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Tower Ballroom Project/Vintage Dance

Material relating to Jazz Heritage Wales's Tower Ballroom Project, which involved the collection of local people's reminiscences, anecdotes, photographs, etc about the Tower Ballroom, Swansea, these to be used in exhibitions at both Jazz Heritage Wales and the Phoenix Centre, Swansea. Together with material relating to performances by the Women in Jazz Allstars Swing Band at a Vintage Dance held 23 March 2012 at Townhill Community Centre, Swansea as part of the Tower Ballroom Project.

University College of Wales, Swansea research seminar

Notice of paper titled Gender Issues and Women's Music, to be presented by Jen Wilson at a research seminar held at University College of Wales, Swansea's Department of Adult Continuing Education, 28 January [?1993]; together with text relating to women's rôle in music and reference to a talk by Dr Roberta Lamb titled Music, Gender and Education, to be given at Bristol University, 27 March 1993.

Voluntary Arts Wales conference

Conference schedule and correspondence relating to the Celfyddydau Gwirfoddol Cymru/Voluntary Arts Wales conference titled Yn Llawn Haeddu'r Sylw/Worth Making A Song And Dance About, held at Craig y Nos Castle in the Swansea Valley, 2-3 November 2002, at which Jen Wilson provided musical entertainment. While there is a possibility that she may have attended the remainder of the conference as a delegate, there is no definite evidence that Jen Wilson gave a talk during the event.

Women in Jazz 20th Anniversary events

Material relating to events held to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Women's Jazz Archive/Women in Jazz, highlighted by a gala evening at Swansea's Dylan Thomas Centre featuring Women in Jazz patron Dame Cleo Laine, which also included a performance of Before Freedom; together with material relating to funding for the anniversary events. The gala evening coincided with events to mark Black History Month in October 2006.

Workshops for women in swing band, jazz and blues

Material relating to a series of Jazz Heritage Wales/Women in Jazz-run workshops for women musicians and vocalists held at Swansea Metropolitan University's Townhill campus, September 2009 to August 2010, with a view to forming a new swing band; together with material relating to subsequent performances given by the band (known as the Allstars Swing Band) at the 1911 Llanelli Railway Strike Gala Concert, held at Theatr Elli, Llanelli, 7 October 2011, and at a Charity World Music Night held at the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, 14 October 2011.

Year of Literature 1995

Material relating to events surrounding 1995's Year of Literature and in particular the involvement of Women in Jazz , including proposals, aims and objectives and mission statement; funding applications and responses; press release; correspondence; and press cuttings. Jen Wilson was appointed a member of the 1995 Year of Literature General Advisory Group. Together with material relating to double bassist Paula Gardiner, pianist Stan Tracey and trumpeter Cris Haines, who were each commissioned by Swansea University's Department of Adult Continuing Education to compose new works to celebrate the Year of Literature.

Although this was a British-wide celebration of literature and the arts, Swansea's successful bid to host the Arts Council's Year of Literature in 1995 meant that the majority of events were held in and around that city.

Hanes lleol

Papurau yn ymwneud ag ymchwil ar hanes lleol, [1919]-1970, gan gynnwys nodiadau amrywiol ar bynciau a phobl lleol; cerdyn â darlun o dad Ceri Richards arno; nodiadau a llythyr ar y Parch. Isaac Williams; nodiadau ar academi Crwys; nodiadau ar gyfer anerchiad ar hen lyfr eglwys Cilfwnwr (nid yn llaw y Dr Iorwerth Hughes Jones); rhaglen cyfarfodydd sefydlu yn Eglwys Annibynnol y Crwys; llyfr nodiadau ar wahanol gapeli yn cynnwys Ebeneser, Dunvant, yn llaw y Parch. W. Glasnant Jones o bosibl; pennill traddodiadol ar Gastell Ystumllwynarth; nodiadau ar y teulu Mansel; nodiadau ar Cila a'r enw Cila; llun o deulu Lewis, Cila; nodiadau ar Wernllath; nodiadau ar, a lluniau o, Gellihir; cynllun o Gellihir; bwndel o achau teulu; hanes y diwidiant copr yn Abertawe; erthygl papur newydd ar hanes Abertawe wedi'i hysgrifennu gan y Dr Iorwerth Hughes Jones; llyfrau nodiadau, un â nodiadau wedi eu cymryd o lyfr R. Rees, hen ysgolfeistr y Crwys ac un ar hanes achos yr Annibynnwyr yn y Crwys; lluniau o Ysgol John Evans y Crwys; amlenni yn cynnwys lluniau a nodiadau ar, a gan, R. Lewis John; lluniau o Sgwd Gwladys; a thorion papur newydd yn ymwneud â hanes lleol.

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