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St Donats
Summer 2007
Enjoy some time-out and join us at St Donats - all made possible by you, our audiences, our friends and our funders - thank you for your continued support and commitment to this unique venue by the sea.
Janet Smith
General Manager
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ARCATA ENSEMBLE
Summer Splendour
Picnic Concert
Sun 22 July 3pm
Tickets £12, £10
Following the success of Arcata’s
concert last year, this delightful
professional ensemble returns to
St Donats to perform a dazzling
performance of music by JS Bach,
Rachmaninov, DagWiren, Meuryn
Hughes, Grace Williams, Karl Jenkins
and other composers from Wales.
Experience quality music by
musicians from the Welsh National
Opera, BBC National Orchestra of
Wales and other orchestras and,
during the hour-long interval, bring
your picnic to enjoy on the top lawn
overlooking the gorgeous renaissance
gardens and our spectacular sea-view.
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MITON MARGAI SCHOOL FOR
THE BLIND CHOIR
Sing Freetown
The UK Freedom Tour
Thursday 9 August 7.30pm
Tickets £7
Come and listen to the beautiful,
angelic voices of the 25-strong Sierra
Leone children’s choir. The children
will perform songs celebrating
freedom from the diverse parts of
beautiful Sierra Leone in the 200th
anniversary year of the abolition of
slavery. All ticket proceeds go to the
Milton Margai School for the Blind in
Sierra Leone with contributions made
to amputee organisations and other
deaf and blind schools in Sierre Leone
and Bow.
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GUIDED TOUR
St Donats Castle and
Renaissance Gardens
14 - 27 Aug 2.30pm, 3.30pm
(except 17, 18, 19, 24, 25)
Tickets £4.50 adults, £2.50 children
Fancy taking a peek inside one of the
oldest continually-inhabited castles
visited by Celtic Kings, Romans,
Winston Churchill, Charlie Chaplin
and John F Kennedy?
Once a year only, St Donats Castle
opens all its doors
to the public -
and what a sight beholds the visitor!
Antique ceilings, facades, a moat and
portcullis, dungeons - in short over
800 years of history and the remains
of an ancient lineage lying in
medieval tombs in
a tiny stone
church.
The story of this castle and gardens
is rich and colourful indeed - from
ghosts wailing on stormy nights,
executed pirates, an incanting witch
called Mallt-y-Nos, Edward and Mrs
Simpson and more recently the story
of fantastic riches and Hollywood
romance when the castle was bought
by a man who loved it - the American
millionaire, William Randolph Hearst.
Tours begin and end at the St Donats
Arts Centre’s café, which will be open
for tea and cakes.
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In Our Gallery
IAN WIBLIN
Different Histories
Tues 5 - Thurs 28
June
This exhibition mixes work produced
over the past seventeen years based
in various cities including Cambridge
(England), Naples (Italy), Wroclaw
(Poland), Bratislava (Slovakia),
Jerusalem and Tel Aviv (Israel).
Each photograph reveals the city’s
surfaces and spaces layered with
memory and identity. Ian Wiblin has
exhibited in Britain and Europe
including at the Photographers’
Gallery, London and Kettle’s Yard
Gallery, Cambridge.
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Wales International Storytelling Festival
Beyond The Border
6 - 8 July 2007 St Donats Castle, Vale of Glamorgan
Picture a fairytale castle perched on a cliff-top on the romantic Welsh coast; at the foot of the castle, a medieval jousting field,
fringed by woodland, the tower of an ancient Saxon church rising
above the trees. Terraced gardens slope gently down from the
castleto the sea. In every garden, there is a tent. And in every tent,
a storyteller.
This is St Donats Castle, the setting for Beyond The Border Wales
International Storytelling Festival, the leading international festival of
storytelling in the UK, regarded by many as one of the finest festivals
of its kind in Europe.
Now, on the first weekend in July every year, around 2, 500 people are
drawn to St Donats Castle from across the UK and from around the globe, an international audience attracted not only by the magnificent, otherworldly quality of the location, but also by the breadth and intelligence of the programme. This is what gives the festival its heady and highly charged atmosphere. As The Times reviewer said, “if you want to get out of your head, go to Glastonbury. If you want to get into your head, go to Beyond The Border. ”
For information phone 01446 799100
or visit: www.beyondtheborder.com
www.stdonats.com
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