To coincide with the main Now the Hero performance dates, there is a mini festival, an extended ‘art weekender’ – Now For More involving all of the city’s cultural institutions and organisations, large and small. In their own way, each will respond to the main themes – The British Empire Panels and the legacy of WW1, and the impact of war and conflict on human relationships.
Now For More will feature one-off special events, exhibitions, artist talks, family activities and trails, public artworks, workshops and performances by outstanding contemporary artists in multiple locations across Swansea.
The Munitionettes & Canary Girls
01/09/2018 – 01/12/2018 – 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm :
National Waterfront Museum
An exhibition that enables the audience to discover the women recruited to work in munitions factories during the First World War.
Free Admission
Welsh Centre International Affairs: Wales for Peace
12/09/2018 – 03/10/2018 – 10:00 am – 4:30 pm
Swansea Museum
This exhibition from the Welsh Centre for International Affairs, linking in to the local collections of Swansea Museum, explores how the impact of war has led people to pursue peace – through actions ranging from remembrance, voicing protest, offering sanctuary to refugees, international exchanges and youth activism.
Free Admission
Lee Karen Stow: Women, War & Peace
19/09/2018 – 10/10/2018 – 10:00 am – 4:30 pm
Swansea Civic Centre
International photojournalist Lee Karen Stow has spent a decade documenting the personal narratives of women of war and conflict, and women who campaign for peace, from Sierra Leone to Snowdonia and now Swansea. Her powerful portraits and captivating stories are unforgettable.
Free Admission
Swansea College of Art/UWTSD Artists in Residence 2018/19 Exhibition
17/09/2018 – 05/10/2018 – 12:00 am
Swansea College of Art
A response to the impact of the First World War in Wales.
Free Admission
Swansea Peace Trail: All Our Stories
21/09/2018 – 12:00 am
Swansea Museum
From UN World Peace Day on 21st September, this ‘Peace Trail’ – from the Welsh Centre for International Affairs and local partners – will take you on a tour of some of Swansea’s own ‘peace stories’, with the opportunity to explore local venues, displays, artists and organisations supporting the ‘Now the Hero’ / ‘Now for More’ programme.
Free Admission
Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA) End of Empire
21/09/2018 – 7:00 pm
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
Glynn Vivian is delighted to be exhibiting Yinka Shonibare’s powerful work exploring themes of conflict, empire and migration in the centenary year of the end of the First World War.
Nazma Botanica: Peace Garden
22/09/2018 – 29/09/2018 – 12:00
Creative Bubble
Nazma will inhabit Creative Bubble from 22nd – 29th to animate its walls with personalised art, there will also be opportunities to have informal conversations with the artist during the process.
Free Admission
Youth Vision: A Message of Peace & Goodwill for the World
22/09/2018 – 12:00 am
Taliesin Arts Centre
In this display alongside the Welsh Centre for International Affairs’ ‘Wales for Peace’ project, Swansea students share their artistic responses to peace messages of the past, and ask… What in the world do you care about today?
Free Admission
Hope Among The Ruins
22/09/2018 – 29/09/2018 – 9:30 am – 5:00 pm
Oxfam
A week of interactive happenings looking at the impact of war and conflict on civilians, and celebrating those working for Peace, and providing places of Sanctuary, in Swansea and around the world.
Free Admission
Habitats#1
22/09/2018 – 13/11/2018 – 10:00 am – 4:30 pm
National Botanic Garden of Wales, Llanarthne
Swansea based artists Philip Cheater, Kathryn Anne-Trussler, Amy Goldring, Tom Morris, Eifion Sven-Myer & Ann Jordan have created a series of artworks responding to the Brangwyn Hall Panels in Swansea.
Philip Cheater & Steph Mastoris: On the Brink
22/09/2018 – 29/09/2018 – 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Volcano Theatre
Swansea based artist Philip Cheater sees a world teetering on the verge of a possible cataclysmic event. Looking back on past conflicts and the upheavals that came after, how can our cities and other environments progress?
Free Admission
Remembering our Heroes / Somethings we forgot to Remember
22/09/2018 – 03/12/2018 – 10:00 am – 4:30 pm
Swansea Museum
‘Remembering our Heroes’ is an exhibition of eight panels giving an overview of some of the First World War heroes from Swansea and Neath Port Talbot who displayed exceptional bravery and were honored in return with medals.
Free Admission
Rose Davies – Now the Hero Artist in Residence
22/09/2018 – 29/09/2018 – 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Volcano Theatre
Exposed to Frank Brangwyn’s Empire Panels during school speech days, Rose Davies has always worked with models in the Brangwyn tradition and started to draw Dave about 10 years ago when he was a young student in the Territorial Army and through this developed a large body of work about “The Warrior”.
Free Admission
Somethings We Forgot To Remember: Contemporary Responses
22/09/2018 – 03/12/2018 – 10:00 am – 4:30 pm
Swansea Museum
40 artists respond to the Swansea Museum collection and Now the Hero themed activities by creating a multi-media exhibition trail. Contemporary responses will be situated among the artefacts investigating memory, loss and our seemingly never-ending behavioural cycle of war and destruction.
Free Admission
Votes for Women
22/09/2018 – 03/12/2018 – 10:00 am – 4:30 pm
Swansea Museum
Exhibition & workshops to celebrate the centenary of the partial victory in the women’s suffrage campaign in 1918, with a focus on the local campaign and some prominent women campaigners.
Free Admission
Simon Periton: Your War, My Love
22/09/2018 – 03/11/2018 – 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Galerie Simpson
Galerie Simpson is honored to be supporting Marc Rees’s “Now the Hero” with Simon Periton’s exhibition “Your War, My Love” from the 1996 piece of the same name.
Free Admission
Mark Folds: Black Spots
22/09/2018 – 4:00 pm
Cinema and Co
Black spots is a site-specific installation that takes its inspiration from the poet Hedd Wynn, (Welsh WW1 poet killed on the first day of Passchendaele in 1917) & more specifically his poem ‘The Black Spot’ which references the war.
Free Admission
Up the Hill
A site-specific response to Exist Skatepark; its location & history. A collaborative, multimedia show showing 10 local artists work. Using the park & its obstacles, creating work that is skate-able and/or transient. The park will still be open as a skatepark, so how do the artists respond to this?… In a destructive or permanent way!
Free Admission
Museum Monthly Movie: Suffragette (12A)
23/09/2018 – 2:00 pm
National Waterfront Museum
2015 British historical period drama film about women’s suffrage in the United Kingdom, directed by Sarah Gavron and written by Abi Morgan.
Free Admission
UN World Peace Day: What in the World do you care about?
24/09/2018 – 12:00 am
Taliesin Arts Centre
Marking UN World Peace Day on 21st September – and the beginning of Swansea University Freshers Week – this event at the opening of the ‘Youth Peace Messages’ display offers an opportunity to exchange ideas on global action and activism.
Free Admission
Starlight Order
25/09/2018 – 30/03/2019 – 10:00 am – 4:30 pm
Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea
To tie in with Now The Hero / Nawr Yr Arwr, the Dylan Thomas Centre presents a temporary exhibition featuring the medieval Welsh poem Y Gododdin, focusing on its influence on David Jones’ epic, In Parenthesis.
Free Admission
First World War Era Themes Tea Dance
26/09/2018 – 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
National Waterfront Museum
Afternoon tea, dancing, singing, music and fun for free.
Free Admission
Marega Palser: Prelude in Syncopated Now Time
29/09/2018 – 12:00 am
Elysium Gallery
Inspired by the expansive list of animals, birds, butterflies and vegetation depicted in the Brangwyn Murals, elysium gallery will play host to a performance / exhibition which will un-pick and re-imagine scenes from the Brangwyn murals.
Free Admission
Poetry Now!
29/09/2018 – 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Castle Square
More Poetry is needed – a statement that has become synonymous with Swansea via Jeremy Deller’s iconic art work for Locws International located to the rear of The Quadrant Shopping Centre.
Free Admission
Habitats#2
29/09/2018 – 29/10/2018 – 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Swansea Grand Theatre
Elysium gallery artists Philip Cheater, Kathryn Anne-Trussler, Amy Goldring, Tom Morris, Eifion Sven-Myer & Ann Jordan have created a series of large artworks responding to the Brangwyn Hall Panels in Swansea.
Free Admission
GRAFT: A Soil Based Syllabus
29/09/2018 – 30/09/2018 – 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
National Waterfront Museum
Open Days at GRAFT : a soil based syllabus the new garden project at the National Waterfront Museum; a commission by Now The Hero / NawrYr Arwr and the museum, working with artist Owen Griffiths.
Free Admission
Brangwyn the Printmaker
29/09/2018 – 12:00 pm
Swansea Print Workshop
Brangwyn was an accomplished multidisciplinary artist; he was a draughtsman, engraver, watercolourist and designer of stained glass, ceramics, textiles and furniture, among others, and a gifted printmaker, which is the form we will be exploring.
Free Admission
Celebrate the Hero
29/09/2018 – 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
National Waterfront Museum
A day to celebrate the heroes from WW1 featuring: The Haywood Sisters.
Tales From The Treasure Box
29/09/2018 – 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Volcano Theatre
These letters and documents, written and collected over six generations, provide rich, original material for this biographical performance for four actors.
Swansea: Heaven and Hell
29/09/2018 – 8:00 pm
Creature Sound, Swansea
‘Heaven & Hell’ will be a multi-discipline cultural experience using every nook and cranny of Swansea’s newest and coolest music venue
