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Lyrical One: Cockles and MusselsNazma Ali

24 October - 24 October 2014

Performance at 1pm Friday 24th October

 

Nazma filmed the old Queens building in Cambrian Place that once housed the South Wales Sea Fisheries Committee. Now scaffolded and skipped, its current inhabitants wearing hard hats and reflective jackets, the building looked like it was being demolished before her eyes! But it wasn’t simply this noisy activity that drew Nazma towards it. She had recently worked for Marine and Fisheries, a unit of the Welsh Government, recording landings of cockles and mussels for quota assessment purposes.

The sea dominates the landscape in Swansea and Dylan Thomas’s numerous references to cockles and the sea led Nazma to investigate the popular Irish song Molly Malone, also known as Cockles and Mussels. And after all, Thomas was married to Catlin who was of Irish decent. Reading Under Milk Wood inspired her to adapt the song as a life-saving response to an old building that was being pulled apart so mercilessly.

 


This year marks the centenary of Swansea’s prodigal son, Dylan Thomas’, birth.  ‘Lyrical One’ is a collaborative project organised by Mission Gallery and Snug Projects which will take place throughout October 2014. It will comprise of a number of workshop and forum-based gatherings of both students, amateur and professional poets and musicians.

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