On Saturday 1st February 2020 we will be showing an audio-visual exhibition of musings and memoir relating to local women over the past 200 years.
Throughout the day, the slideshow of photographs accompanied by the words of these remarkable women will be shown at the museum, with refreshments available in our coffee shop.
Drop in anytime between 10.30 and 4.30 to view the slideshow free of charge.
This event forms part of the Women of West Wales project and is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Why not ‘brush up’ on your artistic skills in the new year by joining the Life Drawing Group that meets weekly at the museum?
The group meets every Friday, ( with breaks at Christmas, Easter, and a few weeks over Summer) from 10.00am to 3.00pm. The cost per session is £15 which covers the hire of the room and model. There is a different model every week with occasional two week poses. Each meeting starts with three short 10 minute poses, and then the main pose with breaks for coffee and Lunch.
New members of all abilities are assured of a warm welcome. Get in touch with Austen ([email protected]) or Hilary ([email protected]) to join or find out more.
We dare you to dust off those shoulder pads, book that perm (or just come as you are) and join us on 23rd July for an eighties-themed afternoon tea in celebration of 30 years of Narberth Museum.
Narberth is a town bursting with history which is why, back in the 1980s, members of the town’s Civic Society felt that it should have its own museum.
The Wilson Museum of Narberth, as it was then known, opened its doors in July 1989. At first it was located in what had once been the Courthouse Inn, then as it grew, it moved to Market Square.
When it was forced to close in 2003 a team of dedicated volunteers determined that it should re-open and so nine years later, thanks to generous funding from the HLF and Welsh Government, Narberth Museum opened in its new home in the Bonded Stores.
We think that for a small independent to have survived for thirty years with no external funding is a huge achievements and something worth celebrating!
The party starts at 3pm and tickets cost £7.50. Click the link below to pay online.
How much do we know historically about the women of West Wales? Hidden throughout time in letters, diaries and memories, their varied and dynamic accomplishments are now revealed using modern technology; ensuring that in the 21st Century, their voices are finally heard.
On Saturday August 10th, the #WOWW project, funded by Arwain Sir Benfro, the Heritage Lottery Fund and with help from Llangwm History Society, will be showcasing innovative poetry films inspired by the women of West Wales.
The event forms part of Llangwm Literary Festival and will take place at 10.00am at Llangwm Village Hall. Tickets are available here.
As part of National Crime Reading Month, Alice Hawkins will be joining us as to discuss her new book In Two Minds, the second in the ‘Teifi Valley Coroner’ series.
‘West Wales, 1850. When an old tree root is dug up, the remains of a young woman are found. Harry Probert-Lloyd, a young barrister forced home from London by encroaching blindness, has been dreading this discovery.
He knows exactly whose bones they are.
Working with his clerk, John Davies, Harry is determined to expose the guilty, but the investigation turns up more questions than answers.
The search for the truth will prove costly. Will Harry and John be the ones to pay the highest price?’
Alis Hawkins grew up speaking Welsh in Cardiganshire, read English at Cambridge University and works with speech and language for the National Autistic Society. Her first novel, Testament, was published by Macmillan. She lives with her partner near Monmouth.
None So Blind, the first novel in the Teifi Valley Coroner series is available now in the bookshop.
Tickets: £5 redeemable against the purchase of either None So Blind or In Two Minds (£8.99 each)
On Wednesday 15th May at 7.30 pm, Angela V. John will be giving a talk on Welsh novelist and translator Menna Gallie (1919–1990).
Menna Humphreys was born in Ystradgynlais, and attended Swansea University, where she met her future husband, the philosopher W. B. Gallie. Together, they were politically active, with a commitment to democratic socialism.
In her later years she lived in Newport, Pembrokeshire and was best known for her novels in the English language, and as the translator of Caradog Prichard’s Un Nos Ola Leuad, under the title Full Moon. She was described as ‘a sort of Welsh Edna O’Brien, (who) writes beady-eyed, bawdy-tongued entertainments calculated to stir recognition in women and discomfiture in men…’
Angela V. John is a Professor of History who sees herself as ‘a biographical historian, writing about the period alongside the person’. She has written widely on ‘women’s employment in Victorian Britain’ and ‘gender history and suffrage’. She was also a founder member of the editorial board of the international journal ‘Gender & History’.
Tickets are £5 and refreshments are available.
This talk forms part of the #WOWW project that celebrates the achievements of the Women of West Wales. This is supported by PLANED, Arwain Sir Benfro and the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
We’re going out & about on 27th April! We will be taking our #WOWW project to Llangwm to create poems inspired by local women’s history for Llangwm Literary Festival in August
