Carnival Blog RSS

Taking place on Saturday 17th June at MOMA Machynlleth is a day of presentations, discussion and music exploring the transformation of place in art, music and literature, to accompany the MOMA Machynlleth exhibition Roger Cecil: Inside the Studio. Full programme: 10 am Registration and coffee 10.30 Dr Peter Wakelin, Roger Cecil Curator Welcome: Abstracting the Landscape 11.00 Professor Jeff Wallace, Cardiff Metropolitan University What do we want from abstraction? 11.45 Dr Kate Romano, Goldfield Ensemble Invisible Places and Imaginary Landscapes in Music 12.20 Break to view exhibition Bring a packed lunch or eat in Machynlleth 13.45 Professor Mike Tooby, Bath School of...

Welsh writers Natalie Ann Holborow, Siôn Tomos Owen and Sophie McKeand will be joined by Indian writers Aniesha Brahma, Srijato Bandyopadhyay and Arunava Sinha. The writers have been brought together by Welsh publisher Parthian Books, Kolkata-based Bee Books, Literature Wales and Wales Arts Review, for their new project The Valley, The City, The Village.

The project is supported by India Wales, a new funding scheme by the British Council and Wales Arts International. The scheme supports artistic collaboration and exchange between creative professionals and arts organisations in Wales and India to build sustainable, creative relationships and networks between the two countries.

The Valley, The City, The Village brings together the six writers in a series of residencies and live performances, which will result in a trilingual publication of new writing in Bengali, English and Welsh to be published by Parthian in 2018. The project incorporates prose, poetry, art and reportage from Bengal and Wales. A special 48-page full colour magazine celebrating The Valley, The City, The Village will also be launched on 26 May, featuring contributions from all writers.

Bydd yr awduron o Gymru, sef Natalie Ann Holborow, Siôn Tomos Owen a Sophie McKeand yng nghwmni’r awduron o India, sef Aniesha Brahma, Srijato Bandyopadhyay ac Arunava Sinha. Daethpwyd â’r awduron ynghyd gan y cyhoeddwr o Gymru, Parthian Books, Bee Books yn Kolkata, Llenyddiaeth Cymru ac Wales Arts Review, ar gyfer eu prosiect newydd, sef Y Cwm, Y Ddinas, Y Pentref.

We are pleased to announce the dates for the UK book launch tour of Rebel Sun, the new poetry collection from award-winning poet and performer Sophie McKeand taking in a plethora of festivals, venues, workshops, readings and more across the summer and autumn. The official launch will be held at Hay Festival on 31 May 2017 as part of our #IndiaWales project The Valley, The City, The Village.

‘Rebel Sun is a compelling, shapeshifting exploration of land and myth, the deep roots of our history, our relationship to nature and to ourselves, merging visions of the past with narratives of the close-up and personal. To hear Sophie McKeand’s work aloud is to be captivated, stunned; on the page the poems are no less profound. This is mythological, musical poetry that not only crosses borders but seems to dismantle them entirely, collapsing time and space, transfiguring and prefiguring the world we live in.’ – Martha Sprackland.