The feature of next month’s Focus will be: Art: Painting & Drawing Our area is awash with many a talented artist, spanning many mediums. July’s issue will be specifically about the medium of painting and drawing. We hope to showcase some wonderful work by talented local artists. Perhaps you offer painting and drawing classes, […]
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Category Archives: Arts
New art outlet in listed chapel
A FORMER chapel in Abergavenny has been given a new lease of life as an art shop and gallery thanks to help from Monmouthshire County Council and the Welsh Government. The project has created six new full-time jobs. The Grade II-listed Bethany Baptist Chapel in Market Street has had a number of uses since it […]
Flash!
Those of you who are familiar with Flash Fiction will know that the fourth annual National Flash Fiction Day is coming up on 27th June. If you’re not sure what Flash Fiction is, then read on. Flash Fiction is widely recognised as a style of fictional literature of extreme brevity, although there is no formal […]
Book Review: The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer
She is the missing girl. But she doesn’t know she’s lost. Carmel Wakeford becomes separated from her mother at a local children’s festival, and is found by a man who claims to be her estranged grandfather. He tells her that her mother has had an accident and that she is to live with him […]
Film Review: Earth to Echo
It is the last few days in the neighbourhood for childhood friends Alex, Tuck and Munch. Their families, just like all others in the area have been displaced by the looming construction of a new highway. When the boys’ phones start to display bizarre interference, the gang sense something unusual is happening and investigate. Techy […]
Your chance to win tickets to see Swansea City Opera and Gwent Bach Society performing Faust
Swansea City Opera will be teaming up with the Gwent Bach Society to deliver a rare performance of one of the most famous and finest operas. Swansea City Opera visit the Borough Theatre on the 6th May with Charles Gounod’s Faust following their highly acclaimed 2014 tour of The Marriage of Figaro. As part of […]
Robert Macdonald’s exhibition at Tower Gallery
When Brecon artist Robert Macdonald left New Zealand on a small sailing-ship 53 years ago this month, he only expected to be away for a few months, hoping to travel north into the Pacific from Australia, exploring the islands. However, during the crossing to Australia the ship was buffeted by two fierce storms and had […]
Crickhowell Choral Society: 21st Crickhowell Music Festival
Crickhowell Choral Society was founded in 1981 by a local GP David Hiley who persuaded any of his patients who said they could sing to join him in creating a choir. From this small group, many of whom are still members, a strong society of some 50 to 60 singers has evolved. In 1995, Stephen […]
Big Hero 6
Hiro Hamada is a bright young teen with a promising intellect, but leaning towards a slippery slope with his affinity for danger and easy gains. Seeing his young prodigy of a sibling potentially wasted, Hiro’s brother Tadashi introduces him to his university, encouraging him to channel his skills into more productive areas. Despite his youthful […]
Book Review: Mrs Hemingway by Naomi Wood
In the dazzling summer of 1926, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley travel from their home in Paris to a villa in the south of France. They swim, play bridge, and drink gin. But wherever they go they are accompanied by the glamorous and irrepressible Fife. Fife is Hadley’s best friend. She is also Ernest’s […]
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