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Fundraiser for the Children of Gaza. VoicesontheBridge – Saturday 21st June 2025 6.30pm. … @StoryvilleBooks, Mill Street Quarter, Pontypridd. An Evening of Poetry and Music To Support the Children of Gaza!
Des MannayDisabled, Welsh writer of colour will be performing his work.
Des MannayDisabled, Welsh writer of colour. Poetry collection, “Sod ’em – and tomorrow” (Waterloo Press). An Associate Editor ‘Poetry Wales, co-editor ‘ Angry Manifesto’ journal. Prizewinner in 4 competitions, shortlisted in 7. Performed at many venues/festivals, in numerous poetry journals, in 49 anthologies. and Judge in ‘Valiant Scribe competition”.
Voices on the Bridge is organised and presented by Rob Cullen – Reading and performing will be Sabrin Hasbun, Patrick Jones, Abeer Ameer, Mike Jenkins, Rob Cullen, Tracey Rhys, Greg Cullen, Ben Wildsmith , Fiona Cullen, and Leanne Evans.
VoicesontheBridge is an evening of poetry, spoken word and song. This event is stacked with great poets & speakers book early to ensure your place!
Elizabeth Heath of RCT Palestine Solidarity Campaign will be speaking about the upcoming Palestinian youth visit to RCT and they will have a stall with info leaflets.
Menna Elfyn couldn’t be with us but has generously donated 20 copies of – Y Bachgen a’r Wal – The Boy and the Wall – a book creeated by the young people at Lajee Centre near the city of Bethlehem.
Three local artists have donated paintings to be autioned on the night Barabara Castle and Jenna Cullen.
Great news Gerhard Kress has donated £410 he raised from the sale of his art work!
There will also be food and music. Heads up bring cash if you’re eating.
The event could not take place without the support of the wonderful @StoryvilleBooks. Big thanks to Jeff!
Watch out for further posts with more information about the evening.
Tickets are £10 online – £12 on the door. Tickets can be bought online with Storyvillebooks.
We hope you can join us and support the urgent need of the children of Gaza.
This is not a fundraiser for Hamas.
This is an event to provide funds to support the Children of Gaza.
All monies raised will be donated to UNICEF.
This is a formidable group of poets, writers, artists – Don’t miss it – Book Early.
This event is part of The Pontypridd Great Big Community as Super Power Day.
More Bridges less Walls!
Fundraiser for the Children of Gaza.
Saturday 21st June 2025 6.30pm. VoicesontheBridge @StoryvilleBooks, Mill Street Quarter, Pontypridd. 6.30pm
Tracey Rhys is a Bridgend-based writer, non-fiction editor and a mother-of-two. Her poetry can be found in Poetry Wales, New Welsh Review, Planet, Ink Sweat & Tears, The High Window, Dreich andanthologies such as Lipstick Eyebrows, Cast a Long Shadow, Yer Ower Voices: Dialect Poems from Wales, and Free Verse: Poems for Richard Price.
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Poems from Tracey’s first pamphlet, Teaching a Bird to Sing, were adapted into poetic monologues for two plays by Tim Rhys, directed by Chris Durnall. Listed for various competitions including the Cinnamon Press Pamphlet Competition, the Poetry Wales Pamphlet Competition and Cardiff International Poetry Competition, she was a winner of the Poetry Archive’s Now WordView competition in 2020. Tracey’s debut poetry collection, Bathing on the Roof, is a new release from Parthian Books.
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Organised and presented by Rob Cullen of VoicesontheBridge – Tracey will be reading with Patrick Jones, Sabrin Hasbun, Abeer Ameer, Mike Jenkins, Rob Cullen, Leanne Evans, Des Mannay, Fiona Cullen, Ben Wildsmith and Greg Cullen.
VoicesontheBridge is an evening of poetry, spoken word and song. This event is stacked with great poets & speakers book early to ensure your place!
Elizabeth Heath of RCT Palestine Solidarity Campaign will be speaking about the upcoming Palestinian youth visit to RCT and they will have a stall with info leaflets.
Menna Elfyn couldn’t be with us but has generously donated 20 copies of – Y Bachgen a’r Wal – The Boy and the Wall made by the young people at Lajee Centre near the city of Bethlehem.
Three local artists have donated paintings to be autioned on the night Barabara Castle, Jenna Cullen.
Great news Gerhard Kress has donated £410 he raised from the sale of his art work!
There will also be food and music.
This event is part of The Pontypridd Great Big Community as Super Power Day.
The event could not take place without the support of the wonderful @StoryvilleBooks. Big thanks to Jeff!
Watch out for further posts with more information about the evening.
We hope you can join us and support the urgent need of the children of Gaza.
Tickets are £10 – £12 on the door.
Book early – lets do this for the Children of Gaza! All monies raised will be donated to UNHCR.
This is a formidable group of poets, writers, artists – Don’t miss it – Book Early!
VoicesontheBridge Fundraiser for the Children of Gaza 6.30pm Saturday 21st June 2025 @StoryvilleBooks, Mill Street Quarter, Pontypridd.
VoicesontheBridge is a great fan of Abeer’s work and its great that she will be reading at our event again!
Abeer Ameer is a poet of Iraqi heritage who lives in Cardiff. Her poems have appeared widely in journals including The Rialto, Magma, The Poetry Review, and Poetry Wales. Her debut poetry collection, Inhale/Exile, was shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2022. She is currently working on her second poetry collection and regularly shares readings of poems on her YouTube channel.
This fundraiser to support the Children of Gaza is organised and presented by Rob Cullen of Pontypridd’s VoicesontheBridge. Performing wirth Abeer Ameer will be Mike Jenkins, Sabrin Hasbun, Patrick Jones, Rob Cullen, Leanne Evans, Des Mannay, Tracey Rhys, Fiona Cullen, Ben Wildsmith and Greg Cullen.
VoicesontheBridge is an evening of poetry, spoken word and song. This event is stacked with great poets & speakers book early to ensure your place!
Elizabeth Heath of RCT Palestine Solidarity Campaign will be speaking about the upcoming Palestinian youth visit to RCT and they will have a stall with info leaflets.
Menna Elfyn couldn’t be with us but has generously donated 20 copies of – Y Bachgen a’r Wal – The Boy and the Wall made by the young people at Lajee Centre near the city of Bethlehem.
Three local artists have donated paintings to be autioned on the night Barabara Castle, Jenna Cullen and Gerhard Kress and the sale will be donated to the fundraiser.
There will also be food and music.
This event is part of The Pontypridd Great Big Community as Super Power Day.
The event could not take place without the support of the wonderful @StoryvilleBooks. Big thanks to Jeff!
Watch out for further posts with more information about the evening.
We hope you can join us and support the urgent need of the children of Gaza.
Tickets are £10.
VoicesontheBridge Fundraiser for the Children of Gaza 6.30pm Saturday 21st June 2025 @StoryvilleBooks, Mill Street Quarter, Pontypridd.
Mike Jenkins is Co-editor of ‘Red Poets’ magazine for 32 years , Mike Jenkins has been involved in the Palestinian solidarity movement for decades.
His pamphlet ‘For Gaza’ ( Red Poets) raised nearly £500 for MAP.
Mike’s latest book is ‘Shared Origins ‘ ( Seventh Quarry), a collaboration with poets David Lloyd and David Annwn.
Forthcoming anthology ( as editor) is ‘We not me/ Ni nid fi’ (Culture Matters), radical poetry from Cymru.
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Organised and presented by Rob Cullen of VoicesontheBridge. Reading and performing with Mike Jenkins will be Sabrin Hasbun, Abeer Ameer, Patrick Jones, Rob Cullen, Leanne Evans, Des Mannay, Tracey Rhys, Fiona Cullen, Ben Wildsmith and Greg Cullen.
An evening of poetry, spoken word and song.
A member of RCT Palestine Solidarity Campaign will be speaking about the upcoming Palestinian youth visit to RCT and they will have a stall with info leaflets.
Menna Elfyn couldn’t be with us but has generously donated 20 copies of – Y Bachgen a’r Wal – The Boy and the Wall made by the young people at Lajee Centre near the city of Bethlehem.
Three local artists have donated paintings to be autioned on the night Barabara Castle, Jenna Cullen and Gerhard Kress and the sale will be donated to the fundraiser.
There will also be food and music.
This event is part of The Pontypridd Great Big Community as Super Power Day.
The event could not take place without the support of the wonderful @StoryvilleBooks. Big thanks to Jeff!
Watch out for further posts with more information about the evening.
We hope you can join us and support the children of Gaza.
Tickets are £10.
VoicesontheBridge Fundraiser for the Children of Gaza 6.30pm Saturday 21st June 2025 @StoryvilleBooks, Mill Street Quarter, Pontypridd.
We are really pleased that Sabrin Hasbun will be speaking on Saturday 21st June and reading from her book “Crossing”. Sabrin Hasbun is a Palestinian-Italian transnational writer. She has always had to mediate between cultures and every day for her is a journey across borders.
Sabrin believes in the extremely generative power of collective creation and action and her research focuses on collaborative practices to explore histories of marginalised groups and decolonisation strategies. She has recently worked as writer, editor, translator, and trainer for several institutions around the world and published articles, both individual and collaborative, about collective creation in communities. She now works as a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Cardiff Met university, specialising in writing for liberated imaginations and alternative futures.
Sabrin‘s first book, the family memoir Crossing: a love story between Italy and Palestine, won the Footnote x Counterpoints Writing Prize and will be published in May 2025.
Update for the Fundraiser for the Children of Gaza
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Organised and presented by Rob Cullen of VoicesontheBridge. Reading and performing with Sabrin Hasbun will be Abeer Ameer, Patrick Jones, Mike Jenkins, Rob Cullen, Leanne Evans, Des Mannay, Tracey Rhys, Fiona Cullen, Ben Wildsmith and Greg Cullen.
An evening of poetry, spoken word and song.
Menna Elfyn couldn’t be with us but has generously donated 20 copies of – Y Bachgen a’r Wal – The Boy and the Wall made by the young people at Lajee Centre near the city of Bethlehem.
Gerhard Kress has also donated some of his paintings and the sale will be donated
There will also be food and music.
This event is part of The Pontypridd Great Big Community as Super Power Day.
Watch out for further posts with more information about the evening.
We hope you can join us and support the children of Gaza.
Tickets are £10.
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