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Material relating to the 1996, 1997 and 1998 Integrated Performing Arts Open Air Summer Festivals, held at Port Tennant, Swansea, and to other summer festivals held at Port Tennant in 1997 and 1998. Co-ordinated by Jen Wilson, the events offered performance space for people with disabilities and special needs as well as the able-bodied.

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

Letter from the Institute of Careers Guidance (Mid and West Wales Branch) requesting speakers on topics relating to continuing education. An attached note to Jen Wilson acknowledges that she was consulted on the matter, but there is no evidence that a talk was given by her.

Material relating to the West Wales Branch of the Musicians' Union, of which Jen Wilson was secretary, including members' details; newsletters; agendas and minutes of meetings; insurance policies; reports and accounts; and correspondence.

Material relating to Jen Wilson's participation in BBC 2's Open University programme recorded in Cardiff, 11 March 1995.

Material relating to South West Jazz's Women and Jazz research project., including project outlines, reports and correspondence.

Material relating to the Chard Festival of Women in Music 1996, in which Women in Jazz participated.

Material relating to a DACE ((Swansea University's) Department of Adult Continuing Education) Big Band performance at Coedffranc Community Arts Festival, Skewen, 14 June 1996.

Playlist relating to a performance by the DACE ((Swansea University's) Department of Adult Continuing Education) Big Band at Swansea University's Open Day, 22 June 1996.

Material relating to Jen Wilson's talk, titled Syncopated Ladies, given at the Women in Music Annual General Meeting held at Battersea Arts Centre, 16 November 1996, comprising letter to Jen Wilson from Women in Music; press cutting relating to Jen Wilson's talk; press release; and detailed preparatory notes by Jen Wilson.

Material relating to the North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History's 'Visions of Wales' Third Annual Conference held at the Madog Center for Welsh Studies, University of Rio Grande, Ohio, USA, 26-28 June 1997, at which Jen Wilson presented a talk titled Race, Class and Gender in Welsh Popular Culture: Afro-American music in Wales from the 1850s, including call for papers; annotated draft and fair-copy texts of Jen Wilson's talk, together with handwritten notes on A6 cards; press release; conference schedules; correspondence; and information relating to NAASWCH, the Madog Center for Welsh Studies and the University of Rio Grande, together with related events, including details of NAASWCH's Annual Meeting scheduled for June 1998.

Material relating to workshops in African and Asian music organised by the Women's Jazz Archive.

Material relating to Women in Jazz members' participation in a jazz summer school held in Pontypridd, 1997.

Material relating to Jen Wilson's attempt to organise a commemorative celebratory visit to Swansea by the Fisk Jubilee Singers, the Fisk Jazz Ensemble and the Fisk Race Relations Institute from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, including funding applications for sponsorship and grants; mailing list of potential sponsors/grant providers; projected expenses; copious correspondence, largely between Jen Wilson and potential sponsors/grant providers and between Jen Wilson and representatives of Fisk University; material relating to Fisk University and to the Race Relations Institute; press cuttings and printouts from online sources; and report on the project, which includes the declaration that the planned visit by the Fisk Jubilee Singers was obliged to be cancelled due to lack of funding.

Material relating to the influence of black music and musicians on the music and culture of Britain, and in particular of Swansea, in the earlier part of the 20th century, including lists of jazz bands and orchestras; photocopied photographs of white and blackface 'minstrel' bands; photocopied press cuttings; and printouts from online sources; together with general material relating to black issues, history and influence on white culture, including correspondence between Jen Wilson and Ray Winbush and others and printouts from online sources.

Material relating to the 5th Annual Leeds International Jazz Education Conference, held at Leeds College of Music, 16-17 April 1999, including conference schedule; conference flyer; minutes of and report on Jazz Archives meeting; notification of Arts Council of Wales grant payment; train tickets and hotel bill receipt; correspondence; and details relating to concerts and academic courses held at LCM. It appears that, whilst Jen Wilson attended the Jazz Archives meeting as part of this conference, she did not give a formal presentation.

Material relating to Women in Jazz's performance at the Taunton Blues Festival, an event organised by students of Somerset College of Arts and Technology, with all proceeds donated to St Margaret's Hospice, Taunton.

Material relating to the 5th Chard Festival of Women in Music, held 20-25 May 1998, at which Jen Wilson presented an illustrated talk titled Jazzwomen and the Media, comprising script of presentation; signed contract; flyers and programmes; and correspondence.

Material relating to a Welsh Women's Archive half day conference and celebration dinner held at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, at which Jen Wilson provided musical entertainment.

Programme schedule relating to Teignmouth Jazz Festival, held 13-15 November 1998, which featured a performance by Jen Wilson and Sally White.