Post by chesil on Mar 9, 2009 23:13:09 GMT 1
The Bardic Chair of Dorchester Competition will be held on 28th March 2009 at the Corn Exchange Dorchester. The Competition is a non profit making venture we could do with help in getting word out and would appreciate any mention you could give it. If you wish to know more please email Adam at: heritage@caer-dur.co.uk
Would you like to be the Bard of Dorchester for a year? The competition is Free to enter and supported by Dorchester Town Council.
The Judging panel will include Ash the 11th Bard of Bath, The Dorchester Town Crier, and a representative of Dorchester Town Council.
The idea of Chaired Bards is to promote the Bardic Tradition through talks and performances and set the theme for the competition the following year. The first of the revived Bardic chairs was that of Caer Badon (Bath) which was revived in 1998. This was followed by others in Bristol, Glastonbury and Winchester.
Dorchester is considered to be an ideal place for such a cultural revival, as not only was it an important cultural and religious centre in pre-Roman and Roman times, with several henge monuments and temples, but it also has an important literary heritage in the poet William Barnes, the novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, and the Powys Brothers, who all resided there and found the town and its environs such an inspiration.
The competition, which was announced in August 2008, and will be open to anyone regardless of religious or other affiliation and will welcome storytellers, poets, singers, actors, writers and academics.
To enter please email heritage@caer-dur.co.uk
Visit the website at www.caer-dur.co.uk/Bardic.htm
Would you like to be the Bard of Dorchester for a year? The competition is Free to enter and supported by Dorchester Town Council.
The Judging panel will include Ash the 11th Bard of Bath, The Dorchester Town Crier, and a representative of Dorchester Town Council.
The idea of Chaired Bards is to promote the Bardic Tradition through talks and performances and set the theme for the competition the following year. The first of the revived Bardic chairs was that of Caer Badon (Bath) which was revived in 1998. This was followed by others in Bristol, Glastonbury and Winchester.
Dorchester is considered to be an ideal place for such a cultural revival, as not only was it an important cultural and religious centre in pre-Roman and Roman times, with several henge monuments and temples, but it also has an important literary heritage in the poet William Barnes, the novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, and the Powys Brothers, who all resided there and found the town and its environs such an inspiration.
The competition, which was announced in August 2008, and will be open to anyone regardless of religious or other affiliation and will welcome storytellers, poets, singers, actors, writers and academics.
To enter please email heritage@caer-dur.co.uk
Visit the website at www.caer-dur.co.uk/Bardic.htm
