Penrhyndeudraeth a’r Cylch

Mae Utopias Bach yn dod yn ôl i Penrhyn! Utopias Bach is coming back to Penrhyn!

Efo bwriad i greu celf mewn byd natur a chreu llwybr darganfod newydd sbon!/ Aiming to create art in nature and build a brand new discovery trail!

Sesiynau/sessions: Rhiant a phlentyn/Parent and child; Oedolion/Adult (16+)

Bydd y sesiynau plant yn dechrau 19 Mehefin/Children’s sessions will start on the 19th June. Am ddim!/Free!

Os gwelwch yn dda, cysylltwch os oes gynnoch chi ddiddordeb/Please get in touch if you are interested: gwefus.cymru@gmail.com

Gwyl Metamorffosis Festival, Bangor/Porthaethwy 21-27.6.21

Ymuno â ni yn yr ŵyl fach gyffrous hon yng Ngwynedd a Môn. Mae artistiaid lleol a rhyngwladol yn cynnig digwyddiadau hudolus ac ar gyfer pob oedran gan ddefnyddio fformatau newydd sy'n addas ar gyfer yr amseroedd Covid hyn.

Come and join us in this exciting mini-festival in Gwynedd and Anglesey. Local and international artists offer you magical events and happenings for all ages using new formats suited to these Covid times.

Tyrd ar daith i'r dyfodol, cael mynd ar deithiau cerdded, gwylio ffilmiau, gwrando ar synau tŷ gwag, chwarae barddoniaeth ffridj enfawr, gwrando ar gerddoriaeth, gwylio sioe bypedau.

Take a trip to the future, go on walks, watch films, listen to the sounds of an empty house, play giant fridge poetry, listen to music, watch a puppet show.

This will be our first ‘real world’ Utopias Bach gathering! An opportunity to see others’ creations, to bring or make your own. And go on MicroWorldWalks or workshops. Edrych ymlaen at groesawu pawb! Can’t wait to see you!

Gwaith efo ysgolion / work with schools

Seran Dolma, Lindsey Colbourne, Samina Ali and Mark Gahan have been working with Rural Futures and Ysgol Siôn Cwilt school in Ceredigion, and Ysgol y Ffridd in Gwalchmai, and connecting to the British School in Malawi via Wanda Zyborska.

Six sessions with each of the schools in Wales will lead up to a Story Studio in the local communities, putting children’s ideas and visions at the heart of community planning. We’ll be sharing our materials, plans, learnings and so on on our schools page (currently underconstruction!)

“Bydd hyn yn rywbeth gwerth chweil i’r plant ac yn codi eu calonnau gan ein bod wedi cael ein taro yn eithaf drwg gyda’r Covid yma yng Ngwalchmai yn ddisgyblion a staff.” Henry Jones, Prifathro, Ysgol y Ffridd

Mae Utopias Bach ar… Utopias Bach on…

facebook

instagram

So if you are on these platforms, you can now share images, ideas, events etc.

Arts Council Wales Connect and Flourish funding!

We are so delighted to have heard this month that we’re receiving funding from Arts Council Wales’ “Connect and Flourish” fund! This is in itself a little bit of Utopia, as the competition was strong and they were hugely over-subscribed. The Arts Council said:

“This is an innovative proposal underpinned by strong collaborations that are freelance-artist focused and an approach that is responsive to different communities needs and ambitions.”

Many much needed projects didn’t get through, and we would like to thank Arts Council Wales for their faith in Utopias Bach.

We want to be as transparent as possible about our funding. And will be working out a way to do that over the next few months.

The money will enable the ‘core partners’ (Lisa Hudson, Wanda Zyborska, Samina Ali, Julie Upmeyer and Lindsey Colbourne) to spend a few days a month over the next year supporting Utopias Bach. It will also support artists and ‘community connectors’ to work in an open-ended way with people and communities who don’t have a voice in the mainstream.

The money means we can also support the work of our Awdur Preswyl, Resident Author (Seran Dolma) and a ‘participant observer’ (Francis Williams).

There is also some money to support the running and documenting of our processes, including our Collabatory meetings.

So, more on all this soon! We really hope as many of you as possible will get the opportunity to work with us, develop new strawberry-lets and share learning, skills and insights

With many thanks to Plas Bodfa Projects for being our ‘host organisation’.