{"id":8903,"date":"2014-09-09T11:35:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T11:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?p=8903&#038;langswitch_lang=en"},"modified":"2014-10-17T06:18:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T06:18:26","slug":"locws-poetry-workshops-at-the-love-your-countryside-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/?p=8903","title":{"rendered":"Locws Poetry Workshops at the Love Your Countryside Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We provided two days of free Poetry Workshops for all the family at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swansea.gov.uk\/loveyourcountrysidefestival\">Love Your Countryside Festival<\/a>, Swansea. The festival was from 06.09.14 &#8211; 21.09.14 with events and activities spread across rural Swansea and The Gower. We ran our workshops at the two main events; the Gower Hub day on Sunday 14.09.14 in Bishops Wood Valley near to Caswell beach, and the Mawr Hub day on Sunday 21.09.14 at Garnswllt Activity centre in Ammanford.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8906\" alt=\"lycf1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/lycf1.jpeg\" width=\"670\" height=\"217\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The Hub days were from 10.00am &#8211; 4.00pm, the Locws Poetry Workshops were free, drop-in sessions, suitable for all ages.<\/p>\n<p>The festival is a fantastic family fun programme of events. Along side the Locws Poetry Workshop, other events included bush crafts, willow weaving, walking trails and a huge range of creative, educational and environmental activities, most of which were free. Please see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swansea.gov.uk\/loveyourcountrysidefestival\">Love Your Countryside Festival<\/a>\u00a0website for more details.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8907\" alt=\"megapoem\" src=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/megapoem.jpg\" width=\"670\" height=\"229\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?p=7962\"><strong>Tawe MegaPoem<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nDuring the Locws Poetry Workshops, we invited everybody to enter new lines into our popular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?p=7962\">Tawe Mega Poem<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Gower Hub and The Mawr Hub days provided inspiring environments for creative writing and poetic reflections.<\/p>\n<p>Award winning poet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?portfolio=rhian-edwards&amp;langswitch_lang=en\">Rhian Edwards<\/a> wrote the opening lines, and we are hoping this will become the biggest online poem ever written.<\/p>\n<p>You can add your lines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?p=7962\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9365\" alt=\"IMG_5322\" src=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_53221.jpg\" width=\"670\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_53221.jpg 670w, https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_53221-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Gower Hub day on Sunday 14.09.14 in Bishops Wood Valley near to Caswell beach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?attachment_id=9363\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9363\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-9363\" alt=\"photo 5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/photo-5.jpg\" width=\"670\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>the Mawr Hub day on Sunday 21.09.14 at Garnswllt Activity centre in Ammanford.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?attachment_id=9362\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9362\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-9362\" alt=\"photo 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/photo-2.jpg\" width=\"670\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?attachment_id=8904\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8904\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8904\" alt=\"deller\" src=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/deller.jpeg\" width=\"670\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/deller.jpeg 670w, https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/deller-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?portfolio=jeremy-deller&amp;langswitch_lang=en\">Jeremy Deller<\/a>, More Poetry is Needed. Art Across the City, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We provided two days of free Poetry Workshops for all the family at the Love Your Countryside Festival, Swansea. 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