Young Driver Issues in Blackwood
A news clip showing some issues that the town of Blackwood (some 9 miles south of Tredegar), is having with boy racers in cars. Please visit for more news and information on the great town of Tredegar, South Wales, UK
Festival Internacional.de Doc in Blackwood, Wales 2017
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This short film was shot over a five day workshop at Blackwood Miners Institute, South Wales. It was devised by Blackwood Miners Teenage Film Group (Miners Inc.) and scripted and directed by Ruth Majeed. Filmed and edited by Roger Carruthers.
Thanks to Caerphilly Arts Development for funding the project.
Into The Ark | Brightest Creatures (Wales, UK): STA Travel Sounds
Hailing from The Valleys of South Wales, Into The Ark are Taylor Jones (20) and Dane Lloyd (25) who have been writing and playing together since meeting as teenagers on the live circuit in Wales, bonding over their love of writing and each other’s taste in music.
After several years of busking as teenagers in Cardiff, the duo bought a beaten up old van in the Summer of 2015 to allow them to tour, travelling over 60,000 miles around the UK, sleeping in the van, driving from gig to gig, playing over 130 gigs in under a year. Through relentless touring and word of mouth, within 8 months it led to them playing their own sold-out headline shows at The Social, London and The Miners Institute in Blackwood, and invites to support Model Aeroplanes, Paolo Nutini, Eliza & The Bear and Dan Owen.
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Old Buildings, New Lives: Crumlin Navigation Colliery
PRT is leading the regeneration of one of Wales' most valuable industrial heritage sites, Crumlin Navigation Colliery in Caerphilly. The Colliery contains 11 listed structures that have been rated as among the most endangered buildings in Wales and England. Here, Vera Jenkins of Glofa (Friends of the Navigation) talks about the importance of the project for the local community.
More details about the regeneration project here:
I am who I am
Caerphilly Youth Forum have written and recorded this song with Community Music Wales to highlight the issue of Mental Health.
'Oh Hello' Trailer - Torch Theatre Company - Tour Dates 2016
Charles Hawtrey was one of the leading lights of the Carry On film franchise.
Bubbly, energetic and extremely funny Hawtrey was one of the best known comedy actors of the 40s, 50s and 60s but as his career waned so his behaviour became more drunken, promiscuous and eccentric losing him many friends in an age when male homosexuality in Britain was illegal and punishable by a prison sentence.
See him in this one-man show as he regales stories of 50 years in the film industry working with the likes of Alfred Hitchcock and starring in films including The Ghost of St Michael’s, Passport to Pimlico and a total of 21 Carry Ons. Hear of his hilarious run-ins with Kenneth Williams and his disdain of the Carry On producers as well as a complex relationship with his senile mother.
Oh Hello! first opened at the Torch Theatre, Milford Haven in November 2014, receiving a standing ovation at every performance. It has since gone on to perform at venues across Wales Cardiff and Assembly Hall, Edinburgh at the 2015 Fringe Festival. Written by Dave Ainsworth, directed by Peter Doran and performed by Jamie Rees the show has sold out every one of its performances so far, receiving four and five star reviews along the way and a prestigious Laurel Award at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
“Dave Ainsworth’s hit fringe tribute… Jamie Rees‘ finely tuned, sensitive performance…”
– Daily Mail
‘Incredibly skillful performance from Jamie Rees’.
– Sunday Express
“By turns bitchy, vulnerable and lonely, Rees’ Hawtrey rants with an ever present drink in hand… Sold out for the rest of its run, Carry On queueing for returns…”
– The Scotsman
“A tour-de-force performance by Jamie Rees captures the complex eccentricities of a comedy hero in this affectionate one-man portrait of Carry On star Charles Hawtrey.”
– Chortle
Book your tickets here:
13 – 15 July – Torch Theatre, Milford Haven | torchtheatre.co.uk
16 July – Blackwood Miners’ Institute | blackwoodminersinstitute.com
19 July – Ammanford Miner’s Theatre | theatrausirgar.co.uk
20-23 July – Chapter, Cardiff | chapter.org
27 July – Theatre Brycheiniog, Brecon | brycheiniog.co.uk
28 July – Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl | grandpavilion.co.uk
4-29 Aug – Edinburgh Fringe Festival | edfringe.com
7 Sep – Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan | mwldan.co.uk
8 Sep – Wayside Arts Centre, Builth Wells | wyeside.co.uk
9 Sep – Borough Theatre, Abergavenny | boroughtheatreabergavenny.co.uk
10 Sep – Astor Theatre, Deal | theastor.org
11 Sep – The Neeld, Chippenham | neeld.co.uk
12 Sep – The Welfare, Ystradynglais | thewelfare.co.uk
13 Sep – The Riverfront, Newport |newportlive.co.uk/riverfront
14 Sep – Park & Dare Theatre, Aberdare | rct-arts.co.uk
15 Sep – The Courtyard, Hereford | courtyard.org.uk
16 Sep – Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea | taliesinartscentre.co.uk
17 Sep – Theatr Felinfach, Felinfach | theatrfelinfach.cymru
The Miners Hard Times - The Chartists
The Chartists - The Miners Hard Times from The Album The Chartists Rise Again
Photography by Phil Lightwood Jones, taken at Llanhileth Institute 10th May 2012.
RVAC @ Junior Welsh League Fixture #1- Hereford 09/05/15
RVAC @ Junior Welsh League Fixture #1- Hereford 09/05/15
GAVO Tredegar Communities First
This Digital Story gives an overview of GAVO Communities First in
Tredegar