Performance as Protest: A Double Bill

About the show

This event is part of ‘The Art of Protest’ – A full day of events in commemoration of the end of the 84-85 Miners’ Strike.

Patrick Jones
2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the publishing of Tredegar born poet Patrick Jones’s first anthology. In this session to mark another important anniversary, Patrick will read from his collected works, with poems exploring grief, loss, trauma, healing and recovery, Israel’s war on Gaza, the cost of living inequality and transformation.

“Thoughtful, provocative & challenging, these poems engage and enrage”. – Peter Tatchell

Wynford Jones & Geoff Cripps
The Miners’ Strike cut a savage swathe through the fabric of Welsh life: a year-long battle against pit closures documented by Welsh folk supergroup The Chartists and their epoch-defining album Cause For Complaint.

Here the two remaining performing members of The Chartists – songwriter Wynford Jones and multi-instrumentalist Geoff Cripps come together for a performance featuring a combination of brilliant lyrics, virtuoso playing and songs you’ll be humming all the way home.