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Events
Outside Wales
Friday
23rd - Sunday 25th February, 2001
The Academi and Welsh Union of Writers' Joint Conference.
Ireland and Wales - Telling the New Story. Speakers: Dermot
Bolger, Anne Comerford, Patrick Crotty, Grahame Davies, Paul Durcan, Paul
Flynn MP, Patrick Galvin, Harri Pritchard Jones and Peter Stead.
Lectures, Discussions, Readings and Workshop. All sessions are open to
the public. Conference price: £145.00 inclusive. White's Hotel,
Wexford, Ireland. Please reserve your place by 5th January, 2001. Further
details from the Academi, 029 2047 2266, post@academi.org
Friday
7th - 11th March, 2001
British Council: A Celebration of Wales, in Lisbon,
Portugal.
Friday 9th - Lecture on Devolution and Wales. Performance
of Peter Florence's one-man play Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Dog. Free class in Welsh for faculty students by Nicky Bailey.
Book exhibition. Lisbon launch of Poetry Wales. Poems read by the
authors Landeg White, Robert Minhinnick, Paul Henry, Hilary Llewellyn-Williams
and Owen Sheers.
Saturday 10th - Reading of Dylan Thomas' poems by
Peter Florence and in Portuguese by translator and poet Fernando
Guimarães (tbc)
Further
details from: The British Council, 0207 930 8466
Poetic
weekend breaks in historic Ledbury
March 23 - 25 with Ronald Blythe
April 6 - 8 with Jem Poster
May 18 - 20 with Gillian Clarke
Each weekend will be hosted by a contemporary poet who will read some
of his or her own work, as well as exploring the relationship between
their own work and that of the featured poet. These breaks are an opportunity
to enjoy the places and passions that still inspire poetry today. For
more information contact Charles Bennett, 01531 634156
Friday 20th - Sunday 22nd April, 2001
The Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers 25th Anniversary:
Celebration of Writing. A weekend of readings, workshops, discussions,
writing, performances, celebrations, learning, sharing and networking.
The deadline for bookings is April 6th. Weekend: £110/ £85/
£60. Saturday only: £50/ £35/ £30. For more information
contact: FWWCP, 67 The Boulevard, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, ST6 6BD or
Tim Diggles, 01782 822327, e-mail: fwwcp@cwcom.net

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