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– Support Ty Newydd in its annual literaturefestivals.– Continue working with Galeri, Caernarfonon a programme of literary events,including the popular Poems Under theStairs events.– Develop audio content and add videocontent to the Academi’s web site.– Continue the development of the NationalPoet post during Gillian Clarke’s secondyear, with events with the new PoetLaureate and high-profile readings outsideof Wales.– Continue to work with the Forward Press,the Poetry Society (London), the ScottishPoetry Library (Edinburgh), and the HeaneyCentre (Belfast) to promote National PoetryDay in Wales.– Work with partner organisations (ACW,Welsh Books Council, Wales ArtsInternational, The National Library and theWelsh Assembly Government) to providea presence at the Hay Festival (May 2009)and to continue the increasein the number of Welsh events.– Continue to develop the Whitchurch Projectwith lead writers Phil Carradice and BrionyGoffin.– Collaborate with Cardiff Council to organisean extended series of activities to mark theopening of Cardiff Central Library.– Work with BBC Radio 4 on the Welshcomponent of a UK-wide broadcast poetryslam.– Seek new funding for an extended Bay LitFestival under the brand Shock of the New.– Run Mountains & Islands writers retreatnear Llangynidr, Powys in November 2009.– Promote Roald Dahl Day in September 2009.– Collaborate with WMC on activities at theBreakin’ the Bay festival in June 2009.– Seek the establishment of a literary andcultural bookshop at the WMC.– Work with the Wales Millennium Centre,Welsh publishers and other partners topresent an ongoing programme of varied,accessible and free literature events in theWales Millennium Centre.– Provide literary content for WMC’s fifthbirthday celebrations in the autumn of 2009.– Run a residential multi-artform summerschool for young people in the Urdd Centreat WMC, in collaboration with other residentcompanies.– Work with the publishers on the promotionof the Library of Wales series of reprints andanthologies including events in the GlynJones Centre and Merthyr Tydfil to mark thelaunch of Black Parade by Jack Jones andThe Valley, The City, The Village byGlyn Jones.– Ensure representation of the interests ofwriters, and in particular digital rights, inthe publishing, library and broadcastingsectors.– In conjunction with ACW, seek to increasethe value of the annual Wales Book of theYear Award through private sponsorship.– Hold celebratory events to mark significantbirthdays of some of Wales’ greatestauthors.– Finalise Academi’s web site advice toauthors with the addition of 60,000 words ofspecially commissioned work from KathrynGray on subjects pertinent to authorship ina Welsh context.– Manage a series of literary events inFlintshire financed by Flintshire’s RuralDevelopment fund.– Develop the Write for Life pilot project withfunding from Basic Skills Cymru (WAG),creating a programme of creative writing inall five prisons in Wales.– Run literature events for the young visitorsto the Urdd Eisteddfod in WMC in May/June2009.– Review the work of the Valleys LiteratureDevelopment Project to ensure itscontinuation and seek to roll out similarprojects to other areas of Wales.– Continue to work with the new languagesin Wales.
The Welsh AcademyAnnual Report312010-2011 ActivitiesIn addition to continuing appropriate initiativesstarted in 2009-2010 and the running ofAcademi’s regular programme of activities theAgency will also:– Engage with writers outside the Academi’straditional interest areas includingscreenwriters, dramatists, journalists, sportswriters and bloggers.– Increase access to writers and writing in theregions of Wales where response is currentlyat its lowest.– Extend the Bay Lit Festival.– Increase access among the disadvantaged.– Analyse geographical/demographicaldistribution of activity.– Secure the future of the South Wales ValleysLiterature Development project.– Increase world-wide acknowledgementof Wales’ literature and literary heritagethrough international touring.– Enhance support for the work of our principlepartners the Dylan Thomas Centre inSwansea and the Tŷ Newydd Writers Centrein Llanystumdwy. Support Tŷ Newydd’srelationship with Wales Literature Exchangein establishing a National Translation Centre.– Continue to enhance the Hay FestivalWelsh component.– Maintain Literary Bus Tours and otherCultural Tourism attractions.– Run Mountains & Islands writers retreat inwest Wales in November 2010.– Develop work in languages other thanEnglish and Welsh.– Celebrate Academi at 50.2011-2012 ActivitiesAcademi will seek to review the way in whichit engages with readers and writers acrossWales. Academi will review its alignmentwith ACW’s strategic objectives and FiveYear Art Form plans. Academi will review itsdelivery ensuring that it continues to reachthe maximum number of participants andconsumers and that it does this in a way thatrepresents best value for money.– Academi will look to local government forpartnerships and support.– Begin the digitisation (and potential revision) ofThe Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales.– Organise a bi-lingual conference whichexplores comparative literature in Glasgow,Edinburgh or Newcastle-upon-Tyne.– Launch the 2011 Rhys Davies Short StoryCompetition.Given appropriate new resource Academiwill also:– Make available training for writers who wishto work in new areas and in particular thosewho wish to work in the health sector or witheconomically deprived, minority, or at-riskgroups.– Facilitate access to writing among Wales’sethnic communities by the appointment ofan Ethnic Communities Fieldworker. The newFieldworker will seek ways to provide first andsecond language opportunities in Urdu, Polish,Somali, Bengali, Arabic and other languagesspoken by the new citizens of Wales.– Enhance the Wales Book of the Year awardwith an increase in prize money and a morevisible publicity campaign.– Enhance the role of Bardd Plant Cymruthrough extra funding from foundations andother sources.– Develop partnerships and opportunities forWelsh writers abroad.– Seek specific funding for the revival andexpansion of the Academi’s Great CardiffPoem project.– Develop the role of literature in CulturalTourism by working with Visit Wales andthe tourismindustry (hotels, restaurants,museums etc).– Progress proposals for a Children’s Literatureof Wales festival.– Academi will review its approach to privatesector funding and will actively engage ina programme of new fundraising.– Academi’s proposals (and input into ACW’sforward plan) for an increase of feesavailable for writers will have begun tobear fruit. This will be celebrated.– Continuing the programme of directprovision, Academi will organise a furtherseries of conferences and day schoolsin English and in Welsh.
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