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ALUN PUGH APPOINTS FIVE NEW MEMBERS
TO THE ARTS COUNCIL OF WALES
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Minister for Culture, Welsh Language and Sport, Alun Pugh today [31 July 2006] announced the appointment of Ms Maggie Hampton, Mr Robin Morrison, Dr Ian Rees, Mr Clive Sefia and Miss Deborah Wilcox as the new Council Members of the Arts Council of Wales, following a rigorous public appointments exercise.
They begin their appointment from 31st July 2006, with their first official Council meeting on 15th September 2006.
Announcing the appointment, Culture Minister Alun Pugh said: “The quality and range of applicants we received for these appointments was very strong. I am delighted to be able to appoint the five new members, whose skills and expertise will help to achieve the aim that all communities in Wales are able to benefit from and have access to the arts.”
Professor Dai Smith, Chair of the Arts Council of Wales, said: "We are delighted that with these new appointments we are able to refresh the Council and bring its numbers up to full strength. They are members who individually and collectively will offer a great deal to the arts in Wales. We look forward to greeting them officially as Council Members at our Council meeting in September."
The biographies of the new Council Members are as follows:
Maggie Hampton
Maggie Hampton is Director of Disability Arts Cymru. Her career in the arts began over 20 years ago in London as an actor-teacher with Interim Deaf Children's Theatre, then with Graeae's Theatre in Education Company, where she co-ordinated the TIE programme for several years. Maggie has always worked with and for disabled and deaf people and has organised and led an extensive range of projects across the UK. She has been actively involved in the Disability Arts Movement since the 1980s and has been a board member of Cardiff and Vale Coalition of Disabled people, Disability Wales, and Rhondda Cynon Taff Coalition of Disabled People.
Maggie Hampton lives in Rhondda Cynon Taff and has two grown-up children.
Dr Ian J Rees
Dr Ian Rees has been Principal and Chief Executive of Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor since 1997. Before that he was Headteacher of Ysgol y Moelwyn, Blaenau Ffestiniog. He was educated at Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera and University of Wales, Aberystwyth where he gained an honours degree and a doctorate in Physics.
Dr Rees is a Director of Careers Wales – North West and until recently, was a Director of Canolfan Iaith a Threftadaeth Nant Gwrtheyrn, fforwm and a member of ELWa’s Mid Wales Regional Committee.
He has been involved in choral music from an early age and has sung with the Morriston Tabernacle Choir and the Swansea Bach Choir and since 1994 has been the Chair of Côr Eifionydd.
Dr Rees lives in Cricieth with his wife and three children.
Clive Sefia
Clive Sefia is Director of the Black Voluntary Sector Network Wales (BVSNW). He has over 25 year’s experience of working in the voluntary sector at different levels, including as Director of KUUMBA Arts and Community Resource Centre in Bristol and before that as Director of Stockport’s Council of Voluntary Service. Mr Sefia has wide experience in the fields of social inclusion and social justice and is a passionate believer in using arts to further these agendas.
Debbie Wilcock
Debbie Wilcock has been Head of Drama and Media Studies at Hawthorn High School in Pontypridd since 1995. She holds the degrees of Bachelor of Education from London University and an MA from the University of Wales. She started her teaching career in London and has taught in Nantyglo and Newport, specialising in drama, before moving to her current school in Pontypridd in 1994.
Debbie Wilcock is an elected member of Newport City Council, a School Governor of Duffryn High School and Maerglas Primary School and a Governor of Coleg Harlech. She also hosts her own Radio Show on GTFM.
Robin Morrison
Robin Morrison has been Chief Executive of Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council since 2002. He qualified as a Civil Engineer and has worked in a number of local authorities in the West Midlands before moving to Blaenau Gwent as Director of Community Services on local government reorganisation in 1995.
Robin Morrison is interested in regeneration, developing communities and improving service delivery. He is active in amateur dramatics – he is vice chair of the Abergavenny Light Opera Company- and is Past President of Crickhowell Rotary Club.
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