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FESTIVAL FRINGE
8th & 9th June

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Festival Fringe

Back for 2024, our Festival Fringe is an eclectic mix of music, visual spectacle, art exhibitions, and the chance to sample some literature events.

We're working closely with the Town Council who are hosting their second Food Festival, so why not choose something from the wide range of food stalls and enjoy some music while you eat!

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Nerys Howell
FREE

Saturday 10am, Town Hall Car Park

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 three
bilingual cookery books, Cymru ar Blat/Wales on a Plate which
was shortlisted for the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, Bwyd Cymru yn ei Dymor/Welsh Food by Season, and her latest one Cywain/Harvest.
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.

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clare e potter
FREE

Saturday 13:00, St Illtud's Church

clare e. potter will be reading from her new book Healing the Pack, a book of retrieval. These are poems on the hunt for language to speak of intergenerational resilience and the power offered up by ancestors and perceptive children. Born out of working-class life in a coalmining community, the work explores unsilencing. It honours those who speak through the gaps of their suffering to share their strengths. Deep attention is given to the undertones, the hushed and ignored, to those familial presences who linger with instructions for the writer, to break detrimental cycles, to heal and be healed. 

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Story time with Dai the Dragon
FREE

Saturday 13:00 - 14:00, Llantwit Major Town Hall Car Park

Story reading session with Mark Jones and Nick Clement of Chi Education.

Come and hear the story of Dai the Dragon, part of the meditation and mindfulness series from Chi Education.

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The Eclectics

Saturday 15:00 - 15:30, St Illtud's Church

We're very happy to welcome the Eclectics back to the festival, for this half hour singing performance.

FREE
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Vale of Glamorgan Brass Band
Town Hall Car Park, Sunday 11am-1pm.
FREE
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Music in the Car Park

Various times during the Town Council Food Festival

Music from a selection of local musicians and bands. Grab something to eat and drink at the Food Festival, and listen to some tunes.

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Poetry & Pints

The Old Swan, Sunday 18:30 onwards.

Join host, Sarah Persson, to share poems and stories as the 2024 festival draws to a close.

FREE
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