Festival Fringe
Chinyere Chukwudi-Okeh
Chinyere Chukwudi-Okeh is a Nigerian-published author of From the Crevices of Corps Hearts (Paressia Publishers) and International Sisi Eko, Farafina Books. She is currently one of two women helping Honno Publishers to assemble memoirs from women of Asian and African descent. She also works with the African Community Centre. Chinyere is a graduate of Creative Writing from Swansea University. Her reviews of Welsh books and her creative letter are published on NationCymru; The Magazine of People of Wales. Chinyere is married with three lovely children.
Bardic Vintage Books, POSTPONED
Nerys Howell is a food author and Welsh food specialist having
travelled the world promoting Welsh food and drink. She runs her
own company - Howel Food Consultancy and has published two
bilingual cookery books, Cymru ar Blat/Wales on a Plate which
was shortlisted for the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards and her
latest one Bwyd Cymru yn ei Dymor/Welsh Food by Season.
Nerys is a familiar face on S4C’s popular afternoon programme
Prynhawn Da and at food festivals all over Wales. She will be
preparing seasonal dishes from her latest book.
Town Hall Car Park, Saturday between 11:30am and 2pm.
Music from some of our local young musicians and bands. Grab something to eat and drink at the Food Festival, and listen to some tunes.
Town Hall Car Park, Saturday 2pm-6pm.
Come down to the Square and listen to some fabulous folk music by Llantwit Major's very own Ceilidh band.
Town Square, Saturday 11am.
The Miskin String Quartet consists of four professional musicians, based in the South Wales area. With over 75 combined years experience, playing in string quartets, orchestras and other ensembles, as well as music teaching; the joy of music making is at the very core of their ethos.
Town Square, Saturday 1pm - 1:30pm and 2pm - 2:30pm
Wales: St. David, Mr. Morgan, and Paul Robeson.
Director of the New Library and award-winning performer Richard Parry delivers an illuminating exploration of Welsh culture, identity and social justice in this relaxed festival recital. Songs include favourite Welsh classics and music celebrating stories of Wales.
Welsh baritone Richard Parry is a remarkably versatile theatre performer and cultural campaigner. He studied singing privately with Mark Wildman, Head of Voice at the Royal Academy of Music and has gone on to appear in opera and song recitals in the UK and Europe with The English Bach Festival, Clonter Opera and Opera North, and performs as a baritone recitalist at international music festivals.
St Illtud's Church, Saturday 1pm - 2pm with chat afterwards.
The Mab with Eloise Williams
The stories in The Mab are really, really, really old. Really. In fact, there are some clever people who think that they might be the oldest, ever, written-down stories in the history of Britain (you know, the sort of people who wear brown jumpers and stroke their chins and say things like “I think you’ll find that…”, or “I simply don’t agree…”, or “HELP! HELP! I’ve lost my trousers”).
But as well as being really, really old, the stories in The Mab are thrilling and funny and MAGIC. They speak of a time when the gates between the Real World and the Otherworld were occasionally left open. And sometimes, just sometimes, it was possible to step through. Join Eloise as you discover the magic of The Mab and create your own legend too!
Llantwit Major Library, Saturday 10th June, 1pm - 2pm. Supported by Literature Wales.
To book this event, call Llantwit Major Library on 01446 792700, or call in to the Library.
Performance poet, & writer on tour with the Welsh Arts Council. First published in 1980, Jan Price writes humorous and serious poetry and has performed all over Wales as well as further afield. Jan was born next door to Bardic Vintage Books, and will be talking us through her memories of Llantwit as well as reading us some of her poetry.
Bardic Vintage Books, Church Street, Saturday 2pm.
What happens to a theatre company during the Covid lockdown?
The A48 Theatre Company determined to stay active and creative by making film performances.
This is a Vale premiere of three short films based on three short stories by the writer Tony Curtis.
A Cuckoo in the Nest, Jumping and Some Kind of Immortality are witty, humorous and moving stories
What happens when a Samaritans worker gets involved with the life-story of one of her callers?
What is a sperm-donor, how does that work, and what is he hiding?
And when a college lecturer takes pity on a sad, disturbed student, then takes her into her house, who is really running the family?
Ray and Kath Thomas of A48, together with the writer Tony Curtis introduce and talk about these intriguing films.
Contains some adult themes, best suited to over 16s.
Hoddnant Room, CF61, Saturday 2pm - 3pm
Meet Robin Jenkins, one of the people behind the remarkable story of Atlantic Pacific: Lifeboats where there are none.
On Sunday 11th June, Robin will be talking about his experiences of volunteering in the refugee crisis in the Central Mediterranean as well as the work he his doing running the Charity; Atlantic Pacific.
His experiences over the past 9 years have seen him establishing Japan’s first volunteer run lifeboat station, volunteering in Lesbos and the Central Mediterranean and training people to help try and provide lifeboats where there are none.
Robin’s talk will focus specifically on one of the missions that he partook in with the NGO Sea Watch. He will discuss both the practical issues and the political landscape that has created the terrifying situation and what needs to be done to put an end to it.
Free event. West Church, St Illtud's Church, Sunday 11:30am-12:30pm
Poetry with Taz & Sarah, in the beautiful Galilee Chapel.
St Illtud's Church, Sunday 2pm - 3pm
The Old Swan, Sunday 7:30pm-9:30pm
Join Phil Carradice and the Llantwit Major Writing Circle to share poems and stories as we bring the 2023 festival to a close.