Aberdare Coliseum - Performing arts venue, hosting films, plays, and musical events. Includes current calendar, booking information, and directions.
Showcase / Sioe Gerdd Performing Arts Association - Provides free performing arts opportunities for young people aged 10 to 25 in the valleys. Includes information about the youth choir, youth theatre, and workshops.
Aberdare Camera Club - Location map, programme, members' gallery, news and links.
Active Music Services - An approach to the works of composers, for all ages, through medium of graphical presentation and listening activities. Samples and ordering information.
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-- Polish proverb The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Arts and Entertainment
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-- Isadora Duncan The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
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-- Henry Ford "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
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All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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-- W. Somerset Maugham Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Arts and Entertainment
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