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We are honoured and very proud to receive The King’s Award for Voluntary Service @KingsAwardVS today – the King’s Birthday. This is the highest award a local voluntary group can receive in the UK and is equivalent to an MBE and we are one of only 262 local charities, social enterprise and voluntary groups to…
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We are delighted to have recently been chosen from over 9,000 organisations all over the United Kingdom to be part of the Co-op’s Local Community Fund. From now until 21 October 2023, if you are a Co-op member you can choose to raise funds for us. For every £1 members spend on selected Co-op branded products…
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Tickets have today been released for our production of SHREK coming to the Lyric Theatre Carmarthen in February 2023 Half Term. We are staging seven shows – including two matinee performances on the Wednesday and Saturday – this will be great family entertainment and something to look forward to as we head out of the…
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The countdown has begun and it is now one month to our Auditions Weekend! Preparations and planning are well underway and we are looking forward to seeing everyone at the following Auditions: Friday 9th September 2022 Years 12 & 13 and 16 Years and up to the age of 25 (25 as at the date…
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Just a reminder that our two Summer Workshops are taking place on Friday 5th and Saturday 27th August 2022. We have lots of fun activities arranged and everyone who attends will have the chance to learn new skills and find out a bit more about ‘Shrek the Musical’ before auditioning. These workshops are free and…
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SHREK AUDITIONS We are pleased to announce that auditions for our 2023 Show ‘ Shrek the Musical’ will take place over the weekend of 9th to 11th September 2022 at Myrddin School, Carmarthen. On Friday evening 9th September 2022, auditions will be for Years 12, 13 and ages 16 and over up to the age…
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Yesterday Mrs Nancy Butters celebrated her 106th birthday with a birthday card from The Queen and a lovely cake and flowers. Nancy has always been a fantastic supporter of Carmarthen Youth Opera since the early days and was a former committee member. We were delighted Nancy was able to join us back in July 2019 when…
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After many hours of planning, rehearsals and preparations (and masks and LFTs) , the curtain has come down on our final performance of ‘Grease’ . We would like to say a huge thank you to all who have supported us this year – our loyal audiences, Sponsors and Friends, Advertisers, Grant Giving Bodies, Carmarthenshire Theatres,…
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It is now only one month from our opening night of ‘Grease’ at the Lyric Theatre in Carmarthen. The excitement is building and yesterday we tried on our costumes for the first time. There are four performances this year : Thursday 24th February 2022 – evening performance at 7.30 pm Friday 25th February 2022 –…
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Today is a very proud day in the history of Carmarthen and District Youth Opera. Today sees the release in cinemas and on Sky TV of ‘Save the Cinema’  – a film based on our inspirational founder the late Liz Evans’ courageous battle to save the Lyric Theatre in Carmarthen. We know that the film…
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