Kristian Evans Duneland A Year in Kenfig Launch Green Room June 2026
Jun
26
8:00 PM20:00
Green Room

Kristian Evans Duneland A Year in Kenfig Launch Green Room June 2026

“A beautiful hypnotic piece of writing.” – Richard Gwyn

This is the place I call Duneland…

Situated between the Ogwr Estuary and the Port Talbot Steelworks, the Kenfig dunes are a unique landscape, once part of Tir Iarll, the Earl’s Land, now pierced by the M4, but shrouded in myth and history. Kristian Evans has been deeply immersed there for most of his life. In Duneland, he marks the passing of the year in this extraordinary place, celebrating its fascinating biodiversity and reflecting on our evolving relationship with the natural world. He takes us on a journey between past and present, from the world of the Mabinogi and a buried Norman town, to stories of working-class lives and the impact of industry, exploring what it’s like to live in a wild edgeland where the horizons are always shifting.

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Green Room March 2026 - The Honest Forger & Archipelago Magazine
Mar
27
8:00 PM20:00
Green Room

Green Room March 2026 - The Honest Forger & Archipelago Magazine

The Green Room returns for March - featuring The Honest Forger, and Archipelago Magazine. Plus our usual Open Mic, film and music. “commemorating the 200th anniversary of the death of poet, antiquarian, drug addict, peace advocate, and the greatest authority of his time on Welsh history and literature”

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Green Room February 2026 - Kristian Evans & Laura Wainwright; writing and film
Feb
27
8:00 PM20:00
Green Room

Green Room February 2026 - Kristian Evans & Laura Wainwright; writing and film

Laura Wainwright’s New Territories in Modernism comes from UWP. A collaboration with Robert Minhinnick featuring poetry and artwork, 2025 from Seventh Quarry Press. 'The Storm’s Flora' is her first Seren title. On sale at SUSSED.

Kristian Evans is a poet, editor and environmental campaigner living in Bridgend. His film, made from “the perspective of a runaway” is created by Nathan Roach. ‘Duneland: Life in the Kenfig Coastal Sand' is due from Seren.

Modron Magazine - Kristian Evans, Founding Editor.

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Green Room returns on Thursday 25 Sept. 2025
Sep
25
8:00 PM20:00
Green Room

Green Room returns on Thursday 25 Sept. 2025

THURSDAY September 25 8pm Sustainable Wales/Cymru Gynaliadwy’s Green Room returns after its summer break.

 

The charity will celebrate its links with Iraq, and feature Tracey Rhys, freelance writer from Brigend. ‘Bathing on the Roof’ is her poetry collection from Parthian Books. Tracey will read, sign copies.

Tracey Rees, ambitious Open Mic. News of future Green Rooms, inc. 50 years of Glamorgan Heritage Coast, the end of Porthcawl funfair, vital Senedd election, new books from Carcanet, Seren, Culture & Democracy press.

Croeso cynnes i bawb. £5.

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Launch of “My Life and Times: Memories of Penyfai”
Apr
23
7:30 PM19:30

Launch of “My Life and Times: Memories of Penyfai”

Robert Minhinnick

“My Life and Times: Memories of Penyfai” is Ivor Thomas’s description of a tiny south Wales village.

Ivor was my grandfather, and his book, published by Culture & Democracy Press, is launched in the Garden Room, Court Colman Manor, Pen-y-fai, Bridgend CF31 4NG, 7.30pm, Wednesday, April 23rd 2025. 

Entry £5, which ensures a copy of this astonishing memoir. Otherwise £10. On sale in SUSSED.

Gardener, miner, rugby-player, Labour councilor, social activist, the centre of much of his life was ‘The Tavern’, the vanished village pub, where he was born. Ivor continues to be an enormous influence on my writing and environmental work.

This memoir, of a man who was born, died and buried in the same street, flares like a firework.

Readings by myself and others of Ivor’s family, with members of Bridgend Writers’ Circle, whose energy has created this event. Music and song from Laura Wainwright, in the gorgeous surroundings of the Garden Room.

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Business Breakfast Sustainable Food Partnership
Feb
20
8:00 AM08:00
public event

Business Breakfast Sustainable Food Partnership

Bridgend Food Partnership is hosting a breakfast meeting on 20 February to connect, share ideas, and kickstart a network of businesses who want play their part in increasing access to local and healthy food across Bridgend County.

The meeting will be held at Sustainable Wales, SUSSED 4-5 James Street, Porthcawl CF36 3BG, from 8.00 am to 10.00 am on 20 February 2025. (Breakfast available)

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Green Room: Natalie Ann Holborow
Jan
31
8:00 PM20:00
Green Room

Green Room: Natalie Ann Holborow

Green Room January 2025

Little universe cover

Natalie Ann Holborow is a winner of the Terry Hetherington Award and the Robin Reeves Prize and has been shortlisted and commended for the Bridport Prize, the National Poetry Competition, the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, and the Cursed Murphy Spoken Word Award among others.

Her writing residencies with the British Council, Literature Wales and Kultivera have seen her writing and performing poetry in Wales, Ireland, Sweden and India.

Little Universe is her third full poetry collection. Natalie lives in Swansea, is a proud patron of local charity The Leon Heart Fund, and runs marathons to raise funds.

https://natalieholborow.com/

https://www.instagram.com/natholborow/

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Third Sector free event: Bridgend’s Climate Conversations Workshop Jan 24th 2025
Jan
24
11:00 AM11:00
Third Sector

Third Sector free event: Bridgend’s Climate Conversations Workshop Jan 24th 2025

INVITATION: TO BRIDGEND’S COMMUNITY/ THIRD SECTOR/ SOCIAL CARE GROUPS 

(TRUSTEES, STAFF, VOLUNTEERS AND SERVICE USERS)
Bridgend’s Climate Conversations Workshop Jan 24th 2025, 11am – 2pm The Green Room above SUSSED, Porthcawl CF36 3BG (A low carbon lunch will be provided) Registration essential.

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Fabric Remnants and Haberdashery Fundraising Sale at SUSSED Porthcawl
Nov
13
to Nov 18
public event

Fabric Remnants and Haberdashery Fundraising Sale at SUSSED Porthcawl

Above Sussed, James Street, Porthcawl CF36 3BG.

We are fundraising for solar lighting units for Ugandan families at Mt Elgon, Agroforestry Community Co-operatives selling Jenipher’s Coffi.

(This fairly-traded coffee is imported into Bridgend, sold in SUSSED Porthcawl, and served in One/Un, coffee bar Newton, Porthcawl).

Can you help the coffee farmers go solar, saving pollution and the environment?

Fabrics etc donations welcome in advance.

Our guests and volunteers recently met coffee producer, Jenipher, at our fairtrade coffee evening. She told us about the difficulties of coffee growing, made more so because of climate change, but also about the polluting kerosene lights that are used to light their homes. Though toxic for families and their children – she said they have no choice.

Jenipher started a pilot project with 5 farmers to trial the solar lights. They cost £20 and a total of 600 have been successfully donated so far. However, there are another 3000 farmers who still use kerosene and have no access to electricity.

Online cash donations (via our sister organisation SUSSED)… https://square.link/u/aIeHwALo 

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