Join Kate Pawsey for a workshop using writing as an exploratory tool in response to our current exhibition in the gallery.
Kate will offer a way of deepening, widening and opening up your sensations in a wholly subjective way.
She will encourage the use of creative, reflective and expressive words to slow down, to think, feel and sense the ways that these objects are prompting and stimulating us, the viewers.
Kate Pawsey is a writer and founder of Writing Time, a service enabling writers and would-be writers and providing them with the space to explore their writing within a structured and stimulating framework.
She has an MSc in creative writing for therapeutic purposes (CWTP) from the psychotherapy training organisation – Metanoia Institute.
£12.50 per person, including tea and biscuits, +16 booking essential – call the gallery 01267 222775 https://orielmyrddingallery.co.uk
A new collaborative research project between the UK and India led by Aberystwyth University, aims to transform waste streams from the Indian sugarcane industry into a range of valuable new products that can address tooth decay, obesity and diabetes.
BIOREVIEW is a £1.99M Newton Bhabha Fund Industrial Waste Challenge project, a collaboration of scientific research and business from India and the UK in order to create innovative solutions to global challenges.
Dr David Bryant leads BIOREVIEW and the team at the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences.
Dr Bryant said:
“India is the world’s second largest producer of sugar and consumes the largest amount of sugar.
The Indian sugarcane industry generates waste in the form of unwanted residual liquid, known as spent wash, from bioethanol production; and dry pulpy residue left after the extraction of juice from sugar cane, known asbagasse.
We are working together to develop innovative, economically viable, industrial biotechnology processes that will create value added products from this waste.”
It has been predicted that products worth over £12bn could be produced from the spent wash, and that xylitol, a diabetic compatible sweetener that prevents tooth decay, to be produced from bagasse could be worth £1bn by 2025.
Microcrystalline cellulose that has uses in food and pharmaceuticals will also be produced from residual bagasse. Other applications include production of depth filters that can help clean up polluted or contaminated water sources.
The integrated BIOREVIEW bio-refining processes that will be progressed in this project will be developed into a business justification for the Indian sugarcane industry to invest in transforming their waste streams into a range of commercially valuable commodities.
The overall BIOREVIEW vision involves integrating advanced bio-refining processes into Indian sugar mills to result in economic, environmental and societal benefit to both industry and the wider Indian society.
Photo: Dr David Bryant and Dr Sian Davies of the BIOREVIEW team at IBERS
Funded by the BBSRC, EPSRC, Innovate UK, the Newton-Bhabha fund and the Department of Biotechnology India, UK SME partners include Manrochem Ltd and LCA works Ltd, alongside Membranology Ltd and Fre-Energy Ltd from Wales and Gayatri Sugars Ltd, India.
2018 is a year of huge significance for India-UK research and innovation collaboration, marking a decade since the establishment of a dedicated office in India to support a partnership that has grown from <£1M to over £300M, and the launch of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). To celebrate these events, UKRI India is currently leading a campaign called ‘Together for Impact: A Decade of India-UK Research and Innovation Partnership‘.
BIOREVIEW will be using pioneering processes by Welsh based companies developed through the Aberystwyth University led BEACON Biorefining Centre of Excellence in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology and the Biocomposites Centre at Bangor University.
The independent Carmarthenshire-based charity for the 50-plus, Age Cymru Sir Gâr, has achieved more than £1million in welfare benefits for people in the county.
With winter fast approaching older people will be thinking about how to pay their energy bill.
Age Cymru Sir Gâr can help those aged 50-plus check how energy efficient their home is – and install some energy reduction equipment free of charge.
The charity can also check whether you are getting any welfare benefits that you might be entitled to, including any warm home discount.
They will do a welfare benefit health check for all benefits, such as pension credit, attendance allowance, housing benefit, council tax benefit, personal independence payment and more.
The charity has helped Carmarthenshire’s older residents gain more than £1million in the last 12 months in welfare benefits.
The charity is trying to raise awareness of what welfare benefits are available to those age 50+.
Ann Dymock, chief officer of Age Cymru Sir Gâr, said:”One of the most common statements we hear from our clients is – nobody told me I could get this. We want to tell everybody what they might be entitled to and help them get it.”
Young people in Carmarthenshire are being urged to attend an event which will help prepare them for life after school and college.
Around 200 young people and decision makers are expected to attend this year’s Carmarthenshire Youth Conference.
Young people in Carmarthenshire voted ‘A Curriculum to Prepare Us For Life, as their top issue in Carmarthenshire.
The conference, ‘Real learning 4 Real life’, will explore the information, knowledge and skills needed to live independently after education and to prepare them for life after school and college and to live as happy, healthy adults as well as helping them to reach their full potential.
The aim of the conference is to be a soundboard for young people’s views and opinions which can influence the local curriculum and opportunities available to young people.
The event, which is open to all 14 to 23-year-olds, will be held in Parc y Scarlets, on Tuesday, November 13.
It comes as the Youth Council celebrates its 15th birthday.
Steffan Davies, Carmarthenshire Youth Council member, said:
“It’s been really exciting being the conference lead for such an important issue affecting young people.
“We need all schools, youth projects and colleges to attend as it is essential that everyone engages in the conversation from the playground to Government.”
The conference has been organised by Carmarthenshire Youth Council and the county council’s Participation and Children’s Rights team.
There will be workshops, speeches and group discussions which will address the main themes of the conference.
Executive board member responsible for education and children’s services, Cllr Glynog Davies, said: “I look forward to attending this year’s conference and hearing the views of young people in the county. I would encourage as many young people as possible to come along and find out more about the opportunities available to them after leaving school.”
Get involved in the conversation using #LearningSirGar and for information and to book your place visit www.youthsirgar.org.uk/conference
Dr Laura Wright from the University of Cambridge will deliver the third David Trotter Memorial Lecture at Aberystwyth University on Thursday 25 October 2018.
A Reader in English Language, Dr Wright will lecture on ‘A Christmas tradition that you will probably not wish to revive’.
Hosted by the Department of Modern Language, the lecture takes place at the Seddon Room in the Old College and starts at 6pm, with a drinks reception from 5.15pm. All are welcome to attend.
Dr Wright is an expert on the history of the London dialect, including mixed-language code-switching texts written in Anglo-Norman, Medieval Latin and Middle English, as well as the 17th, 18thand 19thcentury London English.
Dr Guy Baron, Head of the Department of Modern Languages at Aberystwyth University, said: “Professor Trotter was an extraordinary academic whose legacy continues today in the form of the Anglo-Norman Dictionary Project that continues to generate large amounts of funding from the AHRC.
“He led the Modern Languages Department for many years and always fought hard for his staff and for the benefit of the department. He was a wise and well respected academic but always had a keen sense of humour that was never lost within the serious confines of academic life.”
Professor David Trotter was a leading international authority on French language and lexicography and head of the Department of Modern Languages at Aberystwyth University.
A former president of the Société de Linguistique Romane(2013-15) and a corresponding member of the Paris-basedAcadémie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Professor Trotter was a recipient of the Prix Honoré Chavéeand a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
He was a graduate of Queen’s College Oxford and was appointed chair of French at Aberystwyth in 1993.
The Scarlets, minus the internationals who link up with Wales, today head to South Africa in readiness for Friday night’s clash, against Southern Kings, as the focus returns to the Guinness PRO14.
After what has been a disappointing opener to the Heineken Champions Cup action, with defeats to both Racing 92 and Leicester Tigers, the Scarlets focus must now return to Guinness PRO14 action and keeping hold of the second place position in Conference B.
The squad travel to South Africa without twelve international players who have been called up to the Wales squad as well as the injured party, which includes James Davies, Aaron Shingler and Tom Prydie.
Centre Kieron Fonotia is also unavailable through suspension.
Looking ahead to Friday night clash against Southern Kings head coach Wayne Pivac said; “It’s going to be a good challenge for the boys that are with us and we wish the international boys well and now we return our focus to PRO14.
“We know that we’re going to have to play well and play with a little bit more possession and territory to make it easier on ourselves.”
The game will be shown live on Premier Sports on Friday 26thOctober, kick-off 19:00 (UK time).
