Dylathon at Swansea Grand
An amazing event to mark the life's work of Dylan Thomas on his 100th Birthday by a 36 hour recital of his poem's, letters and plays. Listening to Ian McKellen was captivating, electrics and oozed pure class. is experience of decades treading the boards of the west end, lyrically testing many plays showed.
SWANSEA'S FAVOURITE SON:DYLAN THOMAS
A TRIBUTE TO DYLAN MARLAIS THOMAS - Welsh Author & Poet. (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) Many thanks to Barry Kirk and Ben Davies for helping with this production.
Places to see in ( Swansea - UK )
Places to see in ( Swansea - UK )
Swansea, officially known as the City and County of Swansea, is a coastal city and county in Wales. Swansea is the second largest city in Wales after Cardiff, and the twenty-fifth largest city in the UK.
Swansea lies within the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan and the ancient Welsh commote of Gŵyr. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county of Swansea area includes the Gower Peninsula and the Lliw uplands.
The City and County of Swansea local authority area is bordered by unitary authorities of Carmarthenshire to the north, and Neath Port Talbot to the east. Swansea is bounded by Swansea Bay and the Bristol Channel to the south. Swansea can be roughly divided into four physical areas. To the north are the Lliw uplands which are mainly open moorland, reaching the foothills of the Black Mountain. To the west is the Gower Peninsula with its rural landscape dotted with small villages. To the east is the coastal strip around Swansea Bay. Cutting though the middle from the south-east to the north-west is the urban and suburban zone stretching from the Swansea city centre to the towns of Gorseinon and Pontarddulais.
Swansea City A.F.C. (founded 1912) is the city's main football association team. Originally playing at the Vetch Field, they moved to the Liberty Stadium at the start of the 2005–2006 season, winning promotion to League One in their final year at their old stadium. The team presently play in the Premier League, after being promoted during the 2010/11 season. The Football Association of Wales had decided that for the Euro 2012 qualifying campaign, Wales would play all of their home ties at either the Cardiff City Stadium or the Liberty Stadium. Swansea has three association football clubs that play in the Welsh Football League: Garden Village, South Gower and West End.
Alot to see in ( Swansea - UK ) such as :
National Waterfront Museum
Clyne Gardens
Dylan Thomas Centre
Oystermouth Castle
Plantasia
Swansea Museum
Mumbles Pier
Swansea Bay
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
Mission Gallery
Taliesin Arts Centre
Norwegian Church, Swansea
Three Cliffs Bay
Bracelet Bay
Pwlldu Bay
Swansea Castle
Limeslade Bay
Bishop's Wood
Langland Bay
Swansea Festival Of Transport
The Lovespoon Gallery
Swansea Museum Tramway Centre
Stardust Leisure
Caswell Bay Beach
Palace Theatre, Swansea
Victoria Park
Mumbles Hill
Attic Gallery
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Dylan Thomas Exhibition
Swansea's Dylan Thomas Centre has been awarded £935,700 by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), securing its future and the legacy of its most famous son a century after his birth. For more information go to
'I am Dylan Thomas'---from DYLAN LIVE in Swansea University
28 February 2014
Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea University
Tread in the New York footsteps of Dylan Thomas at this live music and spoken word show.
Dylan Thomas - Return Journey | Adelaide Festival of Arts 2015
Dylan Thomas - Return Journey
Bob Kingdom (United Kingdom)
Sun 8-Sat 14 Mar
Adelaide Festival of Arts | 27 Feb-15 Mar 2015
Neil Hamilton AM in Laugharne
Hyperlocal news site for the town of Llanelli and surrounding areas.
Swansea Culture – A Local Guide by Premier Inn
We take a look at Swansea’s culture with the help of Dan, your local expert from our Swansea City Centre Premier Inn. Starting off with the Dylan Thomas Theatre, we then make our way through the Maritime Quarter and stop off at the National Waterfront Museum.
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10-28-2014 - 05A2 - Swansea
10-28-2014 - 05A2 - Swansea
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Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems Do not go gentle into that good night and And death shall have no dominion; the 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood; and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.He became widely popular in his lifetime and remained so after his premature death at the age of 39 in New York City.By then, he had acquired a reputation, which he had encouraged, as a roistering, drunken and doomed poet.Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales, in 1914.
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Do Not Go Gentle Festival, Swansea 2013
Promotional video featuring Dylan Thomas's poetry for the Do Not Go Gentle Festival in Swansea 2013.
Filmed at The National Poetry Day event at Dylan Thomas's Birthplace, Cwndonkin Drive, Uplands.
With thanks to HOWL and all poets included.
LOCWS 2017 Outreach: Swansea: I Love This City
Swansea: I Love This City is a film created by participants from Swansea Communities First North West Cluster as part of our 2017 accredited film-making workshops and the Locws Creative Participation Programme. The film was edited by Jamie Panton and the poem was specially created for the film by programme participant, Gemma Collins and member of Poets on the Hill.
Locws International worked in collaboration with Swansea Communities First and Adult Learning Wales to run the programme. Funding for the project came from Arts Council Wales, The Welsh Government's Fusion Fund and the Lottery.
Great British Railway Journeys S09 - Ep06 Whitland to Swansea
Andy Morse - Walkaway
Andy Morse - Walkaway
Shot in Dylan Thomas' house, Swansea, Dec 2012
Shot and edited by Rhodri Thomas
Happy birthday Dylan Thomas
On Dylan Thomas's 100th birthday, Jasper Rees visits the exciting celebrations all over Britain, including a reading by Sir Ian McKellen
The day has dawned at last. A year-long celebration of Dylan Thomas’s 100th birthday has reached its crescendo – in London, in New York where Michael Sheen led a reading of Under Milk Wood in the same venue where it was first performed in 1953, and above all in Swansea, the ugly lovely town of the poet’s birth.
Indeed, if you’re reading this before 11pm, the celebration is still going on. Yesterday morning in Swansea’s Grand Theatre saw the start of the Dylathon: 36 hours of readings from Thomas’s writings. Jo Brand began at the beginning with the opening of Under Milk Wood. The vast cast list includes Sir Ian McKellen and Big Issue sellers, Nicholas Parsons and rugby legend JPR Williams. It will finish at the very minute of his birth.
I was in Swansea for the kick-off of the Do Not Go Gentle festival, now in its third noisy year in the Uplands, the suburb where the poet was born. In the immaculately restored 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, Cardiff musician Kirk Morgan set “Do not go gentle into that good night” to haunting music in the front room below where the poet was conceived and born.
I qualified for inclusion on the festival bill via a tenuous link: my grandfather was Dylan’s dentist in Carmarthen. In a wider sense, the Anglo-Welsh faultline – that hyphenated identity – is a rich Dylanesque seam for anyone who lives in one place and writes about the other. The centenary’s presiding magus has been Jeff Towns, an East Ender who moved to Swansea in 1970. An antiquarian bookseller and one-man Dylan Thomas encyclopaedia, wherever #DT100 has been celebrated, he has been there. But even he couldn’t be in three places this weekend, and chose to take part in the Dylathon.
After a night listening to raucous punk poetry and steamy R&B, I boarded the slow train to London, the route so often followed by Thomas, for the Dylan Thomas in Fitzrovia festival. The brainwave of Griff Rhys Jones, this included big splashy events – a Southbank concert with star readings, a screening of A Poet in New York, a tumultuous semi-staging of Theatr Clwyd’s Under Milk Wood. There were also walking tours taking in Thomas’s travelling shed, and a delightful short film of interviews with people (mostly women) who knew and fondly remembered the poet.
Two new examinations of Thomas’s marriage deserve a longer life. In the Wheatsheaf, where Dylan first met his wife Caitlin, dance company Thick and Tight performed an intimate suite set to words and music. A Warring Absence, a verbatim play by Tim Schneider, toured the battleground through his letters and her memoir. Daniel Evans declaimed Dylan’s hollow I love yous and an exquisitely wry Sian Thomas gave the impression that Caitlin was put on this earth to chop the poet off at the knees. I asked Trefor Ellis, who was married to the Thomases’ daughter Aeronwy, if he recognised his mother-in-law. He nodded cherubically.
I got to chair a couple of events – with biographer Andrew Lycett and academic John Goodby, and the poets Gillian Clarke and Owen Sheers. The consensus among them was that the centenary had thankfully managed to privilege the work over the shabbier elements of the life, and that his sometimes contested Welshness is now beyond dispute.
The year has certainly been a valuable exercise in branding for Welsh culture. Literature Wales’s project to promote Thomas in schools has made much play on the Welsh word for “influence”, which happens to contain the poet's name: dylanwad. No one seems to have noticed another pun – that Dylan equals wad for Wales’s coffers.
Swansea certainly needs the cash. Having dropped the ball for most of the year, Swansea City Council has got in on the act at the twelfth hour: the Lottery-funded refurbishment of the Dylan Thomas Centre opens this week.
And so to tonight, when the centenary ends at the ending. Among the readers at the 36-hour Dylathon will be Siân Phillips, who as a schoolgirl in the late 1940s read with Thomas on the radio. “He was so polite,” she told me. “I had never been treated with such deference by an artist.”
The deference is now all for Dylan Thomas. It only remains to wish the poet a happy birthday. Or, as Dylan Thomas’s Auntie Annie would have said on his visits to the farm on Fern Hill where only Welsh was spoken, penblwydd hapus.
Rebecca Lowe at The Garage Music Venue as part of The Genre Benders AKA Swansea Poets
Nogood Boyo
Out, from the Anywhere the Cat Can Go CD.
Jolly Jolly Jolly - A Child's Christmas in Wales
Jolly Jolly Jolly, from Wales Theatre Company's 2014 production of Dylan Thomas' A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES
Swansea Bay's Quality of Life - see for yourself!
Come to Swansea Bay - Come to Life!
If you are looking for a real quality of life, then living and working in Swansea Bay could be your answer. With its unique blend of city, coast and countryside, the Swansea Bay region literally offers something for everyone. Located along the coast of South West Wales, Swansea Bay includes the regional capital of Swansea city itself, the Gower peninsula, the 'Garden of Wales'- Carmarthenshire and the Vales of Neath and Afan, known as 'Waterfall country' and also famous for their spectacular mountain biking trails. Whatever your age, your hobbies or your idea of a good time, you'll find it within this beautiful, exhilarating area. Over half a million people from all walks of life already live and work within this diverse, colourful corner of Wales -- that's half a million who already know and enjoy the benefits of calling such a dynamic and yet relaxing region home. Just sit back and take a look at some of the highlights of Swansea Bay -- we think you'll agree that they add up to real quality of life for you and yours. It's a great place to live, work, study, invest in or visit and we think there's nowhere finer to live, work and play. For more info visit
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Lovely Ugly: Poet On The Estate- Final Performance.
The cast of Lovely Ugly perform their take on Under Milkwood at the Taliesin Theatre in Swansea. March 2014.