Dec
16
6:00 pm18:00
Nov
29
8:00 pm20:00
Nov
13
to 18 Nov
Fabric Remnants and Haberdashery Fundraising Sale Nov 13th – 18th 2024
Donations of fabrics etc welcome in advance, please drop off in SUSSED. Sale starts 13th November 10.00am.
Above Sussed, Porthcawl.
We are fundraising for solar lighting units for Ugandan families at Mt Elgon, Agroforestry Community Co-operatives selling Jenipher’s Coffi.
(This fairly-traded coffee is imported into Bridgend, sold in SUSSED and served in One/Un, coffee bar Newton, Porthcawl).
Can you help the coffee farmers go solar, saving pollution and the environment?
Fabrics etc donations welcome in advance.
Our guests and volunteers recently met coffee producer, Jenipher, at our fairtrade coffee evening. She told us about the difficulties of coffee growing, made more so because of climate change, but also about the polluting kerosene lights that are used to light their homes. Though toxic for families and their children – she said they have no choice.
Jenipher started a pilot project with 5 farmers to trial the solar lights. They cost £20 and a total of 600 have been successfully donated so far. However, there are another 3000 farmers who still use kerosene and have no access to electricity.
Online cash donations… https://square.link/u/aIeHwALo
Contacts: Margaret or Peter 01656 783962
Oct
25
8:00 pm20:00
Green Room - a tribute to Nigel Jenkins & Alan Perry
A Tribute to Nigel Jenkins & Alan Perry. new Works from Gerry Ray & music.
Sept
27
8:00 pm20:00
Sept
19
11:00 am11:00
Untitled Event
Sept 19th 2024
Beach Clean Group meet Jenipher Sambazi, East Ugandan Coffee producer https://jenipherscoffi.wales/ 11.00 am start (meet at SUSSED) then afterwards at around 12.15 meet Jenipher upstairs in the Green Room above SUSSED, Porthcawl.
Jun
28
8:00 pm20:00
Green Room Returns for June - Kristian Evans & Zoë Brigley
Zoë Brigley is the author of three books of poetry published by Bloodaxe: Hand & Skull (2019), Conquest (2012), and The Secret (2007). All three are UK Poetry Book Society Recommendations.
Kristian Evans is a founding editor of Modron Magazine, which publishes writing on the ecological crisis.
Apr
27
11:00 am11:00
Porthcawl Eco Day at Griffin Park
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!
Mar
14
11:00 am11:00
Mar
9
10:30 am10:30
Jan
29
7:00 pm19:00
Launch of new films - Sleepwalkling into Climate Change
free public films launch
‘Sleepwalking Into Climate Change?’
Hi Tide Inn, Porthcawl Mackworth Road, CF36 5BT. All Welcome.
Monday, Jan 29th 2024, 7pm
More information on the Sustainable Wales site.
About the Sleepwalking Into Climate Change? Films
‘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.
“When leading scientists issue their ‘final warning’ is anyone listening?” asks young climate and policy graduate, from Porthcawl, Ella Williamson, Sustainable Wales’ Local Development and Climate Change officer.
Jan
26
8:00 pm20:00
The Green Room Returns Jan 26
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
Dec
2
11:00 am11:00
Aug
13
12:00 pm12:00
Porthcawl Silent Disco Beach Clean on Sunday, August 13, 2023, at 12:00 PM
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/porthcawl-silent-disco-beach-clean-tickets-685796093577?aff=oddtdtcreator
Jun
30
8:00 pm20:00
May
8
11:00 am11:00
Apr
21
8:00 pm20:00
Mar
11
2:00 pm14:00
Fairtrade Fortnight 2023 - stalls & Café
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.
Feb
24
8:00 pm20:00
Justice-Cyfiawnder, Angela Graham at the Green Room Feb 24th
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.
Jan
27
8:00 pm20:00
Green Room - New Work Gwaith Newydd - 27 Jan 2023
The Green Room above SUSSED returns with new work from various writers and creators.
Dec
3
11:00 am11:00
Nov
25
8:00 pm20:00
Nov
17
7:30 pm19:30
Delirium by Robert Minhinnick - launch event
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…
Oct
28
8:00 pm20:00
Sept
23
8:00 pm20:00
The Green Room Returns During the Elvis Festival - with Peter Finch
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
Jun
24
8:00 pm20:00
Green Room Returns for June - Zoë Brigley, Kristian Evans, Robert Minhinnick
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.
May
27
8:00 pm20:00
Green Room above SUSSED Fri. May 27th 8pm
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).
Apr
29
8:00 pm20:00
The Green Room - Friday 29 April 8pm Poetry, literature & film
Hosted by Robert Minhinnick - with the regular poetry Open Mic. Free with donations to Sustainable Wales always welcome.
Apr
16
10:00 am10:00
Original Arts & Crafts event at SUSSED by Fenton Road Artists
Above SUSSED in the Green Room.
Mar
25
8:00 pm20:00
Gorwelion Book Launch 25 March Friday 8pm above SUSSED
Green Room returns - Gorwelion Shared Horizons launch with contributor Laura Wainwright reading, Robert Minhinnick hosts. Friday 25 March 8pm above SUSSED James St Porthcawl.
