HERITAGE NEWS BLAENAVON WORLD HERITAGE SITE NEWSLETTER ISSUE 14 - Summer 2012
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HERITAGE NEWS BLAENAVON WORLD HERITAGE SITE NEWSLETTER ISSUE 14 - Summer 2012 World Heritage Festival 2012 NEW LOOK WORLD Page 2 Volunteer Rangers clock 3000 hours! HERITAGE FESTIVAL Page 6 - 7 The new look Blaenavon World Heritage Festival celebrate the 150th anniversary of Horeb Chapel is taking place over the weekend of Saturday where you can enjoy a fantastic Flower Festival. Saltaire World 30 June and Sunday 1 July 2012. This two day Plus enjoy musical and family entertainment at Heritage event will celebrate the cultural and rural heritage Market Square and Blaenavon World Heritage Weekend of the Blaenavon World Heritage Site. Festivities Centre. Page 11 are located in Blaenavon Heritage Town on Saturday and at Garn Lakes on Sunday. On Sunday 1 July, enjoy a day in the heritage landscape at Garn Lakes. The day will celebrate Coming Events Visit Blaenavon Heritage Town on Saturday 30 the rural heritage of the Blaenavon World Page 12 June from 11.30 – 4pm for a fun filled day of Heritage Site. Enjoy displays of traditional crafts entertainment. Taking place at various locations including dry-stone walling and willow weaving. including Blaenavon World Heritage Centre, Take part in a variety of bush craft activities; have Market Square, Blaenavon Workmen’s Hall, St a go at casting your line with the local fishing Peters Church, Horeb and Park Street Chapels. club; or take a kayaking trip on the lake. A ‘Sunday School Anniversary Walk’ of local children remembering our cultural past starts at The now well established, dog show will start at 1pm from the top of Broad Street/King Street midday. Organised by the Lowland Search Dogs, and will make their way down through the town there will be rosettes and prizes for all winners, to Park Street Chapel. with a treat for every dog who enters. Watch art and craft demonstrations at Blaenavon For further information on the World Heritage Workmen’s Hall and have a go at various Festival, telephone the Blaenavon Tourist traditional crafts. Visit a wedding dress and Information Centre on (01495) 742333 or wedding photographic exhibition displaying www.visitblaenavon.co.uk dresses from the past at St Peters Church and visitblaenavon.co.uk www.fb.com/visitblaenavon BLAENAVON HERITAGE NEWS BLAENAVON HERITAGE NEWS World Heritage Lidice Shall Live! World Heritage Day Pwyllgor Diwrnod Treftadaeth Committee 12 years old y Byd yn dathlu 12 mlynedd Festival 2012 Sefydlwyd Pwyllgor Treftadaeth y Byd Blaenafon 12 Councillor Neil Lewis MBE, Chair of Blaenavon World The Blaenavon World Heritage Day Committee was mlynedd yn ôl i helpu i hyrwyddo Safle Treftadaeth Heritage Day Committee explains the new look World established 12 years ago to help promote the World y Byd Blaenafon. Cafodd y cadeirydd yn ystod y Heritage Day… Heritage Site of Blaenavon. Its chair for those 12 12 mlynedd hynny, y Cynghorydd Neil Lewis MBE, years Councillor Neil Lewis MBE has been supported This year we are revamping our Heritage Day activities gefnogaeth Pwyllgor ymrwymedig iawn o blith due to reduced budgets. Unfortunately the grant aid from by a dedicated amrywiol various funding bodies that have supported us over the past Committee from sefydliadau few years has now come to an end. We are however, very the various yn y dref. grateful to Torfaen County Borough Council and Blaenavon organisations Meddai’r Town Council for their continued support and commitment. of the town. Cynghorydd The event on Saturday 30 June 2012 will take place Councillor Neil Lewis around the various Chapels/Churches and significant Neil Lewis MBE “Rydym buildings, this will include St Peter’s Church, Horeb Chapel, In June 1942, Lidice, a village in Czechoslovakia ceased MBE said “We yn ymfalchïo Park Street Methodist, Blaenavon Workmen’s Hall and the to exist. Hitler had given the order for the village to be are proud of yn yr hyn a World Heritage Centre. There will also be some small scale razed to the ground as revenge for the assassination of a what we have gyflawnwyd activities in the Town Centre in Market Square. leading Nazi. In 1943, the filmmaker Humphrey Jennings achieved in yn ystod y The parade will take place on a smaller scale in the form was invited by the government to make a film in memory these 12 years, of the villagers who perished. 12 mlynedd, of a ‘Sunday School Anniversary Walk’ to remember especially yn enwedig our past. Next year we hope to be back with our normal Jennings set ‘The Silent Village’ in Cwmgiedd, a mining our World festivities and we will keep you posted during the next 12 dathliadau village in the Swansea valley similar to Lidice, with Heritage Day Diwrnod months. villagers re-enacting the terrible events of 1942. We celebrations. Treftadaeth y I would like to thank you for all your hard work and see the men of Cwmgiedd being lined up in front of I would like Byd. Hoffwn support over the past 12 years; I hope you will continue to the chapel wall to be shot, and women and children to thank the support our event under this new format this year. The event transported away to concentration camps. ddiolch i bobl people of Blaenafon, will be a wonderful celebration of our local culture and The film leaves a lasting impression on the viewer, which Blaenavon and heritage as well as celebrating Blaenavon’s World Heritage yn enwedig was the aim of Jennings, who worked in the film unit in particular Site Status which we are all proud of. within the Ministry of Information. At the time, the South i’r rheiny a those who gymerodd Wales Miners’ Federation supported the production of the have taken film, and a scene shows union lodge officials holding a rhan a chefnogi’r dathliadau bob blwyddyn. part and supported celebrations each year. I would meeting. Hoffwn hefyd ddiolch i Dîm Prosiect Blaenafon also like to thank the Blaenavon Project Team at yng Nghyngor Torfaen; Cath Thomas, Rebecca Big Pit is showing ‘The Silent Village’ in July, followed Torfaen Council; Cath Thomas, Rebecca Hartley, by a discussion about the film and filmmaker. Humphrey Hartley, Kate Fitzgerald a John Rodger MBE, cyn Kate Fitzgerald and former World Heritage Site Gydlynydd Safle Treftadaeth y Byd am eu gwaith Jennings has been described as ‘the only real poet that Co-ordinator John Rodger MBE for their hard work British cinema has produced’. caled a’u cefnogaeth dros y blynyddoedd. Rydym and support over the years. We are very proud of yn ymfalchïo yn ein Statws Safle Treftadaeth y Byd The Silent Village, Big Pit National Coal Museum our World Heritage Site Status and we look forward ac edrychwn ymlaen at waith diflino’r Pwyllgor Wednesday 11 July 1.30pm. £1.50 entry includes to the World Heritage Committee working for many refreshments. Treftadaeth y Byd am flynyddoedd lawer wrth iddynt years to help promote our heritage status”. barhau i hyrwyddo’n statws treftadaeth”. PAGE 2 PAGE 3 BLAENAVON HERITAGE NEWS BLAENAVON HERITAGE NEWS Exploring Elemental Archwilio Elfennol Iron Bridge Diogelu’r Bont Strange things are happening at Blaenavon Ironworks at the end Mae pethau rhyfedd yn digwydd yng Ngwaith Haearn Blaenafon of June when Head for Arts transforms the site into an interactive ar ddiwedd mis Mehefin pan fydd ‘Head for Arts’ yn trawsnewid y multimedia experience celebrating Blaenavon’s metalworking safle i greu profiad amlgyfrwng rhyngweithiol i ddathlu treftadaeth gweithio metel Blaenafon. Safeguarded Haearn heritage. Torfaen Council Mae Cyngor Mae Elfennol yn un o wyth prosiect “Crochan a Ffwrnais” a Elemental is one of only eight “Cauldrons and Furnaces” projects is undertaking Torfaen yn taking place in heritage sites across Wales during summer 2012 gynhelir mewn safleoedd treftadaeth ledled Cymru yn ystod ymgymryd â haf 2012 o ganlyniad partneriaeth rhwng Cadw a Chyngor work to remove as the result of a partnership between Cadw and Arts Council gwaith i symud Wales. It forms part of the Power of the Flame, funded by Legacy Celfyddydau Cymru. Mae’n ffurfio rhan o Rym y Fflam a ariennir and safeguard gan yr Ymddiriedolaeth Etifeddiaeth y DU, i greu effaith barhaol the historically a diogelu pont Trust UK, to create a lasting impact from the London 2012 Olympic hanesyddol and Paralympic Games through funding ideas and local talent to o Gemau Olympaidd a Pharalympaidd Llundain 2012 trwy important Aaron syniadau cyllido a doniau lleol i ysbrydoli creadigrwydd ledled y inspire creativity across the UK. Brute’s bridge bwysig Aaron DU. Brute sydd wedi This unusual guided performance has involved over 300 young which is located Mae’r perfformiad tywysedig hwn wedi cynnwys dros 300 o bobl ei lleoli y tu participants from the area – creating music, words, dance, drama behind the ifanc yr ardal – i greu cerddoriaeth, geiriau, dawns, drama a rhai and some amazing visual and sound installations. Alongside a ôl i Ganolfan gosodiadau gweledol a cherddorol trawiadol dros ben. Ochr yn Blaenavon World children’s choir, brass band and Celtic group, Elemental features Treftadaeth y ochr â chôr plant, band pres a grwp^ Celtaidd, mae Elfennol yn Heritage Centre. some extraordinary instruments including weird and wonderful Byd Blaenafon. cynnwys rhai offerynnau rhyfeddol, yn eu plith, band taro “metel “heavy metal” percussion, a pyrophone played by fire-power and The bridge will trwm”, pyro-ffôn sy’n cael ei chwarae drwy bwer^ tân, a FEED - FEED - a new digital music app specially created for this project. Bydd y bont yn app cerddoriaeth ddigidol newydd wedi ei greu’n arbennig ar be stored at the Blaenavon cael ei storio Free performances are on 29th and 30th June (6.30pm). gyfer y prosiect hwn.