Chard Festival of Women in Music 1996
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Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Material relating to the Chard Festival of Women in Music 1996, in which Women in Jazz participated.
Chard Festival of Women in Music 1996
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Material relating to the Chard Festival of Women in Music 1996, in which Women in Jazz participated.
Chard Festival of Women in Music
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Material relating to Chard Festival's Hotbed Symposium for Women in Music, held 27-30 May 2001, at which Jen Wilson and musician Enid Luff presented a talk titled There! But not heard ...., including rough talk notes; festival schedules and flyer; participators' profiles; and correspondence.
Changing Times: Welsh women writing on the 1950s and 1960s
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Material relating to Jen Wilson's article 'Redefining the Sixties Myth: Letters Home to Swansea', contributed to Changing Times: Welsh women writing on the 1950s and 1960s (ed. Deirdre Beddoe, Honno Press, 2003), including annotated draft texts of article; photocopied contents page of Changing Times; and correspondence addressed to Jen Wilson from Honno Press.
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Material relating to a talk titled A Nobler Strife: Swansea Abolitionists and the Cincinnati Trail 1820-1907, presented by Jen Wilson to Cardiff University's Cardiff Centre for Lifelong Learning, 23 May 2007, including flyer, campus map and correspondence.
Cardiff Literature Festival 1988
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Programme schedule relating to a performance by The Old Pros duo, comprising Jen Wilson and poet Penny Windsor, at the Cardiff Literature Festival 1988.
Cardiff Capital of Culture 2008
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Material relating to Cardiff's bid to be European Capital of Culture 2008, which includes an offer made to Women in Jazz towards the costs of developing a Women's Festival of Jazz to celebrate Cardiff's centenary celebrations in 2005.
Butetown History & Arts Centre
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Material relating to events held at Butetown History & Arts Centre, Cardiff, including programmes of events; exhibition panel text; flyer; newsletter; notice of Annual General Meeting; and correspondence.
Butetown History & Arts Centre
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Material relating to a Jazz Lecture Evening held at Butetown History & Arts Centre Gallery, Cardiff, 31 March 2000, at which Jen Wilson gave a multi-media presentation on the history of British jazz women, including poster; newsletter; and correspondence.
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Photographic print relating to the Swansea Jazz Ensemble's participation at the 2003 Brecon Jazz Festival.
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Material mainly comprising details relating to Women in Jazz Board of Trustees meetings, with related correspondence.
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Material relating to a course titled Blues Women, run by Jen Wilson in her capacity as one of the Performing Arts tutors within University College of Wales, Swansea's Department of Adult Continuing Education.
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Material relating to playwright and screenwriter Alan Plater's production Blonde Bombshells of 1943, comprising theatre programme, flyer, press cuttings, correspondence and printouts from online sources.
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Material relating to Women in Jazz's participation in Black History Month, especially their involvement with Channel 4's Black History Map of Britain website, launched 1 October 2000 for Black History Month, including festival programme; press release; poster and flyer; exhibition texts; printouts and press cuttings; correspondence; and enquiry sheets. Together with material relating to Butetown History & Arts Centre's celebration of Black History Month 1999, 2001 and 2004, and postcards and press cutting relating to Butetown's mixed-race history.
The events marking Black History Month October 2006 coincided with celebrations to mark Women in Jazz's 20th anniversary, which were highlighted by a gala evening featuring Women in Jazz patron Dame Cleo Laine - for which see Women in Jazz 20th Anniversary events.
Black Environment Network Conference
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Material relating to the BEN (Black Environment Network) Networking Conference held in Swansea, 4 June 2003, comprising conference schedule and booking form; list of delegates; correspondence and enquiry sheets; and brochures and information sheets relating to BEN projects and activities. It appears that Jen Wilson/Women in Jazz did not give a talk at this conference, being present as attendees only.
Bishop Vaughan Catholic Comprehensive School
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Correspondence relating to a talk given by Jen Wilson at a 'Careers in the Arts' convention held at Bishop Vaughan Catholic Comprehensive School, Morriston, Swansea, 10 March 2004.
Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act 1807
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Material relating to events marking the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, including details relating to individual events such as the multi-media performance Free at Last?; flyers; exhibition panel texts; calendar of events; enquiry sheets; correspondence; guide to resources produced by the Heritage Lottery Fund; and printouts from online sources relating to the history of slavery. Also including material relating to slavery and abolition not directly related to the bicentenary celebrations.
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Material relating to Bessie & Billie, a play in words and music performed by Joanne Bell and Cynthia Utterbach as part of Black History Month. The play, which re-enacted the lives and work of legendary jazz/blues singers Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday through the medium of dialogue and music, was first conceived as an improvised performance by Joanne Bell and Cynthia Utterbach in a Hamburg swing club. The parts of Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday were taken respectively by Bell and Utterbach.
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Material relating to a musical performance/workshop titled Before Freedom, which depicted the life of Willis, a freed slave who took up residence in Swansea, including school resource packs; completed student and teacher evaluation forms; posters and flyers; list of bookings; material relating to specific performance bookings; photographic prints; enquiry sheets; and application for grant aid to fund the project. The show, performed by members of Women in Jazz and others, toured schools, museums, theatres and other venues as part of the events commemorating the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807.
The events marking Black History Month October 2006 coincided with celebrations to mark Women in Jazz's 20th anniversary, highlighted by a gala evening featuring Women in Jazz patron Dame Cleo Laine and a performance of Before Freedom - for which see Women in Jazz 20th Anniversary events. See also Black History Month.
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Material relating to the BBC Wales Arts Awards ceremony 1994 held at the Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea University, 11 December 1994, at which the Women's Jazz Archive (as it was then known) was Highly Commended in the Enabling Award category.
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Letter and booking agreement relating to Jen Wilson's performance at a Jazz Poetry & Blues event, part of the Welsh Academy's first Cardiff Bay Literature Festival, 2000.