Saturday Craft Workshop for adults
Saturday 2 July, 10.30am – 1pm
Join us for our monthly Dylan Thomas-themed Saturday craft session.
Free – please book to reserve your place.
‘Holiday Memory’ Free self-led activities for families – Throughout the summer holidays
Our family friendly Learning Space will be open for free self-led play, when not in use for workshops. Activities include puppets, creative writing, games, reading corner, crafts and dressing up costumes all inspired by Dylan Thomas’ ‘Holiday Memory’. Please ring us on 01792 463980 to check availability.
‘Holiday Memory’ Drop-in Family Craft Workshop
Friday 22 July, 1pm – 4pm
Holiday Journals, a themed drop-in craft workshop, great for families with older children but all ages are welcome.
Drop-in, Free.
Magic Realism: Fiction and Dream: a Workshop for Adults with Alan Bilton
Saturday, 23 July, 10am – 12.30pm
As a style of writing, Magic Realism attempts to marry the impossible and the believable, to make the fantastical concrete, constructing dream worlds capable of taking the reader’s weight. The workshop looks at the roots of Magic Realism in myth and fantasy, exploring the Surrealist love of dreams, and what happens when realistic fiction is invaded by the strange and uncanny, creating feelings of disquiet, dread, or awe.
Alan Bilton teaches literature, film and creative writing at Swansea University. He is the author of two novels.
Full Price £5.00, Concessions £3.50, Swansea PTL £1.60
Shakespeare 400: The Fume of Sighs
Saturday 23 July, 1pm
‘Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs’ – Romeo & Juliet.
Fluellen’s Shakespeare 400 season continues with a look at the many and diverse sets of lovers that appear in Shakespeare’s plays.
Full Price £5.00, Swansea PTL £1.60
‘Holiday Memory’ Drop-in Family Workshop
Monday 25 July, 1pm – 4pm
Inspired by Dylan Thomas’ ‘Holiday Memory’, we’ll make puppets and theatres based on traditional seaside themes. There’ll be seaside face painting and activities such as games, puppets, reading corner and dressing-up. Great for families with younger children but all ages welcome.
Drop-in, free.
‘Holiday Memory’ Drop-in Family Craft Workshop
Friday July 29, 1pm – 4pm
Join us for a themed workshop creating stationary and letters. The workshop great for families with older children but all ages are welcome.
Drop-in, free.
‘Holiday Memory’ Drop-in Family Workshop
Monday 1 August, 1pm – 4pm
Today we’ll make letters and postcards. There will also be holiday themed face painting, books, games, dressing-up and puppets. Great for families with younger children but all ages are welcome.
Drop-in, free.
Holiday Comic Book Workshop Drop-in Family Craft Workshop
Friday 5 August, 1pm – 4pm
Make your own comics: we’ll be designing characters, making story boards and producing a mini comic for you to take away with you. Recommended age range 8+. Drop-in, free.
Saturday Craft Workshop for adults
Saturday 6 August, 10.30am to 1pm
Join us for our monthly Dylan Thomas-themed Saturday craft session.
Free – please book to reserve your place.
‘Holiday Memory’ Drop-in Family Workshop
Monday 8 August, 1pm – 4pm
We’ll be making funny holiday seaside photo frames, bring along copies of passport sized photos to add to your frame or make one to add to later at home. There will also be holiday themed face painting, books, games, dressing-up and puppets. Great for families with younger children but all ages are welcome.
Drop-in, free.
Stitching Stories Drop-in Family Workshop as part of Swansea Festival of Stitch
Friday 12 August, 1pm – 4pm
A themed drop-in textiles workshop, great for families with older children but all ages are welcome.
Drop-in, free.
Rob Gittins: The Working Life of a Screenwriter – a Workshop for Adults
Saturday 13 August 1.30 – 4.30pm
Have you ever wanted to write for TV or film, or write a novel? Spend a few hours with one of the UK’s top TV drama writers and find out how it’s done.
Rob Gittins has written for most of the UK’s top-rated TV drama series including EastEnders, Casualty, The Bill, and Heartbeat. Rob will talk about his career – how he started, the different shows he’s worked on – as well as explaining the different ways those dramas work. Rob will answer your specific questions – so do come prepared! There’ll also be a hands-on guide to creating stories for long-running shows.
Full Price £7.00, Concessions £4.50, Swansea PTL £2.30
‘Holiday Memory’ Drop-in Family Workshop
Monday 15 August, 1pm – 4pm
Today we’ll make a story suitcase game. Other ‘Holiday Memory’ activities include face painting, games, dressing-up, reading corner, and puppets. Great for families with younger children but all ages are welcome.
Drop-in, free.
Stitching Stories Drop-in Family Workshop as part of Swansea Festival of Stitch
Friday 19 August, 1pm – 4pm
A themed drop-in textiles workshop, great for families with older children but all ages are welcome.
Drop-in, free.
Phizzwizarding Dream Jars Roald Dahl Inspired Drop-in Family Workshop‘No book ever ends…’ A week of workshops and activities inspired by Roald Dahl
Monday 22 – 28 August, 1pm – 4pm
Phizzwizarding Dream Jars Roald Dahl Inspired Drop-in Family Workshop
Today we’ll make dream-catching jars ready to catch a Golden Phizzwizard or a terrible Trogglehumper! There will also be Roald Dahl themed face painting and activities. Come dressed as your favourite Roald Dahl character! Great for families with younger children but all ages are welcome.
Drop-in, free.
Masters of Invention Poetry Workshop with Sophie McKeand
Tuesday 23 August, 1pm – 3pm
For children and young people aged 8-13
‘You mean whales’, Sophie said. Wales is something quite different.’
‘Wales is whales’, the Giant said. ‘Don’t gobblefunk around with words. I will now give you another example. Human beans from Jersey has a most disgustable woolly tickle on the tongue…human beans from Jersey is tasting of cardigans.’ – Roald Dahl, The BFG.
Creating nonsense words and language was something Roald Dahl delighted in with his phlantasmagozgical use of language and ribble ticklistic plays-on-words. Working together our group will climb inside words, chew and garble and tear them up in order to create a new poem.
£2.00 Places are limited: please book ahead.
‘No book ever ends…’ self-led activities inspired by Roald Dahl
Wednesday 24, Thursday 25 & Sunday 28 August 10am – 4pm
Our Learning Space will be open for self-led activities including games, creative writing activities, crafts, reading corner and puppets.
Drop-in, free.
‘Ideas Books’ A Roald Dahl Inspired Family Workshop
Friday 26 August, 1pm – 2.30 and 2.30 – 4pm
Just like Dylan Thomas, Roald Dahl kept old school exercise books which he filled with inspiration for his stories. He called these his ‘Ideas Books’. Starting with blank journals we will be designing pages for creating and keeping ideas and along the way exploring an exciting range of techniques. This workshop is suitable for families with children and young people aged 8 years and over. Blank journals will be available on the day for £1.
‘Maker of Mischief, Master of Horror, Inventor of Monster’: A Workshop for Adults with Rebecca Parfitt
Saturday 27 August 10am – 1pm
Join the editor of The Ghastling for a unique writing workshop exploring horror and the macabre in Roald Dahl’s short stories for adults and write a tale of your own using Dahl’s special ingredients. The workshop explores specially selected stories focussing on: Roald Dahl’s characterisation, the surreal and the macabre, horror and the domestic ‘idyll’, and Dahl’s ‘twists’. There is also a chance for publication in The Ghastling for participants.
Please book ahead as places are limited to 10.
Full Price £7 Concessions £4.50 Swansea PTL £2.30
Guided Tour: Dylan’s Swansea
Sunday August 28, 10.30am – 12.30pm
Fluellen Theatre Co.’s lively and entertaining performance-based guided tour of Dylan’s central Swansea starts from the Dylan Thomas Centre and includes Dylan Thomas Square, The Three Lamps, Castle Square, and the site of the Kardomah. The tour ends at the No Sign Wine Bar.
Full Price £10.00, Concessions £7.00, Swansea PTL £4.00
‘Holiday Memory’ Drop-in Family Workshop
Monday 29 August, 1pm – 4pm
Drop in and make a ‘tantivying’ merry-go-round! With face painting and themed activities including games, reading corner, dressing-up and puppets. Great for families with younger children, but all ages are welcome.
Drop-in, free.
Saturday Craft Workshop for adults
Saturday 3 September, 10am to 1pm
Join us for our monthly Dylan Thomas- themed Saturday Craft session.
Free – please book to reserve your place.
Shakespeare 400: Shakespeare’s Women
Saturday 17 September, 1pm
Fluellen Theatre Company’s Shakespeare 400 Season continues with a look at the great and multi-faceted women that populate his plays – from Juliet to Lady Macbeth, with quite a few stops in between.
Full Price £5 Swansea PTL £1.60
Temporary Exhibition: Love the Words – and the Photos
Tuesday 19 – Friday 29 July
Swansea Grand Theatre
The Dylan Thomas Centre has been working with Morriston Traumatic Brain Injury patients to create personal photos inspired by Dylan Thomas’ life and words. Using quotes from his poems as a starting point, and walking the same streets, the photographs produced during these sessions tell intimate stories of the participants’ recovery.
Free
Open Monday – Saturday, 9.30am – 8pm
