Women Creatives: Wales to the World
Concert & Conversation
Thursday, October 15, 2026 | 7:00–8:00 p.m.
Texas Theatre — Downstairs | Dallas, Texas
Admission: FREE
Pointeworks makes its Dallas debut as part of Women Creatives: Wales to the World, a special concert and conversation presented by the Welsh Government in association with Hay Festival Forum Dallas 2026.
The evening offers an intimate look behind the scenes of Symffoni’r Môr Mawr – A Transatlantic Symphony, a new musical gift from Wales to the United States created by award-winning Welsh composer and Pointeworks Resident Composer Katie Jenkins in celebration of the 250th anniversary of American independence.
Pointeworks will perform Chasing Shadows, choreographed by Laine Habony to music by Katie Jenkins. The performance will feature dancers Nicole Von Enck, Kate Inoue, and Pointeworks Founder and Artistic Director Sophie Williams.
The program will also feature a live performance of Weaving Home, a movement from A Transatlantic Symphony incorporating words by Hanan Issa, National Poet of Wales, as well as an exclusive screening of a film documenting the international collaboration behind the symphony.
Following the performances, Sophie Williams will join Katie Jenkins; Shira Samuels-Shragg, Assistant Conductor of the Dallas Symphony; Nicole Von Enck, Principal Dancer at Texas Ballet Theater; Scarlett Jones, Welsh soprano and Houston Grand Opera artist; and Esther Rothwell, cellist with the Dallas Opera Orchestra, for a panel moderated by Charlotte Thomas, Deputy Head of North America for the Welsh Government.
The conversation will explore creating across borders, the role of women in shaping today’s cultural landscape, the power of collaboration between Wales and America, and how Welsh artists are carrying the nation’s distinctive creative voice onto the world stage.
From Wales to Dallas. From Pontypridd to New York. From the Land of Song to the World.
