THURSDAY September 3, 2026

  8:30am – 5:30pm ~ Registration Desk & Banquet Table Assignment Open

  8:15 am – 4:30pm ~ Tour: Historic Connecticut

  8:45 am - 2:30pm ~ Tour: Norman Rockwell Museum & Stockbridge

  9:00am - 5:00pm ~ Exhibit: Witch Panic! Massachusetts Before Salem 

10:00am - 12:00pm ~ Walking Tour: Historic Springfield

12:00pm  -  5:00pm ~ Marketplace & Tea Room

12:00pm -   5:00pm ~ Silent Auction bidding starts (closes Saturday at 12pm)

  1:00pm - 2:00pm ~ Seminar: The Welsh in New England; Tales from Y Drych

  2:30pm - 3:30pm ~ Seminar: The Madoc Myth & the Welsh Founding Fathers

  3:00pm - 5:00pm ~ Walking Tour: Historic Springfield

  4:00pm - 5:00pm ~ Meet the Parsons: Witchcraft in Early Springfield

  4:00pm - 5:00pm ~ Hiraeth in Springfield - A reading from Pamela Petro’s memoir, The Long Field, 

  6:30pm - 8:30pm ~ Concert ~ Folk Night

  9:00 pm - Informal Singing

 FRIDAY September 4, 2026

  8:30am - 6:00pm ~ Registration Desk & Banquet Table Assignment Open

  8:00am - 9:00am  ~ 1st Time Attendees Welcome

 9:00am - 5:00pm ~ Exhibit: Witch Panic! Massachusetts Before Salem

  9:00am - 5:00pm ~ Marketplace & Tea Room

  9:00am - 10:00am ~ Seminar: Cymru-Ein Llais/Wales-Our Voice

  9:00am - 10:00am ~ Seminar: The House of Yale

  9:00 am - 10:00am ~ Seminar: Welsh Roots in Pennsylvania 

10:00am -  10:30am ~ Coffee Talk: Investments and Legacies ~ David Allen

10:30am -  11:30am ~ Seminar: Keeping the World Away: Gwen John

10:30am -  11:30am ~ Seminar: Exploring Welsh Colonists in Springfield

10:30am -  11:30am ~ Seminar: Welsh Language I

10:30am -  11:30am ~ Performance: Songs With and Without Words

12:00pm - 12:30pm ~ Slate Splitting Demonstration

12:30pm -  1:00pm ~  Cinema Wales: Counting Butterflies 

12:30pm -  1:30pm ~ Seminar: Meet the Parsons: Witchcraft in Early Springfield

12:30pm -  1:30pm ~ Seminar: Symffoni i'r Mor Mawr    

12:30pm - 1:30pm ~ Seminar: Stories of Slate, People and Place         

 1:00pm - 3:00pm ~ Cinema Wales: Mr Burton

  2:00pm - 3:00pm ~ Panel: Using Innovation to Bring Culture Alive

  3:00pm - 3:30pm ~ Cinema Wales: Welsh Communities in the USA  

  3:00pm - 4:00pm ~ Seminar:  Ysgol Gan  

  3:30pm - 4:30pm ~ Cinema Wales: Who Do You Think You are ~ Greg Davies

 3:30pm - 4:30pm ~ Seminar: The Welsh in New England: Tales from Y Drych

  3:30pm - 4:30pm ~ Seminar: The Slate Quarry Immigrant in the 19th Century

  3:30pm - 4:30pm ~ Seminar: Mary Lloyd Jones 

  4:30pm - 5:30pm ~ Anglesey Roots Networking Session 

  5:00pm – 6:00pm ~ Welsh Language Meetup

  5:00pm – 6:00pm ~  PA Meeting                           

  6:00pm - 7:00pm ~  Pre-Banquet Social Hour                           

  7:00pm - 10:00pm ~ Heritage Award Banquet ~ soloist Caleb Nicholas ~ honoring Philip Davies *

                                      Attire is semi-formal, reserved seating is necessary [ menu ]

  9:00pm - 11:00pm ~ Pub Night with Festival performers and attendees

10:00 pm -12:00am ~ Informal Singing                        

  SATURDAY September 5, 2026                        

  8:00am - 9:00am ~ Welsh Soc Western New England member meet-up. Prospective members welcome 

 9:00am - 4:30pm ~ Registration Desk Open                            

  9:00am - 5:00pm ~ Marketplace & Tea Room     

  9:00am - 5:00pm ~   Exhibit:   Witch Panic! Massachusetts Before Salem    

  9:00am - 10:30am ~ Seminar:Stories of Slate, People and Place

  9:00am - 10:00am ~ Seminar: Between Two Worlds, a Poetry Reading

  9:00am - 10:00am ~ Seminar: Weavers, Soldiers, Scamps and Thieves

 10:00am - 11:00am ~ Tearoom: Live Celtic harp music

 10:30am - 11:30am ~ Seminar: The Madoc Myth & the Welsh Founding Fathers

 10:30am - 11:30am ~ Performance: Plygain -- A True Welsh Caroling Tradition            

 10:30am -  11:30am ~ Seminar: Welsh Language II                

                    12:00pm ~ Silent Auction bidding ends

 12:00pm ~ 12:30pm ~ Slate Splitting Demonstration

 11:30am -  12:15pm ~ Scholarships & Grants for Study in Wales

 12:00pm - 12:30pm ~ Eisteddfod Competition ~ Welsh Language Recitation      

 12:30pm -  1:00pm ~ Eisteddfod Competition ~ English Language Recitation             

 12:30pm -  1:00pm ~ Cinema Wales:  Counting Butterflies         

 12:30pm -  1:30pm ~ Seminar: Amgueddfa Cymru~Gwen John

 12:30pm -  1:30pm ~ Seminar: Workshop ~ Preserving the Welsh Heritage of North America

 12:30pm - 1:30pm ~ Seminar: Folk Dancing

 12:30pm -  1:30pm ~ Seminar: Dafydd awenydd wiwnwyf:  Dafydd ap Gwilym, Poet of Fine Desire   

 1:00pm - 3:00pm ~ Cinema Wales: Mr Burton

  1:00pm -  1:45pm ~ Eisteddfod Competition ~ Hymn Singing (solo)    

  1:45pm - 2:30pm ~ Eisteddfod Competition ~Solo Voice/Semi-Professional (Welsh North American Prize)         

  2:00pm - 3:00pm ~ Seminar: National Library of Wales

  2:00pm - 3:00pm ~ Seminar: Forty Three Years of Cynefin 

  2:00pm - 3:00pm ~ Seminar: Exploring Welsh Colonists in Springfield

  2:30pm - 3:30pm ~ Celtic Harp Music in the Tearoom

  3:00pm - 3:30pm ~ Cinema Wales: Welsh Communities in the USA     

                        3:00pm ~ Silent Auction winners announced

3:30pm - 4:30pm ~ Cinema Wales: Who Do You Think You are ~ Greg Davies

  3:30pm - 4:30pm ~ Seminar: House of Yale

3:30 pm - 4:30pm ~ Seminar: The Slate Quarryman Immigrant of the 19th Century    

  3:00pm - 5:00pm ~ Silent Auction items available for pickup at Registration Desk 

  4:00pm - 5:00pm ~ Eisteddfod Winners Concert     

  4:30pm - 5:30pm ~ Sesiwn Sgwrsio Undeb Cymru a’r Byd

  4:30pm -5:30pm ~ WSWNewEngland's Genealogy Group - meet in the MVP bar in the hotel

   5:30pm - 6:30pm ~ Pre-Concert Dinner [ menu ]     

   7:00pm - 9:30pm ~ Voices of Wales * Off site at Symphony Hall

 10:00pm -12:00am ~ Informal Singing      

SUNDAY September 6, 2026

  9:00am - 10:00am ~ WNAA Annual General Meeting

  9:00am - 12:00pm ~ Marketplace  

 10:30am - 11:30pm ~ Worship Service, in English & Welsh      

  1:00pm - 1:45pm ~ Celtic harp music before Gymanfa    

  2:00pm - 3:30pm ~ Gymanfa Ganu Session I ~ offsite at Trinity United Methodist Church

                                 ~ directed by Tim Rhys Evans, accompanist, David Enlow

  3:30pm - 4:30pm ~ Complimentary Afternoon Tea 

  4:30pm - 6:00pm ~ Gymanfa Ganu Session II ~ held at Trinity United Methodist Church

                                     Closing Ceremony (at the conclusion of the Gymanfa)

  6:30pm - 7:30pm ~ Sunday Evening Meal ~ [ menu ]

  8:00pm - 10:00pm ~ Noson Lawen, sing folk songs and enjoy short, open-mic with

                                       Festival performers and attendees.