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           Events for the  Ceredigion  Area in  2009
          
Please let us know if you have an event in Ceredigion that is not listed. If anyone has photos of their event they would like to
              display on this page, please contact us using the contact button above.


                
Aberaeron  Annual Seafood Festival - 12th July 2009 - the photos below are from previous events 

The quay was crowded with stalls from the Hive on the Quay down past the Harbourmaster Hotel

The Aberaeron rowing Club's members barbecue freshly caught Mackerel.

This is as crowded as Aberaeron ever gets!

                 Barley Saturday at Cardigan  - 25th April 2009

                  Aberaeron Festival of Welsh Ponies and Cobs - 9th August 2009

A display team carried out various tricks on horseback

Judging gets underway

A  Welsh Cob and its proud owner

                 New Quay Lifeboat Station Open Day  

The New Quay  'D' class inshore lifeboat is 16 feet long with a 50 hp outboard motor and is called the 'Amy Lea' after Amy Lea Pearl who survived the sinking of the 'Lusitania' in 1915. IN this photo,  Amy Lea Pearl's daughter Margie Clark is shown at the 2006 Open Day with (from left) Dan Potter the Coxswain, Roger Crouch the Training Coordinator and Albert Moller the Operations Manager.

The Mersey class life boat 'Frank and Lena Clifford of Stourbridge'. 

Toffee Apples and other goodies were on sale at the Lifeboat Open Day

 

2009 Events

Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd May 2009 - New Quay Dance School - Musical Moments - New Quay Dance School performing popular scenes from musicals such as 42nd Street, Chicago, Annie, High School Musical, Mary Poppins and lots more at Theatr Felinfach, 7.30 p.m. - tickets available from the theatre or call 01570 470697.

Saturday/ Dydd Sadwrn 23rd May/Mai 2009 11.00am until/tan 4.00pm - Artists in Residence –  Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth University, Penglais, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3DE -  Open Studio / Artistiaid Preswyl - Stiwdio Agored - Dave Cushley, Elen Bonner & Jean-Yves Vigneau - sob@aber.ac.uk - 01970 622338

This is a great opportunity to meet the Artists in Residence in their studios and see the work they have been producing over the past three months. The artist’s studios are based in the new Creative Units numbers 1, 2+3. These units are the steel buildings to your left as you exit the Arts Centre by the booking office. For disabled access please enter from the top car park. Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth University, Penglais, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3DE

Dyma gyfle gwych i gyfarfod â’r Artistiaid Preswyl yn eu stiwdios ac i weld y gwaith y maent wedi bod yn cynhyrchu dros y tri mis diwethaf.
Lleolir stiwdios yr artistiaid yn yr Unedau Creadgol newydd rhifau 1, 2 + 3. Dyma’r unedau y gellir eu gweld ar eich chwith wrth i chi adael y Ganolfan wrth y swyddfa docynnau – yr uned ddwbl bellaf yw lleoliad stiwdios yr artistiaid a gellir ei chyrraedd ar hyd y llwybr sy’n mynd heibio crochendy’r Ganolfan.

12th July 2009 - Aberaeron Annual Seafood Festival held on the Quay, stalls run from the inner harbour to the harbour mouth. Fish and shellfish are cooked in front of you by experts and enthusiasts alike – there is beach art and brass bands, mackerel barbecues and jazz, shanty singers, crab-picking and catching competitions and whelk racing – Music in the evening at the pier head!

25th July 2009 Cardigan Medieval Day

29th July 2009 - Cardigan Agricultural Show - 09:00 to 17:00 - Tel:01239 615438

9th August 2009 - The Welsh Cob Festival - The Aberaeron festival takes the horse to the people in a spectacular attempt to raise awareness of the breed.

15th August - Cardigan River and Food Festival. For further details please contact Menter Aberteifi.
info@menter-aberteifi.co.uk or 01239 615554

31st August 2009 - Aberaeron Carnival - A festival honouring the mackerel and acknowledge its importance to the life of the town. Probably the best carnival in Wales with plenty of jazz from the Adamant Jazz Band.

For a detailed list of events throughout Ceredigion CLICK HERE to visit the Ceredigion County Events page.


Further events will be added when details are available


Car Boots / Markets

Tuesdays - Large Market and Car Boot, Llanrhystud 9 - 4  (seasonal )

Wednesdays - Aberaeron Farmers Market Alban Square Field,  10am-3pm 1st Wednesday of each month - held from June to October

Thursdays - Cardigan Farmers Market selling local produce, held on the second Thursday in the month at: Pendre Car Park,
             Pendre Car Park, Cardigan  -  9.00am - 1.00pm 

Fridays:   - Small Market - Uplands Square, New Quay - mornings - runs throughout the year -  has a limited number of  traders. 

There is a fantastic selection of locally grown plants - flowers, herbs, fruit and vegetables (in season) on offer at the New Quay Country Market Fridays: - Country market in the  New Quay Memorial Hall near the main car park from 11 am to 12.30 featuring cakes, pies, preserves, crafts, herbs, plants, local fruit and vegetables, and the best value cups of tea in New Quay! 

Fridays: - At the back of the Memorial Hall is the 
Wales Air Ambulance
Charity Shop from 10 - 12.

left- there is a fantastic selection of locally grown plants - flowers, herbs, fruit and vegetables (in season) on offer at the New Quay Country Market as well as cakes, pies, eggs, crafts, jams, chutneys and pickles.

Fridays - Lampeter Farmers Market. Market Street, Lampeter  9am-2pm -  Alternate Fridays

Saturdays - Memorial Hall Aberaeron 9.30 to 3.30 selling plants, vegetables and fruit, cakes, jams 
             and marmalade, small café, and various stalls with bric a brac ,jewellery, stationary and 
             Fair Trade stall run by the local church. Also calendars printed cards and 
             paintings by local artists.

Saturdays - Aberystwyth Farmers Market, North Parade, Aberystwyth. 10am-3pm 
           1st & 3rd Saturdays each month 

Saturdays - Car Boot sale at the Goggerddan Arms, Tanygroes ( seasonal - on the A487 Cardigan Road)

Sundays   - Car Boot sale at Beulah,  Tanygroes ( seasonal - turn off the A487 at the Goggerddan Arms).

                 - Car boot sale at Pennant (seasonal)  - turn off the A487 at Aberarth.

                 - Talsarn Car Boot and Traders Market - The Yard, Talsarn, Lampeter, SA48 8QB
              Tel: 07966 598716 - every Sunday morning March to October 2008.

                - Carmarthen  - United Counties Showground - car boot sale on most Sundays - except when
            other events are being held there ( see below ).

Clubs and Regular meetings

Thursdays (every other Thursday) Friendship Club - Llanarth Church Hall 2.00 pm - everybody welcome

New Quay Camera Club - meets at the Yacht Club on the first Thursday of the month, all are welcome further details
                                   from Margaret Jones 01545 561 216 or Barry Adams 01239 811678.

New Quay Youth Club: -  Thursdays and Fridays from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Memorial Hall.

New Quay Society - Third Thursday of each month, New Quay Yacht Club 7 p.m.

Dylan Thomas Society - Third Wednesday of the month, Black Lion Hotel 7 p.m.

Councilor's Surgery - last Wednesday of every month, New Quay Memorial Hall, 6.30 - 6.55 
                            followed by Town Council meeting at 7 p.m.

         

 Dolphins. Daily cruises Easter - September around Cardigan Bay. Watch the dolphins, and view "the
           cliff-perched, toppling town" from the sea. For further details telephone 01545 560375. 

 The Dylan Thomas Trail. A self-guided walk that starts from the Tourist Information Centre in Aberaeron. Full details in The Dylan Thomas Trail, available from bookshops and Tourist Information Centres.

Click here to go to the 'Life of Dylan Thomas'  Page

Carmarthen  - United Counties Showground - car boot sale on Sundays - also:
JUNE 
- 9th & 10th - Towy Antiques Fair, 23rd & 24th - Homes and Gardens Show
JULY -
15th - Transport Festival
AUGUST -
10th- Lamb Shearing Competition, 25th, 26th & 27th - Honda Goldwing Rally

SEPTEMBER -
1st & 2nd - Gwyl Macs Music Festival (provisional date)
20th - Carmarthenshire Schools X Country Running. 28th-30th- Dyfed Caravan Club

OCTOBER -
7th - Wonderful Welsh Weddings Show. 16th - Welsh Dairy Show
NOVEMBER -
24th & 25th - Towy Antiques Fair

DECEMBER -
1st & 2nd - Christmas Gift and Craft Show