border for the last 14 years.  For more info, please click on:
http://www.chapter.org/12569.html

Welsh Independent Dance (WID), the national organisation for professional dancers and choreographers, which is supported by the Arts Council of Wales, is presenting an exciting double bill from emerging Wales based choreographers Kylie Ann Smith, Ricky White and Matthew Howells, ‘Dance Bytes’, which can be seen across South Wales until 12 April 2008.  For more information, please click on: http://www.artswales.org.uk/viewnews.asp?id=797

Audiences young and old will be given the opportunity to enjoy a family show this autumn as Theatr Bara Caws, in partnership with Theatr Gwynedd and Galeri, stage a musical version of one of Wales’s favourite children’s books, 'Llyfr Mawr y Plant' (The Children's Big Book).

The show, which has received funding from the Arts Council of Wales as part of the ‘Arts Outside Cardiff’ initiative, will start its journey in Theatr Gwynedd on October 4th 2008 and will then tour venues all over Wales, including the Pavilion Theatre in Rhyl, Mwldan Arts Theatre in Cardigan and Aberystwyth Arts Centre.  To read more, please click on: www.artswales.org.uk/viewnews.asp?id=775

Theatr Mwldan in Cardigan is celebrating a hugely successful three years with its Arts Outside Cardiff activities going from strength to strength.  Such is the demand that previous performers and their productions will be returning in the near future with larger tours across the whole of the UK.  In the last three years, Mwldan has organised 19 co-productions that have gone on to tour Wales and beyond, producing a total of 162 performances, which have attracted healthy audience figures of just under 30,000.  Catrin Finch and Cimarron’s hugely successful show will return in 2009 as will legendary drummer Billy Cobham and Asere in October 2008.  Billy Cobham and Asere’s CD ‘Y Cuba y De Panama’ featuring work from the project is due for release at the end of June 2008.

Currently Mwldan are gearing up for their next AOC production, a classic, ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’, a Mappa Mundi, Mwldan and Creu Cymru co-production, which opens April 10th 2008 and which will tour for 26 dates at 20 venues across Wales – see www.mappa-mundi.org.uk for a full list of tour dates.

In this stunning full period costumed adaptation, Director and Costume Designer Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones has created a wicked, clever and brilliantly performed production with all the quality Mappa Mundi trademarks, with the set, costume, music, and lighting displaying all the mechanics of theatre to elaborate perfection.  Tickets are selling fast and for more information please click on: www.mwldan.co.uk

The Night Out scheme works with village halls and communities throughout Wales enabling them to bring professional performances into local venues.

Over the next couple of months Night Out are thrilled to be featuring some new performers to the scheme and some old friends in a celebration of great theatre throughout the communities of Wales.

At the beginning of April “The Polish Play “ from Farnham Maltings will visit three venues in South and West Wales.  Part conversation, part slide show, part musical, this funny, affectionate and touching story of what it is to belong has received rave reviews from audiences throughout the UK.

Fairgame Theatre will be entertaining audiences the length and breadth of Wales in April and May with “Keep on Moving”, their wonderful show which takes inspiration from the fairground sideshows of bygone times, with tales of bearded ladies and bare-fisted boxing, magical mayhem and man-eating lions.

On April 23rd Stuff and Nonsense Theatre Company from Bristol bring the fearless ‘Princess Suki’, visits to the dentists and great puppetry and music to Tredegar for their only Welsh performance of children’s show “Dragon’s Teeth and other Tales”.

May also sees the beginning of what we hope will be a long partnership with Clwyd Theatr Cymru Theatre for Young People when “Tales From Small Nations” visits venues across Wales.  The show features stories from Wales and other nations brought to life through music, puppetry, mask and mime and we are particularly excited about Monday 19th May when the young promoters of Ysgol Bro Ogwr in Bridgend will be taking charge of the event.

Old friends Hijinx Theatre are reprising their uplifting show “Full Circle” for their spring tour this year inspired by the true story of Andrew Williams, a man with Down's Syndrome who climbed Everest in 1996.
Spectacle Theatre are also touring during May and April with children’s favourite “The Lazy Ant” a colourful, funny story of an ant who thinks she works too hard.
Welsh language theatre will also be a prominent feature of Night Out over the next couple of months from three old friends of the scheme and one new.

Theatr Bara Caws’ black comedy “Y Gobaith a’r Angor” (In the Hope) features a group of sad and fragile characters as they exist from day to day under the hopeless shadow of the unyielding pressure of staggering through life. It can be seen in venues in North, West and South Wales (see North Wales news in this newsletter for more details).

Cwmni Theatr Arad Goch brings tales of the Tregaron Highwayman “Twm Sion Cati” –The Welsh Robin Hood- to children and families throughout the country.

As part of the Gwanwyn Festival, celebrating creativity in older age and showing throughout the country, newcomers to the scheme Glass Shot have produced “Bryn Gobaith” (Hill of Hope).  This play addresses concerns and issues about the treatment of the elderly that are at the forefront of today’s social agenda.

Gwanwyn also features performances of ‘Trafaelu ar y Tren Glas’ (Travelling on a Blue train) by Cwmni Rhosys Cochion which follows the children of the revolution from the 1960’s who have long left middle age and now head towards the tribulations of old age refusing to grow old gracefully.

For full information on the scheme and listings of all shows log on to

www.nightout.org.uk

The University of Glamorgan is seeking to appoint consultants to undertake a feasibility study relating to the creation of a new arts centre in Merthyr. The project is co-funded by ACW and the Welsh Assembly Government.

For full details see https://www.sell2wales.co.uk/notices/display.html?NoticeId=12098

Urdd National Eisteddfod

ACW is delighted to continue with its parternship with Urdd Gobaith Cymru by offering a platform for the arts in this year’s National Urdd Eisteddfod at Conwy.

ACW’s Performance Pavilion on the stage will be a home for numerous events for children, young people and adults throughout the Eisteddfod week.

There’ll be an opportunity for audiences to enjoy live performances by Cwmni Theatr Tir na n’Og and Cwmni’r Frân Wen, as well as a chance to get creative in art and crafts workshop, held by professional artists.  There’ll also be an opportunity to enjoy African drumming by Community Music Wales.

ACW is committed to provide a platform for young people so they can enjoy and experience the arts as participants, performers and audiences.

For more information, please visit ACW on the field during the Eisteddfod week.

Splash Cymru

 ACW has been working in partnership with the Youth Justice Board since 2003 to provide financial support for their Splash Cymru Programmes. The young people involved have been identified as individuals aged between 13-17 who are at risk of offending.  ACW’s financial support provides arts opportunities for these young people in the holiday periods and the scheme has been hugely successful.

During the February 2008 half-term holiday a flurry of Splash Cymru activities took place across Wales, from young filmmakers and ‘Adrenaline Junkies’ in Blaenau Gwent, to a ‘green gym’ in Pembrokeshire!  For more information please click on: www.artswales.org/viewnews.asp?id=772

As part of its on-going strategy to attract European funding for its work, The Arts Council of Wales has announced its ambition to place arts-based training at the heart of providing young people with much needed skills to help them into further training and employment in Wales.

The project, entitled ‘Progression Through the Arts’, will be ACW’s lead activity in its bid to access European Funding under the Convergence Programme for West Wales and the Valleys (the successor to Objective 1 Funding).

ACW aims to lead and manage a programme of support and training activity, primarily aimed at young people aged 11-19 under Priority One of the European Social Fund Programme, and possibly extended to those up to the age of 25 under ESF Priorities 2 &3.

The work of the project will be delivered by arts and other organisations within schools, colleges and other community settings and will create new and innovative routes into education, training and the workforce for those under the age of 25.

Progression Through the Arts, which will include workshop programmes and projects, in addition to a range of mentoring, support and work placement activities, will be part of a larger strategic partnership project entitled ‘Reaching the Heights’, lead by the Youth & Adult Learning Opportunities (YALO) Division of the Welsh Assembly Government’s Department of Education & Life Long Learning. 

‘Reaching the Heights’ will involve more than 100 organisations, co-ordinated at a National, Regional and Local level, with projects linking back into local networks.  The partnership will enable ACW to expand the networks it currently has in place with other organisations including AWYPO, Careers Wales, the Youth Justice Board and YOT Managers Cymru.

ACW believes that engagement in the arts at an early age can provide young people with a whole range of transferable skills which can then open up opportunities for further training and work.

Young people have been turned off by traditional training interventions, and this framework calls for innovative approaches to training for young people – we believe that arts organisations can do this.  This is an ambitious project for ACW, but capacity wise the organisation has a track record of managing and delivering European funded activities; under the last European Funding Programme, ACW worked with arts organisations to deliver a capacity-building project for community arts organisations, entitled Inclusion Through the Arts.

ACW is encouraging a strategic approach to the delivery of arts-based training activity under this funding programme – if you would like to find out more about our aims and objectives or feel that your organisation could deliver work under this programme, please contact: Angela.Tillcock, Business Development Manager at ACW – Angela.Tillcock@artswales.org.uk

ACW has posted a project idea under the ESF Strategic Framework “Supplying Young People with Skills for Learning and Future Employment” – ESF Convergence Priority One, Themes One & Two, which can be found via the following link on the Wales European Funding Office website:http://www.wefo.wales.gov.uk/frameworks/Projects/SupplyingYoungPeoplePage1.htm

Local Authority areas eligible for Convergence Funding are:  Anglesey, Gwynedd, Conwy, Denbighshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Bridgend, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Merthyr Tydfil, Caerphilly, Blaenau Gwent and Torfaen.

Local Authority Arts Expenditure Survey

The Arts Council of Wales collects data on arts expenditure by Welsh local authorities on an annual basis in partnership with the Welsh Local Government Association. In the only survey of it’s kind in Wales, this regular collection of data has gathered a picture of the value of arts funding over the last four years.  A report on the latest available data can be down loaded from ACW’s website http://www.artswales.org/publication.asp?id=255

• Net expenditure on the art in Wales by local authorities is declining. Expenditure (by the responding authorities) has dropped from £22.1m in 2003/04 to £16.9m in 2006/07.
• The per capita arts expenditure averaged £11.04 in 2006/07.
• The majority of local authorities have achieved a small increase in grant income towards revenue costs of arts venues.
• It can be estimated that net expenditure by all 22 Welsh local authorities totalled £35m in 2006/07 still making them the major funder of the arts in Wales.

Festivals Mean Business

The British Arts Festivals Association (BAFA) has conducted the largest survey of arts festivals to date in the UK, with financial support from ACW.  The survey provides a picture of the arts festivals sector as dynamic and vibrant, creating some of the pre-eminent cultural events in the UK, and presenting opportunities for local communities and visitors to engage with the arts. A full report and shorter summary document will shortly be available to down load from the BAFA website www.artsfestivals.co.uk

• The 193 festivals that took part in the survey recorded over 5 million attendances and 250,000 joined in education and community events.
• The festivals commissioned 200 new pieces of work and hosted 1,750 premieres.
• BAFA festivals ticket sales were valued at £12.9m and income of £6.7m from commercial sponsors plus £4m from trusts and foundations was generated.

Area Profile Reports

A new set of Area Profile Reports for Wales are being produced and will be available free of charge to all arts organisations/individuals in receipt of ACW funding in April. The purpose of the reports is to provide a statistical profile of a defined market area to assist with marketing and strategic planning. The ACW reports contain information on a 30-minute drive time area from a key location or for a local authority area. The information used in the reports is derived from CACI, BMRB Internationals Target Group Index and Census and other Government statistics. Reports will be available for 40 towns in Wales and all 22 local authority districts. Contact research@artswales.org.uk for further information.

February 13th, 2008 signalled the launch of the National Lottery Awards. The National Lottery Awards are an annual search to find the UK's favourite Lottery-funded projects. Now in their fifth year, the Awards aim to recognise the difference that Lottery-funded projects - both large and small - have made to people, places and communities, all across the UK. The Awards celebrate the talent, hard work and dedication of the people involved in running Lottery-funded projects.

In previous years, Lottery projects funded by the Arts Council of Wales have been successful in winning prestigious awards e.g. Cardiff based UCAN Perform, a creative arts project for visually impaired young people which battled off competition to shine through as one of the UK's favourite Lottery projects in 2006 - scooping the Children's Champion trophy. And in 2007, Galeri Arts Centre in Caernarfon, which received a significant Capital Lottery award from the Arts Council of Wales, reached the public voting stage.

To nominate your favourite Welsh arts project, click on: http://www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/awards The closing date for nominations is: 20th March 2008 and the short-list for public voting will be announced later in the year.

For more information, please contact Kate Walters at Lottery Monitor,
Tel. 020 7954 3499, Mob: 077734 07703
kate@lottery-monitor.com

From 15 March-8 June 2008 at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff, Artes Mundi 3 presents recent work by nine major artists.

Their work questions who we are and the societies we live in using a variety of mediums:  from enormous textiles and paintings to compelling photography and video installations. This stimulating and thought provoking exhibition explores different perspectives on life and art.  For more information, please click on: http://artesmundi.org/whatsOn.php

2008/9 Fellowships

Strengthening Leadership in the Cultural Sector

The Clore Leadership Programme is designed to help develop the
knowledge, skills, networks and experience of potential leaders across a wide range of cultural activity. 

We are pleased to announce that in 2008/9 we shall be offering an Arts Council of Wales Fellowship on the Clore Leadership Programme for someone whose career to date and in the future is based in Wales.  To read more, please click on:  http://www.artswales.org/viewnews.asp?id=778

Creu Cymru, the development agency for theatres and arts centres in Wales, is celebrating recent awards of £165,000 from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and £70,000 from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation to continue two innovative projects involving seventeen theatres and arts centres across Wales.

To read more, please click on: www.artswales.org.uk/viewnews.asp?id=806

At the end of 2007, Welsh Literature Abroad hosted an international translation symposium at Tŷ Newydd: The National Writers’ Centre for Wales. For a week, award-winning translators from ten countries worked intensively with Welsh writers and critics and discussed conventional and controversial approaches to translating Welsh literature.

At the end of January, Niall Griffiths travelled to Cairo and Alexandria on the invitation of Welsh Literature Abroad to join the renowned Alexandrian writer Ibrahim Abdel Maguid, author of No One Sleeps in Alexandria. Together with several prominent European authors they celebrated the collection of over 100 European literary works donated by Literature Across Frontiers and partners to the architecturally dramatic Alexandria Library.  Welsh writers will appear on the shelves of the Alexandria Library in Egypt thanks to this book donation project organised in conjunction with the Anna Lindh Foundation and Welsh Literature Abroad.

Welsh Literature Abroad will also be represented by Literature Across Frontiers at the Abu Dhabi book fair in March. A proposal will be presented to the recently launched Kalema library of world literature in Arabic translation including a number of Welsh literary titles.

WLA will be welcoming Flemish poet, Eva Cox, to Wales in the spring for a writers residency. Gwyneth Lewis will be in residence in Brussels, at the invitation of the Brussels-based literary organisation Het Bechrijf. Both Eva Cox and Gwyneth Lewis enthused about the translation workshop organised by Het beschrijf in co-operation with Welsh Literature Abroad last autumn where they were given the opportunity to translate each other’s work. WLA hope this will be the first in an established series of multilateral international writers and translators’ exchanges.

To find out more about Welsh literature’s voyage across continents, keep an eye out for a new short film about WLA’s work, which can be seen from May 2008 on: www.welshlitabroad.org

Starters

Elin Butler - Arts Funding Officer 08/01/08
Eleri Wynne - PA/Administrative Assistant. Split role, WAI and Arts Funding Teams
Caroline Rees - Administrative Assistant Mid & West Office 21/01/08
Ceryl Williams - Events Officer 11/02/08
Katy Brown - PA to Chief Executive 19/02/08
Haf Lewis, PA to Operations Director 10/03/08

Leavers

Angela Blackburn 08/02/08
Samantha McAllister - PA to Chief Executive 13/02/08
Caroline Rees - Administrative Assistant Mid & West Office 29/02/08
Rebecca Reitsis, PA to Operations Director, 7/03/08

Conferences

Are you connected?

Audiences Wales: CONNECT is a new networking event for everyone concerned with audience development and marketing in the arts.
It’s an opportunity for all staff working for arts companies, theatres, museums, local authorities, arts centres or galleries to meet up to share experiences and keep up-to-date with the latest thinking and best practices in the arts industry.
Audiences Wales: CONNECT provides an opportunity for you to meet your peers, share experiences (and problems!), work collaboratively to identify solutions, and for Audiences Wales to respond where possible on taking a lead on initiatives that will help the sector in Wales.
Audiences Wales: CONNECT will meet throughout the Audiences Wales funded regions in April and September each year.

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

South West Wales
23 April 2008 (Swansea Grand Theatre)
South East Wales
29 April 2008 (The Riverfront, Newport)

AGENDA April 2008

Update from Audiences Wales.
- Let us tell you who we are and what we do!
Identify priorities for future Audiences Wales: CONNECT meetings conducted via an Open Space Forum.
 What issues, ideas or themes do you want to - address in future Audiences Wales: CONNECT events? Tell us what you need and we will plan future events to suit you!
To book a place or get further information,
please email june@audienceswales.co.uk or call 029 20373736
www.audienceswales.co.uk

Museums and Galleries Month 2008

Museums and Galleries Month (MGM) is the UK’s largest celebration of museums and galleries. In 2008 MGM are aiming for a Bigger and Better MGM in Wales with more events and greater media coverage than ever before, resulting in more visitors to museums, galleries and heritage attractions across the Wales.

CyMAL: museums archives and libraries, a division of the Welsh Assembly Government, is responsible for the campaign in Wales which runs from the 1 – 31 May 2008.

The success of MGM is reliant on all participants contributing to the overall umbrella campaign, helping us to achieve greater awareness across the media.

The Assembly Government’s Heritage Communications Team has appointed a PR agency to help promote MGM 2008 in Wales. Working Word, based in Wales, is now well underway with planning for the month. If you have any questions or queries about events you are planning or would like help with ideas please contact Caroline Holmes or Fiona Anderson at Working Word on 02920 488778 or email caroline.holmes@workingwordpr.com or fiona.anderson@workingwordpr.com

Equal Spaces - Live!  Disability Arts Cymru Advice and Guidance Seminars 2008

Galeri, Caernarfon Thursday 15th May
Riverfront Newport Tuesday 20th May

An opportunity for arts, cultural and other organisations to obtain advice and guidance around best practice regarding the inclusion of disabled, Deaf and disadvantaged people.   'Dip in' to the most popular Disability Arts Cymru courses of the past two years. 

Disability Arts from Unusual Stage School performers 
Networking opportunities

Who should attend?

 Arts organisations, local authority arts development teams, youth and community arts groups, voluntary sector organisations, arts and health groups, colleges and further education establishments

Cost £25 per head including lunch

 To book a place at an Equal Spaces - Live! Seminar, contact

Disability Arts Cymru
Sbectrwm, Bwlch Road, Fairwater, Cardiff CF5 3EFpost@dacymru.com

Tel/ minicom: 029 2055 1040    Fax: 029 2055 1036