FRIDAY 20 OCTOBER
Canterbury Lofts Art Fair 10am - 6pm daily. FREE ENTRY
Queen Street Gallery Sara Bentley Exhibition on show in the Main gallery. Open 10am - 4pm FREE ENTRY
Queen Street Gallery Veronica Flynn Exhibition on show in the Cwtch gallery. Open 10am - 4pm FREE ENTRY
Canterbury Lofts, Queen St. Art Fair
Orchard Street Community Centre, Neath Local artists exhibition 10am - 5pm daily. FREE ENTRY
The Clubhouse Bridge St, Neath SA11 1RP Neath Camera Club Exhibition Open 11am - 5pm
9.30am - 5pm Hybrid Art Cafe, Orchard Street. Art Exhibition Llangatwg Community School
11am - 3pm St David's Church Wil Roberts Exhibition FREE ENTRY
11am – 3pm St Thomas Church Andrew Vicari Exhibition Open 11am – 3pm
Queen Street Gallery, Neath. Alice in Wonderland Exhibition, adult entries. 10am - 4pm Free entry
Neath Town Hall Josef Herman Exhibition Open 11 - 5pm daily
Neath Town Hall The Red Shoes Poster Exhibition Open 11 - 5pm daily Free Entry
Neath Rugby Club, Gnoll Park Road, Neath Bilingual Acryic painting Masterclass with Bert Evans.. 11am - 4pm
Studio 40, Queen Street. Drop-in craft Workshops Collage and book art with Scot Keenan. 12 - 3pm.
Cafe 46, Queen Street. Daily Poetry reading at Cafe 46. 12.30 pm
2pm St Davids Church, Neath Using a medium of fresh and dried flowers, Kirsten will demonstrate how to create a seasonal and sustainable large urn arrangement using locally grown flowers and no floral foam.
2pm The Mayor's Parlour, Town Hall Christine Purkis Reading - Betrayal and Jane Evans – based on true Welsh stories. 2pm FREE Admission
3pm The Mayor's Parlour, Town Hall In Conversation - Judith Barrow and Kathy Briggs FREE Admission
3pm The Mayor's Parlour, Town Hall In Conversation - Judith Barrow and Kathy Briggs FREE Admission
4pm. The Mayor's Parlour, Town Hall Pwy yw Moses John - Alun Davies. In this Welsh-language event, author Alun Davies discusses reading and writing detective novels. Free entry
5pm The Mayor's Parlour, Town Hall Undydd - Andrew Teilo
6pm. The Mayor's Parlour, Town Hall. Vibrant, dazzling, inspiring: Rhian Edwards and Eric Ngalle Charles are two of the most accomplished performers on the poetry scene.
7pm. The Mayor's Parlour, Town Hall The Edge of Cymru is the story of Julie Brominicks’ walk around Wales along the Coastal Path and Offa’s Dyke. As her walk unwinds, the history of Wales is also unwound, from the twenty-first century back to pre-human times
8pm Novelist and twice winner of Wales Book of the Year Niall Griffiths joins non-fiction author Horatio Clare (recipient of the Somerset Maugham Award and Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year) for readings and lively discussion of the concerns they share in their writings about injustice, the environment, masculinity, and mental health.
The Neath Art and Literature Festival is taking place from the 18th to 22nd October, 2023. Entry to the festival as a whole is free of charge, but individual events (e.g., Masterclasses, Workshops, Talks and Performances) generally require the purchase of tickets. You can buy tickets for any of the individual events, each with its own price, via the Queen Street Gallery premises in Queen Street Neath or through website. The gallery is staffed by volunteers we are open 10.00 am to 4pm, Tuesday to Saturday or buy online.