Recording of Rhys Mwyn's special WSWNE Zoom presentation from Wales on the topic: "Archaeology and Place" February 2, 2025.
Owain Glyndwr Day 2024 Special ZOOM Event
In celebration of Owain Glyndwr Day 2024, the Welsh Society of Western New England (WSWNE) presented a special ZOOM event featuring a live presentation, direct from Wales, of Owain Glyndwr and His Uprising by Gareth W. Jones, M.A., Secretary of the Owain Glyndwr Society / Cymdeithas Owain Glyndwr in Wales.
Includes our YouTube video of the presentation.
Tin and Lead Miners of Wales and Cornwall
Welsh Women's Peace Appeal Ceremony Video
St. David's Day Luncheon 2024
St. David’s Day Welsh Government Event in Hartford, CT
The Welsh Society of Western New England (WSWNE) was invited by the British Consul General to New England, Dr. Peter Abbott OBE, with the sponsorship of the Welsh Government and Metro Alliance Hartford, to a cocktail and networking evening at the Old State House in Hartford, Connecticut on Wednesday, February 28, 2024.
Beryl Evans - Welsh Tithe Maps and Database - VIDEO of a WSWNE ZOOM Genealogy Workshop
Sarah Woodbury - ZOOM Event on Welsh history as context for her novels
In a WSWNE ZOOM event, Sarah Woodbury, author of fifty novels set in medieval Wales, presented a fascinating overview of the major periods of Welsh history that provide the context for her five series of novels, each series set in a different period.
Our YouTube video of this this ZOOM event is included in the Past Event description.
Margaret Lloyd's Wales-inspired Art Exhibition Opening Reception
On Thursday, March 9, 2023 several WSWNE members attended the opening reception for the oil painting exhibition ASCENDING AND DESCENDING WORLDS on view March 3-30 in the Hosmer Gallery of Forbes Library, Northampton. The paintings include those of WSWNE member, poet, author and artist, Margaret Lloyd.
Annual WSWNE St. David's Day Luncheon Event
The A470 - Poetry Along The Road in Wales, a special ZOOM Event
The A470 - Poetry Along The Road in Wales, is a wonderful new* book about experiencing Wales by following the A470 (arguably the most famous road in Wales) in poetry. It includes 51 original poems, translated into and out of Welsh, to create an entirely bilingual poetry collection.
This special ZOOM presentation features - Adele Evershed (NAFOW Eisteddfod Poem in English Language Winner), Sian Northey (editor and translator), Ness Owen (editor and translator), and Cherry Potts (Director, Arachne Press Limited).
A link to a YouTube video of this this ZOOM event is included in the Past Event description.
Hidden History: 100 Year Anniversary of Welsh Women's Peace Petition to the USA
Ann Griffith and Susan Davies Sit, members of Heddwch Nain Mamgu USA, presented “ Hidden History”.
It told the story of how 390,000 signatures were collected by Welsh Women and given to American Women in a Peace Petition following the horrors of WW1.
You can watch the recording of our ZOOM event even if you did not sign up for the original live program.
Gareth Jones, The Man Who Knew Too Much
On Jan. 18, 2023, our special ZOOM presentation presented the fascinating story of Gareth Jones, the investigative journalist who told the world about Stalin’s 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine in which millions perished.
Our presenter was Margaret West, from Rhayader, mid-Wales, now a journalist based in Washington DC, and a founding producer of NPR’s "Talk of the Nation”. On the foreign desk, she edited reports from Russia and Europe.
This presentation drew world-wide interest, particularly from the Ukrainian diaspora, to make this our largest-ever WSWNE ZOOM audience.
You can watch the recording of our ZOOM event even if you did not sign up for the original live program.
WELSH FOOD STORIES on ZOOM from Wales
On Jan. 8, 2023, our first SPECIAL ZOOM presentation of five to kick off 2023, WELSH FOOD STORIES, by the author Carwyn Graves, direct from Wales, was so good that a ZOOM recording has been made available to all for a limited time.
The author kept us spellbound as he took us along on what the Amazon.com book description called: A culinary travelogue across Wales.
Our Annual Christmas Holiday Season Luncheon Event - Dec. 10, 2022
Owain Glyndwr Wine And Welsh Cheese Tasting Event - Sept. 16, 2022
A September Afternoon with Friends
by Margaret Korhonen, WSWNE Board Member
Reprinted from our WSWNE January Newsletter (recently given the name: Croeso!–Welcome!)
A sunny, warm September afternoon found many members and friends of WSWNE sharing time together at Lost Acres Vineyard in Granby, CT.
St. David's Day Luncheon 2022
WSWNE’s St. David’s Day Luncheon - back in person
Read WSWNE member Shirley Gilmartin’s lovely article. Then watch a YouTube video of the March 5, 2022 WSWNE St. David's Day Luncheon event, the first time we were able to celebrate in person since the 2020 St. David's Day event, due to COVID-19 concerns.
Annual Christmas Holiday Event-on-Zoom
On the afternoon of Saturday, 4 December, 2021, The Welsh Society of Western New England hosted its annual Christmas Celebration-on-Zoom. Page 6 January 2022 Although it was hoped we could all meet in person this year, once again, Zoom was deemed to be the safest option. The festivities however, did not suffer.
Welsh Choir Not Coming to U.S. in 2022
You may recall we had hoped to reschedule our major concert by the marvelous Cor y Penryn choir from Wales to near the date of NAFOW in 2022.
WSWNE Board Member Evan Williams, our primary contact with the choir, now reports that the choir will be unable to perform for us, or at NAFOW, in 2022, due to the continuing uncertainty of the pandemic situation, combined with the need to book their flight this month, or not at all.
