Ysgol Arbrofol Dod at Ein Coed: Tree Sense Experimental School

Newyddion cyffroes! 125 people have registered for our Experimental School, some taking part at home, some online and some at Pontio in Bangor. About two thirds of our school are new to Utopias Bach, and we have gone international, reaching as far as Portugal, Germany, California and Japan!

We have not only been learning about how we can ‘come back to our trees’ but also about how to run hybrid events (zoom and at Pontio) and how to work with an established arts venue. All guided, of course, by the wisdom of the trees and mycelium.

Take a look at what we have been up to on our “composting” page!

And please, come and join us as we build up to our ‘finale’ in May!

What’s next? Come and join us!

Highlights include:

Crone Cast and the Ancients - Tuesday 18th April and Saturday 22nd April come and accompany us in our investigation into becoming ancient tree and crone, and to join in our protest against the neglect and destruction of ancient trees. We will start with an introduction to the genesis of Crone Cast, begin costume making, and thinking and conversations about performing crone and ancient tree. Expand and treasure your imagination.

Justice + Merched y Tir - Wednesday 3rd May: come and create a Siarter y Coed/Charter of the Trees by re-imagining and re-awakening the legal frameworks we have, in partnership with GwyrddNi and the LORE School

Forest comes to Pontio - Saturday 27th May: the grand finale, bringing together everything we have made and discovered with performance, leaf blowers and music!

And LOTS more including Tree Poetry, Art Kiosk Night and Collaboratories - see our events

If you register with the Experimental School we will automatically send you invitations and details, so you won’t miss out on anything!

An invitation to join Gaia Redgrave and Cathedral of the Trees: A Triad of Being.

We are delighted to be partnering with Gaia Redgrave on the next iteration of her ‘Rewilding the Artist’ project. This is a wonderful opportunity to dig deeper into our ‘culture of care’, to learn from others and to support Gaia’s exciting work.

Cathedral of the Trees: A Triad of Being is an experiment in reconnection and communication with the landscape, & more than human. It will comprise a series of five events, spending creative time with the natural world, experiencing three journey packages received through your letterbox. Please sign up to receive the packages, prompts, emails etc from Gaia.

Join Gaia for The Gathering - over ZOOM, Wednesday May 3rd 11:00am - 12.30pm BST

An introduction to Cathedral of the Trees, the Triad of Being & an invitation to start mapping your journey.

Also an opportunity to sign up if you haven’t already done so.

Zoom link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86279842189?pwd=ajhMRVpjbHY5cit0ai9Ja2RPam0wUT09 

If you have any questions please email: cathedralofthetrees@gmail.com

Instagram: @cathedralofthetrees

Exhibition at Galeri, Caerarfon

We are also going to have an exhibition at Galeri, Caernarfon in June- July, where we bring together some of our ‘invitations/scores’ and responses to them from our work to date. This might be an opportunity to show some of your work, as well as to come and see how it all looks together! More details soon. Opening night is Friday 2nd June - hold the date!

Cysyllte..Connecting…

We are excited to announce the next stage of Ellen Davies’ Cysylltu… Connecting experiment. With a message from Ellen below…

Hello Everyone 

I’m really pleased to be able to share with you our our Kickstarter funding page.  We only have 60 days to raise the funds on an all or nothing basis so please do share with many of your contacts as you feel appropriate in order to raise awareness of the project as well as to help raise funding for the workshops and public sharing at Pontio. 

If there are any other queries please do get in touch.  

Thank you again for your continuing support! 

I look forward to being in touch again very soon. 

With kind regards 

Ellen