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Join us for Porthcawl Eco Day! 27th April, 11am until 3pm Griffin Park!
A family fun day to celebrate the green and eco organisations in our local area! Stalls with games, activities and freebies! Live performances and music! Art Trail around Porthcawl! Fair Trade Cafe! And much more!
Hi Tide Inn, Porthcawl Mackworth Road, CF36 5BT. All Welcome.
Monday, Jan 29th 2024, 7pm
More information on the Sustainable Wales site.
‘Sleepwalking into Climate Change?” is a series of three twelve minute films, largely filmed in Porthcawl. They aim to locate climate change in the place where we live and will be used to stimulate debate and action locally.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 8pm, the Green Room returns.
Celebrating Seren's Free Verse’, in honour of RICHARD PRICE born 300 years ago. With PHIL COPE & others.
Also we remember Alan Perry.
Cover painting by Kevin Sinnott
Fair trade Christmas Cafe above SUSSED
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/porthcawl-silent-disco-beach-clean-tickets-685796093577?aff=oddtdtcreator
Poster for 8 May Event
Find out more
James Roberts Poster
At our community run ethical shop, SUSSED in James St. Porthcawl; in the afternoon of Saturday March 11th, Sustainable Wales new Young people’s climate group are presenting stalls and activities at the bandstand.
Also on Saturday 11th, we will be running a Fairtrade coffee, tea and cake cafe, above SUSSED
Homemade cakes using Fairtrade ingredients are being donated. The event will ask people to pay what they can afford or support with a donation towards Fairtrade activity.
Angela Graham is a BAFTA Cymru-winning film-maker and journalist. She has produced programmes for BBC, ITV, S4C and Channel 4 and was Development Producer of The Story of Wales. She produced and co-wrote the Oscar entrant cinema feature Branwen (6 BAFTA Cymru nominations and Best Film at the Celtic Media Festival), and was a screenwriter on drama projects set in Italy, Romania and Ireland. She began her career in ITV, and spent eight years as a producer at one of Britain’s rare production co-operatives, Teliesyn.
She turned to writing full time in 2017. Her poetry has appeared in The North, The Honest Ulsterman, Poetry Wales, The Ogham Stone, The Open Ear, The Interpreter’s House and other journals. An award-winning short story writer, she was nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2019. She is currently finishing a novel and engaged in a prose/poetry project on Place and Displacement in the context of urban violence.
The Green Room above SUSSED returns with new work from various writers and creators.
Stage Door, Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl CF36 3YW
https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/delirium
This collection of short prose begins with a real 1945 diary kept in Burma, and Minhinnick telling stories to his mother in her care home.
It includes a series of pictures of war-stricken Baghdad, and vignettes about place and travel, dedicated to Jan Morris.
On the way we encounter a Middle East island devoted to sustainability, close ups of what clearing a family house reveals, and the writer’s intimately imagined Welsh sand dunes.
Minhinnick also watches the Stereophonics in Sydney, mourns the Golan Heights and meets a family of destitute Bedouins.
Throughout we encounter the Covid pandemic, threats of extinction, and images of post-apocalyptic life.
A breathless epic…
Supporting Sustainable Wales
Friday, September 23, 2022
8:00 PM 10:00 PM
fundraising for Sustainable Wales (map) - free with donations welcome.
Delighted to be featuring Peter Finch
Hosted by Robert Minhinnick
At the Green Room above SUSSED, during the Elvis Festival.
The Green Room returns surrounded by Porthcawl’s Elvis Festival.
Plus open mic
Delighted to announce the return of Green Room veterans in June: Zoë Brigley, Kristian Evans and Robert Minhinnick reading from new works at the Green Room on Friday, 8pm, 24 June 2022 - above SUSSED as usual.
The Green Room returns above SUSSED with mix of poetry, literature, film and the popular open mic. Hosted by Robert Minhinnick. Fundraising for Sustainable Wales (free entry but donations are welcome).
Hosted by Robert Minhinnick - with the regular poetry Open Mic. Free with donations to Sustainable Wales always welcome.
Above SUSSED in the Green Room.
Green Room returns - Gorwelion Shared Horizons launch with contributor Laura Wainwright reading, Robert Minhinnick hosts. Friday 25 March 8pm above SUSSED James St Porthcawl.
Our stall packed with goodies will be at Between The Trees festival on 27-29 August at Merthyr Mawr National Nature Reserve. It was great the last time, and we hope to see you there this year! (Blog post)
Shop staff erect 6ft ‘Air Pollution Kills - Kill your Engine’ banner outside their workplace.
Newly elected Bridgend Member of the Senedd, Sarah Murphy, will be there to support.
They will be politely requesting drivers to switch off any idling car engines
Friday, 25th June 2021 11.30am outside 4.5 James Street, Porthcawl CF36 3BG, outside SUSSED.
Find out more on our air pollution campaign page on the Sustainable Wales site
Shop staff wish to draw attention to the dangerous air quality they are exposed to daily from exhaust fumes.
Our community cooperative, volunteer run SUSSED is situated in the centre of Porthcawl town and some drivers ‘temporarily park’ leaving engines running directly outside the shop entrance. The gases are flowing into the shop and also affect people running street stalls.
Air pollution from particulates can cause lung cancer, and worsen heart and lung disease. Research has found there is no safe limit of exposure. The fumes also contribute to climate change.
On Sat. March 7th, we will hold a WELSH FAIRTRADE Pop-Up Café, 11.00 – 4pm, at 5 James St. Porthcawl CF36 3BG above SUSSED. Diners will be able to select from a menu chosen to celebrate Wales, whilst showing support for people in developing countries. Check social media for example menu etc. closer to the day.
More about Fairtrade Fortnight at Sustainable Wales
Our fairtrade op up café returns this Saturday 25th January with a range of enticing home made goodies.
8pm. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4 The Stage Door, Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl CF36 3YW
Nia Vine is about to fulfil her dream of exploring an unmapped cave system.
NIA by Robert Minhinnick
With her will go two friends who were brought up in the same seaside town.
These companions are international travellers, but Nia, who has recently become a mother, feels her experience insignificant compared with that of her friends.
While the three explore, Nia finds herself obsessed by a series of dreams that finally lead to a shocking revelation.
The “unmapped cave system” is based on the real-life ‘Schwyll’ and the ‘Great Spring of Glamorgan’, at Ewenni.
This is the third novel in Minhinnick’s ‘Sea Holly’ series, based on the resort of Porthcawl.
Peter Morgan will play music and exhibit his photographs of Porthcawl fairground and local instances of climate change, two themes of the book. Kristian Evans will be guest reader.
Mick Felton, Managing Director of publishers, Seren Books, will introduce the event.
Minhinnick’s previous book. ‘Diary of the Last Man’ (Carcanet), was Wales ‘Book of the Year’ in 2018 and shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. Robert Minhinnick is also the Co-founder of Sustainable Wales, with responsibility including Arts, Literature, Events and is the Charity Secretary.
ENTRY: FREE but signed copies of ‘Nia’ will be available at £9.99.
