A JUBILEE Arts Festival will be held across Abergele on the weekend of June 4-5.
The Festival has been organised by The Peculiar Gallery & Blue Garlic Creates through funding from Conwy County Borough Council ‘Transforming Towns’ funding, a Welsh Government scheme offering grants and loans to redevelop and improve town centres and nearby areas.
A number of workshops will showcase skills on the Saturday at three venues, with the itinerary as follows:
Abergele Youth and Community Centre
10am - 5pm Art Fair / Ffair Gelf
10.30am - 11.30am Clay People workshop with Pea Restall RCA (all ages)
12 noon - 1pm Sean Parry Welsh bilingual poet, historian, singer, songwriter
2pm - 3pm Abergele Recycled Dream Chimes workshop with Fiona Wilkinson
3.30pm - 4.30pm Manon Llwyd Harpist
5.30pm - 6.30pm Noisewave Accoustic Mash Up
The Peculiar Gallery
10.30am - 5pm Contemporary Art Exhibition in The Vault
St. Paul’s Methodist Church
10.30 - 11.15am Writing workshop with Diane Woodrow (16+)
11.30am - 12.30pm Cait Marie Theatre Company Dance performance / Drama workshop (all ages)
The second day features an art fair and music, and its schedule is as follows:
Abergele Youth and Community Centre
11am - 4pm Art Fair
The Peculiar Gallery
10.30am - 5pm Contemporary Art Exhibition in The Vault
The Hoptimist
4pm - 8.30pm Live Music
A Festival spokesperson said: “We are delighted to announce we have Sean Parry performing during Jubilee Arts Festival Abergele in the Youth & Community centre at the opening from 12-1pm, Saturday 4th June.”
Sean Parry is the owner and lead artist of Sacred Knot Tattoo and founding member of the Northern Fire Art Collective.
He lives and creates in his hometown of Llandudno in North Wales, where he specialises in historic Celtic and Nordic visual arts.
While he is known globally for his work with Viking Age art styles, his mastery ranges from the Neolithic to Pictish and Insular Celtic fine art, and is also celebrated as a Welsh singer/songwriter, painter, leatherworker, and metalsmith.
Despite the event being free, some workshops require tickets to be booked through the Facebook page.
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