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Swansea is gearing up for two weeks of entertainment as the Dylan Thomas Fringe Festival starts. Swansea is gearing up for two weeks of words, music and street entertainment to celebrate its most famous son.
The annual event will launch with the unveiling of a new mural of Dylan Thomas by local artist Mark Hughes. The city's Dylan Thomas Festival, from 26 October to 9 November, is marking its 12th year.
The festival, which runs until 8 November, will incorporate music, theatre, dance, film, comedy, visual arts and poetry at city-wide venues. The event includes the entertainment-based Fringe Festival at Swansea Metropolitan University and another based at Thomas's restored family home.
Names include impressionist and actor Alistair McGowan, actress Lesley Joseph and singer Amy Wadge. This year's festival is dedicated to Aeronwy Thomas Ellis, his daughter, who died, aged 66, in July.
The festival was launched in 2005 to showcase up and coming talent in the performing arts from south west Wales as well as acts from further afield. The fortnight focuses not only on Thomas's work, but that of his friends, contemporaries and those inspired by him.
As well as poetry evenings, theatrical shows and musical performances, the Fringe will begin with the unveiling of a spray paint artist Mark Hughes's specially commissioned work. Contributors include the poet Dannie Abse, who attended one of Thomas's last UK readings, and former Catatonia front-woman Cerys Matthews.
Famous son It includes a play by Gwynne Edwards looking at the life of Richard Burton, who asked to be buried with a copy of Thomas' Collected Poems, which won a four-star review at the Edinburgh Fringe.
It is an interpretation of Dylan Thomas - one of Swansea's most famous sons and festival namesake - created in a contemporary artistic form. It also includes the posthumous launch of Aeronwy Thomas Ellis's long-anticipated memoir My Father's Places, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.
This year, the fringe festival has formed a partnership with Swansea Metropolitan University following the success of their involvement last year. Aeronwy Thomas Ellis championed her father's work throughout her life
Among the performances are Alistair McGowan at the Grand Theatre on 5 November, The Vagina Monologues, staring Lesley Joseph and Lisa Riley, at the Grand Theatre on 2 November, and comedians Craig Campbell and Geoff Whiting at Swansea Met's Townhill campus on 27 October. The annual lecture by Thomas scholar and Swansea poet John Goodby focuses on the poem In Country Sleep which Thomas wrote for his daughter.
Amy Wadge will also appear at The Chattery in Swansea on 31 October. The fringe festival, which runs until 8 November, was launched in 2005 to showcase up and coming talent in the performing arts from south west Wales as well as acts from further afield.
Mr Hughes's mural will be unveiled at Noah's Yard and The Uplands Tavern, Swansea, at 1800 BST on Saturday. Some of the acts appearing throughout the festival will also be at the launch to perform 15-minute appetisers of their sets. Street party
This year's event began with the unveiling on Saturday of spray paint artist Mark Hughes' specially commissioned work.
Among the performances are Alistair McGowan at the Grand Theatre on 5 November, The Vagina Monologues, starring Lesley Joseph and Lisa Riley, at the Grand Theatre on 2 November, and comedians Craig Campbell and Geoff Whiting at Swansea Met's Townhill campus on 27 October.
Dylan Down the Ups is based around 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, in the Uplands area of the city, where Thomas was born.
The event began on Sunday with a mass gathering in Cwmdonkin Park - across the road from the house - of people called Dylan in a bid to set a Guinness world record.
A street party is held in the Uplands on Tuesday, the 95th anniversary of Thomas's birth.