Our theme for our May half term activities is Dylan’s Travels. Although Dylan spent much of his life living and writing in Wales, he travelled across the UK for poetry performances, broadcasts and other engagements. He spent a summer in…
Dylan and Stravinsky: A Missed Masterpiece?
Did you know that before he died, Dylan Thomas met with the great Igor Stravinsky to discuss collaborating on a “musical theatrical work”? This never happened because Dylan’s sudden, untimely death interfered with their plans, but I was intrigued by…
Understanding Poetry for Beginners
For anyone who struggles to understand poetry, the Open Guide to Literature on Dylan Thomas by Walford Davies is a good place to start. I have been a fan of Dylan Thomas’ works for as long as I can remember,…
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Poem of the Month: ‘A Dream of Winter’
‘Very often on winter nights the halfshaped moonlight sees Men through a window of leaves and lashes marking gliding Into the grave an owl-tongued childhood of birds and cold trees,’ ‘A Dream of Winter’, from Dylan Thomas: Collected Poems (2014)…
We are the Best Family Venue in the UK!
Wow! What an honour – Best Family Venue in the UK! Last night we were named as the Best Family Venue in the UK at the Fantastic for Families Awards ceremony in The Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds, which saw over 25…
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We’ve been shortlisted!
2017 was a busy year for us at the Dylan Thomas Centre, with plenty of children’s activities, family events and community outreach projects, as well as having our Love the Words exhibition open for 357 days of the year… However,…
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New workshops for the wider community
Over the last few months we have extended our learning and outreach programme to reach Swansea’s community of asylum seekers and refugees. Led by the poet, dramatist and novelist, Eric Ngalle Charles, these workshops have explored the ways in which…
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Thanks be to you, and the Heritage Lottery Fund
Christmas is recognised by many as the season of goodwill, and next week at the Dylan Thomas Centre, we will be showing our gratuity to the Heritage Lottery Fund for their support in establishing our ‘Love the Words’ exhibition. From…
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Rapture at Christmas
This has to be my favourite season… and not only because Christmas is coming. It’s that time of year when we welcome our annual guests, recent National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke, and Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. On the…
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Party Hats, Cake and Calligraphy at Dylan’s Birthday Bash!
We had a ball celebrating the birth of our favourite Swansea-born poet, Dylan Thomas himself, at Dylan’s Birthday Bash on Monday 30 October. From 1pm – 4pm we made birthday badges, had our faces painted and also consumed a lot…
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