Performance as Protest: A Double Bill

Performance as Protest: A Double Bill

at The Welfare Ystradgynlais, Swansea

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This event is part of ‘The Art of Protest’ – A full day of events in commemoration of the end of the 84-85 Miners’ Strike.

Patrick Jones
2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the publishing of Tredegar born poet Patrick Jones’s first anthology. In this session to mark another important anniversary, Patrick will read from his collected works, with poems exploring grief, loss, trauma, healing and recovery, Israel’s war on Gaza, the cost of living inequality and transformation.

“Thoughtful, provocative & challenging, these poems engage and enrage”. – Peter Tatchell

Wynford Jones & Geoff Cripps
The Miners’ Strike cut a savage swathe through the fabric of Welsh life: a year-long battle against pit closures documented by Welsh folk supergroup The Chartists and their epoch-defining album Cause For Complaint.

Here the two remaining performing members of The Chartists – songwriter Wynford Jones and multi-instrumentalist Geoff Cripps come together for a performance featuring a combination of brilliant lyrics, virtuoso playing and songs you’ll be humming all the way home.

Patrick Jones

Tredegar-born Jones is considered by many to be one of Wales’ most resonant contemporary poets. Drawing heavily on his south Wales Valley’s heritage he is a champion of the downtrodden and the marginal. As both a poet and playwright Jones has collaborated with many of Wales’ best known individuals and institutions including, James Dean Bradfield, Sherman Theatre and National Theatre Wales. Prominent amongst his work is the play, Everything Must Go, whose title was subsequently appropriated by Manic Street Preachers for the title of their fourth studio album.

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on Sun 15 February 2026

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