Stations to the Untenanted Cross

Led by Susan Fogarty

Walking meditation using Thomas’s poetry as a guide

Thursday 19:30-20:30 St Hywyn’s Church Limited to 20

From My Garden: Art Workshop

Artist Therese Urbanska

Using acrylic paints with accentuated touches of collage. Inspired by Eldridge’s children’s book In My Garden

Friday 10:30-16:00 Limited to 10 people

Ecology & Poetry in a Wildflower Meadow

Director Susan Fogarty

Walk in the wildflower meadow and listen to Thomas’s poetry speak into the space.

Friday 10:30-11:45 Limited to 20 people

RS Thomas Triptych

Artist Terry Duffy

Exhibited at the festival. Insights into how the artist was inspired by the ‘Abyss’ in Thomas’s poetry.

Friday 12:15 – 13:00 St Hywyn’s Church

‘The wound of knowledge: R S Thomas’ Poetics of Science and Religion’

Professor Wilson Poon

The Science-Religion interaction through the lens of literature – how poets explore this relationship.

Friday 14:00-15:15 The Sailing Club Limited to 40 people

R. S. Thomas, Science-Mystic: Navigating Faith Using Science

Postgraduate Mandir Dighe

The connections between scientific and spiritual inquiry – how they might be complementary.

Friday 15:30-16:45 The Sailing Club Limited to 40 people

Collector’s Book Sale

Ysgol Crud y Werin School

Friday 19:00-19:30 & Saturday 10:00-16:30

‘Science and Faith in the Poetry of R.S. Thomas’

Professor W. Richard Bowen

The relationship between science and faith, and the use of engineering for the promotion of peace and wellbeing.

Friday 19:30-20:15 School Hall Ysgol Crud y Werin

‘Doing Theology where Physics and Philosophy Meet’

Dr Joanna Penberthy

With a Ph.D. from “Reading the ‘Paradoxical Book of Bell’.” An exploration of how Quantum Physics meets Theology

Saturday 10:30-11:45 School Hall Ysgol Crud y Werin

Through the Keyhole : Sarn y Plas

Unaccompanied look around the home and gardens that inspired the poet and the artist.

Saturday and Sunday 12:00-13:00 Free Limited to 10

Progress is not with the machine’ RS Thomas versus modernity & technology.

Dr Grahame Davies

With Simone Weil, TS Eliot, Saunders Lewis; fellow-opponents of modernity in their own nations.

Saturday 13:30-14:45 School Hall Ysgol Crud y Werin

‘Slow chemistry of the soil’: Devotional Poets Consider Creation

Professor Helen Wilcox

Jim Cotter Memorial Lecture Sponsored by Jim Cotter Trust

Saturday 15:00-16:15 School Hall Ysgol Crud y Werin

Concert: The Bright Field: Das Helle Feld

Flautist Sarah Newbold

Premiere Performance in UK of Wolfgang Niemeyer’s compositions

Saturday 19:30-20:30 St Hywyn’s Church

Concert:The Bright Field: Das Helle Feld

Bassoon Player Meyrick Alexander

Classical performance with variety contrasting instruments and voices

Saturday 19:30-20:30 St Hywyn’s Church

The Bishop of Bardsey leads Sunday Worship.

Rt Rev David Morris

Bilingual Eucharist Service

Sunday 10:30-11:30 St Hywyn’s Church

RS Thomas & ME Eldridge Society Members

Traditional Sunday Lunch for Presenters and Members

Sunday 12:15-13:30 The Ship Hotel. Limited to 30 people

Walking in Thomas’s Footsteps

Director Susan Fogarty

St Hywyn’s Church to his Old Rectory, reading poems along the way that perhaps inspired A Thicket in Lleyn

Sunday 14:00-15:30 Daron River Valley. Limited to 20

‘Cynefin’

Poet Mary Robinson

Inspired by people, place and the natural world, strongly influenced by the Lleyn Peninsula. Timing of the readings is flexible. Limited to 10 people

Friday 16:30-17:30 and Sunday 14:00-15:00