SUNDAY, December 24th at The Dickens Project: Stories, Stories, & Candlelight

It's Christmas Eve  . . .

@ Noon - A CHILDS' CHRISTMAS IN WALES and Other Stories with Aoife Lorefield. This is a holiday treat!  Aoife reads Dylan Thomas' classic, followed by two stories by John B. Keane: The Curriculum Vitae, and, Spreading Joy and Jam at Christmas.

@ 9pm - CANDLELIGHT VERSE, MUSIC, & STORY in the Church of St Charles of The Little Dickens. Arik Metzger, Innsmouth Harbormaster, provides readings from the Christmas Story,  & Caledonia Skytower adds music and a more secular story as homily for this candlelight gathering from the works of Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery.

* Keep a weather eye out!  There may yet be an impromptu skating party today or anytime over the holiday weekend!

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TODAY, December 23rd, at The Dickens Project

@ 2PM - A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES ~ Encore
Aoife Lorefield presents an encore reading, with special musical guest, Grace McDunnough.

"Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills..." Aoife reads this favorite Christmas tale from poet Dylan Thomas. Come experience the wonders of this time through his childhood memories.

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WEDNESDAY, December 11th at 7PM: A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES

We love our Seanchai Library traditions, and this is an annual delight that we are sharing at The Dickens Project in this, the first of two presentations ...

"Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills..." Tonight Aoife returns with a reading of a favorite Christmas tale from poet Dylan Thomas. Come experience the wonders of this time through his childhood memories.

Live in Voice from Dickens Square.

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MONDAY, December 10th at 7pm: A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES and Other Holiday Favorites

Aoife once again visits  the sea-town corner of Dylan Thomas' memory to share the cold and headlong moon, the lynx-eyed cats, the fire, the bat-black, snow-white belfries, and finally the close and holy darkness of this perfect Christmas. This and some poems of the season, for an evening's celebration.

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TUESDAY, December 22nd at 7PM: A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES and Other Tales

"A Child's Christmas in Wales" is a prose work by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Originally emerging from a piece he wrote for radio, recorded by Thomas in 1952, the story is an anecdotal retelling of a Christmas from the view of a young child and a romanticized version of Christmases past, portraying a nostalgic and simpler time. It is one of Thomas's most popular works.

"All the Christmases roll down towards the two-tongued sea, like a cold and headlong moon bundling down the sky that was our street; and they stop at the rim of the ice-edged, fish-freezing waves, and I plunge my hands in the snow and bring out whatever I can find."

Aoife Lorefield presents along with John B. Keane's "Curriculum Vitae," live in voice.
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TUESDAY, December 2nd at 7pm: A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES

“One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.”

Celebrating the centenary of Dylan Thomas' birth, Aoife shares one of his most beloved holiday gifts with us, live in voice.