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FACADE by Tijesunmi Olakojo

Lead Creative, Performer/Writer – Tijesunmi Olakojo
Creative Director – Sita Thomas
Make-up Artist – Sharon Kostini
Producer – Tumi Williams
Lighting – Audiocave Cardiff
Props – The Safe Foundation, Cardiff
Venue – Wales Millennium Centre

Happy Medium by Elicia Axon

Lead Creative, Writer/Performer – Elicia Axon
Stage Manager – Danny Muir
Filmmaker – Aled Wyn Thomas
Props – Celtic Prop Hire
Venue – Chapter Arts Centre
Creative Director – Sita Thomas
Producer – Mehdi Razi

a limestone glossary

An audio-visual introduction to ‘a limestone glossary’ by Julie Upmeyer and Mari Rose Pritchard. Hear the artists in discussion about the book and their ongoing project ‘Void Fraction’ – an artistic exploration of limestone, limestone quarries and their by-products.

More about the book


Traditionally a glossary is an alphabetical list of terms specific to a particular subject or field, a glimpse into an internal language. ‘a limestone glossary’ keeps this function at is core, while exploring the possibilities of a glossary as a visual experience. The glossary encompasses English, Welsh and Turkish-languages entires.

Supported by Wales Arts International as part of the International Opportunities Fund.

Twenty Tales

Twenty Tales is a vision of movement and sound that transcends culture and generation. Twenty dancers unite in a collective experience to evoke human emotion through rich physicality that celebrates virtuosity, rhythms, dynamics and powerful music by the renewed composer Mercan Dede. The unique combination of contemporary, folk, and traditional dance makes this work timeless and deeply connected to ancestral roots.

Choreographer: Mario Bermúdez
Assistant Choreographer: Catherine Coury
Composer: Mercan Dede
Costume Design: George Hampton Wales
Lighting Design: Chris lllingworth
Producer: Jamie Jenkins

spacecraft presents Young Creatives Wales

Bilingual art journal displaying work from Young Creatives from across Wales. Featuring interviews and articles about the arts in Wales; crafts and spaces; music and poetry; artists’ studios and Welsh art collectives.

Size: A5
Pages: 140
Recycled uncoated 125gsm paper.

2-5 days dispatch. Royal Mail 2nd Class.

Buy your copy here.

Cardiff Umbrella

Cardiff Umbrella is a community focussed arts collective, led by queer artists! We are socially driven, fostering an ‘open door’ ethos that welcomes all folks to contribute to our physical and digital spaces. We provide a supportive environment for others to create, learn and form meaningful connections.

Stephanie-Bailey Scott

Our Artist of the Month for February is Stephanie Bailey-Scott, the Access, Participation, and Inclusion Manager at Taking Flight Theatre Company. She is a Deaf BSL user and is also known for her pretty fabulous walking sticks. Her work at Taking Flight includes running Wales’s only youth theatre for Deaf and hoh young people, running training such as Deaf awareness, consultancy, BSL/ENG translation and acting too. She is also passionate about art and regularly paints in her free time.

Learn more about Stephanie’s work.

Headshot credit: Claire Cousin

Social handles:

X/Twitter: @deafsteph95

Facebook: Steph Bailey-Scott

Instagram: @stephh137

Grŵp Celf Soar

A weekly art group lead by artist Gus Payne.

Tuesdays (term time), 1pm – 3pm

Artist Call-Out

KumbuKumbu

Wales, with her own history of colonialization, and the continuous experiences of keeping memory, language and place names alive, can be a place of solidarity and experimentation in the reworking of history. We propose to create a website which combines mapping, storytelling and augmented reality to create ‘Kumbukumbu’; a layering of our mutual Welsh-African memories across the land. 

Funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund, we are interested in Welsh-African heritage and culture. We define this as any link between Wales and Africa, including the history or people of African descent in the Caribbean and the history of people from Wales in Africa. We are interested in a broad historical scope, ranging from early Roman times to contemporary culture. The heritage we collate must be in some way connected to landmarks such as buildings, sites, statues, objects, roads, ports, etc. 

We want to include histories that are challenging, joyful, painful, inspiring and more, with users of the app being able to apply filters and tailor their experiences. Examples include:

  • Africans in the Roman legions, Roman sites

  • ‘Black Jack’
  • The Africa Institute of Colwyn Bay and the burial sites of the ‘Congo Boys’
  • Key monuments as highlighted in the recent review of Welsh statues and places linked to slavery

Oil Painting Masterclass

New year, new start.

Why not start the year by getting creative and come along to the Oil Painting Masterclass at Siop Soar!

Oil Painting Masterclass with artist Gus Payne.

1 – 4pm, Tuesday, 16th January, 2024.

or

6 – 9pm, Tuesday, 13th February, 2024.

(Please note: There is a choice of two different days. The session is during one day only).

A bilingual oil painting session, where you will create a painting in the style of the artist, following him step by step over the course of the session.

Welsh speakers and learners of all levels are welcome at this session.

Registration essential

£5 – Materials included.

Please email siop@merthyrtudful.org

Artistiaid Y Lle Celf 2023

Enjoy a special film documenting some of Wales’ most exciting contemporary artists!

Culture Colony journeyed across Wales to interview artists that presented work at Y Lle Celf at the 2023 Eisteddfod, including Llŷr Evans, Ruth Jên Evans and John Rowley.

Here’s a chance to learn more about their creative processes and to revisit their work.

Gypsy Makers Tour

Launch at Tŷ Pawb 19th January 2024 from 5.30pm to 7.30pm

The Romani Cultural & Arts Company (RCAC) is excited to announce the launch of the latest edition of their ground-breaking Gypsy Maker project. Gypsy Makers is a new touring exhibition that will feature work from artists that the RCAC has commissioned since the inception of the Gypsy Maker initiative in 2014. The Gypsy Makers touring exhibition will show new and existing artworks to mark the tenth anniversary of the Gypsy Maker programme which has been fully supported by the Arts Council of Wales.

Gypsy Makers Exhibition Tour Schedule 2024

Tŷ Pawb Market Street, Wrexham, Wales, LL13 8BY FREE ADMISSION – Monday to Saturday 10am – 4pm Exhibition: 20th January 2024 – 30th March 2024. Exhibition Launch 19th January 2024 from 5.30pm to 7.30pm

g39, Oxford St, Cardiff, CF24 3DT, FREE ADMISSION – Wednesday to Saturday 11am – 5pm Exhibition: 10th April 2024 – 25th May 2024

The Riverfront, Kingsway, Newport, NP20 1HG, FREE ADMISSION – Monday to Saturday 10am – 5pm Exhibition: 5th June 2024 – 27th June 2024

Image: Emergency Artefact (toy), 2023. Metalised polyethelene rescue blanket and cotton thread. Photo and © Daniel Baker

Cymru Fenis 10

Disability Arts Cymru commissioned work by 6 disabled, deaf or neurodiverse artists as part of the ‘Cymru Fenis 10’ programme – 2 on a small scale, 2 on a medium scale and 2 on a large scale.

Enjoy a taste of the artists’ work here!

Giles W Bennett – Nature’s Algorithms

A short video compilation from R&D shows at The Star of The Sea (Borth) Chapter Arts (Cardiff) and The Place (Newport).

The soundtrack is also a compilation of the multichannel audio that accompanies the Immersive Installation piece

Solid State, Liquid Dreaming

A transformative art installation and 48-hour livestream.

ice.strong.melting
paper.air.displaced
breath.water.never mixing
wax.solid.state
sphere.liquid.dreaming
time.forty.eight

Within solid there is liquid within liquid there is gas. The present contains the past laying pathways towards the future. This installation is that connection it is time itself. 2880 minutes of constant transformation painfully slow and positively fast vulnerable to external forces but aren’t we all. A window. Transitional. Entwined.

https://www.julieupmeyer.com/solid-state-liquid-dreaming/

Spherescape – Gold

First in a series of experimental videos translating three-dimensional environments to two-dimensional videos, which can in turn be projected onto three-dimensional surfaces. This video was made by placing a gopro camera on a solar-powered rotating base, which allowed it to spin on its own inside the created environment. Created while artist-in-resident at the Gyeonggi Creation Centre, South Korea.

‘Propinquity – An Evolution’ Landlines Studio

Landlines Studio
Propinquity – An Evolution
2021
brick, charcoal, plaster, slate, soil, soot, stone, rust, copper oxide ink, acrylic, spray paint, botanical matter and stitched elements on canvas and silk.

Acting as a visual timeline, this work commemorated 100 years of the house using the entire pigment collection and 100 stitches. Seven months ago, the painting was buried horizontally alongside the pond, half above the soil, half below. Rebirthed, it has returned to its initial place within 2020 exhibition.

As part of the Bodfa Continuum exhibition at Plas Bodfa
9-24 April, 2022

History, storytelling and contemporary art collide in this fusion exhibition occupying the entirety of Plas Bodfa. This immersive exhibition exists in the space between fiction and non-fiction, real and imagined, yesterday and tomorrow.

Mae hanes adrodd straeon a chelf gyfoes yn gwrthdaro yn yr arddangosfa ymdoddedig hon sy’n meddiannu Plas Bodfa. Bydd yr arddangosfa ymdrwythol yn bodoli mewn gofod ffuglennol a ffeithiol, y gwirionedd a’r dychmygol, ddoe a heddiw.

More about the show : plasbodfa.com/bodfa-continuum

Joskin Ripper by Helmet

The surfaces of Plas Bodfa become a three-dimensional theatre for the skateboarders of Helmet.

Exploring the walls, floors, thresholds and doorways, they play with gravity, time and space.

Included as part of ‘Sui Generis – the Possibilities of a House’ at Plas Bodfa, Anglesey, Wales 2019.

www.plasbodfa.com/sui-generis

Stones Stories, Norman Payne

These stories are inspired by Norman Payne’s site specific installation at Plas Bodfa. They are written and performed by Norman Payne as a mocumentary to accompany his installation.

Void Fraction – a journey through limestone.

Very proud to share our collaboration with the Geological Society of London. We were invited to present Void Fraction as a masterclass, an example of how artists can engage with geoscience.  “Finding your Artistic Voice in the Natural World” shows ways in which geology and art can be creatively combined. This is part of their Geoscience Everyday Competition leading up to Earth Science Week 2023.

North Wales Africa Society

North Wales Africa Society (NWAS) is a friendship and community organisation based in Gwynedd, North Wales, UK.   NWAS is a collective of members of the African diaspora community, and people who have interest in Africa.

Gwerin

An exhibition by Queer People of Colour

Curated by Neo Ukandu

Featuring: Vidhi Chaudhary, Dainty Dafana, Ophelia Dos Santos, Tammy, MÉlanffro Madziva, Ali Malik, Isra Mohamed, Tuck Muntarbhorn, Sabine Wilson-Patrick

You can check it out from Fri-Sun for the rest of September at Dyddiau Du!

Ymddiriedolaeth Ynys Enlli Cyf

Bardsey Island is a wild Welsh island located 2 miles off the Llŷn Peninsula. With a rich wildlife, dramatic coastline and fascinating history, there is plenty to discover from a day trip or a holiday on this unique island.