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Swansea Jazzland - Includes of the programme of jazz musicians and bands at the St.James Social Club.

More Music - Swansea Pages - Links and listings for Swansea bands, clubs and pubs. Complied by a local record store.

Attic Gallery - Wales' longest established private gallery. Includes information about the gallery and the artists and details of forthcoming exhibitions.

Hottown Studios - Recording studio. Includes description of facilities and equipment, clients, personnel and musicians, hot tips, and services offered.

Baggyrinkle - A group of sea shanty singers based locally.

Galaxy Studios - Information about photography and video services by Graham Alcock.

Morriston Camera Club - A camera club designed to help improve the photographic skills of anyone interested in photography in the Morriston area of Swansea. Site includes a background to the club, membership details, and pictures comparing old and new Morriston.

Swansea Music Links - A Guide to local music resources both on the web and on the ground. Lists local bands and music related sites.

Future World Video - Produce corporate, wedding, and sports event videos, with a description of services and packages available.

ArtWorks - Prints of the local area available by e-commerce.

Cockett Amateur Operatic Society - Includes pictures and information about past and upcoming productions.

Wild Wild Welsh Linedancers of Swansea - Dynamic linedancing club offering information.

Swansea Camera Club - Aims of the club, invitation to weekly meetings, location, activities, news, membership fees, and links.

Dragonart Illustration and Design - Freelance illustrator and commercial artist. Includes examples of the services available.

Dean Saunders - Details of a comedy hypnosis artiste.

Dragon Arts Centre - Offer activities ranging from, IT, photography, arts and crafts, basic skills, guitar, woodwork, pottery and creative writing. Contact details.

Dylan Thomas Print Project - Offer a boxed set of prints relating to Dylan Thomas' poem "Especially when the October wind". Contact details.

Taliesin Arts Centre - Information on the centre's programme of cinema, theatre, concerts and art events, and the conference facilities. Includes a what's on guide, and contact details.

Dylan Thomas Theatre - Home to the Swansea Little Theatre Company, an amateur dramatics company since the early 1920's. Bookings, contacts and directions.

Morriston Camera Club - Program of meetings, competitions and practical evenings, venue and contact details, members' gallery, old photographs of the area, and links.

Abertawe Festival for Young Musicians - Annual event comprising competitive and non-competitive classes in piano, strings, woodwind and ensemble sections.

Mumbles Fine art Gallery - Exclusively featuring the work of artist Ron Banning with pictures of Gower, France and still life flowers.

The Signature Gallery - Dedicated to promoting Welsh artists and artists based in Wales. Exhibitions include traditional and modern painting, sculpture and jewellery.

Pontardawe Film Society - Information on past and present screenings, newsletter, and links.

Pontardawe Festival - Celebration of world music held annually. Programme and artist information, with contact details.

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Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. -- David Letterman Arts and Entertainment "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard Arts and Entertainment "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." 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(Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. -- Mme de Staël Arts and Entertainment In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Now is the time for all good men to come to. -- Walt Kelly Arts and Entertainment Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -- Agnes Repplier For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. -- Rita Rudner Arts and Entertainment Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Arts and Entertainment Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Arts and Entertainment There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. -- Josephus Daniels Arts and Entertainment I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. -- Woodrow Wilson Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -- Plutarch Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." 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Mencken Arts and Entertainment You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. -- Dag Hammarskjold Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara Arts and Entertainment The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. -- Robert Briffault Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor Arts and Entertainment Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Arts and Entertainment
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