Oh, this is looking good!

This is going to be amazing; Lowkey live in Wrecsam, with support from Evrah Rose and Bardd…a night not to be missed!

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gwyl-twm-sbaen-festival-lowkey-live-tickets-92253369311?utm_term=eventurl_text

We’ve got some brilliant speakers lined up for this, including Neville Southall, celebrating the life and politics of Twm Sbaen, the miner from Rhos who joined the International Brigades. Come along and learn more about Twm, and how his struggle is as relevant now as it was 80 years ago.

Kicking off Gŵyl Twm Sbaen Festival this year, we’ve a night of folk and acoustic music, featuring Joe Solo, Nick Ellis, Gwilym Bowen Rhys, Paint Your Guru and Vulpes Urbana. Promises to be a great night, make sure you don’t miss it!

You can now catch up with the festival video at https://youtu.be/ud0JQfG8xqk.

We hope you like it as much as we do!

A great beginning!  Even bigger and better next year?

Hope to see you all in Queens Square at 11:45am today?

These amazing t-shirts will be on sale tomorrow from the Cowbois stall!

Fantastic stuff!

Still ‘subject to change’ but a provisional full schedule is now available …

The Declan Swans will round off a great night!

Detailed Schedule (but still subject to change)

11.45am: assemble in Queen’s Square, Wrexham

• Music from Cambria Band
• 12:00noon: Speakers: Susan Elan Jones MP; Unite the Union; Plus others …
• March round town to Ty Pawb

1:00pm Ty Pawb, Wrexham

• Welcome from Wrexham One World Community Choir
• 1.30pm: ‘Twm Sbaen and Rhos’: Dave Ebsworth and Family Members.
• 2:00pm ‘Spanish Civil War and International Brigades’: Dolores Long and Jim Jump from International Brigade Memorial Trust
• 3:00pm: ‘Women in the Spanish Civil War’ (short film)
• 3.30pm: ‘The Far Right and Fascism Today’ Jason Hunter, ‘Hope not Hate’
• 4.30pm: ‘International Perspectives’: Apolo Santana (Chilean exile), Julia Felmanas (Brazil Solidarity Initiative) Carles Suarez (Catalan ANC)
• 6:00pm ‘Unsung Hero: The Jack Jones Story’ film

Ty Pawb, Wrexham

• 7.30pm: David Subbacchi (Poetry)

Music:

• 7:45pm: Joe Solo
• 8:30pm: Nick Ellis
• 9:15pm: Sphelm
• 10:00pm: Isabella Crowther
• 10:30pm: Andy Hickie and Paint your Guru
• 11:15pm: Declan Swans

Close: DJ

All Day:

• Facepainting (extra charge)
• Bar (including Brigadista Ale): Late Licence!
• Storyteller

Stalls:

• Cowbois (selling souvenir t-shirts, etc.)
• International Brigades Memorial Trust
• Plaid Cymru
• Labour Party
• Momentum
• Welsh TUC
• Welsh Communists
• Morning Star
• Wrecsam Partisans
• Hope not Hate
• Football Lads and Lasses Against Fascism
• 0161

Supported by Unite the Union.