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Arts&Business certificate of excellence for partnership between Ty Newydd and Carillion plc. led consortium.

On Thursday evening, March 12th, at a prestigious event at Rhuthin Crafts Centre, Ty Newydd received a certificate for excellence in partnership with the North Wales Construction Partnership, led by Carillion plc.The North Wales Construction Partnership, which consists of Carillion plc, Capita Symonds, Kier North West, R L Davies, Lawray, Wynne Construction, Chandler KBS, Russel Hughes Architects, Costain, Allwedd, Ellis Williams Architects, Corderoy and R L Williams has provided sponsorship for Reaching Out - Creu Cysylltiadau , an innovative European e-twinning project for primary schools. Paul Pearson, Commercial Manager of Carillion plc. and Sally Baker, Executive Director of Tŷ Newydd, received their certificate from Ieuan Wyn Jones, who in the opening speech of the evening, had praised the partnership as an example of how business and the arts can work together to benefit the local community.

Reaching Out - Creu Cysylltiadau

Cae Top Primary School European Project

This exciting project has enabled Cae Top Primary School to be involved in e-twinning with other Primary Schools in Europe.

Through 3-day residential courses at Tŷ Newydd and visits to the school by artists, pupils have been able to learn about Welsh traditions first-hand.
The project has given the pupils not only the opportunity to learn more about their own culture and build up links with schools in other countries but the unique experience of being able to spend an extended time on developing their own creativity in the company of professional artists.

In February pupils had the opportunity to learn about the Mabinogion stories and traditional musical instruments with musician and storyteller, Mair Tomos Ifans, poet and musician, Twm Morys and storyteller, Eric Madern.

In March Twm Morys worked with pupils to create a folk song which will be performed during Tŷ Newydd’s Open Day on May 16th. A daylong craft workshop with Amber Smit gave the pupils an opportunity to work on creating their own traditional costumes using various materials, and a traditional dance class with Edward Elias was arranged for them in the evening. Michael Freeman, from Ceredigion Museum, talked about traditional costume on their last day.

A digital record of the workshops has been compiled which will be sent via the Internet to the schools in Europe and pupils have also been involved in the making of a DVD of the project with Chwarel Television Company.

This project was sponsored by the North Wales Construction Partnership and Arts&Business Cymru.

Twm Morys

Mair Tomos Ifans

Disgyblion Cae Top

“Translating Europe”

Halma-conference under the auspices of the Hungarian Foreign Minister Kinga Göncz

Between April 23. and 27. 2009 Halma, the European Network of Literary Centres, organises a conference dedicated to the topic “Translating Europe”. Representatives of 27 literary centres in 21 European countries assemble in order to discuss the relevance of literary translation for European cultural understanding. In particular, we will focus on the relevance of translation from “smaller” European languages and on networking between European translators.

In the course of this conference, there will be three public events:

Friday, April 24th, 11:00 AM to 12:30 AM
Panel Discussion: Hungary in European Literature

Friday, April 24th, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Reading: Péter Esterházy reads from The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (Down the Danube)
Introduction by the mayor of Balatonfüred, Dr. István Bóka

Saturday, 25. April, 14.00 bis 15:30 Uhr
Panel Discussion: Translating Europe after 1989. What difference can translators make?

Further information on these events in English and German are available on the website www.halma-network.eu.

Halma, the European Network of Literary Centres, was initiated in 2006 by the Literary Colloquium Berlin, the Robert Bosch foundation, and the Polish Pogranicze foundation. The conference at Balatonfüred is organised by Halma and the Hungarian Translators’ House; it is supported by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb), and the city of Balatonfüred.

Sally Baker, Executive Director of Tŷ Newydd, and Catrin Ashton from Wales Literature Exchange will be representing Translators’ House Wales at the Conference.

Tŷ Newydd - new member of the Halma Network

Tŷ Newydd has been accepted as a member of the Halma Network. Click here for more information.

HALMA, the Literary Network of European Centers, is a pan-European network which promotes the distribution and translation of literature beyond national borders, and encourages exchange between literary institutions throughout Europe. 27 literary institutions participate in the network, connecting 21 European countries and literatures. HALMA was initiated in 2006 by the Robert Bosch foundation in collaboration with the Literary Colloquium Berlin and the Centre Pogranicze. The network’s commitment to promote collaboration between East and West was distinguished with the unification award in 2008. More information is available on www.halma-network.eu

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Wildlife Poet of the Year 2008

Congratulations to Chris Kinsey on her winning poem, The morning after the clocks went back. Chris is a valued member of the Taliesin Board of Management. Here is the successful poem:

The morning after the clocks went back –

Seven geese fly straight

for the bright face of the setting moon.

A pair of swans, firmly anchored

to their reflections,

whuch, whuch whuch

into creaking flight

but the tree creeper

already has

a morsel of the moon

in her throat

and is busy tucking it

into crevices of oak.

The Taliesin Trust Ltd, which runs Ty Newydd, is a Company Limited by Guarantee (no: 2640639) and has Charity status (no: 1004108)