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Following the great success of
the 2007 festival, we have decided to make Beyond
The Border a bi-ennial festival, which means that the next one will take place
in 2009, on 3/4/5 July.
Click here to join our Beyond the Border E-Mailing List and receive details
of the 2009 festival, including who’s appearing and how and when to buy tickets.
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What's on this
month? Other BTB Events throughout the year.....
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As well as running a spectacular international festival at St Donats Castle, Beyond The Border is involved in a
range of other storytelling events and activities throughout the year,
including a monthly series of free Saturday Lunch Hour shows at the Wales
Millennium Centre.
To see what's on next, click on the
Other BTB Events
icon in the left
hand column.
If you would like to receive regular e-flyers about Other BTB Events, then
Click here to join our Beyond the Border E-Mailing List
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HOWEVER.....
BEYOND THE
BORDER STILL UNDER THREAT!!!!!
You may have heard in the media that The Arts
Council of Wales (ACW) is proposing to cut the annual grant to St Donats Arts
Centre, home of Beyond The Border Wales International Storytelling Festival.
The Arts
Council of Wales is continuing to put St Donats' future in jeopardy even though
the Centre has won its appeal against the Arts Council’s decision to withdraw
funding by the end of July.
Despite an independent panel deciding that the Arts Council had made a
wrong decision to withdraw the Arts Centre’s grant, the Arts Council has not
reinstated the funding.
The Arts Centre is seeking urgent talks with senior officials of the Arts
Council of Wales with the aim of immediately reinstating the Arts Centre’s
grant.
Unless we can reverse the Arts Council of Wales’ decision, it
could result in the loss of both:
St Donats Arts Centre, a unique and beautifully situated
rural centre for the arts, serving people in the Vale of Glamorgan, the UK and
abroad,
and Beyond The Border, Wales’
International Storytelling Festival, the only one of its kind in Wales and the
largest in the UK.
You can help us save both this unique arts centre and
Wales’ International Storytelling Festival, including our education
and touring work throughout Wales, by:
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Adding your
name to our online petition:
Click
here
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Writing a full
letter of support to Prof. Dai Smith, Chairman, The Arts Council of Wales, 9
Museum Place, Cardiff CF10 3NX
and
Jane Hutt, AM, Minister for Children, Education, Life Long Learning and
Skills, National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff CF99 1NA.
You will find
more details to help support your argument by visiting
www.stdonats.com.
Thank you.
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Meanwhile, to read reviews
and see pictures from the highly successful 2007 Festival, go to
Last Festival
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