Wales Arts Review Weekly Update (27/05/2023)
Cast your vote in the Wales Book of the Year Award 2023 People's Choice Award and join us for a look back at the best Welsh music of the year so far, in this week's free roundup.
The Wales Book of the Year Award 2023 People’s Choice Award - Vote Now
Summer is in the air which means it’s time for Wales Book of the Year People’s Choice Award 2023. The national prize celebrates the best literary works in Wales with awards for both Welsh and English Language titles across four categories. Wales Arts Review is delighted to be sponsoring and hosting the People’s Choice Award once again – where you, the public, get to have your say. Keep reading to see the 2023 shortlist and then cast your vote using the link below.
Top Picks
The Year in Welsh Music…So Far
As we pause for breath in what has been a whirlwind year (so far) for Welsh music, Gary Raymond takes a moment to reflect on the music that’s caught his attention in the first half of 2023.
Read the full piece, here.
Just Jump by Theatr na nÓg Returns to Cardiff
Free live performances of Just Jump by Theatr na nÓg will once again highlight the dangers of entering unmonitored waters in their local areas.
Read the full story, here.
Video of the Week
This is Video of the Week from Wales Arts Review. We’ll be showcasing some of the best art in Wales with a new video shared every week. From music to drama and everything in between, videos will not be limited by medium. Today we’re featuring ‘Llawn’, a new music video from experimental artist Gillie.
In case you missed it…
Staging Dorothy Edwards
Available from tomorrow, in the latest of our exclusive articles for our paid subscribers, Gary Raymond discusses the journey of writing a play about "forgotten" Welsh writer Dorothy Edwards
Up until now, Gary Raymond has been known as a novelist, critic, and broadcaster, but here he explains the journey of his new play, A Beautiful Rhythm and Life and Death, and how he found a way to tell the story of “forgotten” Welsh writer Dorothy Edwards on the stage.
Dorothy Edwards came into my life relatively recently. From the moment I saw her face looking out from that photograph of her in the garden, hands on hips, high cheekbones above pursed lips, the dark eyes of the Welsh, she was immediately a presence who lingered. From far back in the reaches of time, she had an unshakeable contemporaneity to her. In a style that I was to learn was familiar to those who knew her, it was quite an entrance; an explosive mixture of the personality that I found in her biography (she had a fascinating life), of the enigma I found in her work (what is it about those quiet stories?), and it was in the look that I found in the magnetic glare. Once encountered, Dorothy Edwards is not so easily forgotten.