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From the Ning Blog:-
"We hope you're liking the new chat! As we mentioned in our most recent announcementabout chat, your feedback around this project has been incredibly useful. Based on your requests, we've added two more things to chat. They're relatively small changes in the grand scheme of things, but we expect those of you who want them will be pretty happy to see them.
First, we have added the ability to clear the chat of prior conversation. We asked you how you wanted to use this type of clear chat functionality, and we got a lot of different responses. So, we've made this available in two ways, which we think will cover most of the needs we heard expressed:
- The ability to "Clear chat history" in the Main Room will let Network Creators and admins zero out the public chat. Everyone participating in the public chat will start with a clean slate. Members won't see this link.
- All members will have the ability to "Clear chat history" in private conversations. This will remove all of the messages that are in their own view, while the member they are chatting with will continue to see the messages.
It's important to note that this link will appear at the top of the chat window so you will need to scroll to the top of the conversation to clear chat.
The second thing we added is a volume control for alert notifications. The default sound levels for everyone out there on the Internet can be pretty varied, so it makes sense to add this straightforward volume control. Too loud? Turn it down.
These two updates will wrap up the major work on our chat upgrade. The old Flash-based chat will stick around for a bit longer, but we will ultimately be turning off the old Flash-based chat. If you haven't tried out the new chat yet, now's a great time to get acquainted with it!"
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Blwyddyn Newydd Dda! - Happy New Year! | ||||||
| Am gyfnod bydd Sain yn talur gwahaniaeth yn y dreth ar werth i gwsmeriaid ein gwefan, felly ni fydd prisiau yn codi - ac mae post am ddim ar bob archeb! | For the time being Sain will not be increasing prices in line with the new VAT rate, so prices remain the same as the end of 2010 for all our website customers, and also there is free postage on all orders! | |||||
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| Recordiad cwbl unigryw mae eich hoff unawdau Cymraeg i gyd ar y ddisg hon ond heb lais, dim ond dawn ryfeddol Iwan Llewelyn-Jones ar y piano. 12.98 | A collection of some of Wales best loved songs in new arrangements for solo piano by one of Wales most celebrated pianists; you have to hear this to believe it! 12.98 | |||||
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Mynediad am Ddim - Hen Hen Bryd | ||||||
| 10 o ganeuon wedi eu recordio am y tro cynta gan y grwp syn gwrthod gorwedd i lawr! Maer rhan fwyaf or caneuon hyn yn newydd, ac wedi eu cyfansoddin arbennig ar gyfer Mynediad am Ddim - Hen Ffl Fel Fi ; Draw Dros y Don ; Amser Maith yn l ; Cyw Melyn Ola ; Mai Oer ; Hen, Hen Bryd ; Portinllaen ; Angelina ; Cn yn fy Nghalon ; Merch T Cyngor . 12.98 | 10 new tracks from the close-harmony group which brought a sense of fun and excitement into Welsh pop. And this album proves they still have what it takes to move the listener to tears of laughter and tears of emotion 12.98 | |||||
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Gwawr Edwards | ||||||
| Albym gyntaf y soprano ddisglair o Geredigion, gyda chaneuon o sawl math sy'n arddangos ei doniau amryddawn ar eu gorau, a deuawd arbennig o Moulin Rouge gyda Bryn Terfel . Ei gwesteion eraill yw'r delynores Catrin Finch , a Meibion Cordydd . 12.98 | A stunning debut album from the Ceredigion soprano with songs from various genres displaying her vocal versatility at its best. Featuring guest appearances by harpist Catrin Finch and Meibion Cordydd and a special duet with Bryn Terfel Come what May - from the hit musical film Moulin Rouge . 12.98 | |||||
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Carolau Gobaith | ||||||
| Yn y gyfres Carolau Gobaith ar S4C , bu chwe wyneb cyfarwydd ( Bethan Gwanas, Huw Rees, Leni Hatcher, Nigel Owens, Siw Hughes a Tudur Owen ) yn dysgu sut i ganu cyn iddynt berfformio carol Nadolig o flaen cynulleidfa fyw. Cafodd y chwech eu rhannun ddau dm gyda chantorion proffesiynol, Rhys Meirion a Shan Cothi yn eu mentora. Mae elw o werthiant y CD yn cael ei rannu rhwng yr elusennau T Gobaith ac Amser Justin Time . 8.99 | A special CD of the final performance from the S4C series Carolau Gobaith is now available in which six familiar faces learned to sing before having to perform a selected Christmas carol in front of a live audience. The six were split into two teams and coached by two professionl singers, Rhys Meirion and Shan Cothi . Proceeds from the CD will be shared between two charities Ty Gobaith and Amser Justin Time . 8.99 | |||||
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The London Welsh Festival of Male Choirs 2010 | ||||||
| Uchafbwyntiau o Wyl Corau Meibion Cymry Llundain recordiwyd yn Neuadd Albert, Llundain ar 23ain o Hydref 2010 dan arweiniad Alwyn Humphreys gyda unawdwyr gwadd David Kempster , Elizabeth Donovan a Band y Cory . Corau Meibion: Cambrian; Caron; Meibion Taf; De Cymru; Dowlais; Hereford Police; Huntingdon; Kenfig Hill & District; Shelfield; Wycombe a Chr Meibion Cymry Llundain. 14.99 Ar gael hefyd ar CD Sain SCD2648 - Brothers in Harmony 12.98 (pecyn 2 CD) | Highlights of the London Welsh Festival of Male Choirs recorded at the Albert Hall, London on October 23rd 2010, with soloists David Kempster and Elizabeth Donovan and the Cory Band , and the following choirs: Cambrian; Caron; Meibion Taf; De Cymru; Dowlais; Hereford Police; Huntingdon; Kenfig Hill & District; Shelfield; Wycombe, Cr Meibion Cymry Llundain. 14.99 Also available as a double-CD - Sain SCD2648 - Brothers in Harmony 12.98 (double CD pack) | |||||
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Hedd Wyn - DVD | ||||||
| Y ffilm Gymraeg gyntaf i gael enwebiad am Oscar yn 1994 syn olrhain hanes y bardd o Drawsfynydd yng nghyfnod cyn ac yn ystod y Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf. 12.99 | Critically acclaimed and Oscar nominated in 1994, Hedd Wyn is the true story of a young poets life and his burning ambition to win a Bardic Chair under the lowering shadow of the First World War. 12.99 - With English Subtitles | |||||
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Y Bandana | ||||||
| Does dim dwywaith fod Y Bandana wedi hawlio sylw or eiliad y taranon nhw ar y sn gerddorol yng Nghymru ddwy flynedd yn l. Y perfformiadau egnol, hanner noeth syn tynnu torfeydd ifainc o Gaernarfon i Gaerdydd. Ar l y gigio di-baid, sesiynau C2, rhyddhau sengl nl ym mis Awst, maer Bandana yn dechrau 2011 yn llawn addewid, wrth ryddhau eu halbwm gyntaf. Maer arddegwyr yn trafod pethau syn eu cosi au cythruddo ar albwm yn cynnig ychydig o bopeth ir gwrandawyr. 9.98 | Theres no doubt that Y Bandana attracted a lot of attention from the moment they stormed on to the Welsh music scene, two years ago. The highly energetic, half naked sets, are a magnet for young crowds from Caernarfon down to Cardiff. After performing non stop, recording sessions for C2 Radio Cymru and releasing a single back in August, Y Bandana are kick starting 2011 by releasing their dbut album. This is lively music at its best, that commands your attention and reflects the bands engaging brand of mischief. 9.98 | |||||
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It is now available from local bookstores, internet book suppliers or direct from www.seren-books.com . It will be many months before it appears in the US and other countries, so the internet and the Seren website are your best bets.
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From the Back Cover:-
Dylan Thomas went to New York in October 1953 to perform in Under Milk Wood. Three weeks later, he was dead. This fascinating book confronts painful facts about why he died.
Neglect was central to the death. John Brinnin, Dylan’s agent, had a playboy lifestyle to fund. Desperate for his fees, he turned a blind eye to the poet’s failing health.
Liz Reitell, Brinnin’s zealous deputy, also knew Dylan was ill but she worked him to collapse. Did she put her own career before his well-being? Brinnin’s intimate papers show how greed, ambition and sexual intrigue fed into a chain of events that sent Dylan to an early grave.
Dylan suffered from a treatable illness but his fashionable New York doctor ignored the warning signs. David Thomas
examines hospital data and the post-mortem report – included in the book – and shows that medical negligence
was a factor.
Fatal Neglect also investigates the conspiracy to protect those responsible. Friends and doctors took part in a cover-up, as did two of Dylan’s American biographers.
David Thomas’ previous books on Dylan Thomas have required us to rethink the poet’s life. Fatal Neglect is a fundamental reappraisal of his death.
David Thomas was brought up in Pontarddulais and Port Talbot. After Oxford and the LSE, he worked in London as a senior lecturer and chief executive. Since returning to Wales, he has written widely about Dylan Thomas, including The Dylan Thomas Murders, The Dylan Thomas Trail, Dylan Remembered and A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow, now a major film, The Edge of Love, starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Rhys.
We Have A Winner - AmeriCymru/FocalView eto Front Cover Photographic Competition
By Ceri Shaw, 2013-09-11
And the winning image is:
The Americymru Focal View International Salon
Winners of Cycle One July & August.
For more details about the competition and to view the other winning entries visit FocalView.
For information about the forthcoming issue of eto please visit the eto website here .
In addition to the prizes awarded by FocalView the winner of this competition will receive a free hard copy of eto 2 and full accreditation in the publication. If you missed the opportunity to enter this time round, watch this space for announcements about further photographic competitions to come soon.
A RAVEN ABOVE PRESS
Presents the
Los Angeles St. David's Day Festival-National Day of Wales
Dydd Gwyl Dewi Sant, Los Angeles-Diwrnod Cenedlaethol Cymru
March 1, 2014
Barnsdall Art Park, 4800 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90027
Free Outdoor Festival 10am-5pm
Druid Blessing 1:30pm and Grand Concert from 2pm to 5pm
We are very proud to announce Meinir Gwilym will be making her North American debut headlining the St. David's Day Festival-National Day of Wales Grand Concert!
Born and raised in the small village of Llangristiolus in the heart of the Isle of Anglesey (Ynys Mn) off the North Wales coast, singer-songwriter Meinir Gwilym has established herself as one of the best-selling Welsh language artists ever. Her breakout release Smcs, Coffi a Fodca Rhad (Cigarrettes, Coffee and Cheap Vodka) in 2002 met with phenomenal response being hailed as one of the most original and inspired compilations to come out of Wales in years. Follow-up albums have built on her success with performances at all major festivals in Wales, including Sesiwn Fawr Dolgellau, Maes B, The Royal Welsh Show and Bryn Terfels Faenol Festival.
Meinirs list of accomplishments include presenting shows for: BBC radio and Heart FM, music series Noson Chis a Meinir on television and school tours, S4C (Channel 4 Wales)s nightly magazine show, Wedi 7, and a special one hour fly-on-the-wall S4C broadcast documentary which followed Meinir for a year, including an inside look at Yamaha by whom she is endorsed.
Along with traditional Welsh songs and her hits, Meinir will be performing new material from her forthcoming album!
The Grand Concert will also be featuring Welsh harpsichordist Christopher D. Lewis!
Christopher was born in Rhiwbina, Wales, and moved to North America in 2005 to study harpsichord with Luc Beausejour & Hank Knox at McGill University, Montreal. Since that time he has received outstanding recognition and accolades for his performances internationally. Christopher will be performing a special set dedicated to British and Welsh composers (and he will be playing on the harpsichord that appeared in the movie Titanic).
Christopher's set is sure to be informative, as he has presented numerous lectures on the history of the harpsichord and narrated for many projects. Past projects include collaborations and performances with American Bach Soloists, The San Francisco Bach Choir, The Bay Area Rainbow Symphony, Ensemble Parallele and The San Francisco Conservatory of Music's New Music Ensemble.
We are also excited by the return of the Welsh Choir of Southern California (Cor Cymraeg De Califfornia) to the Grand Concert stage. Under the direction of Tony Davis, the choir performs Welsh traditional and hymnal music and believes in the power of music to restore our faith in life, in ourselves, and in each other. The Choirs repertoire is one hundred percent Welsh, with approximately two-thirds sung in the Welsh language and one-third in English.
To begin the Grand Concert, we will be showing Yr Etifeddiaeth (The Heritage).
Yr Etifeddiaeth was filmed between 1947 and 1949 by 'Y Cymro' photographer Geoffrey Charles, with the newspaper's editor, John Roberts Williams, as director and script-writer. It presents the culture, work and rural way of life in Llyn and Eifionydd. Freddie Grant, a young, black evacuee from Liverpool who was housed with Eliseus Williams, ex-headteacher of Llangybi school and friend of John Roberts Williams, is used, initially, as (voice-less) presenter. The poet 'Cynan' [Albert Evans-Jones], is the narrator, extolling the area's past and present - in which communities are held together by a shared culture and language - but expressing concern that its future is threatened by the readily available modern, but English-language, media and the hordes of English-speaking summer visitors who visit, many of whom stay at the new Butlins holiday camp at Pwllheli (opened in 1947 with accommodation for 5,000 people).
The film closes with shots of the summer visitors splashing about in the Butlins swimming pool and, in contrast, a small but respectable band of the Cymry Cymraeg gathered outside the chapel on Sunday morning, torch-bearers for the threatened faith and tradition.
Yr Etifeddiaeth was first shown at the National Eisteddfod in Dolgellau in 1949, attracting full houses for the nightly screenings. (Description from the National Screen and Sound Archives of Wales)
Outside the Grand Concert beginning at 10am visitors will be delighted in a free Celtic Marketplace, Welsh language classes by Jason Shepherd of the Learn Welsh Podcast, Celtic workshops, Welsh Corgi demonstrations, Kids Crafts, and the LA Eisteddfod featuring poetry, storytelling, readings, performance, Welsh food, and much more.
We will be promoting artists from both Wales and the US in a special book release party for 'The Age of Saints. An illustrated guide to the Saints of Wales' written by Peter Anthony Freeman from Llanelli, Wales and published by A Raven Above Press. Artists include Ruth Jn Evans, Jen Delyth, Martyn Jones, Anthony Richards, Nathan Wyburn, Siobhan Owen, Sarah Hope, Nichola Hope, Robert Karr, Judy Adamson, Kerry Evans, Jo Mazelis, Liam OConnor, Eirian Llwyd, Istebrak Al, Michele Witchipoo, Karen Richards, Briana Lopez, Kelly Haigh, Rochelle Shelly Rosenkild, John Charles, Geri Gallas, Danny Walden, Kimberly Wlassak, Jason Shepherd, Lorin Morgan-Richards, and many more!
Also, artist Kimberly Wlassak will be exhibiting her artwork from the book 'Tylwyth Teg: Excerpts from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries ,' by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, and illustrated by Kimberly Wlassak. This book will be in association with activities for kids, where they can try on their own fairy wings or learn how to fly like a dragon at the kids craft corner!
Remembering R.S.Thomas (1913 - 2000)
 | Celebrate R.S. Thomas's centenary with this excellent volume that draws together 52 poems (two previously unpublished) by Thomas to his wife, the distinguished artist Mildred E Eldridge - known as Elsi - from early meditations on their relationship to the elegies following her death.
This collection is edited by Damian Walford Davies and the foreword by Rowan Williams . This revelatory collection dramatises the changing dynamics of a complex and vitally creative relationship. Poems on marriage, cohabitation, birthdays, anniversaries, family and bereavement offer a candid portrait of emotional intimacy, desire, the painful process of ageing, and of loss. Elsi is a complex presence here: the 'to' in the title signifies not only 'addressed to' but also 'about', 'with an eye on', 'to be overheard by', and even in one case 'from'.Born in Cardiff on the 29th March 1913, this year will mark the 100th birthday of R.S.Thomas. Thomas and Elsi were married in 1940 and remained together until her death in 1991. Their son, Gwydion, was born 29 August 1945. Order your copy now at 9.99 or 7.99 if you are online book club member |
Do you subscribe to Poetry Wales?
 | Founded in 1965, Poetry Wales is a magazine with an international reputation for excellent poems, features and reviews from Wales and beyond. The forthcoming issue has poems by Carrie Etter, Damian Walford Davies and Duncan Bush as well as a feature on Dafydd ap Gwilym by Gwyneth Lewis and remembering the late Tony Conran. Single issue copies are only 5.50 and 20 for one year's UK subscription, including postage. With quarterly publication and high quality content this magazine is exceptionally good value. If you would like to read more, or purchase a copy please go to the Poetry Wales website |
'To Dream Of Freedom' - Roy Clews The “Handbook for Welsh Terrorists” that was Almost Banned
By Ceri Shaw, 2013-03-06
To Dream of Freedom looks back at the Welsh bombing campaigns of the sixties and describes the volatile political climate of Wales between the drowning of Tryweryn and the investiture of Prince Charles. As well as describing the activities of movements such as the Free Wales Army, Patriotic Front, Lost Lands Liberation League and the more sophisticated MAC, many of the main activists such as John Jenkins, Cayo Evans and Dennis Coslett tell the story as they saw it. The new edition has a foreword by Sian Dalis Cayo-Evans, daughter of the late Cayo Evans, the charismatic leader of the FWA, and has many new revealing photographs from the height of the troubles.
Garmon Gruffudd of Y Lolfa said, “To Dream of Freedom is still regarded as a cult book in the eyes of Welsh nationalist and revolutionaries. The drowning of the Tryweryn valley almost exactly fifty years ago was a huge turing point in the history of modern Wales and sparked, for the first time since Owain Glyndŵr’s days, an armed rebellion in Wales. This extremely readable account of what happened remains one of our best sellers and most iconic publications.”
Before undertaking the story of the Welsh bombers Roy Clews, who now lives in Tregaron, had a colourful past. He had been a Royal Marines Commando, Stuntman, Kibbutznik and a tramp. His historical novels are popular on both sides of the Atlantic.
To Dream of Freedom - £9.95 can be ordered in bookshops throughout Wales or on Y Lolfa’s website – www.ylolfa.com .
