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Robert Dalling

High Street Rising: Everything you need to know about the Swansea music and arts festival

Swansea music and arts festival High Street Rising is returning this weekend, with a host of venues set to put on a series of events to entertain the city over the course of four days.

The festival, which returns after a successful outing last year, will see eight different organisations put on shows and activities from Thursday, July 13, to Sunday, July 16, including MAD, Elysium, Hippos, Jam Jar, Tangled Parrot, Volcano, GS Artists and Swansea Community Workshops.

There's something to suit all tastes and age groups over the course of the event, from live music and art exhibitions to graffiti workshops. Here, we've compiled a schedule of the events that will be taking place over the course of the event to make sure you do not miss out on the bits that interest you the most. All events are free unless stated. You can get more Swansea news by subscribing to our newsletter here

READ MORE: All the food and drink festivals being held in Swansea Bay this year

Thursday, July 13

Volcano - 10am - Exhibition showing - Julie Ann Sheridan: It's The New Thing

MAD - 12pm - Coding with Python taster session. Free career advice drop-in sessions during the day

Elysium - 7pm - The Fiends, Dark and Twisties, John Davies, Honey Rich, poet Peter Thabit Jones with Swansea Fringe

Jam Jar - 7.30pm - Salsa night, including lesson for beginners

Friday, July 14

Volcano - 10am - exhibition showing - Julie Ann Sheridan: It's The New Thing

Swansea Community Workshops - 10am - open day, all welcome - 10am until 4pm - Therapeutic art, 10am until 11am - Stained glass, 1pm until 4pm - Mosaics, 1pm until 4pm - Resin jewellery

MAD - 11am - Coding with Python taster session. Free career advice drop-in sessions during the day

GS Artists - 5pm - Exhibition launch - The Great Big Art Racquet, including arts and crafts sale, raffle and workshops

Elysium - 7pm - Exhibition launches - Ar hyd y Ffordd Ddu/ Along The Black Road and Gwlad Aur/Kultamaa/ Golden Land, 8pm - Live performance from Morriston Orpheus Male Choir

Tangled Parrot - 7.30pm - Live music - Libertino Records presents: Rogue Jones and Pixy Jones (£8 entry)

Hippos - 8pm - Live music- HSR showcase, Mines, Z Machine, Dropping Like Flies

Jam Jar - 8pm - Live music - Billy Lee Williams, piano vocalist

Saturday, July 15

Volcano - 10am - exhibition showing - Julie Ann Sheridan: It's The New Thing

Swansea Community Workshops - 10am - open day, all welcome - 10am until 4pm - Therapeutic art, 10am until 11am - Stained glass, 1pm until 4pm - Mosaics, 1pm until 4pm - Resin jewellery

GS artists - 11am - The Great Big Art Raquet, 11am-1pm - 9 to 90 art club: Create artefacts to take away in paper cord and fabric

Hippos - 2pm - Tundra x Union Sounds x Sequence: Bass In The Garden 2 (tickets from £3)

Elysium - 11am - Summer arts and crafts fair, 7pm - The Felix Subway Band, Taxi Rank, Hippie Jump, Laila Woodward

Tangled Parrot - 7.30pm - Live music: Winger Records presents Po Griff and friends, including Squires Da Gem, Titan Teeth and Brainzaps (£5 entry)

Jam Jar - 8pm - Live music: Rhys John Thomas 'The most electrifying man in Welsh entertainment'

Sunday, July 16

Hippos - 10.30am - Free graffiti workshop for eight to 14 year olds with Fresh Creative

GS Artists - 11am - The great big art racquet, including arts and crafts sale, raffle and workshops

Elysium - 6pm - The Siglo Section Big Band with special guest Kat Rees (£10 tickets)

Jam Jar - 8pm - The famous Jam Jar quiz night

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