www.developingdylan100.com
The website for Developing Dylan, Literature Wales’ new education project, is now live and ready for you to explore.
Find out about the creative writing workshops which will be
available for teachers to book from 1 September, and discover the cross
art-form workshops which will get young people playing with Dylan’s
world through social media, music, visual art and spoken word.
Young writers from 7 to 25 will also be able to find out about
Prologue to an Adventure, the Developing Dylan international writing
competition.
The website offers a sneak preview into Dylan Live,
the live music and bilingual spoken word show which will bring Dylan
Thomas’ 1950s New York back to life through a fusion of vinyl, jazz,
beat poetry, hip hop and spoken word. Poets Martin Daws, Aneirin Karadog
and Zaru Jonson, hip hop artist Ed Holden, DJ Dyl Mei and academic Huw
Vaughan Williams will sample, re interpret and mix music that is
quintessentially New York with Dylan Thomas’ words for a unique live
experience. Coming to a student union bar near you soon…
Whether through prose, verse, music or visual art, Developing Dylan
will celebrate the diverse ways in which Dylan Thomas’ poetry can be
appreciated, shared and enjoyed.
Developing Dylan is funded by the Welsh Government and will form part of the official Dylan Thomas 100 Festival.
The Developing Dylan website was designed and developed by Ctrl.atl.design
The National Association for Literature Development (NALD) has
disbanded after twenty years of active work on behalf of readers,
writers and literature development workers.
Starting its life as the National Association of Literature
Development Workers, the organisation has seen governments, arts
councils, policies, strategies, fashions and fads come and go. At its
heart, however, the belief that reading and writing could change lives,
and that those who worked with readers and writers could benefit by
sharing knowledge and resources, remains unshaken.
The current Board of Directors believes just as passionately that
talent, access, opportunity, excellence, diversity and plurality are
crucial values for those working in the literature sector. However, the
means to promote, secure and advance these values have changed and
continue to change, and NALD is no longer the best way of servicing the
sector and the people working in it.
We received hundreds of applications from you to put our remaining
funds to good use in the sector and we're very excited about the eight
projects we have chosen for the NALD Futures Fund,
which will together make up the NALD legacy. Among the projects,
there's reader development, talent encouragement, research, new
partnerships and the creation of new work. Details can be found here.
We would like to thank all those many, many people who have been
active in NALD’s work over the past two decades. There are too many to
name individually here but the Board’s particular thanks go to Steve
Dearden for his two crucial stints as Director in the course of the
company’s history.
The National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) will be broadening their remit to include more literature development opportunities. You can follow them on Twitter here, sign up to the weekly bulletin here, and contact Wes Brown w.brown@nawe.co.uk to share your news for the sector.
We hope that the networks, enthusiasm, professional development
opportunities and passion for what we do that NALD championed for so
long continues to be felt by the coming generation of literature
development workers.
Source: Press release
