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Next Thursday (5 November 2009), National Theatre Wales will unveil the long-awaited details of their first programme of events.
The company is set to launch one different show for each month of the year - plus an additional finale.
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Young actors and film makers were out in force at the Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl last weekend for the It's My Shout Awards.
The awards recognise the budding talent that's nurtured through It's My Shout in all aspects of film and TV work - acting, writing, technical and production. The scheme was set up six years ago and is now supported by a wide range of organisations in the industry, including Ö÷²¥´óÐã Wales.
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The 2009 Kyffin Williams Drawing Prize has been awarded to artist Louisa Theunissen.
Ms Theunissen, 29, from Wrexham, won the £3,000 prize for her charcoal work entitled Deep Inside, which depicts a derelict factory. She studied fine art at the North Wales School of Art and Design from 2001 to 2004, and is a full time artist who now works almost exclusively in Wales.
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Congratulations to Marc Rees who's won a £230,000 commission as one of the artists Taking the Lead in the run up to the London 2012 Olympics.
He's one of 12 artists throughout the UK to be awarded one of these prestigious commissions which form part of the Cultural Olympiad. That's a term that's been widely used over the last couple of years and it's only now that I'm beginning to grasp what it means! It's all about showcasing cultural as well as sporting excellence and involving communities all around the country.
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The 12th Dylan Thomas Festival kicks off today, a day before the 95th anniversary of the birth of perhaps Wales' best-known writer.
The annual event is held around the dates of his birth and death (27 October and 9 November) in his birthplace Swansea. This year's festival will also celebrate the life of
Aeronwy Thomas Ellis, Dylan Thomas' only daughter who sadly .
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I was thrilled to discover that
Only Men Aloud - now universally referred to as the UK's favourite choir - had stormed to the top of the Classical Album chart with their second CD, Band of Brothers.
The boys, led by Musical Director Tim Rhys Evans, are working hard on the old publicity rounds. It's a close run thing to work out if they're doing more TV interviews than
Katherine Jenkins at the moment!
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The Cape Town Opera began their short UK tour with three performances at Wales Millennium Centre of Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess.
The production, which sets the piece in a derelict building in Johannesburg, was full of life and colour and transferring the action from the United States to South Africa certainly worked for me. Its themes of poverty and racism and the depiction of a community where drug abuse and violence are commonplace strike chords throughout the world.
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I'm looking forward this week to talking on Thursday's
Radio Wales Arts Show to art historian Ceri Thomas about the work of the Glynneath artist Ken Elias.
As well as being a practising artist Ceri is an expert on the subject of Wales' visual culture since 1945 and the book he's edited on Elias' art is out to coincide with a major retrospective exhibition at the National Library in Aberystwyth.
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Wes Anderson's film of Fantastic Mr Fox, based on
Roald Dahl's children's tale, is opening the London Film Festival tonight.
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The shortlist for the fourth Artes Mundi prize was announced on Thursday 8 October 2009.
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I'm packing a range of artistic experiences into a trip to Swansea this week. There's a concert at the which is part of this year's -
Ö÷²¥´óÐã National Orchestra of Wales with a programme of Beethoven's Emperor Piano concerto and the Symphonie Fantastique by Berlioz.
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I went to drool over some paintings I can't afford last week. It's an exhibition of recent work by Gwilym Prichard at Martin Tinney's gallery in Cardiff.
Displayed over two floors are about 70 landscapes in oil that capture either Gwilym's native north Wales or the south west where he and his painter wife, Claudia Williams, now live.
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The fifth birthday celebration season at started with a concert that brought together two classical music giants for the very first time in the UK.
Bryn Terfel is a passionate supporter of WMC and very at home on its main stage. He was joined by the Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, performing there for the second time.
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Last week I went to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. How grand! No, I wasn't in the huge red plush and gilt auditorium where tickets cost hundreds of pounds. I was in the smaller Linbury Studio Theatre where were premièring their latest commissioned work, Letters of a Love Betrayed.
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"You don't have to be a friend of Dorothy to be a friend of Iris." That's what it says in the programme brochure for the third Iris film festival, held in two Cardiff cinemas between 7 and 10 October.
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| 12:06 UK time, Friday, 30 October 2009
