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AmCam #4: Guidelines

If you’d like to discuss your application, please contact am@pyst.net.   What is AmCam? AmCam is a film festival on the Am website. Three rounds of AmCam have been held so far, with 12 films commissioned to date. In this round, four films based on the theme of ‘Environment’ will be commissioned. AmCam is supported […]

QueerAF Partnership: Fighting Back Against The EHRC Code

The EHRC code of conduct threatens the safety and daily reality of Trans+ people across the UK. As the pendulum of our decade swings towards more fundamentalist definitions of gender and sex, Trans+ folk still need to negotiate the same world as everyone else. We need toilets, changing rooms, and showers. We need safety, consistency, […]

Nôl i’r Preseli

Photo of Mirain Iwerydd in front of green fields

Y Preseli. Maen nhw’n fwy na thalpau o dir llawn gelaets a grug sy’n amgylchynu dalgylch yr Eisteddfod eleni. I mi, maen nhw’n gysur – y cysur o wybod fy mod i’n rhan o stori barhaus fy mro, sy’n gymaint yn fwy na fy hanes i fel unigolyn. Yn yr ysgol, wrth baratoi at fy […]

Keeping Wales Close: Finding the Bychanfyd Cymraeg Beyond the Border

Manchester-based student Mirain Owen reflects on the power of Welsh-language media – both beyond the border and at home. When I left home for university in Manchester, a lot of people warned me about hiraeth. They told me I would miss Wales, my family, my friends, and the familiar landscape of home. I half expected […]

Book our Circus

Organized Kaos is a youth and community circus based in the Neath and Port Talbot valleys.   To book Organised Kaos, click here

Artist of the Month: Bridie Doyle-Roberts

Our Artist of the Month is Bridie Doyle-Roberts, a multidisciplinary Artist based in Pontypridd whose work involves creating immersive sensory spaces. After training in Dance she founded Citrus Arts, a circus, dance and outdoor arts charity where she acted as Co-Director for 15 years. In this role she created festival, site-specific and touring theatre productions […]

Celeste Burr-Herrera – paper-work, wasp-work, care-work

Through this residency I will be developing a body of work; paper-work, wasp-work, care-work– a series of videos as assembled digital fragments alongside live digital performance. Emerging from explorations in how institutional documentation can be metabolised through the body, metaphor, found materials and then re-scripted digitally, I will construct a counter-archive rooted in care and […]

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Mary Ocana – Bosque De Mil Mariposas

Bosque De Mil Mariposas (Forest Of A Thousand Butterflies) takes the form of a video-game-like exploration that takes place inside an abandoned cabin in the woods of Mexico. The viewer is prompted to explore the inside of the cabin, equipped with a backpack, a pen and journal. What did this cabin used to be? What […]

Artist of the Month: Carla Hixon

Artist of the Month is a feature where we put the spotlight on the incredible work of one of our members. May’s Artist of the Month is Carla Hixon! Carla Hixon currently has artwork being exhibited in Oswestry Community Action (formerly The Qube). The show, titled One Gallery 4 Artists, runs from 5th May to […]

Brethyn Cartref – (Pam Common Art Collective)

Llais y Lle Project – Brethyn Cartref: Bringing together women with lived experience of the asylum system and Welsh-speaking creatives to explore language, identity and belonging through research and artistic collaboration.   About Llais y Lle: The Arts Council of Wales is delighted to announce the organisations selected to receive funding through the latest round […]

Llais y Lle Dyfi (Ennyn CIC)

Llais y Lle Project – Llais y Lle Dyfi: A community-wide creative enquiry linking Cymraeg to lived experience through nature connection, outdoor activity and artist residencies across the Dyfi Valley, in collaboration with youth-led arts space Sploj.   About Llais y Lle: The Arts Council of Wales is delighted to announce the organisations selected to receive funding through the […]

Y Gloch, Y Gwrych a’r Gwlychu (Partneriaeth Dyffryn Peris)

Llais y Lle Project – Y Gloch, Y Gwrych a’r Gwlychu: An open call and collaborative response to environmental and cultural change in Dyffryn Peris. Commissioning artists to develop work in and with communities at the intersection of climate, language, culture and identity.   About Llais y Lle: The Arts Council of Wales is delighted […]

Bara’r Nefoedd (Capel y Rhondda)

Llais y Lle Project – Bara’r Nefoedd: Building on a successful community campaign to save Capel Rhondda, this multi arts project explores the role of Cymraeg in the past, present and future of the area and in shaping the building’s future community use.   About Llais y Lle: The Arts Council of Wales is delighted […]

Llais y Lle: Pentredwr (Pentredwr and District Community Association)

Llais y Lle Project – Llais y Lle: Pentredwr: A year-long creative “laboratory” rooted in community experience and hiraeth, developing Cymraeg in playful and participatory ways.   About Llais y Lle: The Arts Council of Wales is delighted to announce the organisations selected to receive funding through the latest round of Llais y Lle (Voice […]

Iaith y Pridd (Carreg Greadigol)

Llais y Lle Project – Iaith y Pridd: A place-based collaboration with Utopias Bach at Fferm Henbant, exploring how relationships with Cymraeg evolve through seasonal cycles of growing, learning and making together. More information: https://www.utopiasbach.org/iaith-y-pridd   About Llais y Lle: The Arts Council of Wales is delighted to announce the organisations selected to receive funding […]

Crud y Tirfor (Yr Heliwr Nefyn)

Llais y Lle Project – Crud y Tirfor: An interdisciplinary arts project engaging communities through creative activity, making and shared celebration, fostering pride and unity through Cymraeg.   About Llais y Lle: The Arts Council of Wales is delighted to announce the organisations selected to receive funding through the latest round of Llais y Lle […]

Ffiniau – Y tir a’r iaith rhyngddynt (Organised Kaos)

Llais y Lle Project – Ffiniau – Y tir a’r iaith rhyngddynt   A creative intervention exploring the impact of shifting boundaries in the Aman/Tawe valleys, using circus and music to examine identity, language and post-industrial change.   About Llais y Lle:   The Arts Council of Wales is delighted to announce the organisations selected […]

Where’s the Welsh Cinema?

By Nia Edwards-Behi  Nia holds a doctorate from Aberystwyth University and works at the Screen and Sound Archive of the National Library of Wales. She is the co-director of the Abertoir Horror Festival, a programmer for the Wales One World Film Festival and contributes regularly to events and publications on film. Throughout her career, Nia […]

Delfrydiaeth niwlog papur gwyrdd ar ddiwylliant

This content is in Welsh only A dyna a welir yn yr adroddiad meddal, amwys yma a gyfieithwyd i sgrwtsh o Gymraeg annealladwy, heb gynnig ffydd y bydd yn arwain at unrhyw welliannau clir yn y byd go‑ Mae Richard Wyn Jones yn y cylchgrawn hwn wedi tynnu sylw at y ffaith fod Senedd Cymru […]

Understanding Our Place and Using Our Voice

Recently, Inclusive Journalism were partners on Newyddion i Bawb: a deep listening research project based in Blaenau Ffestiniog. Led by our founder Shirish Kulkarni – who was funded by Creative Communities to carry out the work along with a team of facilitators – the project followed on from the News for All report in Grangetown, […]

QueerAF Partnership: Welsh Cross-dressing Farmers and Gender Diversity

In the 1830s and 1840s, large parts of rural west Wales were shaken by a series of uprisings – with protesters disguising themselves as women – now known as the Rebecca Riots. It’s easy to look back at this, with a queer lens – but if we do, the nuanced learnings for our community are […]

Journalists and the Case for Connecting

Back in December, we were delighted to announce Sofia Lewis as the recipient of our inaugural Cynefin Fellowship. As part of the fellowship, Sofia is spending a term at the Reuters Institute in Oxford, exploring the future of journalism alongside six other Fellows from around the world. This is the first in a series of […]

QueerAF Partnership: Why Social Media Bans Are Bad News for Queer Welsh Youth

When conversations about social media bans reach the halls of Westminster, they are framed as a straightforward safeguarding issue. One that can be solved with broad language and all-encompassing solutions for 2026’s youth. Politicians seem buoyed by bans elsewhere, including in Australia, Indian states and now Spain. That’s despite increasing warnings of the harm they […]

Artist of the Month: Paul Eastwood

Artist of the Month is a feature where we put the spotlight on the incredible work of one of our members. Our Artist of the Month for April is Paul Eastwood! Read the feature below: I am a visual artist living and working in Wrexham, Wales. My new exhibition, ‘Unreadings’ (2026), currently on at Mostyn […]

Artist of the Month: Durre Shahwar

Artist of the Month is a feature where we put the spotlight on the incredible work of one of our members. Our Artist of the Month is Durre Shahwar, an award-winning writer, editor, and artist whose work examines identity, narrative form, and the politics of representation. Durre recently had her first solo exhibition, ‘One of […]

Manon Dafydd – Artist in Residence 2025

Manon Dafydd is an artist and graphic designer from Y Felinheli. After completing the art foundation course at Coleg Menai, Bangor, she went on to graduate with a BA in Graphic Design at Central Saint Martins, London. Since returning home Manon has been developing her artistic practice whilst enjoying various experiences of working with children, […]

Jeanette Gray – Artist in Residence 2025

Jeanette Gray, originally from Scotland and now based in mid Wales, is a weaver and artist who specialises in working with wild, locally gathered plant materials. She began weaving in 2012 after attending her first willow basketry course – “love at first basket”! In 2017, she completed a two-year professional training in basketry at City […]

Alison Neighbour – Artist in Residence 2025

Alison is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist working across performance, installation, and social engagement. Her work invites re-enchantment with the natural world through ritual moments, immersive journeys, and interactive installations. She reimagines spaces for performance and social connection with a strong focus on sustainability. The embodied, sensory relationship between audience, place, and story is central to […]

Richard Harris – Artist in Residence 2025

Richard Harris (b 1954, Devon) has been making environmental sculpture since 1976. While studying at Gloucestershire College of Art and Design, he chose to work outdoors, building structures from found stone and wood. After his studies, he spent a year based in a Dartmoor studio, further deepening his connection with nature. Harris rose to prominence […]