Digwyddiadau - Events
“Experimental Theotre” -Bangor / Zoom
Exploring theory and post-dramatic theatre
PL2 in Pontio Bangor (2nd floor) / Zoom
Heiner Müller:
"Theater, denen es nicht mehr gelingt, die Frage WAS SOLL DAS zu provozieren, werden mit Recht geschlossen.“
(Rather frrely translated into English:
"Theatres that no longer succeed in provoking the question WHAT THE FUCK WHY AND WHAT IS THIS are rightly closed."
This group is exploring how can theoretical texts act as epiphytes for dramatic texts, how can we graft theoretical textbites and stage, what does theatricality (theatre = θέατρον (théatron = place for viewing) help us to see in a dramatic vs a theoretical text?
If you’d like to join in this exploration, send Sarah Pogoda an email and let her know if you’d like to join ‘in the room’ in Bangor or on Zoom
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Zoom link will be the same as always: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85409719450?pwd=d1VaRktoY1QveTZWSDdaUDVKQWRkQT09
Meeting ID: 854 0971 9450
Passcode: 398362
For Pontio: Link to Accessibility at Pontio:
If this is not sufficient, and you need guidance including pictures please let me know and I will prepare some by Thursday the latest.
Your needs: I am lucky a person that all my needs are met generally, either for in-person meetings or for Zoom-meetings. Not everyone is that lucky. I would be grateful if you would share your needs with me so that I can ensure you feel save joining us online or in-person on Saturday.
I have planned a short activity to start with on Saturday which might involve some in-person movement, and some sound/noise (incl. if technology glitches happen, feedback). If that risks upsetting you, please let me know and I will re-design the activity.
All the best
Sarah
May Collaboratory Mis Mai: Materials led investigation of cracks and monsters. BANGOR
In this Collaboratory we will explore cracks as a place of emergence, a liminal space to embrace, inhabit, embody and from which the monster may appear…
This will be an experimental/ practical workshop, led by materials: please bring any materials (clay, material, wood, wire, ink, paper, any stuff!) that you are drawn to working with/that in some way might help embody cracks/monsters.
Venue to follow (but probably Bangor or thereabouts)
There is lots of great writing about cracks, not least by Bayo Akomalafe:
“I think about cracks like disturbances in the field that invite us to take a new direction.
When a crack appears in the mighty wall, the only thing scarier than letting it grow unbridled, the only thing more worrisome than allowing it to breathe, is sealing it up — for the thesis of the crack is to call into question the form we’ve assumed, the nobilities we cherish, the stories we assume to be true. The crack is the monster’s gift — a reminder that the fixity of the postures we take on often prove more dangerous than the threats we presume to withstand.
“The monster is the crossroads. The monster is a dense and intelligent turn in the pattern of things. It’s when things don’t go according to plan, it’s when things refuse to be instrumental to our purposes. It’s when things take a left turn, when we expect them to take a right. That’s the monster, right? The monster, I feel, is a troubling place of deep failure for modernity.
We’re doing our very best to try to flatten monsters, to try to colonize them, to name them, finally to name them the enemy and get rid of them. A monster is climate chaos like we’re doing our darndest to defeat climate change, to defeat it, right? Not considering that we are imbricated with this thing. There is something speculatively powerful about the specter of a monster down the street and we’re doing our best to defeat it.
When I think monsters are the engines, the machines of the universe, to invite us to lose our way. And the only way to do something different with the world is to lose our way. So how do we convene a politics that allows us to sit with novelty? So I’m reconceiving politics as the communal effort, and it may not even come down to community as homogeneity, but the effort to sit with trouble, to sit with monster, to decorate the crossroads.
How we present that moment, those misdirections, those failures might be the heart of a new kind of politics that we need today”
Rewilding the Artist: A Ramble Through (ZOOM)
Join us as we take a metaphorical ramble together through the two-year Arts Council Wales funded Rewilding the Artist project, partnered by Utopias Bach. During this event we will share with you how Rewilding the Artist has reimagined equity and wellbeing in the arts. You will also hear about our next steps in supporting you as an artist or an organisation on your own Rewilding journey.
We will also be launching the Rewilding Field Guide Book at this event.
Suitable for anyone who works in the arts including artists, producers, collectives, funders & organisations.
Free but please
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This is part of a week of sharing events to hear about what Rewilding the Artist (partnered by Utopias Bach) have been up to, experience aspects of the project and hear about what we will be doing going forward. All events are free, but places are limited so please do book early. We will be holding a waiting list for future events so if you miss out this time do get in touch to hear about these.
If you have any questions, please contact: rewildingtheartist@gmail.com
Our events listing can be found on the Rewilding website here
Rewilding the Artist:Meeting at Y Bothy (ZOOM)
Y Bothy is a space where a Culture of Care can be explored, including what it is and how it can be developed within your organisation. Experience a taster session of Y Bothy with a small group of people to explore the question ‘What if you were the catalyst for manifesting a widespread Culture of Care?’
Leave with an understanding of how Y Bothy works and how it may support your organisation.
Suitable for arts organisations, producers, funders and collectives.
Free but please
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This is part of a week of sharing events to hear about what Rewilding the Artist (partnered by Utopias Bach) have been up to, experience aspects of the project and hear about what we will be doing going forward. All events are free, but places are limited so please do book early. We will be holding a waiting list for future events so if you miss out this time do get in touch to hear about these.
If you have any questions, please contact: rewildingtheartist@gmail.com
Our events listing can be found on the Rewilding website here
A Tribe Gathering: Current Ecosystem (ZOOM)
The Tribe is a group of artists that meet to imaginatively explore how to build access and wellbeing into the foundation of their creative practice.
Experience a taster session taken from the 12-month Rewilding the Artist Journey, as well as finding out how to join the next Tribe group starting in September and the funded places that are available.
Suitable for individual artists and collectives.
Free but please
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This is part of a week of sharing events to hear about what Rewilding the Artist (partnered by Utopias Bach) have been up to, experience aspects of the project and hear about what we will be doing going forward. All events are free, but places are limited so please do book early. We will be holding a waiting list for future events so if you miss out this time do get in touch to hear about these.
If you have any questions, please contact: rewildingtheartist@gmail.com
Our events listing can be found on the Rewilding website here
A Walk in the Park: Y Parc Hybrid Event Design (ZOOM)
Y Parc/The Park is a flexible tool for creating imaginative and successful hybrid online/in person events created in partnership with Utopias Bach.
Experience a Rewilding the Artist hybrid event focused on Gaia’s creative practice.
Leave with the experience of some basic components of a successful hybrid event and how to learn more.
Suitable for anyone who is interested in delivering creative and inspirational hybrid events.
Free but please
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This is part of a week of sharing events to hear about what Rewilding the Artist (partnered by Utopias Bach) have been up to, experience aspects of the project and hear about what we will be doing going forward. All events are free, but places are limited so please do book early. We will be holding a waiting list for future events so if you miss out this time do get in touch to hear about these.
If you have any questions, please contact: rewildingtheartist@gmail.com
Our events listing can be found on the Rewilding website here
A Walk in the Park: Y Parc Hybrid Event Design (ZOOM/room)
Y Bocs Nyth/The Nest Box is a flexible tool that enables people to work together within a Culture of Care i.e. a mutually equitable and nurturing environment.
Try out building a Culture of Care Nest within a small group. Leave with a practical understanding of how you would build a nest, when it is useful and why you would want to do it.
Suitable for anybody who works with others within the arts.
Free but please
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This is part of a week of sharing events to hear about what Rewilding the Artist (partnered by Utopias Bach) has been up to, experience aspects of the project and hear about what we will be doing going forward. All events are free, but places are limited so please do book early. We will be holding a waiting list for future events so if you miss out this time do get in touch to hear about these.
If you have any questions, please contact: rewildingtheartist@gmail.com
Our events listing can be found on the Rewilding website here
Grwp Barddoniaeth Utopias Bach Poetry Group (zoom)
An online reading group (at 4pm on the last friday of each month) that focuses on poems we feel relate to Utopias Bach's concerns in some way. We will take it in turn to circulate a poem (nothing too long!) and then meet online to discuss it.
This month, you are invited to share poems relating to “CARE”
Please send your poems for this month to Iain: iain19biggs@gmail.com
The group will meet over zoom. The zoom link is the same as always: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85409719450?pwd=d1VaRktoY1QveTZWSDdaUDVKQWRkQT09
Meeting ID: 854 0971 9450
Passcode: 398362
“Experimental Theotre” Reflection Zoom
Reflection session for the group exploring theory and post-dramatic theatre
ZOOM
Heiner Müller:
"Theater, denen es nicht mehr gelingt, die Frage WAS SOLL DAS zu provozieren, werden mit Recht geschlossen.“
(Rather frrely translated into English:
"Theatres that no longer succeed in provoking the question WHAT THE FUCK WHY AND WHAT IS THIS are rightly closed."
This group is exploring how can theoretical texts act as epiphytes for dramatic texts, how can we graft theoretical textbites and stage, what does theatricality (theatre = θέατρον (théatron = place for viewing) help us to see in a dramatic vs a theoretical text?
If you’d like to join in this exploration, send Sarah Pogoda an email.
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Zoom link will be the same as always: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85409719450?pwd=d1VaRktoY1QveTZWSDdaUDVKQWRkQT09
Meeting ID: 854 0971 9450
Passcode: 398362
Images from our first meeting (Pontio/zoom 1.2.25)
April Collaboratory Mis Ebrill: Take my hand - Liminal spaces in sacred landscapes. ZOOM
In this Collaboratory Steph Shipley will be sharing her Utopias Bach Experiment, “Take my hand: Art as a form of Prayer; liminal spaces in sacred landscapes” that started in 2023.
As well as finding out how it went, and what was learned, there are opportunities to go on a walk with Steph in 2025.
More details to follow!
This Collaboratory will be over ZOOM
Zoom link will be the same as always: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85409719450?pwd=d1VaRktoY1QveTZWSDdaUDVKQWRkQT09
Meeting ID: 854 0971 9450
Passcode: 398362
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If this is your first Collaboratory meeting, we invite you to join at 10.30am to find out more about how our meetings work and to ask any questions/tell us of any access (or other) needs.
“Experimental Theotre” -Bangor / Zoom
Exploring theory and post-dramatic theatre
PL2 in Pontio Bangor (2nd floor) / Zoom
Heiner Müller:
"Theater, denen es nicht mehr gelingt, die Frage WAS SOLL DAS zu provozieren, werden mit Recht geschlossen.“
(Rather frrely translated into English:
"Theatres that no longer succeed in provoking the question WHAT THE FUCK WHY AND WHAT IS THIS are rightly closed."
This group is exploring how can theoretical texts act as epiphytes for dramatic texts, how can we graft theoretical textbites and stage, what does theatricality (theatre = θέατρον (théatron = place for viewing) help us to see in a dramatic vs a theoretical text?
If you’d like to join in this exploration, send Sarah Pogoda an email and let her know if you’d like to join ‘in the room’ in Bangor or on Zoom
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Zoom link will be the same as always: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85409719450?pwd=d1VaRktoY1QveTZWSDdaUDVKQWRkQT09
Meeting ID: 854 0971 9450
Passcode: 398362
For Pontio: Link to Accessibility at Pontio:
If this is not sufficient, and you need guidance including pictures please let me know and I will prepare some by Thursday the latest.
Your needs: I am lucky a person that all my needs are met generally, either for in-person meetings or for Zoom-meetings. Not everyone is that lucky. I would be grateful if you would share your needs with me so that I can ensure you feel save joining us online or in-person on Saturday.
I have planned a short activity to start with on Saturday which might involve some in-person movement, and some sound/noise (incl. if technology glitches happen, feedback). If that risks upsetting you, please let me know and I will re-design the activity.
All the best
Sarah
Stitch a Sgwrs, Caban, Brynrefail
Gwahoddiad i sesiwn 'Stitch a Sgwrs' Utopias Bach.
Cyfle i ddod ynghyd i bwytho, neu wneud, neu dim ond bod, wrth rannu cwmni da a sgwrs dda, croeso i bob iaith.
Y sesiwn nesaf: 4.3.25: 1-4pm yn ystafell gymunedol Angharad, Caban, Brynrefail LL55 3NR
Mae gan Caban le parcio hygyrch a toiled. Efallai y bydd un cam bach i mewn i'r ystafell ei hun. Mae yna gaffi gyda choffi a chacennau neis, yn ogystal â thegell yn yr ystafell.
Dewch â'ch hun a rhywbeth i weithio arno.
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You are invited to a Utopias Bach 'Stitch a Sgwrs' session.
A chance to get together to stitch, or make, or just be, while sharing good company and good conversation, all languages welcome.
Next session 1.4.25: 1-4pm in Angharad's community room at Caban, Brynrefail LL55 3NR
Caban has accessible parking and toilet. There one small step into the room itself, or access round the back step free. There is a cafe with nice coffee and cakes, as well as a kettle in the room.
Just bring yourselves and something to work on.
This month’s session is being coordinated by Wanda Zyborska (any questions please email Wanda)
If you would like to try a quilt score, see Lisa’s invitation in the image!
Grwp Barddoniaeth Utopias Bach Poetry Group (zoom)
An online reading group (at 4pm on the last friday of each month) that focuses on poems we feel relate to Utopias Bach's concerns in some way. We will take it in turn to circulate a poem (nothing too long!) and then meet online to discuss it.
This month, you are invited to share poems relating to “CARE”
Please send your poems for this month to Iain: iain19biggs@gmail.com
The group will meet over zoom. The zoom link is the same as always: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85409719450?pwd=d1VaRktoY1QveTZWSDdaUDVKQWRkQT09
Meeting ID: 854 0971 9450
Passcode: 398362
March Collaboratory Mis Mawrth: Questioning by Quilting? (zoom)
English below
Cwestiynu trwy Gwiltio?
Daeth y syniad o Cwilt Utopias Bach Quilt o’n Cydweithredfa ym mis Medi 2023, lle’r oeddem, mewn partneriaeth â Rewilding the Artist, yn trafod sut y gallem ymgorffori ein Utopias Bach yn esblygu ‘teimlad, profiad, gwahoddiad, system, polisïau, moesau, diwylliannau’ yn hytrach na chael set sych o bolisïau a disgrifiadau papur ‘sefydlog’.
Ers hynny rydym wedi bod yn gweithio ar y Cwilt mewn gwahanol ffyrdd (ee mewn sain a gweithiau 3-D yn ogystal â phwytho), gan archwilio sut gallwn ni greu polisi sy'n broses fyw, anadlu, atblygol?
Bydd y Collaboratory hon yn gyfle i ailymweld â’r cwilt, i fyfyrio ar ble’r ydym, ac i ofyn rhai cwestiynau ynglŷn â sut yr ydym yn symud ymlaen o’r fan hon.
Yn benodol, byddwn yn ystyried sut y gallai ‘sgoriau’ neu awgrymiadau ein helpu i symud y cwilt i fod yn bolisi effeithiol, gan ddefnyddio ‘sgôr cynhwysiant’ Lisa fel enghraifft.
Questioning by Quilting?
The idea of Cwilt Utopias Bach Quilt came from our Collaboratory in September 2023, where, in partnership with Rewilding the Artist, we were discussing how we might embody our Utopias Bach evolving ‘feel, experience, invitation, system, policies, etiquette, cultures’ rather than having a dry set of ‘fixed’ paper-based policies and descriptions.
Since then we have been working on the Quilt in various ways (eg in sound and 3-D works as well as with stitching), exploring how can we create a policy that is a living, breathing, reflexive process?
This Collaboratory will be a chance to revisit the quilt, to reflect on where we are, and to ask some questions about how we move on from here.
In particular will consider how ’scores’ or prompts could help us move the quilt into becoming effective policy, using Lisa’s ‘inclusion score’ as an example.
Warm welcome to all, whether or not you have been contributing to the quilt. This will be an interesting opportunity to explore different approaches to ‘policy’.
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Zoom link will be the same as always: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85409719450?pwd=d1VaRktoY1QveTZWSDdaUDVKQWRkQT09
Meeting ID: 854 0971 9450
Passcode: 398362
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If this is your first Collaboratory meeting, we invite you to join at 10.30am to find out more about how our meetings work and to ask any questions/tell us of any access (or other) needs.
“Experimental Theotre” Reflection Zoom
Reflection session for the group exploring theory and post-dramatic theatre
ZOOM
Heiner Müller:
"Theater, denen es nicht mehr gelingt, die Frage WAS SOLL DAS zu provozieren, werden mit Recht geschlossen.“
(Rather frrely translated into English:
"Theatres that no longer succeed in provoking the question WHAT THE FUCK WHY AND WHAT IS THIS are rightly closed."
This group is exploring how can theoretical texts act as epiphytes for dramatic texts, how can we graft theoretical textbites and stage, what does theatricality (theatre = θέατρον (théatron = place for viewing) help us to see in a dramatic vs a theoretical text?
If you’d like to join in this exploration, send Sarah Pogoda an email.
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Zoom link will be the same as always: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85409719450?pwd=d1VaRktoY1QveTZWSDdaUDVKQWRkQT09
Meeting ID: 854 0971 9450
Passcode: 398362
Images from our first meeting (Pontio/zoom 1.2.25)
Trin Toriadau: Cuts Hairpenning - Bangor
Hairpenning efo Sarah Pogoda: Ti sy’n penderfynu torri pres a gwallt!
Hairpenning with Sarah Pogoda: Your chance to decide on cuts to funding and hair!
New Main Arts Lecture Room 2, Bangor University
Croeso cynnes i bawb - Warm welcome all!
Stitch a Siarad, Caban, Brynrefail - Yr Olaf! Last One!
Gwahoddiad i sesiynau 'Pwyth a Sgwrs' Gaeaf Utopias Bach.
Cyfle i ddod ynghyd dros fisoedd y gaeaf i bwytho, neu wneud, neu dim ond bod, wrth rannu cwmni da a sgwrs dda, croeso i bob iaith.
Y sesiwn olaf: 4.3.25: 1-4pm yn ystafell gymunedol Angharad, Caban, Brynrefail LL55 3NR
Mae gan Caban le parcio hygyrch a toiled. Efallai y bydd un cam bach i mewn i'r ystafell ei hun. Mae yna gaffi gyda choffi a chacennau neis, yn ogystal â thegell yn yr ystafell.
Dewch â'ch hun a rhywbeth i weithio arno.
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You are invited to Utopias Bach Winter 'Stitch a Sgwrs' sessions.
A chance to get together over the winter months to stitch, or make, or just be, while sharing good company and good conversation, all languages welcome.
Last session 4.3.25: 1-4pm in Angharad's community room at Caban, Brynrefail LL55 3NR
Caban has accessible parking and toilet. There may be one small step into the room itself. There is a cafe with nice coffee and cakes, as well as a kettle in the room.
Just bring yourselves and something to work on.
“Experimental Theotre” -Bangor / Zoom
Exploring theory and post-dramatic theatre
PL2 in Pontio Bangor (2nd floor) / Zoom
Heiner Müller:
"Theater, denen es nicht mehr gelingt, die Frage WAS SOLL DAS zu provozieren, werden mit Recht geschlossen.“
(Rather frrely translated into English:
"Theatres that no longer succeed in provoking the question WHAT THE FUCK WHY AND WHAT IS THIS are rightly closed."
This group is exploring how can theoretical texts act as epiphytes for dramatic texts, how can we graft theoretical textbites and stage, what does theatricality (theatre = θέατρον (théatron = place for viewing) help us to see in a dramatic vs a theoretical text?
If you’d like to join in this exploration, send Sarah Pogoda an email and let her know if you’d like to join ‘in the room’ in Bangor or on Zoom
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Zoom link will be the same as always: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85409719450?pwd=d1VaRktoY1QveTZWSDdaUDVKQWRkQT09
Meeting ID: 854 0971 9450
Passcode: 398362
For Pontio: Link to Accessibility at Pontio:
If this is not sufficient, and you need guidance including pictures please let me know and I will prepare some by Thursday the latest.
Your needs: I am lucky a person that all my needs are met generally, either for in-person meetings or for Zoom-meetings. Not everyone is that lucky. I would be grateful if you would share your needs with me so that I can ensure you feel save joining us online or in-person on Saturday.
I have planned a short activity to start with on Saturday which might involve some in-person movement, and some sound/noise (incl. if technology glitches happen, feedback). If that risks upsetting you, please let me know and I will re-design the activity.
All the best
Sarah
Gofod Glas “pop up” Llanrwst
Gofod Glas yn Llanrwst
Mae Gofod Glas wedi bod yn archwilio perthynas bobol gyda dŵr croyw yn greadigol yn Nyffryn Conwy ers haf 2024.
Mis Mawrth, mae croeso i bawb gymeryd rhan:
- adeiladu cwrwgl Conwy
- holi cwestiwn i'r afon
- gwrando ar leisiau bobol wedi eu enwi ar ôl afonydd lleol
- dychmygu sut mae moleciwl dwr yn dysgu yn ystod ei fywyd
Oriau agor a lleoliad
Dyddiau Sadwrn mis Mawrth 11yb - 4yh
Sgwâr Ancaster, Llanrwst LL26 0LD (wrth yml y Swyddfa Post)
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Gofod Glas in Llanrwst
Gofod Glas has been creatively exploring human relationships with freshwater in the Conwy Valley since summer 2024.
During March, we welcome everyone to take part:
- build a Conwy coracle
- ask the river a question
- listen to the voices of people named after local rivers
- imagine how a water molecule learns on its life’s journey.
Opening Times and location:
Saturdays in March, 11am - 4pm
Ancaster Square, Llanrwst LL26 0LD (near the Post Office)
Grwp Barddoniaeth Utopias Bach Poetry Group (zoom)
An online reading group (at 4pm on the last friday of each month) that focuses on poems we feel relate to Utopias Bach's concerns in some way. We will take it in turn to circulate a poem (nothing too long!) and then meet online to discuss it.
This month, you are invited to share poems relating to old women and mythology - Not just the "grand" stuff - classical myths and Jungian archetypes, etc. - but also all the old women of folk stories and fairy tales.
Please send your poems for this month to Iain: iain19biggs@gmail.com
The group will meet over zoom. The zoom link is the same as always: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85409719450?pwd=d1VaRktoY1QveTZWSDdaUDVKQWRkQT09
Meeting ID: 854 0971 9450
Passcode: 398362
“Experimental Theotre” Zoom Reflection
Reflection session for the group exploring theory and post-dramatic theatre
ZOOM
Heiner Müller:
"Theater, denen es nicht mehr gelingt, die Frage WAS SOLL DAS zu provozieren, werden mit Recht geschlossen.“
(Rather frrely translated into English:
"Theatres that no longer succeed in provoking the question WHAT THE FUCK WHY AND WHAT IS THIS are rightly closed."
This group is exploring how can theoretical texts act as epiphytes for dramatic texts, how can we graft theoretical textbites and stage, what does theatricality (theatre = θέατρον (théatron = place for viewing) help us to see in a dramatic vs a theoretical text?
If you’d like to join in this exploration, send Sarah Pogoda an email.
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Zoom link will be the same as always: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85409719450?pwd=d1VaRktoY1QveTZWSDdaUDVKQWRkQT09
Meeting ID: 854 0971 9450
Passcode: 398362
Images from our first meeting (Pontio/zoom 1.2.25)
February Collaboratory Mis Chwefror: Learning and starting again
Yn y Collaboratory hwn, rydym yn eich gwahodd i ymuno â ni am drafodaeth am wahanol ddulliau o ddysgu, a sut y gallem ddefnyddio’r rhain mewn rhaglenni cyd-ddysgu o fewn Utopias Bach yn y dyfodol (e.e. Ysgol Chwyn - Weeds School, Cwrs Bach Utopias Bach yn y dyfodol). Gallai hyn hefyd gynnwys siarad am ‘ddechrau eto’ fel syniad. Beth sy'n dechrau eto? Sut gall y syniad hwn gefnogi dulliau dysgu
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In this Collaboratory, we invite you to join us for a discussion about different approaches to learning (eg ‘discovery learning’, child centred learning'), and how we might use these in future co-learning programmes within Utopias Bach (eg the Ysgol Chwyn - Weeds School, future Cwrs Utopias Bach Course). This might also include talking about ‘starting again’ as an idea. What is starting again? How can this idea support learning approaches
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Zoom link will be the same as always: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85409719450?pwd=d1VaRktoY1QveTZWSDdaUDVKQWRkQT09
Meeting ID: 854 0971 9450
Passcode: 398362
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If this is your first Collaboratory meeting, we invite you to join at 10.30am to find out more about how our meetings work and to ask any questions/tell us of any access (or other) needs.
Video recommended by Sarah Holyfield
Stitch a Siarad, Caban, Brynrefail
Gwahoddiad i sesiynau 'Pwyth a Sgwrs' Gaeaf Utopias Bach.
Cyfle i ddod ynghyd dros fisoedd y gaeaf i bwytho, neu wneud, neu dim ond bod, wrth rannu cwmni da a sgwrs dda, croeso i bob iaith.
Bob pythefnos nes ei bod hi'n gynhesach, bydd y sesiwn gyntaf ar ddydd Mawrth 10 Rhagfyr 2024. 1-4pm yn ystafell gymunedol Angharad, Caban, Brynrefail LL55 3NR
Mae gan Caban le parcio hygyrch a toiled. Efallai y bydd un cam bach i mewn i'r ystafell ei hun. Mae yna gaffi gyda choffi a chacennau neis, yn ogystal â thegell yn yr ystafell.
Dewch â'ch hun a rhywbeth i weithio arno.
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You are invited to Utopias Bach Winter 'Stitch a Sgwrs' sessions.
A chance to get together over the winter months to stitch, or make, or just be, while sharing good company and good conversation, all languages welcome.
Every 2 weeks until the days get longer, the first session will be on Tuesday 10th December 2024. 1-4pm in Angharad's community room at Caban, Brynrefail LL55 3NR
Caban has accessible parking and toilet. There may be one small step into the room itself. There is a cafe with nice coffee and cakes, as well as a kettle in the room.
Just bring yourselves and something to work on.
“Experimental Theotre” - first meeting, Bangor / Zoom
First meeting of a new group exploring theory and post-dramatic theatre
PL2 in Pontio Bangor (2nd floor) / Zoom
How can theoretical texts act as epiphytes for dramatic texts, how can we graft theoretical textbites and stage, what does theatricality (theatre = θέατρον (théatron = place for viewing) help us to see in a dramatic vs a theoretical text?
If you’d like to join in this exploration, send Sarah Pogoda an email and let her know if you’d like to join ‘in the room’ in Bangor or on Zoom
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Zoom link will be the same as always: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85409719450?pwd=d1VaRktoY1QveTZWSDdaUDVKQWRkQT09
Meeting ID: 854 0971 9450
Passcode: 398362
For Pontio: Link to Accessibility at Pontio:
If this is not sufficient, and you need guidance including pictures please let me know and I will prepare some by Thursday the latest.
Your needs: I am lucky a person that all my needs are met generally, either for in-person meetings or for Zoom-meetings. Not everyone is that lucky. I would be grateful if you would share your needs with me so that I can ensure you feel save joining us online or in-person on Saturday.
I have planned a short activity to start with on Saturday which might involve some in-person movement, and some sound/noise (incl. if technology glitches happen, feedback). If that risks upsetting you, please let me know and I will re-design the activity.
All the best
Sarah
Grwp Barddoniaeth Utopias Bach Poetry Group (zoom)
An online reading group (at 4pm on the last friday of each month) that focuses on poems we feel relate to Utopias Bach's concerns in some way. We will take it in turn to circulate a poem (nothing too long!) and then meet online to discuss it.
This month, you are invited to share poems relating to old women and mythology - Not just the "grand" stuff - classical myths and Jungian archetypes, etc. - but also all the old women of folk stories and fairy tales.
Please send your poems for this month to Iain: iain19biggs@gmail.com
The group will meet over zoom. The zoom link is the same as always: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85409719450?pwd=d1VaRktoY1QveTZWSDdaUDVKQWRkQT09
Meeting ID: 854 0971 9450
Passcode: 398362
Mapio gyda barcud - Mapping with kites, Brynrefail (pobl ifanc/ young people)
Gweithdy creadigol am ddim i pobl ifanc gyda'r artist Catrin Menai.
Free creative workshop for young people with artist, Catrin Menai.
Mapio gyda barcud - Mapping with kites, Brynrefail (oedolion/ adults)
Gweithdy creadigol am ddim i oedolion gyda'r artist Catrin Menai.
Free creative workshop for adults with artist, Catrin Menai.
Book your free place on eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../tlysau-eryri-gweithdy...
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../tlysau-eryri-gweithdy...
Stitch a Siarad, Caban, Brynrefail
Gwahoddiad i sesiynau 'Pwyth a Sgwrs' Gaeaf Utopias Bach.
Cyfle i ddod ynghyd dros fisoedd y gaeaf i bwytho, neu wneud, neu dim ond bod, wrth rannu cwmni da a sgwrs dda, croeso i bob iaith.
Bob pythefnos nes ei bod hi'n gynhesach, bydd y sesiwn gyntaf ar ddydd Mawrth 10 Rhagfyr 2024. 1-4pm yn ystafell gymunedol Angharad, Caban, Brynrefail LL55 3NR
Mae gan Caban le parcio hygyrch a toiled. Efallai y bydd un cam bach i mewn i'r ystafell ei hun. Mae yna gaffi gyda choffi a chacennau neis, yn ogystal â thegell yn yr ystafell.
Dewch â'ch hun a rhywbeth i weithio arno.
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You are invited to Utopias Bach Winter 'Stitch a Sgwrs' sessions.
A chance to get together over the winter months to stitch, or make, or just be, while sharing good company and good conversation, all languages welcome.
Every 2 weeks until the days get longer, the first session will be on Tuesday 10th December 2024. 1-4pm in Angharad's community room at Caban, Brynrefail LL55 3NR
Caban has accessible parking and toilet. There may be one small step into the room itself. There is a cafe with nice coffee and cakes, as well as a kettle in the room.
Just bring yourselves and something to work on.
Syndikat Gefährliche Liebschaften
Gwahoddiad - invitation
With many thanks to Ffiwsar, Utopias Bach has been invited to meet with Syndikat Gefährliche Liebschaften at Caban, Brynrefail over lunch on 14th January 2025.
If you would like to take part please let us know
Here is more about the Syndikat:
Syndikat Gefährliche Liebschaften was founded in 2013 and is now based in Quakenbrück, a small town in Lower Saxony, Germany. From there, the artist group connects with rural communities throughout Germany through socially engaged performing arts.
The Syndikat is looking for stories of rural spaces that invite a change of perspective and show our interconnectedness. Sometimes theater is created, sometimes an exhibition or a radio play. Our expertise lies in artistic (field) research, site-specific intervention and in bringing together temporary communities.
SYNDIKAT refers to a long-term or temporary association of people who pursue a common goal. GEFÄHRLICH stands for risk-taking. Behind the word LIEBSCHAFTEN is the fact that we look for allies in every place we are invited to, with whom we enter into relationships, negotiate issues and realize projects.
https://gefaehrliche-liebschaften.de/ (sorry, only in German)
https://www.instagram.com/syndikat_gl/
https://vimeo.com/gefaehrlicheliebschaften
Stitch a Siarad, Caban, Brynrefail
Gwahoddiad i sesiynau 'Pwyth a Sgwrs' Gaeaf Utopias Bach.
Cyfle i ddod ynghyd dros fisoedd y gaeaf i bwytho, neu wneud, neu dim ond bod, wrth rannu cwmni da a sgwrs dda, croeso i bob iaith.
Bob pythefnos nes ei bod hi'n gynhesach, bydd y sesiwn gyntaf ar ddydd Mawrth 10 Rhagfyr 2024. 1-4pm yn ystafell gymunedol Angharad, Caban, Brynrefail LL55 3NR
Mae gan Caban le parcio hygyrch a toiled. Efallai y bydd un cam bach i mewn i'r ystafell ei hun. Mae yna gaffi gyda choffi a chacennau neis, yn ogystal â thegell yn yr ystafell.
Dewch â'ch hun a rhywbeth i weithio arno.
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You are invited to Utopias Bach Winter 'Stitch a Sgwrs' sessions.
A chance to get together over the winter months to stitch, or make, or just be, while sharing good company and good conversation, all languages welcome.
Every 2 weeks until the days get longer, the first session will be on Tuesday 10th December 2024. 1-4pm in Angharad's community room at Caban, Brynrefail LL55 3NR
Caban has accessible parking and toilet. There may be one small step into the room itself. There is a cafe with nice coffee and cakes, as well as a kettle in the room.
Just bring yourselves and something to work on.
Grwp Barddoniaeth Utopias Bach Poetry Group (zoom)
An online reading group (at 4pm on the last friday of each month) that focuses on poems we feel relate to Utopias Bach's concerns in some way. We will take it in turn to circulate a poem (nothing too long!) and then meet online to discuss it.
This month, you are invited to share poems relating to old women and mythology - Not just the "grand" stuff - classical myths and Jungian archetypes, etc. - but also all the old women of folk stories and fairy tales.
Please send your poems for this month to Iain: iain19biggs@gmail.com
The group will meet over zoom. The zoom link is the same as always: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85409719450?pwd=d1VaRktoY1QveTZWSDdaUDVKQWRkQT09
Meeting ID: 854 0971 9450
Passcode: 398362
Stitch a Siarad, Caban, Brynrefail
Gwahoddiad i sesiynau 'Pwyth a Sgwrs' Gaeaf Utopias Bach.
Cyfle i ddod ynghyd dros fisoedd y gaeaf i bwytho, neu wneud, neu dim ond bod, wrth rannu cwmni da a sgwrs dda, croeso i bob iaith.
Bob pythefnos nes ei bod hi'n gynhesach, bydd y sesiwn gyntaf ar ddydd Mawrth 10 Rhagfyr 2024. 1-4pm yn ystafell gymunedol Angharad, Caban, Brynrefail LL55 3NR
Mae gan Caban le parcio hygyrch a toiled. Efallai y bydd un cam bach i mewn i'r ystafell ei hun. Mae yna gaffi gyda choffi a chacennau neis, yn ogystal â thegell yn yr ystafell.
Dewch â'ch hun a rhywbeth i weithio arno.
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You are invited to Utopias Bach Winter 'Stitch a Sgwrs' sessions.
A chance to get together over the winter months to stitch, or make, or just be, while sharing good company and good conversation, all languages welcome.
Every 2 weeks until the days get longer, the first session will be on Tuesday 10th December 2024. 1-4pm in Angharad's community room at Caban, Brynrefail LL55 3NR
Caban has accessible parking and toilet. There may be one small step into the room itself. There is a cafe with nice coffee and cakes, as well as a kettle in the room.
Just bring yourselves and something to work on.
December Collaboratory Mis Rhagfyr: Archwilio ein perthynas â chwyn. Exploring our Relationship with Weeds (zoom)
Yn y Collaboratory hon, rydym yn eich gwahodd i ddod â chwyn gyda chi, i ddechrau archwilio'n greadigol gyda'n gilydd yr hyn y gallwn ei ddysgu oddi wrth a gyda chwyn?
Bydd y sesiwn hon yn adeiladu ar yr hyn a ddysgom yn Ysgol Arbrofol Dod yn Ein Coed yn 2023, a’n preswyliad yn Oriel Mostyn yn 2022. Ar ôl ychydig o archwilio chwyn creadigol, byddwn yn rhannu syniadau ynghylch a allwn adeiladu rhywbeth yn 2025, efallai ceisio cyllid i redeg rhyw fath o University of Weeds.
Byddai’n wych pe gallech chi a’ch chwyn ymuno â ni!
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In this Collaboratory, we invite you to bring a weed along with you, to start to creatively explore together what can we learn from and with weeds?
This session will build on what we learned at Ysgol Arbrofol Dod at Ein Coed: Experimental TreeSense School in 2023, and our residency at Oriel Mostyn in 2022. After some creative weed explorations, we will share ideas on whether we might construct something in 2025, perhaps seeking funding to run some kind of University of Weeds.
It’d be great if you and your weed could join us!
“We need to begin to recognise how we could conspire with the plants – seeding plant-people conspiracies - connecting people and plants together to breathe together, justice for people, their plants, plants and their people” - Natasha Myers
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Zoom link will be the same as always: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85409719450?pwd=d1VaRktoY1QveTZWSDdaUDVKQWRkQT09
Meeting ID: 854 0971 9450
Passcode: 398362
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If this is your first Collaboratory meeting, we invite you to join at 10.30am to find out more about how our meetings work and to ask any questions/tell us of any access (or other) needs.
Stitch a Siarad, Caban, Brynrefail
Gwahoddiad i sesiynau 'Pwyth a Sgwrs' Gaeaf Utopias Bach.
Cyfle i ddod ynghyd dros fisoedd y gaeaf i bwytho, neu wneud, neu dim ond bod, wrth rannu cwmni da a sgwrs dda, croeso i bob iaith.
Bob pythefnos nes ei bod hi'n gynhesach, bydd y sesiwn gyntaf ar ddydd Mawrth 10 Rhagfyr 2024. 1-4pm yn ystafell gymunedol Angharad, Caban, Brynrefail LL55 3NR
Mae gan Caban le parcio hygyrch a toiled. Efallai y bydd un cam bach i mewn i'r ystafell ei hun. Mae yna gaffi gyda choffi a chacennau neis, yn ogystal â thegell yn yr ystafell.
Dewch â'ch hun a rhywbeth i weithio arno.
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You are invited to Utopias Bach Winter 'Stitch a Sgwrs' sessions.
A chance to get together over the winter months to stitch, or make, or just be, while sharing good company and good conversation, all languages welcome.
Every 2 weeks until the days get longer, the first session will be on Tuesday 10th December 2024. 1-4pm in Angharad's community room at Caban, Brynrefail LL55 3NR
Caban has accessible parking and toilet. There may be one small step into the room itself. There is a cafe with nice coffee and cakes, as well as a kettle in the room.
Just bring yourselves and something to work on.
Grwp Barddoniaeth Utopias Bach Poetry Group (zoom)
An online reading group (at 4pm on the last friday of each month) that focuses on poems we feel relate to Utopias Bach's concerns in some way. We will take it in turn to circulate a poem (nothing too long!) and then meet online to discuss it.
This month, you are invited to share poems relating to old women and mythology - Not just the "grand" stuff - classical myths and Jungian archetypes, etc. - but also all the old women of folk stories and fairy tales.
Please send your poems for this month to Iain: iain19biggs@gmail.com
The group will meet over zoom. The zoom link is the same as always: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85409719450?pwd=d1VaRktoY1QveTZWSDdaUDVKQWRkQT09
Meeting ID: 854 0971 9450
Passcode: 398362
Jamaican in Wales, Abermaw/Barmouth
Iaith - Barddoniaeth - Perfformio
Languge - Poetry - Performance
Archebwch docynnau / Book Tickets:
https://thelittleboxoffice.com/dragonth.../book/event/203820
(Discounted tickets - Adults £10; Student/children £6 - will be available on the day to those attending the 5pm event)
Siarter y Coed: Charter of the Trees, Pontio
Arddangosfa: Exhibition, Pontio, Bangor
Siarter y Coed | Charter of the Trees (2022) Utopias Bach, mewn cydweithrediad â GwyrddNi a LORE (Legal Origins Rights Education & Art)
Diddymwyd y Magna Carta, dogfen sy'n tanlinellu rhyddid a rhyddid personol, yn fuan iawn ar ôl ei chyhoeddi ym 1215. Ar ôl cael ei hailgyhoeddi ym 1217 roedd yn cynnwys ail ddogfen, Siarter y Goedwig, a barhaodd yn gyfraith hyd 1971. Siarter y Goedwig Gellir dadlau bod coedwig yn arwyddocaol i fwy o bobl na Magna Carta, a anelwyd at elitaidd y wlad. Roedd Siarter y Goedwig yn ffrwyno pŵer di-rwystr y frenhiniaeth dros goedwigoedd Lloegr ac yn ailddatgan hawliau'r bobl gyffredin. Nid oedd coedwigoedd yn cynnwys coed yn unig ond roeddent yn cynnwys ardaloedd mawr o diroedd comin megis rhostir, glaswelltir a gwlyptiroedd.
Cafodd Siarter y Coed ei greu dros bythefnos gan gydweithrediad o oddeutu 20 o bobl (dynol a mwy na dynol), yn ystod preswylfa tri mis Ysgol Arbrofol Dod at ein Coed Utopias Bach yn Pontio.
Trwy ddigwyddiadau hybrid yn yr ystaffell ac ar-zoom gwnaethom ail-ddigwyddiadau hawliau dynol, hawliau natur, deddfwriaeth/cyfraith achos, a llên gwerin a chyfraith arferol ('gwreiddiol' neu 'frodorol') i greu siarter y coed.
Roedd y sgrôl a ddeilliodd o hyn, heb ei ffurio wrth i'r canol y canol ein 'coedwig ddod i feddiant Pontio' Pontio ym mis Mai 2022. Mwy o wybodaeth/dogfennaeth gweler: www.utopiasbach.org/siarter-y-coed
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Charter of the Trees (2022), Utopias Bach, in collaboration with GwyrddNi and LORE (Legal Origins Rights Education & Art)
The Magna Carta, a document that underscores personal liberties and freedoms, was repealed very soon after being issued in 1215. On being reissued in 1217 it included a second document, the Charter of the Forest, which remained law until 1971. The Charter of the Forest was arguably significant to more people than Magna Carta, which was aimed at the elite of the country. The Charter of the Forest curbed the unbridled power of the monarchy over England's forests and reasserted the rights of the common people. Forests did not consist only of trees but included large areas of commons such as heathland, grassland, and wetlands.
Charter of the Trees was created over two weeks by a collaboration of around 20 people (human and more than human), during Utopias Bach's three-month Ysgol Arbrofol Dod at Ein Coed / Tree Sense Experimental School residency at Pontio.
Through hybrid in-room and on-zoom events we re-imagined human rights, nature rights, legislation/case law, and folk-lore and customary ('original' or 'indigenous') law to create the Charter of the Trees.
The resulting scroll, was unfurled as the centre-piece our 'Forest comes to Pontio' takeover of Pontio in May 2022. More info/documentation see: www.utopiasbach.org/siarter-y-coed