Rosemary has just started at college, and she’s decided not to tell anyone a thing about her family. Rosemary is now an only child, but she used to have a sister the same age as her, and an older brother. Both are now gone – vanished from her life. There’s something unique about Rosemary’s sister, […]
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Category Archives: Arts
About A Bear Competition
You may remember that in November’s issue of the Focus, we featured an interview with writer and illustrator, Jackie Morris. In celebration of Jackie’s book release – About a Bear – we ran a competition to win a signed copy of Jackie Morris’s latest book and a needle felted bear made by Karen Hines of […]
Rareseed Theatre
Rareseed Theatre starts the new year with two contrasting productions – a Willy Russell play and a new work devised by young people and written by Liz Pearce. Rareseed, a new professionally led Youth Theatre, which is now based at the Melville Theatre, are currently working on Blood Brothers (the play) and Gwelda, a devised […]
FEE FI FO FUM! Come to Panto With Your Mum
Crickhowell Pantomime starts on Thursday 29th January 2015, and the tickets are in the shops already. The allotments have been prepared for Jack’s Beanstalk, and Yoghurty the Cow is on a high fibre diet – for obvious reasons. We have a big ugly giant, who keeps yelling ‘Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum’ when he’s hungry. So […]
Flix in the Stix
Talgarth Flix in the Stix recently celebrated its sixth birthday. In November 2008 Talgarth and District Regeneration Group organised the hugely successful screening of Ghostbusters and Mamma Mia! and thus the return of film shows to the Town Hall building. Funding for Audio Visual equipment was secured and Talgarth now enjoys screenings on the third […]
The Secret Agent
Suitcase Theatre Company brings Conrad’s classic story to the Melville Theatre After the success in June of its first production – Lilies on the Land, a play about the Women’s Land Army – Abergavenny’s Suitcase Theatre Company has gone further back in time, to the turn of the last century, for its next production at […]
Monmouth Concert Orchestra is playing near you!
Since it was founded in 2007, Monmouth Concert Orchestra has gone from strength to strength. An amateur orchestra based in Monmouth, it comprises around 50 players from across Monmouthshire, Powys, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire. Led by its inspirational musical director, David J Davies, its original aim was to bring together adults (aged 18-80+!) some of whom […]
Abergavenny Orchestral Society
Abergavenny Orchestral Society has been going for well over 100 years but is just about to embark on its most ambitious enterprise to-date. On November 29th it will be staging a performance of Beethoven’s last, greatest symphony – the Ninth – with its famous choral setting of Schiller’s Ode to Joy. This is not often […]
Abergavenny Orchestral Society
Abergavenny Orchestral Society has been going for well over 100 years but is just about to embark on its most ambitious enterprise to-date. On November 29th it will be staging a performance of Beethoven’s last, greatest symphony – the Ninth – with its famous choral setting of Schiller’s Ode to Joy. This is not often […]
Top Class Performance
Principal, Lesley Walker tells us about the range of classes available for budding performers at Ribbons Ballet School – a large, privately run dance school, based in Brecon, founded in 1995 with over 200 pupils. Ribbons offers Ballet and Tap classes for children from age 3 upwards. Our senior branch, Mid Wales Dance Academy, offers […]
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