Join us for an evening with Andrew Green, best-selling author of "Wales in 100 Objects" as he introduces us to his new book "Voices on the Path - A History of Walking in Wales.
We are so delighted to be hosting Professor Jeff Opland for the launch of his tenth volume on Xhosa Literature - on Thursday November 21st at 6.30pm.
We are thrilled to be hosting Horatio Clare this November to discuss his new book 'Your Journey Your Way - How to Make the Mental Health System Work For You' (Penguin Books).
A highly acclaimed bestselling Author, Broadcaster and Lecturer whose very many works cover travel, memoir, nature and children's fiction, Horatio Clare grew up on a remote hill farm in the Black Mountains - an idyllic but isolating childhood that has informed all his writing since. His first book 'Running For The Hills' documented a beautifully almost lawless childhood in the Welsh hills including the breakdown of his parents marriage and their subsequent divorce with an honesty that startled his own family.
Whatever his subject, Horatio's writing is lyrical, immediate and brutally honest. His 2021 memoir 'Heavy Light' - aptly subtitled 'a journey through madness, mania and healing' is the candid often shocking account of his own breakdown at the end of 2018 and his subsequent sectioning and treatment at Wakefield Hospital.
'Your Journey Your Way - How to Make The Mental Health System Work For You' is it's natural follow-up - a deeply researched and visceral exploration of the current mental health system that asks serious questions about whether it is working and how things might change.
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Join us this weekend for all your food, drink and literary needs during this years Brecon Baroque festival…
Opening Hours
Friday 11th October 9.30 to 4.00 and 5.30 to 7.30 for pre-concert supper (bookings only)
Saturday 10 to 5
Sunday 10 to 5
Join us for a free lunchtime literary and musical event on Friday September 27th at 1pm
International Velvet - How Wales Conquered the 90’s Charts
Jazz infused Delta Blues? Hot dang! Paul Keddle and his cool as cats band of musical men assemble to bring you a foot-tapping, hip-swinging, scrumptious Festival weekend closer to remember
What are Jazz Weekend Sunday afternoons made for? Bella Blue of course. Join us for delectable Jazz and Blues from one of the smokiest soul-filled voices around. An outside bar, sun-streaked skies (?!), and one girl and her Blues guitar celebrating four decades of incredible music in beautiful Brecon
One of the UK's hottest Jazz ensembles led by the gorgeous Susanna Warren bring us an exhilarating feast of sassy Hot Club Jazz, Gipsy, Swing and sooo much more for an absolutely simmering Jazz Saturday evening on the Close
We are thrilled to bring you an exciting new quartet - Blue Haddock - featuring Composer, Improviser and Pianist Rod Paton; Coren Sithers on saxophones; Liz Exell on drums and lan Cooper on bass
Our Jazz Festival Weekend revelry begins with new Folk Fusion collective Enw
An alt hybrid folk fiesta for your hips, head and heart under the ancient sycamores on the Cathedral green
Join us for a beautiful pre-concert supper
Join us for a beautiful pre-concert supper
Brecon resident Grahame Davies reads fom his newly-published Seren volume A Darker Way. This collection of poems and songs traces a hard-won but redemptive path between idealism and irony, failure and faith.
The reading will accompany an exhibition of paintings by Brecon artist Jess Hinsley whose striking image of Pen y Fan provides the cover picture of the book.
Those GLORIOUS musicians Afternoon in Paris are bringing a feast of Christmas Jazz to The Hours Cafe & Bookshop on Friday December 15th at 7.30pm
First published in 1988, Shifts is one of the most important and influential novels to come out of Wales in the late 20th Century.
Jazz infused Delta Blues? Hot dang. Paul Keddle and his cool as cats band
of musical men assemble to bring you a foot-tapping, hip-swinging,
scrumptious 40th Festival weekend closer to remember
Jazz impresario Keith Little brings us deft and dazzling Jazz, Hot Swing and
Dixie with a smattering of Shuffle - all the ingredients required for
an absolutely swinging celebratory afternoon at Cathedral Close
One of the UK's hottest Jazz ensembles led by the gorgeous Susanna
Warren fill the Green with an exhilarating feast of Hot Club Jazz, Gipsy
and Swing for an absolutely simmering Jazz Saturday night under
the ancient sycamores to remember
Our special 40th Jazz Festival celebrations begin with a sultry afternoon of
delicious Jazz and Blues from one of the smokiest, sassiest voices around -
Bella Collins. One girl and her Blues guitar celebrating forty years of
incredible music in beautiful Brecon
Bella Collins
In the beautiful setting of Brecon Cathedral Tithebarn…
Brecon Choir Festival 2023 - Jude Rogers in Conversation about her new book ‘The Sound of Being Human - How Music Shapes Our Lives’
Join us as we chat to author David Elias about his ‘captivating’ debut book. Conservationist David explores a farm in the Snowdonia National Park and unpacks what it shows us about the gritty reality of trying to reconcile hill farming and caring for nature
Coming...?
Please Note: This is a free event and all are welcome.
Wine, words and wonder from Jasmine Donahaye (Birdplaining - A Natural History) & Mike Parker (All The Wide Border: Wales, England And The Places Between)
Coming...?
Please Note: This is a free event and all are welcome.
A photographic exhibition - twelve portraits of local women. Runs throughout March
Meeting at The Hours, join a group of local walking enthusiasts for a Spring walk to Pen y Crug to mark International Women's Day for BWF
Lots of lovely events your way wend as part of this year's Brecon Women's Festival to mark International Women's Day 2023.
Book Launch at The Hours Bookshop - ‘Sarn Helen’ by Tom Bullough. ‘…Woven into this journey are conversations with climate scientists and the story of Tom’s engagement with the urgent issue of the climate crisis, showing us its likely impact on Wales, which is – in miniature – a vision of what lies ahead for us all.’
