Celfypridd

Were still here no matter what’s thrown at us…a Come ye all celebration with music, song and maybe a poem or two!

With The Emeralds and some surprise guests!

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From 6.00pm Under the Raging Moon – One night with Dylan Thomas in Greenwich Village NYC & PeterThabit Jones with the Seventh Quarry Actors

Please note – The reading is not suitable for children.

VoicesontheBridge will be back @StoryvilleBooks on 17th December at 2.00pm for a social meeting with mulled wine and nibbles – with The Emeralds providing music! Starts 2.00pm.

In the evening starting at 6.30pm Peter Thabit Jones and the Seventh Quary Theatre Group will be reading “Under the Raging Moon” – One night with Dylan Thomas.

*The play is not suitable for children.

Bridges Not Walls

Writers also reading are Sophie Buchaillard, Abeer Ameer @abeer_ameer77, Susie Wild, Ben Wildsmith, Stephanie McNicholas, Nick McGaughey, Sion Tomos Owen & Rob Cullen.

VoicesontheBridge is hosted by Jeff Baxter @StoryvilleBooks

VoicesontheBridge is organised by Rob Cullen.

All are welcome.

Bridges not walls.

Bridges of Ponty

Peter Thabit Jones will be reading his poetry. Peter is a Welsh poet and dramatist. Peter has authored sixteen books. He has participated in festivals and conferences in America and Europe and is an annual writer-in-residence in Big Sur, California. A recipient of many awards, including the Eric Gregory Award for Poetry (The Society of Authors, London) and the Homer: European Medal of Poetry and Art, two of his dramas for the stage have premiered in America. His opera libretti for Luxembourg composer Albena Petrovic Vratchanska have premiered at the Philarmonie Luxembourg, the National Opera House Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, and Theatre National Du Luxembourg. Further information: http://peterthabitjones.com

Writers also reading are Sophie Buchaillard, Abeer Ameer @abeer_ameer77, Susie Wild, Ben Wildsmith, Stephanie McNicholas, Nick McGaughey, Sion Tomos Owen & Rob Cullen.

VoicesontheBridge is hosted by Jeff Baxter @StoryvilleBooks

VoicesontheBridge is organised by Rob Cullen.

All are welcome.

Bridges not walls.

BridgesofPonty

Come listen to Sophie Buchaillard read from her novel “This is not who we are” and much much more…

Writers also reading will be Abeer Ameer @abeer_ameer77, Susie Wild, Ben Wildsmith, Nicholaus McGaughey, Sion Tomos Owen, Stephanie McNicholas & Rob Cullen.

VoicesontheBridge is hosted by Jeff Baxter Storyville Book

Voices on the Bridge is organised by Rob Cullen.

Starts at 6.30pm – All are welcome.

BridgesofPonty

Abeer Ameer

I’m looking forward to hearing Abeer Ameer (@abeer_ameer77) reading her poetry.

Abeer is a poet of Iraqi heritage who lives in Cardiff, Wales. She trained as a dentist in London developing an interest in the treatment of anxious patients and mindfulness. Her poems are often inspired by stories of Iraq and include a range of personal and political themes. They have appeared widely online and in-print publications including: Acumen, Poetry Wales, Magma, New Welsh Reader, The Rialto and The Poetry Review. Her debut poetry collection, Inhale/ Exile, was published by Seren in February 2021 and shortlisted for the Poetry Category for Wales Book of the Year 2022.

Writers also reading will be Sophie Buchaillard, Tomos Sion Owen, Susie Wild, Ben Wildsmith, Nicholaus McGaughey, Stephanie McNicholas & Rob Cullen.

VoicesontheBridge is hosted by Jeff Baxter Storyville Books

@VoicesontheBridge is organised by Rob Cullen.

Starts at 6.30pm – All are welcome.

Bridges not walls.

Rob Cullen will be reading some of his poetry from the past two years. Rob Cullenwas born in the Rhondda valley, studied at Bristol, Cardiff & Brighton art schools. He lived in New York and Brighton UK returning to South Wales in 1982. Rob worked in the Justice system. For the latter 9 years of his career he was a UK Recognised Expert to the Family & Criminal Courts.
Rob retired in 2013 and returned to his arts training focussing on writing and photography. Rob’s short story The Choice was published in the anthology A Fall into Grace published on 16th December 2015 with a launch at the National Folk Museum of Wales in St Fagans.
Rob’s first collection of poetry “Uncertain Times” was published in 2016. Short stories have been published in The Lark US Online Magazine. Rob’s poetry & short stories have been published in the UK &US including The Atlanta Poetry Review, The Learned Pig, Cambridge Online Arts Magazine& Red Poets Annual Magazine as well as Gwrthryfel Uprising & Onward Ymlaen Anthologies of Radical Poetry from Contemporary Wales by Culture Matters.
Rob has completed a Taff Noir novel which awaits publication and also completed a second psychological novel. Rob has organised “Voices on The Bridge” since 2017

Writers also reading will be Sophie Buchaillard, Abeer Ameer @abeer_ameer77, Susie Wild, Ben Wildsmith, Nicholaus McGaughey, Sion Tomos Owen, & Stephanie McNicholas.

VoicesontheBridge is hosted by Jeff Baxter Storyville Book

VoicesontheBridge is organised by Rob Cullen.

Starts at 6.30pm – All are welcome.

Bridges not walls.

BRIDGES OF PONTY

Tomos Sion Owen is a bilingual creative form the Rhondda Fawr. After experiencing over a hundred different jobs he’s now a freelance creative working as an illustrator and caricaturist, writer, presenter, and tutor with his company, CreaSion. He’s published prose, poetry, comics and books for Welsh Learners as well as illustrating Wales Book of the Year nominated books.

Tomos is currently working on a Lit Wales & WWF Cymru funded project creating an illustrated diary of Welcome to our woods’ Woodland Therapy group in Cwm Saerbren Treherbert & as a lyricist for Gold Disk Records’ Our Space/Ein Lle Ni project which is a community concept album on the entire History of the Rhondda valleys from Ice Age to the future. He lives with his wife and daughters in Treorchy, Rhondda Fawr.

Writers also reading will be Sophie Buchaillard, Abeer Ameer @abeer_ameer77, Susie Wild, Ben Wildsmith, Nicholaus McGaughey, Stephanie McNicholas & Rob Cullen.

VoicesontheBridge is hosted by Jeff Baxter Storyville Books

VoicesontheBridge is organised by Rob Cullen.

Starts at 6.30pm – All are welcome.

Bridges not walls.

BridgesofPonty