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The National Eisteddfod attracts up to 170,000 visitors every year and is a week-long, moveable feast of Welsh culture that travels the mountains and valleys of Wales and is the largest cultural festival in Europe.
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OUR Morning Star, or Seren y Bore in Welsh, is back on the Maes at Wales’s National Eisteddfod in the centre of Pontypridd in the south Wales valleys from today for a week.
By the way, the Maes is what the festival site is called in Welsh.
The National Eisteddfod attracts up to 170,000 visitors every year and is a week-long, moveable feast of Welsh culture that travels the mountains and valleys of Wales and is the largest cultural festival in Europe.
TUC Cymru events on the Maes:
• August 6, 3.30pm in Societies Tent 2 — Artificial Intelligence: a dream or a nightmare for workers and the Welsh language? Panelists include Manon Eames (Writers Guild) and Cate Correia Hopkins (Cardiff Uni’s Data Justice Lab);
• August 8, 2.30pm in Societies Tent 2 — Sexual harassment and the workplace: how we can make safe, fair and enjoyable workplaces for all? Panelists include Nerys Evans (Deryn) and Fflur Jones (Darwin Gray);
• August 9, 12 noon in Maes D — Trade unions, Fair Work and the Welsh language. How can trade unions promote and protect workers’ rights to use Welsh at work? Panelists include Efa Gruffydd Jones (Welsh Language Commissioner) and historian and NUJ member Meic Birtwhistle.
Morning Star events:
August 7, 4-6pm Stop the War Cymru/Morning Star meeting for peace in Gaza. Club y Bont, 85A Taff Street, Pontypridd CF37 4SL.
August 8, 6.30-8.30pm Gareth Miles appreciation. Storyville Books, 8 Mill Street, Pontypridd, CF37 2SN.
August 9, 4-6pm Cymru Cuba event with the Cuban ambassador. Club y Bont, 85A Taff Street, Pontypridd CF37 4SL.
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