Talk:National Eisteddfod of Wales

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[edit] Location

If the location "is proclaimed a year in advance", how is it possible that the venue for 2008 (Cardiff) is already listed on the page? --Casper Gutman 10:12, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Fair question. In fact, the locations are known a lot further ahead than that, because it takes a lot longer than a year to organise. But the official proclamation is different from knowing where it's going to be. The official proclamation is a Gorsedd ceremony: at a stone circle, with horns and flower dances and flowing robes and and a banner and "A oes heddwch?" (is there peace?). After this ceremony the texts for the competitions become available. That's what the "proclaimed a year in advance" refers to.

But to get that far, there has already been lots of organising: those texts had to be set and approved, for example. On the Eisteddfod website at the moment (writing in 2006) are details planning the 2008 one: they want all their texts done by January 2007. There's also fund-raising (the local community must provide a proportion of the running costs, and it's a good idea to start early), finalising the site, inviting judges, commissioning the making of the prizes, and, really, anything that takes more than a year to organise has already long started.

Telsa (talk) 14:06, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Diolch! I suspected it'd be something similar but thought the current page vaguely confusing. Maybe someone with more knowledge than me will clarify it some time. --Casper Gutman 23:20, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

There you go, a bit more in the article now. Hope it's better. If not, feel free to fix :) Telsa (talk) 17:37, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Just rating this for the Wales project... I suggest it should be high importance, but is just a start class at the moment. --Cynnydd 11:22, 31 January 2007 (UTC)