It's now exactly a year since Oriel Dafydd Hardy closed its doors, but they've still been busy bees.

The core members of the Oriel Dafydd Hardy team, made up of young artists, exhibitors and helpers have reinvented themselves as a young co-operative called Bocs.  This year, with help from Dafydd Hardy's staff and other supporters, Bocs have been working towards setting up a new arts centre in Caernarfon that will provide gallery space, artists' studios, workshop space and arts reference centre.

They're still looking for funding to carry out refurbishment and other costs for equipment and materials, but the good news is that they can…

Today could be the day we save the free Internet. 

The US Congress was poised to pass a law allowing officials to censor access to any website around the world. But after we delivered our 1.25 million strong petition to the White House, it came out against the bill and with public pressure at a boiling point even some bill backers are switching sides. Now, the Wikipedia - led blackout protest has rocketed the public campaign to the top of the news. 

We are turning the tide. But the dark forces of censorship are trying to revive the bill right now. Let’s bury it for…

Crackling Vinyl presents an intimate show at a stunning Georgian Warehouse alongside the Shropshire Union Canal.

After a year on the road as Gruff Rhys' touring band, Y Niwl bring their thrilling psychedelic surf instrumentals to Telfords Warehouse for the first time. Their debut album, Y Niwl, was named The Sunday Times Album of the Week on 2nd January 2011 and was lauded by both the NME, Drowned in Sound and Louder Than War ("intriguing Welsh twangers with charming disheveled energy and a knack of capturing the dark heart of the magnificent Shadows. Such a great band").

The Manic Street Preachers' Nicky Wire has just…

   
January 2012 enews  
Images of Haiti

 Paintings and Metal Sculptures by Haitian Artists.  Trigonos: 21st to 27th January

This exhibition of original paintings and sculpture is to celebrate the extraordinary creativity, skill and resilience of the people of Haiti and is the first time it has been shown in Britain.

The paintings and sculptures were bought from the artists and street traders of Port-au-Prince in the weeks following the devastating earthquake of January 2010 by Robin Aherne, an emergency relief…

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Dramau gwanwyn... / Spring drama...

Mae Pontio'n dod ag amrywiaeth gwych o ddramau ichi y tymor hwn, gyda pherfformiadau i weddu pob oedran a chwaeth. Dyma ichi gip-olwg sydyn o'r holl ddramau hynny a pheidiwch ag anghofio archebu eich tocynnau'n fuan! 

Gofynnwch i Wallace    

DRAMA AR GYFER POB OEDRAN AM WYDDONYDD COLL O GYMRU (SIOE GYMRAEG) 

A Walk-Through Easter Story exhibition…

This year 2012 we are inviting 26

The 26 biblical passages from the Easter story aim to cover a wide perspective of the story from a non-Christian point of view right through to a view of the story from the established church. The selected artists will range from receive a varied selection of pieces for example: larger and smaller works, drawings and paintings, sculpture, projections, installations soundscapes and spoken word.

From the attached list [see the list on page 3] we have 26 subjecthey are strictly on a first come first served basis.

The Space

The…

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Cefnoga deulu Caerdegog

Mae teulu ar Ynys Môn mewn brwydr fawr â chwmni Horizon ar hyn o bryd, sef y cwmni sydd eisiau adeiladu Wylfa B. Mae Horizon yn ceisio gorfodi teulu Caerdegog i werthu'r tir iddyn nhw gael adeiladu'r atomfa newydd. Yn ddewr iawn mae'r teulu yn gwrthod gwneud am eu bod wedi ffermio'r tir ers cenedlaethau ac maen nhw yn erbyn yr effaith byddai Wylfa yn ei gael ar yr iaith Gymraeg ar yr Ynys.

Mae'n amser i bawb ddeffro a gweld mor erchyll fydd Wylfa B i'r iaith Gymraeg ar Ynys Môn a Gwynedd. Bydd tri chwarter o'r…