John Heywood Thomas 1926 – 2025 Mae’r Llyfrgell Newydd wedi dysgu am farwolaeth ein cyfaill, yr Athro John Heywood Thomas, a hunodd ddoe (6 Ebrill 2025) yn 98 oed. Ganwyd John yn Llanelli ym 1926. Bu’n dysgu ym Mhrifysgol Durham a Phrifysgol Manceinion cyn dod yn Bennaeth Diwinyddiaeth ac yn Ddirprwy Is-Ganghellor dros y Celfyddydau …
What is the Easter story? For the last two years in the weeks before Easter we’ve told the Easter story by placing modern art paintings in pubs, shops and cafes. People are genuinely provoked and intrigued by the paintings which show the events of Easter set in modern London. Sometimes people also ask, “What …
This essay first appeared in Cwlwm magazine April 2024 Easter in Wales. What happened? Richard Parry examines some of the early Christian story in Wales, and its contemporary relevance. — It’s not every day you’ve got somebody in your back garden building crucifixion crosses. Tony and I had met a year earlier. A series of joiners …
see 15 modern paintings in shops cafes and pubs in Powys, telling the Easter story Artist Mark Cazalet sets the Easter story brilliantly among daily life in modern London Where to see the paintings… Crickhowell Webbs of Crickhowell : 15. Road to Emmaus – Old Oak Common, off Wormwood Scrubs and by the Eurostar sidings …
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Help bring Easter to life for communities around Hay-on-Wye, Talgarth and Crickhowell 18th March 2025 Here’s an opportunity for you to help with taking out the Easter story to communities around Hay-on-Wye, Talgarth and Crickhowell over the next few weeks. We’re hoping to take modern paintings of the trial, crucifixion, death and resurrection of Jesus …
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A new musical setting of The Lord’s Prayer available for Welsh Schools A new exciting whole-school music setting of The Lord’s Prayer commissoned by Cadoxton Primary School is now made available for all schools in Wales. The dramatic, joyful and deeply thoughtful song version was created especially for the school’s weekly assemblies giving the children …
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Listen to this remarkable 1968 poem by Elsa Morante – translated by Cristina Viti On Good Friday, March 29th, visit Llantwit Major and hear two major dramatic readings from the vitally important European poem ‘The World Saved by Kids’. Venue: St Illtud’s Church, free entry. Written in 1968, the year of student protests across …
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Discover how our understanding of Easter has changed over the past 2000 years. Are you curious about the Easter story? How can an act so violent, strange and joyful be at the heart of two thousand years of human culture? What did the crucifixion of Jesus mean then? What could it mean now? Alongside 15 …
15 modern paintings tell the Easter story in shops, pubs and cafes across the Vale of Glamorgan FROM THE 7th MARCH Experience these amazing 15 paintings by contemporary artist Mark Cazalet in shops, cafes and pubs in Penarth, Cowbridge and Llantwit Major. Venues listed below. They tell the Easter story in our modern day Britain. …
Discover the Easter story – with fresh insights, art, poetry, celebration and scholarship. What’s happening? Different things to see, explore and take part in – See THE WEST LONDON STATIONS OF THE CROSS. In Cowbridge, Penarth and Barry see dramatic modern paintings in pubs, cafes and shops that tell the Easter story set in London …
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