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Sgwrs: Castle of Culture

Join Peter Wakelin, Curator of our new exhibition Castle of Culture: Dinefwr and the Spirit of the Sixties, for a talk discussing the extraordinary flowering of the arts at Dinefwr in the 1960s.

  • Booking not needed
  • Free event (admission applies)

Richard Rhys inherited the estate and became Lord Dynevor aged 27 when he and his wife Lucy Rothenstein drew on his background in the theatre and hers in visual art to create a series of festivals. The venture was supported by some of the great names of the era, including Richard Burton, Geraint Evans, Alun Hoddinott, Emyr Humphreys, Cleo Laine, Ceri Richards, Michael Tippett and Malcolm Williamson. His ambitions to create a permanent arts centre and national theatre never came to fruition, but for a shining moment Dinefwr was a castle of culture.

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The talk will be in the Dining Room of Newton House.

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