Return of the Green Room Thursday 25 Sept 2025
Sept
25
8:00 pm20:00
Green Room

Return of the Green Room Thursday 25 Sept 2025

Green Room Poster 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.

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.

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Gwyl Glyndwr 2025: The Siege of Coity Castle
Sept
18
7:00 pm19:00
Green Room

Gwyl Glyndwr 2025: The Siege of Coity Castle

Gwyl Glyndwr 2025: The Siege of Coity Castle with Sustainable Wales co founder Robert Minhinnick.

and Gareth Jones & guests

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,

Porthcawl YMCA 25 John Street, Porthcawl, Bridgend County, CF36 3AP, Wales

Tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/gwylglyndwr/1593309

More information https://gwyl-glyndwr.cymru/

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Fabric Remnants and Haberdashery Fundraising Sale Nov 13th – 18th 2024
Nov
13
to 18 Nov

Fabric Remnants and Haberdashery Fundraising Sale Nov 13th – 18th 2024

Donations of fabrics etc welcome in advance, please drop off in SUSSED. Sale starts 13th November 10.00am.

Above Sussed, Porthcawl.

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 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… https://square.link/u/aIeHwALo 

Contacts: Margaret or Peter 01656 783962

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Launch of new films - Sleepwalkling into Climate Change
Jan
29
7:00 pm19:00
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Launch of new films - Sleepwalkling into Climate Change

free public films launch

‘Sleepwalking Into Climate Change?’

Hi Tide Inn, Porthcawl Mackworth Road, CF36 5BT. All Welcome.

Monday, Jan 29th 2024, 7pm

More information on the Sustainable Wales site.

About the Sleepwalking Into Climate Change? Films

‘Sleepwalking into Climate Change?” is a series of three twelve minute films, largely filmed in Porthcawl. They aim to locate climate change in the place where we live and will be used to stimulate debate and action locally.

“When leading scientists issue their ‘final warning’ is anyone listening?” asks young climate and policy graduate, from Porthcawl, Ella Williamson, Sustainable Wales’ Local Development and Climate Change officer.

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Fairtrade Fortnight 2023 - stalls & Café
Mar
11
2:00 pm14:00
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Fairtrade Fortnight 2023 - stalls & Café

At our community run ethical shop, SUSSED in James St. Porthcawl; in the afternoon of Saturday March 11th, Sustainable Wales new Young people’s climate group are presenting stalls and activities at the bandstand.

Also on Saturday 11th, we will be running a  Fairtrade coffee, tea and cake cafe, above SUSSED
Homemade cakes using Fairtrade ingredients are being donated. The event will  ask people to pay what they can afford or support with a donation towards Fairtrade activity.

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Justice-Cyfiawnder, Angela Graham at the Green Room Feb 24th
Feb
24
8:00 pm20:00
Green Room

Justice-Cyfiawnder, Angela Graham at the Green Room Feb 24th

Angela Graham is a BAFTA Cymru-winning film-maker and journalist. She has produced programmes for BBC, ITV, S4C and Channel 4 and was Development Producer of The Story of Wales.  She produced and co-wrote the Oscar entrant cinema feature Branwen (6 BAFTA Cymru nominations and Best Film at the Celtic Media Festival), and was a screenwriter on drama projects set in Italy, Romania and Ireland. She began her career in ITV, and spent eight years as a producer at one of Britain’s rare production co-operatives, Teliesyn.

She turned to writing full time in 2017. Her poetry has appeared in The North, The Honest Ulsterman, Poetry Wales, The Ogham Stone, The Open Ear, The Interpreter’s House and other journals. An award-winning short story writer, she was nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2019. She is currently finishing a novel and engaged in a prose/poetry project on Place and Displacement in the context of urban violence.

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Delirium by Robert Minhinnick - launch event
Nov
17
7:30 pm19:30
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Delirium by Robert Minhinnick - launch event

Stage Door, Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl CF36 3YW

https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/delirium

This collection of short prose begins with a real 1945 diary kept in Burma, and Minhinnick telling stories to his mother in her care home.

It includes a series of pictures of war-stricken Baghdad, and vignettes about place and travel, dedicated to Jan Morris.

On the way we encounter a Middle East island devoted to sustainability, close ups of what clearing a family house reveals, and the writer’s intimately imagined Welsh sand dunes.

Minhinnick also watches the Stereophonics in Sydney, mourns the Golan Heights and meets a family of destitute Bedouins.

Throughout we encounter the Covid pandemic, threats of extinction, and images of post-apocalyptic life.

A breathless epic…

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The Green Room Returns During the Elvis Festival - with Peter Finch
Sept
23
8:00 pm20:00
Green Room

The Green Room Returns During the Elvis Festival - with Peter Finch

green room poster sept 22

Friday, September 23, 2022

  • 8:00 PM 10:00 PM

  • fundraising for Sustainable Wales (map) - free with donations welcome.

Delighted to be featuring Peter Finch

Hosted by Robert Minhinnick

At the Green Room above SUSSED, during the Elvis Festival.

The Green Room returns surrounded by Porthcawl’s Elvis Festival.

Plus open mic

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