COAST One And All: Owen Sheers ‘making of’ documentary

COAST One And All: Owen Sheers ‘making of’ documentary from Benjamin Wigley on Vimeo. Owen Sheers On The Sea’s Land (Ar-for-dir) Owen spent two weeks walking and researching the Gower’s southern coastline between the Upper Paleolithic archaeological site of Paviland Cave and the striking causeway peninsula of Wurm’s Head. This documentary video shows the ‘making Read More …

Pink Mist at Bristol Old Vic

16th February to 5th March Theatre, intimate configuration with allocated seating 7.30pm, 2.30pm (Selected Thursday & Saturday matinees) £27.50 – £10 (plus booking fee) Pink Mist tells the story of three young Bristol men deployed to Afghanistan. Returning to the women in their lives who must now share the physical and psychological aftershocks of their service, Read More …

The National Eisteddfod of Wales

Owen Sheers in conversation with Glyn Mathias December 10th Bethany Chapel, Market Street, Abergavenny The National Eisteddfod of Wales is coming to Monmouthshire this summer and will be held on the Castle Meadows in Abergavenny from 28th July to August 6th 2016.  Abergavenny has to raise £100,000 to help stage the Eisteddfod. So as an Read More …

One and All Spotlight Tour

One & All Spotlight Tour: Owen Sheers Sunday 29 November, 13.30-13.50 Somerset House New Wing, entrance via River Terrace, South Wing, Free Join poet, author and playwright Owen Sheers for an insight into his commission for One and All, inspired by his residency on the Gower coast. This summer Owen spent two weeks walking and researching Read More …

One and All

One and All launched on 4 November at nationaltrust.org.uk/oneandall, alongside a physical installation at Somerset House in London. “We’ve got over 775 miles of coastline under the care of the National Trust,” says Tom Freshwater, the trust’s contemporary arts programme manager. “What we are looking to do now is very much about managed access to the Read More …

Private Passions on Radio 3

Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates, and talk about the influence music has had on their lives: Owen Sheers is a writer who likes to get away from his desk, and he tells Michael about his delight at being Artist in Residence at the Welsh Rugby Union, and about Read More …

Pink Mist at the Bush Theatre

Pink Mist, a Bristol Old Vic production by Owen Sheers, will run at the Bush Theatre from 21st January to 13th February 2016. Pink Mist tells the story of three young Bristol men deployed to Afghanistan. Returning to the women in their lives who must now share the physical and psychological aftershocks of their service, Arthur, Read More …

Swansea poet to capture Gower coast as part of National Trust celebration

Writer Owen Sheers, professor of creativity at Swansea University, is to produce a new work, inspired by Swansea’s Gower peninsula, which has been specially commissioned by the National Trust for a project celebrating the British coast. Owen Sheers will create a new poem based on Swansea’s Gower Peninsula, which was the first part of the Read More …