Concerned cultural bodies are pressing Swansea Council to say whether time has set its maggot on their track regarding the waterfront home of an exhibition celebrating the city’s most famous literary son.
The elusive non-response elicted from a spokesman talks of an "intention to create a 21st Century hub of culture, academia and business at the Dylan Thomas Centre while saving Swansea taxpayers hundreds of thousands of pounds in the long-term."
Translation: We plan to sell it off to the local university, boyo.
It is sadly typical that, when the rest of Wales and the UK is marking tourism week in recognition of the huge contribution the industry makes to local economies, Swansea’s short-sighted and artistically challenged cabinet is seriously considering dismantling one of the city’s few visitor attractions which is capable of sustaining international appeal. Indeed, a more astute local authority would be looking to see how this factor could be properly exploited when 2014 comes around – which is the 100th anniversary of the poet’s birth.
But in Swansea, as the great man once said, the function of posterity is to look after itself – simply because council isn’t up to it.
*The hand that signed the paper – Dylan Thomas 1914-1953
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Duw, there's cultural.
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