TENBY Arts Festival is well underway this week, with four full days of music, drama, art and talks to conclude the event.

There's a lunchtime start today (Wednesday) when One Art. an opera/cabaret based on the life of poet Elizabeth Bishop, is presented at Penally Abbey.

The afternoon sees two diverse talks - one, by Jen Jones, in Tenby Library hall, on Welsh quilts and blankets and the other,by Dr Jacqueline Jeynes at Church House, on the Davies sisters, whose collection of Impressionist paintings is one of the glories of the National Museum of Wales.

This evening, there will be a nostalgic performance in St Mary's Church, Tenby - Songs of the Great War by Patricia Hammond and Matt Redmond.

Tomorrow (Thursday), painter Graham Hadlow, gives an afternoon talk and demonstration at Church House. Graham has also donated one of his superb watercolours of Tenby harbour as the festival raffle prize. A talk on wine follows, by George Hancock, while Tenby Male Choir perform at St Mary's in the evening.

Friday's talks are by Professor Tony Curtis on his family in the Great War, while Greg Lewis tells the story of the Welshman Les Spence, who witnessed the horror of the Nagasaki bomb.

The war theme continues in the evening as Fluellen Theatre present Heroes Without a Parachute by Derek Webb, which pays tribute to the airborne pioneers of the First World War.

A Japanese calligraphy workshop for children takes place on Saturday morning in the library hall, with talented sibling musicians Siriol and Talfan Jenkins performing in St Mary's in the afternoon.

The festival's grand finale sees Swansea City Opera presenting A Viennese Whirl -an evening of romantic music from the home of the Srauss family - at the De Valence Pavilion.

For more information, see tenbyartsfest.co.uk