"here we come - dyma ni'n diwad"
Traditional and contemporary folk performances in Britain

Aberystwyth 2 + 3 June, 2006

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Friday 2 June 2006

5.30    registration, drinks

6.45    welcome

7.00    Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane

          on Folk Archive

8.00    Bernard Fishlock (Marshfield Mummers)

          in conversation with Mike Pearson (Performance Studies, University of

          Wales Aberystwyth)

8.45    Finish

Saturday 3 June 2006

 9.15     Robin Gwyndaf (St Fagans National History Museum, Wales)

            “Culture in Action – The Function of Folk Events (A Welsh

            perspective)”

10.15    David Greenslade, with William Brown

            on Mari Lwyd, poetry and painting (title tbc)

10.45    Coffee

11.15    Panel 1:

            (Chair: Mike Pearson, Performance Studies, University of

            Wales Aberystwyth)

Rhiannon Ifans

(Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales

Aberystwyth)

“Folk Poetry: its strength and dignity”

            Peter Harrop

            (Arts and Media, University of Chester)

            “Mumming, Civility and Performance Studies”

            Mick Mangan and Sarah Goldingay

(Drama, University of Exeter)

“Barrels, Battles, Bottles: traditional performance and contemporary

spectatorship”

12.30    Lunch

1.30      Panel 2:

(Chair: Heike Roms, Performance Studies, University of

Wales Aberystwyth)

            Peter Merriman

            (Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Wales Aberystwyth)

            “Performing Industrial Folk Cultures: The BBC Radio Ballad Song of a

 Road and the British folk song revival)

Paul Clarke (Dartington College of Art)

“It Is Like It Ought To Be: A Pastoral”

2.30     Doc Rowe

           "Same time, same place … every year”

           illustrated lecture

           Respondent: Mikel Koven (Film Studies, University of Wales

           Aberystwyth)

3.30     Tea

4.00      Panel 3

(Chair: Heike Roms and Mike Pearson, Performance Studies,

University of Wales Aberystwyth)

Bedwyr Williams

Helen Frosi (Situationist Folk Archive – ‘Folklore of the Land’)

Clare Thornton and Trevor Pitt (Soft Bench)

5.00    Closing