On Thursday 25th April at 7.30pm, Terry John will be giving a talk on Tudor Women.
This talk will explore the role of women in all aspects of Tudor society including the aristcracy, merchant’s wives and peasants.
What rules, customs and superstitions governed their daily lives? What was expected of them and how did they subvert the restrictions placed upon them?
Tickets are £5 and refreshments are available.
This talk forms part of the #WOWW project that celebrates the achievements of the Women of West Wales. This is supported by PLANED, Arwain Sir Benfro and the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
On Saturday 30th March, 10-4,There will be a Poetry Film Workshop with Chaucer Cameron and Helen Dewbery.
Come and learn how the poems created at the recent #WOWW poetry writing workshop could be used to make short poetry films, and discover the basic skills that are needed to get started. (It is not essential to have attended the earlier poetry workshop- get in touch for more details)
Caucer & Helen will be demonstrating how to use an iOS or Android phone (or tablet) for filming, recording and editing and the recommended apps for the workshop are iMovie for iOS and FilmoraGo for Android. (If you will be bringing a phone, tablet or iPad with you please download one of these apps).
The workshop will also look at other devices and programmes to create Poetry Film.
£15/£20 Per Person, with booking essential. This workshop forms part of our #WOWW project is partly subsidised by PLANED Arwain Sir Benfro 2020 and National Lottery Heritage Fund
Short Biographies:
Chaucer Cameron’s poetry has been staged and screened, and published online, in journals and anthologies and her poetry films have been screened at poetry festivals and film festivals in the UK and internationally. Chaucer’s latest work, Wild Whispers, is an international poetry film project working with collaborators from ten countries. Chaucer co-edits the online poetry film journal, Poetry Film Live.
Helen Dewbery is co-director of Swindon Poetry Festival and co-edits the online poetry film journal, Poetry Film Live. Her poetry films have been screened at poetry festivals and film festivals in the UK and internationally. Helen is a member of the Royal Photographic Society.
Drop in on Wednesday 27th February for half term fun!
Suitable for people of all ages, we will be rummaging through our rag-bag and re-imagining the traditional ‘Welsh doli’ for the 21st Century!
We encourage guardians or more able stitchers to help children, although perfect sewing is not the priority; just a creative flair and the enthusiasm for taking part in a community project.
All of the dolls will go on display at the museum to celebrate St. David’s Day and mark the significance of the ‘Welsh Mam’ in our heritage and culture for Mother’s Day.
This event and exhibition forms part of the WOWW project and is funded by LEADER and the Heritage Lottery Fund.
On Saturday 23rd February, Narberth poet Jean Riley will be running a workshop for writers of all abilities based on historical local women.
There will later be the opportunity to come along to a workshop in the spring and create short poetry films and/or to share the poems at Llangwm Literary Festival in August 2019.
None of this work in celebration of women’s history or the nurturing of local creativity would be possible without the support of PLANED LEADER funding and Heritage Lottery Fund. Thank you. #WOWW
Join us for our first Paperback Breakfast of 2024 from 10.00 on Saturday 20th January.
The breakfast is just £6.50 per person and don’t forget to bring a paperback to exchange!
Tickets can be booked here
This is a fundraising event for Narberth Museum.
Join us on Wednesday 12th December at 7.30 pm for a festive evening with speaker Terry John.
The perfect antedote to these turbulent times, ‘Christmas is Cancelled’ looks at the ways in which we celebrated at a time when the country was gripped by civil war- What did people do when festivities were banned altogether?
This talk explores the suppression of Yuletide and how the jollity survived. There will also be cake!
Tickets are £5 and refreshments are available
Join us on Saturday 1st December for a relaxed and welcoming start to the festive celebrations.
With generous support from Pembrokeshire Wood-Fired Pizza, we are offering FREE admission to the museum all day as well as the chance to view old school photographs from 1930s-1970s, (you may even be able to identify past pupils) and contribute to the final phase of our #WOWW community quilt before it goes on permanent display.
Why not come along for a cup of spiced apple juice or browse our bookshop for some inspired gift ideas? Everyone welcome.
On Saturday 10th November we will be holding a FREE open day to commemorate the centenary of the end of WWI.
There will be an opportunity to re-visit the exhibition of local soldiers and view an updated archive of their experiences. Sandra Benham-Pellowe will be on hand to share and discuss her extensive research, with particular emphasis on individual accounts and research techniques.
With access to letters, photographs and first-hand witness accounts of historic events, it promises to be a poignant reminder of the lessons to be learned from the lives lost and the voices of those who survived.
Refreshments will also be availble throughout the day.
On Wednesday 21st November at 7.30 pm, David Llewelyn will be giving a talk on The First World War: Challenging Popular Perceptions. This forms part of our season of events to commemorate the centenary of the ending of WWI and offers an insight into the personal perspectives of individuals involved.
‘As a nation and society we view the war through the prism of art, literature, television, film etc. In this talk we look at it through the prism of history instead. The results may surprise.
We follow the progress of the war looking at each year and how it differs from the others. As part of this we look at names of places and events that we may be familiar with like the Somme, Ypres, etc. and put them in context to see how they all relate together, why they happened and what were their consequences.
As it was a World War we also expand considerably on the events in France and Flanders to look at what was happening in other areas such as the Eastern Front, the Balkans, the Middle East and the war at sea. Again we see how they relate together to give us an on overview of the whole conflict.
We look at the reasons for why the casualties were in fact so high and why the war played out the way it did.
At the end we cover some points of note that may give us some new things to consider or even view the conflict in a new light. We consider just what it was all about.’.
Tickets are £5 and refreshments will be available
