Welsh Filmmakers Compete at Celtic Media Festival Isle of Skye 2007

The Celtic Media Festival's aim is to promote the languages and cultures of the Celtic countries on screen and in broadcasting. Its primary activity is organising the Celtic Media Festival.

The Festival is an annual three-day celebration of broadcasting, film talent and excellence from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany. If you'd like to watch the Celtic Media Festival LIVE from any location worldwide, it will be available to view live via webstream - just click on

http://streamingportal.multistream.co.uk/celticmediafestival/live.htm

Celtic Media Festival, Skye 2007 is supported by Highland 2007, The Events Company, Highland Council, HIE Skye and Wester Ross, Seirbheis nam Meadhanan Gaidhlig, Bord na Gaidhlig, Scottish Screen, the National Lottery and BBC Scotland. © 2007 Celtic Media Festival Please see: http://www.celticfilm.co.uk/?node_id=1.1

Pob luc i bawb cystadleuydd celtaidd / Good luck to every Celtic contestant!

Les Gallois en Amérique du Nord (Welsh People in Canada)

"Le pays de Galles (annexé à l'Angleterre par l'Acte d'union de 1536) a toujours été dans l'ombre de l'Angleterre, de l'Irlande et de l'Écosse. Un historien écrit que les Gallois, « exception faite de leur langue, n'avaient pratiquement aucun des attributs d'une nation, à part la conviction perverse et persistante qu'ils en étaient une ». La population du pays de Galles (moins de 3 millions d'habitants en 1988) s'est tournée vers l'émigration pour améliorer sa situation."

"Depuis 1960, l'immigration galloise est demeurée faible mais constante, représentant un mince pourcentage de l'immigration britannique. Dans le recensement de 1961, 143 942 personnes se disent d'ascendance galloise. En 1971, ces chiffres baissent à 74 415, peut-être parce que beaucoup de Gallois d'origine sont inscrits comme étant anglais. En 1981, il n'y a plus que 46 620 personnes (0,2 p. 100) qui se disent d'ascendance galloise. Les Gallois ne sont pas enregistrés séparément dans le recensement de 1986, mais celui de 1991 estime leur nombre à 28 190 (réponse unique)."

"Le recensement de 2001 dénombre 28 445 Gallois (réponse unique) et 321 920 autres personnes ayant une certaine ascendance galloise (réponse multiple). C'est en Ontario (142 740) que les Gallois s'avèrent les plus nombreux. Viennent ensuite dans l'ordre la Colombie-Britannique (86 710), l'Alberta (59 470), le Manitoba (14 580), la Saskatchewan (13 935), la Nouvelle-Écosse (12 245), le Québec, (7 455), le Nouveau-Brunswick (7 620), Terre-Neuve (2 790), l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard (1 440), le Yukon (825), les Territoires du Nord-Ouest (490), et le Nunavut (65). Si les Gallois se sont un tant soit peu regroupés, c'est dans les régions minières de l'Ontario, de la Colombie-Britannique, de l'Alberta et des Maritimes. Leur présence est attestée par des toponymes comme Newport et Pontypool (Ontario), Cardiff (Alberta) et Bangor (Saskatchewan)."

On se trouve l'entree ici: http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=F1ARTF0008523

North American Journal of Welsh Studies, Vol. 6 No. 2

The new issue of the North American Journal of Welsh Studies, Vol. 6 No. 2
(Summer 2006) is available online at http://spruce.flint.umich.edu/~ellisjs/journal.html.

It features the following the articles:

John Harris, (Re)Presenting Wales: National Identity and Celebrity in the Postmodern Rugby World
Martin Johnes, Aberfan (Book Review)
Paul Ward, Welsh and Working Class (and British too): The Case of Huw T. Edwards

The North American Journal of Welsh Studies would like to invite authors of papers presented at any NAASWCH conference to submit a paper for review and possible publication. Submissions may be sent to mgray@post.harvard.edu.

Chwithedd Cyfoeth Ebrill or ‘April's Embarrassment of Riches’

By Mark Leslie Woods

Almost every March, I travel to South Florida for the Miami International Film Festival.
Two years ago this past week, the American film industry papers were full of news of a Welsh film win, as Amma Asante’s, A Way of Life won the 2005 Miami Grand Jury prize.

But each year, I barely get my March Miami Beach suntan started and I have to hurry back to Cardiff.
That’s because, every April, in daffodil-splendid Wales, we seem to have a Welsh Film and Media ‘embarrassment of riches’ when it comes to stimulating and gala affairs related to film, television and music.

2007 promises to be no different from previous years.

But before we get to April, March is busy enough: New to the Welsh March calendar is Zoom Cymru, the Wales International Young People’s Film Festival.

March ends with the fabulous pan-Celtic, Celtic Media Festival, an itinerant festival held in different Celtic venue each year, this year in the breath-taking Isle of Skye.
Welsh film and TV producers will be flushed with the thrill of awards and Celtic victories, just in time for parade of media events on Cambria’s fair shores.

Headlining this year’s April line up, is the Welsh Media Conference, known as Cyfrwng.

This event, heralding the release of an academic journal by the same name, is populated with regular ‘Who’s Who’ of prominent media celebrities and scholars.
In the itinerant tradition of the National Welsh Eisteddfod and Celtic Media Festival, Cyfrwng Conference, is hosted by a different Welsh Film or Welsh Media School, each year.

Occurring almost simultaneously with the Cyfrwng Welsh Media Conference, is Dr. Rea Dennis’ Music, Drama and Television Conference called ‘Improvisation Continuums.’
The University of Glamorgan’s Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries is hosting this impressive line-up, together with the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

April ends with the gala BAFTA Cymru Awards Ceremony, making April one of the most socially active months each year for Welsh film, TV, music and drama industry events, concerts, and scholarly fare.

Find out more:

Zoom Cymru 22-25 March, South Wales Valleys, Wales International Young People’s Film Festival
http://www.zoomcymru.com/

Celtic Media Festival 28-30 March, Isle of Skye
http://www.celticfilm.co.uk/

Cyfrwng Welsh Media Conference 13-14 April, University of Wales, Swansea http://www.cyfrwng.com/

Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries presents:
Improvisation Continuums 11-14 April, Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
http://glamlife.isd.glam.ac.uk/newsevents/294/497 http://glamlife.isd.glam.ac.uk/newsevents/294/497
impro2007@glam.ac.uk

BAFTA Cymru Saturday 28 April 2007 -- The Annual BAFTA Cymru Film, Television and New Media Awards Ceremony is to be held at the Cardiff International Arena.
For further details contact the BAFTA Cymru office on 02920 223898 or email lisa@bafta-cymru.org.uk
http://www.bafta-cymru.org.uk/