Past Events

 
CYMDEITHAS ETIFEDDIAETH CYMRY GLANNAU MERSI
MERSEYSIDE WELSH HERITAGE SOCIETY

2008 CELEBRATIONS

Tuesday 17 June at 7.30 p.m.
Lecture, in Welsh, at Bethel Welsh Presbyterian Church, Heathfield Road Liverpool 15, by Emeritus Professor Hywel Teifi Edwards on ‘The National Drama Festival held in Cardiff in May 1914’. Supported by the National Library of Wales. Admission £2.00.

Monday 23 June at 7.30 p.m.
Piano recital by Llŷr Williams at St Nicholas’s Church, Pier Head, Liverpool
Tickets: £12. Available from Mavis Owens, 78 Ringwood, Oxton, Birkenhead, CH43 2LZ, Ffôn: 0151 652 6373; or a member of the Welsh Heritage Committee.

Sunday 29 June at 3.00 p.m and 5.30 p.m.
At Bethel Welsh Presbyterian Church, Heathfield Road Liverpool 15. Fellowship of the Lord’s Day. Speaker at the afternoon meeting: Rev. Dr Elfed ap Nefydd Roberts on the theme ‘Faith and Culture’. Refreshments 4.14 to 5.15. At 5.30 a Session of Hymn Singing. Artists: Cor Glan Alun (Director of Music: Dr Goronwy Wynne). Conductor Ifor Griffith, organist Margaret A. Williams.

Saturday 19 July at 7.30 p.m.
At Bethel Welsh Presbyterian Church, Heathfield Road Liverpool 15, a concert with the renowned Trelawnyd Male Voice Choir (Conductor: Geraint Roberts). It is hoped to launch a history of Bethel and associated chapels on the evening. Admission £5.00.

Friday 19 September at 7.30 p.m.
At Bethel Welsh Presbyterian Church, Heathfield Road Liverpool 15. lecture by the eminent reporter and broadcaster TREVOR FISHLOCK on ‘Liverpool and Wales’. Supported by the National Library of Wales. Admission £2.00.

Saturday & Sunday 27-28 September: ‘Cofio’r Mimosa’
A festival to remember The Mimosa, which sailed from Liverpool in 1865 with Welsh migrants to set up the Welsh Settlement in Patagonia. At Liverpool’s Maritime Museum a model of the ship will be unveiled. In the evening at 7.30, at Bethel Welsh Presbyterian Church, Heathfield Road Liverpool 15, Dylan Thomas’ ‘Under Milk Wood’ will be performed by the Sefton Drama Group. Admission £5.00. .
On Sunday morning at 10.30 a.m. a service to remember The Mimosa will be held at Bethel Chapel.

Thursday 23 October at 7.30 p.m.
At The Bluecoat Chambers, Liverpool, ‘S4C--a Viewers’ Evening’. An opportunity to hear and question representatives from S4C, including the Chief Executive, Iona Jones, and the Chairman, John Walter Jones.

Mimosa Festival - October 22-23
2005

Cymdeithas Etifeddiaeth Cymry Glannau Mersi
(Merseyside Welsh Heritage Society)
(Registered Charity)
 

This year is the 140th anniversary of the sailing from Liverpool of the S.S. Mimosa with over 150 Welsh migrants aboard and bound for Patagonia. There they established a Welsh settlement and remarkably it has survived to this day. The Merseyside Welsh Heritage Society is holding a festival on October 22-23 to commemorate the sailing from Liverpool in 1865. The following events are planned.

Saturday morning, October 22,
10.30: lecture by Gareth James, Liverpool, 'The Background to the Migration' (in Welsh)
11.30: lecture by Susan Wilkinson, Ontario, Canada, 'Mimosa: The Ship that sailed into History'.

Saturday evening, October 22,
7.30: concert given by the renowned Rhosllanerchrugog Male Voice Choir, conductor John Daniel.

Sunday morning, October 23,
10.30: 'Oedfa'r Mimosa', a service led by the Rev. Dr. D. Ben Rees.

A commemorative booklet about the Festival is in preparation.

All the events will take place at Bethel Chapel, Heathfield Road, Allerton, Liverpool.

Further information contact Arthur Thomas, Secretary, (wat@liv.ac.uk)