Gertie Hooper vs The Committee

7PM FRIDAY 6 SEPTEMBER 2024

WOMEN OF WEST WALES – A FILM AND HISTORY EVENT

 

Animated short film screening with filmmakers Melissa Rees Herman & Gemma Green-Hope and Rural Historian Dr Donnah Lewis

ABOUT THE FILM

Shepherd Gertie Hooper had a battle on her hands when some of the village men
decided that she should be evicted from the land her family had farmed for decades.
An animated documentary that takes place during World War II. In Welsh and English.
Written and Directed by Melissa Rees Herman. Animated by Gemma Green-Hope.

The coffee shop and bar will be open for refreshments.

Tickets cost £5 and are available at the link below or by calling the bookshop on 01834 860500. Or call in and see us!





Paperback Breakfast

It’s been a while since our last Paperback Breakfast. Come and join us for a relaxed coffee and croissant from 10.00 on Saturday 29th June 2024.

The breakfast is just £6.50 per person and don’t forget to bring a paperback to exchange!

Book your place on the button below.




That’s it for the year!

Thanks everyone for your support over the past 12 months.

We’ll be back open on the 16th January with our first event, a Paperback Breakfast, on Saturday 20th.

Merry Christmas and all the best for 2024!

Poems and Readings for Christmas

7pm Wednesday 6th December 2023

A festive evening of poems and readings including works by Dylan Thomas, Wendy Cope, Carol Ann Duffy and many more.

The coffee shop and bar will be open for refreshments.

Tickets cost £5  and are available at the link below or by calling the bookshop on 01834 860500. Or call in and see us!




Unearthed II: A Coffee Morning for Prospectors

At 10.30 on Saturday 1st July, we are hosting a second coffee morning in collaboration with the Portable Antiquities Scheme.

 In September, the Portable Antiquities Scheme will be bringing an exhibition to Narberth Museum, exploring archaeology and metal detecting, and we want you to contribute to this project.

We want to photograph your finds for the exhibition, and record your thoughts and feelings about the significance of local archaeology and why metal detecting is important to you?

 This informal get-together will be an opportunity for prospectors to bring along their finds and share a little bit of information about their significance to the history of West Wales.

Last Paperback Breakfast of 2023

From 10.00 on Saturday 30th September we will be having another of our popular Paperback Breakfasts.

Enjoy a relaxed coffee, orange juice and croissant and swap a paperback book you’ve recently read with someone else’s.

This will be the last one before Christmas so don’t miss out.

The breakfast is just £6.50 per person and don’t forget to bring a paperback to exchange!

This is a fundraising event for Narberth Museum and your ongoing support is very welcome.

Book your place on the button below.

 





Diamond Crime at Chapter One

Saturday 15th October 2022

Authors from the new Welsh crime publisher, Diamond Crime, will be visiting Chapter One the Bookshop at Narberth Museum.

11am to 12pm Creating Characters a workshop with Jacqueline Harrett author of The Nesting Place

Having a credible character is the first step in the journey to engage readers. How do you develop a character who lives off the page?
In this workshop we will explore ways to breathe life into your descriptions from physical description to developing backstory and motivation.
An enjoyable morning activity for both emerging and experienced writers. Fun and laughter guaranteed along the way.

This is a free event but spaces are limited so please book your place here.

2.30pm to 3.30pm Diamond Crime Authors in conversation

Jacqueline Harrett, Thorne Moore, Phil Rowland and Gwyneth Steddy will be in conversation with author Judith Barrow.  There will also be an opportunity for a Q&A with the audience.

 

You can find out more about the Diamond Crime authors here.

Tickets are £5 redeemable against the purchase of any Diamond Crime book (£8.99 or £9.99 each).




 

4pm to 5pm Quiz

Test your knowledge of literary crimes with this fun quiz to end the day.

 

Diamond Crime was founded by crime writers Steve Timmins, Jeff Dowson and Phil Rowlands. They were all published authors looking for a new home for their books, but finding the tortuous and ego-denting experience wearing, they decided there had to be another way of doing this, a different way. So, after months of research into the world of small indie publishing and knowing what they and other writers, they were sure, wanted from a publisher – trust, care, support, creative collaboration as well a platform for their books – they decided to take the plunge, and so Diamond Books and its first imprint, Diamond Crime, was launched in May 2021. Now it has eight authors with another couple in the pipeline, fourteen books published and ten more on the way. Their plan is to grow organically, not just go for numbers. They want to spend time with their authors so that their books are the best they can be. They are a platform for new and established voices and an opportunity for those talented writers out there, who can’t get their books published or even read.

 

SCAM: A Film by Nick Swannell

After her ambitious mother’s hustle fails to secure their theatre home, exploited singer Ella joins her con-artist sister’s social media scam. But when the truth about their father’s death emerges, family loyalty only goes so far.
Award-winning local producer, director and composer Nick Swannell’s debut feature film ‘SCAM’, will be shown at the museum next Friday evening (22nd July) at 7pm.
‘Scam’ is a neo-noir crime thriller about a family of scammers. It explores interdependence and abuse via a claustrophobic mother-daughter relationship and illustrates how social media platforms provide an easily-accessible global reach for scam artists. A desire for an easy buck may challenge our morality and brutalise our sensibilities, but how malicious
must someone become to escape exploitation?
 
The film was written and co-produced by film producer, graphic designer and sculptor Alison Rayner. The cast includes local actors Bibi MacDougall and Abby Brenchley.
Tickets are available here: https://alnico-productions.sumup.link/
Discover more: Instagram: www.instagram.com/scamfilm
Facebook: www.facebook.com/skamthefilm
Twitter: twitter.com/scamfilm2022