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The Arts Council of Wales (ACW) is working on a variety of projects to coincide with Capital of Culture.
ACW chief executive Peter Tyndall said: “The fact Liverpool is this year’s Capital of Culture is of great importance not only to the city itself but also to surrounding regions, which includes north Wales.
“North Wales and Liverpool have a long shared history. Artistic collaboration can both draw on this heritage and help to develop new links and interchange.”
Last week Wales made its debut at the British Dance Edition event in Liverpool.
Dance promoters from all over the world converged on the city in search of the new trends in British dance.
Two world-class Welsh dancers, Marc Rees and Tania Raman, performed a showcase.
Other events lined up include Flintshire-based Uma Arwen O'Neil‘s dance-film project which explores the connections between north Wales and Liverpool. It launches this month and runs until May.
Ensemble Cymru is planning a music and narration production with projected images looking at the links between Wales and Liverpool such as the strong Welsh communities and Welsh chapels in Merseyside, plus the shared industrial history of north Wales and Liverpool.
Ty Cerdd – Music Centre Wales aims to hold a National Youth Jazz concert in Liverpool during the spring.
The Pavilion theatre in Rhyl will stage Willy Russell’s Our Day Out which will tour north Wales and Liverpool during June and July, while Theatr Clwyd present The Voyage, set during Queen Victoria’s reign when over 50,000 Welsh people lived in Liverpool.
Finally, Machynlleth Tabernacle will present an exhibition on the life and works of Owen Owen between August 4 to September 6, showing the strong connections between Wales and Liverpool during 1847–1910.
Source:
Liverpool Echo
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