Each summer, there’s an important event in the Welsh cultural calendar: the National Eisteddfod.
An estimated 150,000 visitors are heading to Llanelli in Carmarthenshire over the course of the week for one of Europe’s largest and oldest cultural festivals. Held in a different location in Wales each year, the festival hosts a plethora of music, dance, visual arts and cultural competitions.
Many Welsh people, and not just Welsh speakers, will have been attending Eisteddfodau for years, whether to the main site to catch some of the competitors or Maes B, the Eisteddfod’s corresponding Welsh-language music festival.
Not only would we like to see your submissions from this year’s festivities, whether it be pictures or videos, we’d also like to hear what the National Eisteddfod means to you, whether you attend as a visitor or as a competitor. Did an event at a past Eisteddfod particularly affect you? Does it chime with your thoughts on Welsh heritage? How important is the Eisteddfod to Wales?
You are more than welcome to submit something in Welsh – but we will need to translate it for the website.
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