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Arguably Europe's largest youth festival, [1] it is usually held during the last week of May, coinciding with schools' half term holiday. Locations alternate between north and south Wales. [1] The Eisteddfod consists of competitive singing, recitation, art, composition, dance and instrumental events for contestants aged between 7 and 24 years ...
An advertisement for the Grand National Eisteddfod at Caernarvon, 1877. The National Museum of Wales says that "the history of the Eisteddfod may [be] traced back to a bardic competition held by the Lord Rhys in Cardigan Castle in 1176", [4] and local Eisteddfodau were certainly held for many years prior to the first national Eisteddfod.
In Welsh culture, an eisteddfod [a] is an institution and festival with several ranked competitions, including in poetry and music. [2]: xvi The term eisteddfod, which is formed from the Welsh morphemes: eistedd, meaning 'sit', and fod, meaning 'be', [3] means, according to Hywel Teifi Edwards, "sitting-together."
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The company won the UK Theatre Award 2024 for Excellence in Touring [1] and was nominated as Producer of the Year in The Stage Awards 2024. [ 2 ] It has a large presence at the National Eisteddfod of Wales annually, usually presenting new plays.
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According to the Introduction of the Transactions of the Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales, Liverpool, 1884: "The records thus furnished, take us back to a time of Prydain ab Aedd Mawr, who is said to have lived about a thousand years before the Christian era, and who established the Gorsedd as an institution to perpetuate the works of the poets and musicians.