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Papers relating to input and expenditure of Women's Jazz Archive/Women in Jazz, including details of income from funding sources.

Playlist relating to Women in Jazz's performance at the Jazz In The Garden Festival.

Annotated text of what appears to be an article titled 'Discrimination in British Jazz: Issues of Race, Class and Gender Between the Wars 1918-1939'.

Inscribed plaque denoting that the Women in Jazz/Women's Jazz Archive premises were grant aided by the Foundation for Sport and the Arts.

Material relating to an illustrated talk titled How African American Music Came to Wales, presented by Jen Wilson at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, 19 March 2010, including talk scripts; Dylan Thomas Centre events programme; and correspondence.

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.

Material relating to an illustrated talk titled A Nobler Strife: Swansea Abolitionists and the Cincinnati Trail, 1820-1907, presented by Jen Wilson to Cwmdulais Historical Society at Canolfan, Seven Sisters, 9 April 2009, including Cwmdulais Historical Society programme of events and correspondence.

Material relating to Women in Jazz funding applications made to the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Arts Council of Wales, Swansea Council for Voluntary Service and others, 2007-2009.

Papers relating to the Women's Jazz Archive oral history project, largely comprising transcribed interviews and correspondence, including material relating to the official opening of the archive on 26 June 1993; material relating to prominent archive contributors Blanche Finlay, Ottilie Patterson and Elaine Delmar; and material relating to the Heritage Lottery Funded project Wales, Slavery and Music - the Unknown Inheritance (for which see also Funding: 2004).

Script of illustrated lecture titled Wales and Negro Minstrelsy, presented by Jen Wilson for the University of the Third Age (U3A) at Marletts Hall, Brighton, 5 December 2009.

Women in Jazz reports relating to projected business plans/strategic aims, events, conferences, meetings, staffing, accounting, etc.

General administrative material relating to the Women's Jazz Archive/Women in Jazz, including management/team structures; lists of staff, trustees and outside contacts; job descriptions and resumés; proposed business development plans and project briefs; policy statements; enquiry sheets; and correspondence.

Information relating to a book launch event at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, at which Women in Jazz performed. The book in question was titled Fragments from the Dark: Women Writing Home and Self in Wales and the event was organised by Swansea Bay Asylum Seekers Support Group and Swansea Women's Asylum Support Group, with all proceeds distributed to refugee charities.

Material relating to playwright and screenwriter Alan Plater's three-part radio play The Devil's Music (2001), a work based on stories from the Women's Jazz Archive, particularly that of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, and for which Jen Wilson acted as music/history consultant. Material includes scripts, cast list, recording schedule, agreements and correspondence, largely between Jen Wilson, Alan Plater and the BBC.

Flyer and poster relating to WomenCentreStage, an event celebrating International Women's Day held at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, 5 March 2008, at which Women in Jazz Allstars Swing Band performed.

Material relating to the Welsh Jazz Society, later known as Jazz Services Wales, including correspondence; funding information; accounts and expenses; agendas and minutes; reports; and development programmes; together with material relating to the Jazz Research Network.

Material relating to entries contributed by Jen Wilson to the The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales (2008), including agreements for the writing and contribution of entries; notes for contributors; texts of Jen Wilson's entries; notes towards the writing of entries; correspondence addressed to Jen Wilson from editors Nigel Jenkins and Menna Baines; and printed invitation to launch of publication. The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales was edited by writer and editor Menna Baines, poet and writer Nigel Jenkins and historian and author John Davies and was published in January 2008. Jen Wilson's contributions to the publication centred around jazz music and jazz musicians.

Flyer and press cutting relating to a concert performance by Women in Jazz, 14 February 2008, as part of the Jazz at the MCC (Mumbles Conservative Club) events organised by Swansea Jazz Society.

Material relating to a series of workshops conducted by Women in Jazz at venues in Swansea, Newport and Cardiff as part of the Everywhere In Chains community project, which focused on human slavery and trafficking both historically and in its contemporary context.

Correspondence relating to Jen Wilson's talk/musical performance titled A Nobler Strife: Swansea Abolitionists and the Cincinnati Trail 1820-1907, presented to Port Talbot Historical Society at the Blancos Hotel, Port Talbot, 5 December 2008.