Events
Event listings for Sustainable Wales and the Green Room, Arts, literature, music and community events in the South Wales area
30th January Friday at 8pm; above SUSSED James St., Porthcawl CF36 3BG
Tracey Rhys returns to the Green Room
All welcome, BYOB, £5 entry - all proceeds support Sustainable Wales.
Readings and RSPB talk:
7pm Tuesday, January 27, 2026, at ‘Le Pub’, 19, High St., NEWPORT NP20 1FW.
The next Green Room will be on the 28th November from 8pm above SUSSED as usual.
Special Fanfare for the Funfare event - celebrating the Porthcawl funfair
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.
During the uprising of Glyndwr, Coity Castle played a pivotal role in the south. At this talk and presentation by Gareth Jones of the Owain Glyndwr Society along with poetry by Robert Minhinnick and guests, this critical chapter in the story will be brought to light…
Last Green Room of summer above SUSSED James St. Porthcawl CF36 3BG
Tuesday, July 1 Maesteg Town Hall
Bridgend Adapts | Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr yn Addasu
Explore how Bridgend can build climate resilience |
Archwilio sut y gall Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr baratoi ar gyfer effeithiau newid hinsawdd
The Green Room returns on 27th June 2025 above SUSSED. CULTURE & DEMOCRACY PRESS - Memoir Music Poetry
Poster for Green Room May 25
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.
EXCITING COLLABORATION -see blog for details
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)
Green Room January 2025
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.
The Greenbank, 57 Belle Vue Rd., Easton, BS5 6DP
Poster created by Robert Walton for Gorwelion
Download the poster (pdf) for printing.
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.
The Green Room Returns in November
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
We pay tribute to two writers, NIGEL JENKINS (1949 – 2014) and ALAN PERRY (1942 – 2023) with readings from their works.
Clwb y Bont Pontypridd
The Green Room Returns 27 September
Beach Clean Group meet Jenipher Sambazi, East Ugandan Coffee producer https://jenipherscoffi.wales/ 11.00 am start (meet at SUSSED) then afterwards at around 12.15 meet Jenipher upstairs in the Green Room above SUSSED, CF36 3BG Porthcawl.
https://betweenthetrees.co.uk/tickets/ Screening of Sleepwalking into Climate Change film
Zoë Brigley is the author of three books of poetry published by Bloodaxe: Hand & Skull (2019), Conquest (2012), and The Secret (2007). All three are UK Poetry Book Society Recommendations. Poems from the collections have won an Eric Gregory Award for the best British poets under 30, have been longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize for the best international writers under 40, and were Forward Prize commended. She became editor for Wales’ leading poetry journal Poetry Wales in 2021, and she is now Poetry Editor for Seren Books jointly with the poet Rhian Edwards.
Kristian Evans is a founding editor of Modron Magazine, which publishes writing on the ecological crisis. He’s the author of pamphlets, Unleaving (2015), and Otherworlds (2021), and with Zoë Brigley edited 100 Poems to Save the Earth (2021), an anthology of contemporary poetry. He was a judge for the Wales Book of the Year Award 2023, and in the same year was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the Year Award. He lives in Bridgend, south Wales.
Join us for Porthcawl Eco Day! 27th April, 11am until 3pm Griffin Park!
A family fun day to celebrate the green and eco organisations in our local area! Stalls with games, activities and freebies! Live performances and music! Art Trail around Porthcawl! Fair Trade Cafe! And much more!
The Repair Café normally above SUSSED James St., Porthcawl moves to the Porthcawl Eco Day at Griffin Park for this event on Saturday 27th April 2024.
Sustainable Wales’s Green Room returns, APRIL 26, 8pm with guest poet ABEER AMEER.
Her debut poetry collection Inhale/Exile in which she shares stories of her Iraqi forebears, will be on sale.
CLWB Y BONT, Pontypridd, CF37 4SL
Fri 26th April 2024
Clwb y Bont yn cyflwyno/presents...
Gig 14+
mewn cydweithrediad
in association with Menter Iaith Rhondda Cynon Taf
WIGWAM, ANHUNEDD, ECHDORIAD
Noson i godi ymwybyddiaeth o newid hinsawdd.
Event to raise awareness of climate change issues.
Tickets:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/clwb-y-bont/gig-14-wigwam-anhunedd-echdoriad/e-qleoxb
Our mission is to seek solutions for the unsustainable way we live. This involves cultural change and has implications for future generations.
Sustainable Wales’s aim is to help revitalise the local economy. We promote social and environmental progress and are enterprising, creative and internationally aware.
We are committed to society, artistic creativity and the natural world. We work with communities, voluntary groups and government.
We believe in this way we can foster an exciting future that doesn’t cost us the earth.
Sustainable Wales | 5 James Street, Porthcawl, CF36 3BG, UK
