Cegin Productions, under the direction of Roland Melia, handles the artistic output of Welsh poet Richard Douglas Pennant. In this context it also manages an on going series of performances of poetry and music, focusing on Welsh poets, in several venues in Wales. It has also promoted performances of poetry and music across Europe and China.
Cegin has cooperated with the Global Music Foundation in its delivery of seminars dedicated to improvised music in Jazz and arts festivals around the world.
It has promoted performances of Jazz and poetry at Pizza Express in Dean st. , the Pheasantry in Kings Rd and the Shoe Factory in Nicosia in collaboration with Global Music Foundation and Pharos Arts Foundation. Jazz artists that Cegin has promoted to date include Deborah Brown, Tina May, Charles MacPherson, Peter King, Bruce Barth, Garrison Fewell and Edward Simon.
Cegin also takes part in the production of sound and dvd recordings of poetry and music. It has produced a DVD of jazz vocalist Tina May with the Frank Harrison trio filmed at Pizza Express , Dean st, London and a CD, Open Secrets featuring Scottish traditional singer Alyth McCormack and the Frank Harrison trio.
In 2010, Cegin co-produced with Living Pictures Productions a performance of Miss Julie directed by Robert Bowman that played in venues around Wales and, again with Living Pictures, in 2011 co-produced Diary of a Madman by Gogol .
In August 2010 Cegin launched an award for New Poetry which was one by Carrie Etter for her book Tethers. In 2011 it sponsored the Troubadour International Poetry Prize and is currently promoting a series of evenings of poetry and music at the Troubadour Club in South West London led by Perrier Prize winning word artist Stuart Silver.
