Merthyr Tydfil Chartist Festival

Saturday 18 April 2009

• Venue: Market Square Church, Merthyr Tydfil, 9.30am - 4.30pm
• Registration: FREE ENTRANCE: To book your place today contact: Huw 07968256864 or Viv 01685 377883 or les.james[at]newport.ac.uk

Programme

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AM

09.30 

Coffee/Tea

10.00

Welcome |  by Cllr. Clive Jones, Mayor of Merthyr Tydfil

Introduction | by Huw Williams (Chair, Merthyr Chartist Forum)

10.10

Lecture | Historian Joe England on Merthyr Chartism

11.00

Walk | through the café quarter, towards St Tydfil's Church - the scene of a peaceful Chartist protest on Sunday 18^th August 1839

11.15

Street Theatre | actors from Chance Encounters theatre company debate The Chartist cause: Shall we join the march to Newport?

11.45

• The Chartist Characters lead their audience back to Market Square Church, where taking the hot seat, they answer questions in role

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PM

12.30

Debate | Historians Huw Williams and Les James round up with a debate about The 1839 South Wales Chartist Rising

1.00 - 2.00

LUNCH - available in the café quarter | or bring your own food (eating is allowed in the small hall). 

• Book stalls, exhibition, slide show.

2.00

Theatre | UAct2 theatre company presents Sounds like Chartism

• Multi media show - music, poetry, dance, story telling

2.50 

TEA

3.15

The Chartist Legacy – and into the Future

• Film | UAct2 Vox pop film
• Workshop | producing a Charter for today

4.15

Close | Viv Pugh (Dic Penderyn Society) sums up the day

4.30 

Finish

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Acknowledgements 

Merthyr Tydfil - Campaigning for Rights for All 

Chartist Festival is organised by Merthyr Chartist Forum with the support of HERIAN (Heritage in Action), The Bevan Foundation, Voluntary Action Merthyr Tydfil, Dic Penderyn Society, Merthyr Tydfil Historical Society, Workers Educational Association (WEA).

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