{"id":8669,"date":"2014-07-20T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?p=8669"},"modified":"2014-09-10T10:41:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T10:41:52","slug":"locws-workshops-at-the-summer-fair-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/?p=8669","title":{"rendered":"Locws Workshops at the Summer Fair 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Cartoons and Poetry in the Sunshine<\/b><\/p>\n<p>What a brilliant day at the Swansea Summer Fair, on Saturday August 9th in the old Vetch field, Sandfields, Swansea.<br \/>\nLocws International hosted FREE creative workshops for all ages, there was poetry and cartoon drawing for all the family.<br \/>\nOver 100 participants joined us during the day and we managed to keep the rain clouds at bay.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to everyone who helped make it a success, particularly the Locws team and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?page_id=7297\">volunteers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?attachment_id=8677\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8677\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8677\" alt=\"photo 4-7\" src=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-4-7.jpg\" width=\"670\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dylan\u2019s Characters Competition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We delivered a fun workshop to share our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?p=8466\">summer art competition<\/a> which runs until the 19th September.<\/p>\n<p>We invited everyone at the Summer Fair to\u00a0design cartoon drawings inspired by the characters from Dylan Thomas&#8217; writing, or their own imaginations,\u00a0and the illustrations of Locws artist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?portfolio=jon-burgerman\">Jon Burgerman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The selected drawings will be displayed as a public exhibition at Swansea Grand Theatre, during Sept\/Oct 2014 to coordinate with the Dylan Thomas centenary celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss out on the prizes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?p=8466\">enter<\/a> today. Please see our facebook event\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1436994233244387\/\">page<\/a>\u00a0for updates about the competition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?attachment_id=8686\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8686\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8686\" alt=\"Untitled-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Untitled-1.jpg\" width=\"670\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two brilliant character entries by Lewis Walker, aged 5, inventive monsters who he named; \u2018Scales\u2019 and \u2018Slash\u2019!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tawe MegaPoem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We also invited everybody at the Summer Fair to enter new lines into our popular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?p=7962\">Tawe MegaPoem<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Award winning poet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?portfolio=rhian-edwards\">Rhian Edwards<\/a> wrote the opening lines, and we are hoping this will become the biggest online poem ever written.<\/p>\n<p>More than 30 new poems were added at the Summer Fair. You can add your lines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?p=7962\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?attachment_id=8675\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8675\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8675\" alt=\"photo 1-7\" src=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-1-7.jpg\" width=\"670\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?attachment_id=8678\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8678\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8678\" alt=\"photo 1-8\" src=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-1-8.jpg\" width=\"670\" height=\"860\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?attachment_id=8674\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8674\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8674\" alt=\"photo 5-5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-5-5.jpg\" width=\"670\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?attachment_id=8679\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8679\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8679\" alt=\"photo 4-8\" src=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-4-8.jpg\" width=\"670\" height=\"860\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?attachment_id=8673\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8673\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8673\" alt=\"photo 3-5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-3-5.jpg\" width=\"670\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?attachment_id=8676\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8676\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8676\" alt=\"photo 2-7\" src=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-2-7.jpg\" width=\"670\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-2-7-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-2-7-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?attachment_id=7836\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7836\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cartoons and Poetry in the Sunshine What a brilliant day at the Swansea Summer Fair, on Saturday August 9th in the old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,161,182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-outreach-news","category-public-workshops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8669"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8917,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669\/revisions\/8917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}