Institute of Welsh Affairs

agenda - Education, Culture and Communications

Culture and Communication
Talismans of affinity Gaynor Kavanagh welcomes a fresh eye on Wales.	Winter 2007/08 Page 62
First language Margot Morgan celebrates the work of contemporary artist Mary Lloyd Jones.	Winter 2007/08 Page 65
Welsh News Rhodri Talfan Davies reports that although demand for Welsh broadcasting remains high, supply remains a problem.	Winter 2007/08 Page 67
Converged world As S4C celebrates its 25th birthday Elan Clos Stephens looks at its future.	Winter 2007/08 Page 70
A revolution in learning The Welsh Baccalaureate is a valuable complement to existing qualifications, says Steve Marshall.	Summer 2007 Page 70
Basic improvements Peter McGowan says ‘barriers between academic and vocational education must be broken down’.	Summer 2007 Page 73
Foreign adventure Wales should be leading the UK in encouraging the learning and use of other languages, says Alwena Lamping.	Summer 2007 Page 75
Fine air, mountains, streams and fish Rhian Davies reveals the strong connections between a very English composer and Wales.	Summer 2007 Page 77
Soap makers Liz Hobbs and Steve Croke give an account of their travels in search of the elixir of cleanliness.	Winter 2007 Page 60
Addressing identity Iwan Bala explores the symbolic language of public art in Wales.	Winter 2007 Page 63
Building for people Derek Jones argues that a sense of place depends on public good taking precedence over private indulgence.	Winter 2007 Page 67
Who do we think we are? Jonathan Scourfield asks what being ‘Welsh’ means when you’re 10 years old.	Winter 2007 Page 69
Beyond frontiers Sion Jobbins reports on a campaign to launch dotCYM into cyberspace.	Summer 2006 Page 59
Brand Identity Matthew Talfan explains how he uncovered the basic Welsh dragon.	Summer 2006 Page 62
Media hub Roger Lewis explains the thinking behind the new investment in ITV Wales at Culverhouse Cross.	Summer 2006 Page 64
Homage versus History Colin Thomas recounts his journey of discovery through filming the Spanish Civil War.	Summer 2006 Page 66
Public realm Huw Meredydd Owen emphasises the importance of place in architecture emerging across north Wales.	Summer 2006 Page 70
Governing culture Geraint Talfan Davies says the arts funding review is a chance to get away from policy-making on the hoof.	Spring 2006 Page 64
Daffodil meets the big apple Peter Stead joins in with Wales Week in New York.	Spring 2006 Page 66
Welsh cinema Steve Blandford finds that two recent films open up new possibilities for identity in 21st century Wales.	Spring 2006 Page 68
Ystradgynlais epiphany Nigel Jenkins praises a new assessment of the artist Josef Herman.	Spring 2006 Page 70
Could do better Ned Thomas describes how the UK is complying with its European commitments to support the Welsh language.	Winter 2005/06 Page 61
Disney Wales Peter Finch visits the 74th North American Welsh National Gymanfa Ganu in Orlando.	Winter 2005/06 Page 63
Motor-biking in the nude Rhian Davies on how Wales seeped into the consciousness of the composer Peter Warlock.	Winter 2005/06 Page 66
Y Wenhwyseg Elin Jones on how ‘talking tidy’ led to the demise of a distinctive Welsh dialect.	Winter 2005/06 Page 69
Dyfodol yr Iaith / Future of the Language Welsh in the Family Elaine Davies describes the work of Twf in building a bilingual Wales.	Summer 2005 Page 12
Dyfodol yr Iaith / Future of the Language Conversing with English Margaret Deuchar argues that we have every reason to be confident about the co-existence of Welsh with its dominant neighbour.	Summer 2005 Page 15
Welsh Art Ivor Davies weighs in on the debate over a National Gallery.	Summer 2005 Page 17
Venetian Odyssey Wiard Sterk reports on a visit to the 2005 Biennale.	Summer 2005 Page 21
Cover Story: Capital Thoughts Wales behind: Europe in front Peter Finch finds delicate light in anonymous Cardiff.	Spring 2005 Page 10
City Reflections Peter Stead wonders where Welsh urbanity begins and ends.	Spring 2005 Page 12
Broadcasting barricades Sue Balsom on Ofcom’s medium term rescue package for ITV1 Wales.	Spring 2005 Page 36
Blogging futures Tomos Grace looks at the role of the Internet in reinforcing Welsh identity.	Spring 2005 Page 38
Digital divide Wil Thomas says computers should be located somewhere between the blender and the microwave.	Spring 2005 Page 40
Y filter sqwar Aled Rowlands reports on an experiment measuring Welsh inter-connectivity.	Spring 2005 Page 42
Build it but don’t toll it Anthony Beresford examines the arguments surrounding the proposed M4 relief road south of Newport.	Spring 2005 Page 45
Cafeteria Catholicism Harri Pritchard Jones assesses the impact of Benedict XVI on a church that punches above its weight in Wales.	Spring 2005 Page 68
Glanmor Williams 1920-2005 Kenneth O Morgan on the founder of the 20th Century school of Welsh historians.	Spring 2005 Page 70
We are what we read … Ignorance and apathy towards the Assembly are hardly surprising, says Sue Balsom.	Autumn 2004 Page 71
A Champion needed for local content Leighton Andrews calls for a new consensus on the way forward for broadcasting.	Autumn 2004 Page 73
BBC Wales or BBC in Wales? Alun Davies believes a much wider debate on the BBC’s role deserves to be conducted.	Autumn 2004 Page 76
Good intentions must be backed The squeeze on provision as pupils progress is the biggest threat to Welsh, says Rhodri Glyn Thomas.	Autumn 2004 Page 79
Learners’ life could be a ball Adult Welsh learners need better organised support, says Helen Prosser.	Autumn 2004 Page 81
Life after Coal Neil Evans thinks Britain’s old mining regions can learn much from the Ruhr.	Autumn 2004 Page 83
Welsh Cricket’s Big Test Wales should be allowed to compete as a team in one-day internationals, says Gruffydd Jones.	Autumn 2004 Page 85
When Icons Meet Bryn Terfel explains his passion for the Millennium Centre, opening in Cardiff this November.	Summer 2004 Page 10
Linking past and future Paul Flynn traces the revival of the Welsh language in Gwent to the 1988 Newport Eisteddfod.	Summer 2004 Page 12
Cymuned versus Cymdeithas Carwyn Fowler argues that it is time for factions within the language movement to collaborate.	Summer 2004 Page 14
Books’r Us Peter Finch charts how being Welsh in English has progressed from being a parochial joke to a mainstream preoccupation.	Summer 2004 Page 16
Roland Mathias Sam Adams profiles a man whose literary achievement is being marked by a writing prize in his name.	Summer 2004 Page 19
Word Power Gillian Clarke explains why writers and poets need more than just a sense of place.	Summer 2004 Page 21
Spaces Between Wiard Sterk says that public art can promote regeneration in neglected urban environments.	Summer 2004 Page 24
Capital Times Ian Jones recommends how a new museum of Cardiff life should be created.	Spring 2004 Page 6
Bilingual Price Tag Colin Williams finds a gulf between the aims and reality of the Assembly Government’s language policies.	Spring 2004 Page 64
Spiral Decline Gareth Jones makes the case for Welsh medium higher education.	Spring 2004 Page 67
Creative Writing Heike Roms shares her experience of judging the 2004 Welsh Book of the Year.	Spring 2004 Page 69
Cardiff, Kairdiff, Caerdydd Peter Finch probes the literary output from the capital’s clash of cultures.	Winter 2003/04 Page 52
Turning the Tide? John Aitchison and Harold Carter unravel linguistic messages from the 2001 census.	Winter 2003/04 Page 55
Belonging Euros Lewis reflects on the heartland’s ‘invisible’ identity crisis.	Winter 2003/04 Page 59
The World in Welsh Ned Thomas argues that the time is ripe for a Welsh-language daily newspaper.	Winter 2003/04 Page 62
Culture Versus Commerce Alun Davies reports on the establishment of Ofcom.	Winter 2003/04 Page 65
Playing the Welsh card in Britain Peter Stead, one of the judges, explains how Cardiff gained from losing its bid to become European Capital of Culture in 2008.	Summer 2003 Page 10
Dispatches from Everest Jan Morris weaves a tale that traces back fifty years to Base Camp and Katmandu.	Summer 2003 Page 12
Plain Sailing Katie Gramich reports on how the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts is making waves in Wales. Gwyneth Lewis provides some extracts from the “Log of the Jameeleh”.	Summer 2003 Page 16
Ticking the Box Unpacking the Welsh 2001 census results Denis Balsom finds subtle connections between the language and nationality.	Spring 2003 Page 33
A Stage for Wales Michael Bogdanov says Cardiff and Swansea should collaborate to produce the forerunner for a federal national theatre.	Spring 2003 Page 35
Modest Venue - Melodramatic Debate Terry Hands teases out what we mean by 'national' in addressing our north-south theatrical divide.	Spring 2003 Page 38
Engaging with the Contemporary Mike Tooby pursues an IWA debate on the case for a National Gallery of Modern Art.	Winter 2002/03 Page 63
Winner Takes All? Tessa Jackson explains why Wales is initiating a new International Art Prize.	Winter 2002/03 Page 66
Minds and the Landscape Carys Howell and Emma Plunkett Dillon on the potential of the past.	Winter 2002/03 Page 68
The Best Collection of Castles on the Planet Richard Parnaby says Wales should take design more seriously.	Winter 2002/03 Page 70
A Showcase For Our Sense of Belonging Aaron Jones reflects on the IWA’s debate on the case for a National Gallery of Modern Art, held at Oriel Mostyn in Llandudno, in April – setting the scene for the following two articles by contributors to the debate.	Summer 2002 Page 61
The Art of Love and Emotion Kyffin Williams argues that is difficult for people to get passionate about Welsh art if they can’t see it.	Summer 2002 Page 64
The Modern Plus the Contemporary Shani Rhys-James says that saying no to museum of modern art would be like saying no to the 20th Century.	Summer 2002 Page 66
Three Million Feet of Film Iestyn Harris profiles the new National Screen and Sound Archive.	Spring 2002 Page 8
The Living Dead Simon Brooks sets out the case being put by the new Welsh community pressure group Cymuned.	Spring 2002 Page 10
Constructive Subversion John Lloyd Jones injects a note of optimism into the language debate.	Spring 2002 Page 12
Future of the Language Rhodri Williams takes up where Saunders Lewis left off, 40 years ago.	Spring 2002 Page 14
Oddballs, Misfits and Drop Outs In the wake of the row over ‘incomers’ Jeremy Vine interviewed the poet Twm Morys, Guardian columnist Hywel Williams, and Powys satirist Myfanwy Alexander.	Autumn 2001 Page 56
Kick Start Up the Arts Simon Mundy calls for investment in Welsh culture at levels Finland or France would recognise.	Autumn 2001 Page 59
Only Connect … Without Wires Euryn Ogwen Williams finds an American way of bridging the digital divide.	Autumn 2001 Page 61
Icons for the New Wales Dai Smith reflects on what should be “lasting, rooted, irreplaceable, distinctive, changing, charged with Welshness, now and in the future”.	Spring 2001 Page 53
Impact of the Printed Word Shelagh Hourahane asks whether we need a new magazine for the visual arts.	Spring 2001 Page 57
Dialling 029 for Wales Mike Tedd makes the case for a single Welsh telephone code.	Spring 2001 Page 59
Welsh Art Should Take Centre Stage Ozi Osmond insists that we become more assertive in the demands we make on our cultural commissars.	Winter 2000/01 Page 47
Lifting the Gloom but Not the Spirit Geraint Talfan Davies welcomes new policy initiatives in the arts but warns that we should not fall into the trap of thinking rural equals Welsh while urban equals English.	Winter 2000/01 Page 49
The Arts Need a Policy, Not Just More Money Reflecting on the recent report produced by Ceri Sherlock, the National Assembly's culture adviser, Yvette Vaughan Jones makes the case for the artist as communicator.	Winter 2000/01 Page 51
Problems of Success with the Modern Game Corris Thomas says serious questions need to be directed at the sustainability of today's rugby.	Winter 2000/01 Page 53
Wales the Brand Jeffrey Pride delves into problems around creating a strong and consistent image for a country that is often unknown or known for the wrong reasons.	Summer 2000 Page 55
Bringing Intuition to Bear on Preferred Futures Gareth Price traces the history of scenario studies and describes how one might be applied to Wales.	Summer 2000 Page 57
The Future of Our Past Prompted by two IWA publications John Davies agrees that the Assembly‘s administration is in need of advice on coping with our heritage, past and future.	Summer 2000 Page 59
Short of Problems? Get Yourself a Goat Steve Dube reports on an "Arts and the Economy" conference in Camarthen organised by the IWA's West Wales Branch in association with the Arts Council of Wales and The Western Mail.	Winter 2000 Page 50
A Mind-Bogglingly Improbable Project Nigel Jenkins assesses the challenges of compiling a major work of Welsh reference.	Winter 2000 Page 55
The Invisible "Last Colony" Prompted by the IWA's publication The Welsh Image David Parry-Jones takes a personal look at how our neighbours see us.	Winter 2000 Page 57
Building Inspiration from Within Jonathan Adams describes his design of the new Millennium Centre, soon to rise up in Cardiff Bay alongside the National Assembly.	Summer 1999 Page 55
Image and Creative Design The launch of the Academy for Design in Wales provides a key to unlocking a more confident sense of our place in the world, says Bob Croydon.	Summer 1999 Page 58
Citizenship and the New Wales Hywel Francis and Rob Humphreys argue that Lifelong Learning represents a policy opportunity for Wales.	Spring 1999 Page 50
Our Digital Destiny Eurfron Gwynne Jones describes plans afoot to establish a Digital College in Wales.	Spring 1999 Page 52
Art for Art Sake William Wilkins reviews the IWA’s Gregynog Paper State of the Arts.	Spring 1999 Page 54
Cwl Participating Cymru Margaret Minhinnick tunes in to a new Welsh mood music.	Spring 1999 Page 54
The Future of the Word Peter Finch welcomes a new National Literature Promotion Agency.	Summer 1998 Page 42
Image and Power Ned Thomas reviews the latest Gregynog Paper, The Welsh Image, by John Smith, MP for the Vale of Glamorgan.	Summer 1998 Page 44
De-politicising the Language Alys Thomas asks whether the Assembly will want to take the language out of politics.	Summer 1998 Page 46
Beyond the Millennium Geraint Talfan Davies reports on a new era for Welsh arts provision in the wake of the Wales Millennium Centre’s success.	Winter 1997/98 Page 44
Playing on the World Stage Yvette Vaughan Jones outlines the role of the new organisation Wales Arts International.	Winter 1997/98 Page 45
Beyond Europe Alan Burge argues that a more sophisticated international outlook is necessary as a part of the maturing of Wales.	Winter 1997/98 Page 47
The Welsh sporting dilemma Is there a contradiction between our enthusiasm for our ‘national sports’ and our general ambivalence in the quest for political recognition? Laura McAllister puts the question.	Summer 1997 Page 45
Branding Wales in the age of digital TV The IWA has established a panel to look at the impact of digital technology on Welsh television. Elan Closs Stephens fills in the background.	Summer 1997 Page 46
Think Tanks I have known Christopher Harvie surveys the influence of policy research institutes, and offers some advice to the IWA.	Winter 1996/97 Page 39
Looking to the North R Merfyn Jones welcomes the appearance of the first of the IWA’s Gregynog Papers, The Place of North Wales.	Winter 1996/97 Page 42
Taking Welsh out of the classroom Jeremy Evas and Bill Fear report on a new research project into attitudes towards the Welsh language.	Winter 1996/97 Page 44
Laura McAllister on Imagining our Community.	Summer 1996 Page 32
The IWA’s Millennium Report: Bread and Roses.	Summer 1996 Page 33
Mike Tedd on Bringing home the Information Society.	Summer 1996 Page 34
Partnering the Arts by John Mathews.	Volume 2 Issue 1 December 1995 Page 19
Two Boards and a Passion by Roger Tomlinson.	Volume 2 Issue 1 December 1995 Page 22
A New Sense of Britishness? by Geoff Mulgan.	Volume 1 Issue 3 August 1995 Page 1
Identity – Real or Unreal? by Dr Kim Howells.	Volume 1 Issue 3 August 1995 Page 3
How Many Identities? by Lord Elis Thomas.	Volume 1 Issue 3 August 1995 Page 4
Wales in Catalonia by Emyr Jenkins.	Volume 1 Issue 2 April 1995 Page 26
Hark the Herald of the Handling Game by David Cole.	Volume 1 Issue 2 April 1995 Page 28
The Necklace, the Wave, the Ship & the Quadrant by Malcolm Parry.	Volume 1 Issue 1 November 1994 Page 3
The Competition by Malcolm Parry.	Volume 1 Issue 1 November 1994 Page 4
Cardiff’s Opera House by Ena Kendall.	Volume 1 Issue 1 November 1994 Page 6