Additional Festival Highlights ~
Opening Festivities ~ Tea Room ~ Marketplace ~ Silent Auction ~ Say Something in Welsh ~
Late Night Singing ~ Affiliated Organizations Welsh Round Table ~ 1st Time Attendees Gathering ~
Bi-lingual Worship Service and more.
Finish every memorable evening singing Welsh hymns and old favorites. Thursday-Sunday join in the late night INFORMAL SINGING for a traditional Welsh singalong and participate in merry making in a casual setting. Each follows scheduled evening events.
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Open daily are the TEA ROOM, offering Welsh tea and Welsh cakes and an opportunity to socialize with friends new and old, and the MARKETPLACE. Vendors from Wales and across North America selling Welsh and other Celtic items: clothing, jewelry, trinkets, music, books, tours, educational packages and a genealogy corner to provide helpful advice in researching your Welsh roots. If you are a vendor, reserve a table in the marketplace.
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Silent Auction ~ Donation form
An annual highlight of the festival is the SILENT AUCTION. If you have a “like new” Welsh item (or maybe an antique) and want to find a good home for it, consider donating it to the NAFOW silent auction. Consider items that will fit in someone’s suitcase for the journey home. Popular auction items are books, household décor, framed art, Welsh woolens and more. Estimated value of each item should be at least $10.00. Be sure to read the donation form carefully and fill out a separate form for each donated item that you bring to the festival.
If you bid on an item at NAFOW, be sure to check back from time to time. Enthusiasm for some items grows, and the competition can get fierce! Watch for the date and time bidding ends, and be sure to check back at the appointed time to collect your winnings! The Welsh North American Association benefits greatly from the proceeds from the silent auction.
An annual highlight of the festival is the SILENT AUCTION. If you have a “like new” Welsh item (or maybe an antique) and want to find a good home for it, consider donating it to the NAFOW silent auction. Consider items that will fit in someone’s suitcase for the journey home. Popular auction items are books, household décor, framed art, Welsh woolens and more. Estimated value of each item should be at least $10.00. Be sure to read the donation form carefully and fill out a separate form for each donated item that you bring to the festival.
If you bid on an item at NAFOW, be sure to check back from time to time. Enthusiasm for some items grows, and the competition can get fierce! Watch for the date and time bidding ends, and be sure to check back at the appointed time to collect your winnings! The Welsh North American Association benefits greatly from the proceeds from the silent auction.
First Time Attendees Gathering
If this is your first time at a North American Festival of Wales (NAFOW), please come to the first-time attendees gathering! Members of the Welsh North American Association (WNAA) board will be on hand to greet you and answer any questions. Complementary coffee and muffins will be served.
Sponsored by the Welsh North American Association
If this is your first time at a North American Festival of Wales (NAFOW), please come to the first-time attendees gathering! Members of the Welsh North American Association (WNAA) board will be on hand to greet you and answer any questions. Complementary coffee and muffins will be served.
Sponsored by the Welsh North American Association
Affiliated Welsh Organization Round Table ~ This annual meeting is your opportunity to meet and share ideas with representatives from other Welsh organizations.
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Say Something in Welsh Meet-up ~ Do you speak Welsh or want to learn yr hen iaith? Speakers and learners of all levels of Welsh are welcome to stop by and say “sut mae!” We will also host an informal Welsh chat sessions for learners and speakers of any level. Say Something in Welsh offers an online course that focuses entirely on speaking and includes a free trial period. See Schedule at a Glance for times
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Created from the belief that language acquisition is a natural process at which anyone can succeed, it has no reading or writing components. Rather, through built-in revision, each lesson builds and expands on the spoken language skills taught in the previous lessons. Northern and southern dialect versions available! Use it online or download it to your favorite device, and make sure to spend time on the friendly forum where learners can get help and encouragement from each other: www.saysomethinginwelsh.com.
Friday Pub Night
An evening of well known Welsh songs designed to get you singing along! Hogia’r Penrhyn is a small group of Côr y Penrhyn singers formed especially for this year's festival. Some of the songs will demand some physical energy from the listeners, but most of all bring your voice! The repertoire will include established popular Welsh songs like Lleucu Llwyd and Ysbryd y Nos, some Rugby anthems - Sosban Fach and well known Welsh melody's and hymns. We hope to see you there and let's raise the roof, it's not every day you get the opportunity to join in with a live Cor-aoke!!
An evening of well known Welsh songs designed to get you singing along! Hogia’r Penrhyn is a small group of Côr y Penrhyn singers formed especially for this year's festival. Some of the songs will demand some physical energy from the listeners, but most of all bring your voice! The repertoire will include established popular Welsh songs like Lleucu Llwyd and Ysbryd y Nos, some Rugby anthems - Sosban Fach and well known Welsh melody's and hymns. We hope to see you there and let's raise the roof, it's not every day you get the opportunity to join in with a live Cor-aoke!!
Thursday-Saturday Late Night Singing
Late night INFORMAL SINGING to finish every memorable evening singing Welsh hymns and old favorites following scheduled evening events.
Sunday Noson Lawen
Join in for a relaxed evening to end the weekend's festivities. We will sing folk songs and enjoy short, open-mic performances by festival attendees.
Late night INFORMAL SINGING to finish every memorable evening singing Welsh hymns and old favorites following scheduled evening events.
Sunday Noson Lawen
Join in for a relaxed evening to end the weekend's festivities. We will sing folk songs and enjoy short, open-mic performances by festival attendees.
Sunday Worship Service
No NAFOW pass is required to attend the Sunday Worship service, all are welcome.
A traditional church service in English and Welsh, which includes the reading of the roll of departed members and placing of memorial roses in the vases on the altar.
No NAFOW pass is required to attend the Sunday Worship service, all are welcome.
A traditional church service in English and Welsh, which includes the reading of the roll of departed members and placing of memorial roses in the vases on the altar.