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Dina Kelberman – It’s Probably Whatever You Think It Is

1.3.23 – 28.3.23 Dina Kelberman is a multi-media artist who explores human nature through found digital media. Her accumulations create monuments to our pervasive need to connect, create, and destroy. She has created web-based pieces for the New Museum and Marina Abramovic Institute and exhibits internationally. Her work has been written about by The New […]

Tom Crawford & Samuel Hasler

15.5.23 – 29.5.23 Tom Crawford and Samuel Hasler take residency online at Arcade Campfa for the next two weeks. Over the past couple of years they have been accumulating an eclectic range of film, text, animation and audio with loose connections to cinema, suburban spaces and the nocturnal, whilst also at times, reflecting on the […]

Traethlinau: Poppit Sands

“Our final play on the sand was on the beach at Poppit Sands. Instead of creating a circular design, this time sand artist Rachel Shiamh designed something that allowed us to work closely with the natural landscape, so we moved around the rocks creating a piece of sand art that looks completely at home amongst the rocks.

It was a sunny and cold morning, ❄ so we were delighted that Anglea, Director at WAHWN set up a little camp area with hot drinks and homemade banana bread. Nourishing on all levels!

This event was part of Shorelines – a creative wellbeing offer for Hywel Dda staff, commissioned by Hywel Dda Arts in Health team and produced by WAHWN

Gwobr Gelf/Arts Prize: Aildanio – Galeri

Mae’r arddangosfa gelf Aildanio, sydd yn dangos gwaith o Wobr Gelf Celfyddydau Anabledd Cymru, yn symud i Galeri Caernarfon!

04/03 – 15/04

Mwy o wybodaeth am weithdai Aildanio isod

North Wales Wildlife Trust – Wild Words

The Wildlife Trusts are a grassroots movement of people working together for wildlife. The Wildlife Trusts cover the UK to improve places for wildlife and influence governments to ensure a future for wildlife.   Wild Words is a feature from Wild North Wales, where readers are encouraged to explore and respond to a poem featured […]

WAHWN Cymru

The Wales Arts Health and Well-being Network (WAHWN) is a rapidly expanding network of colleagues delivering arts and health work in Wales. The Network represents members from the arts, health and HE sectors and includes practitioners working across the full range of art form practice in health, arts and other community settings.

How Ya Doing? Sut Mae’n Mynd?

How Ya Doing? Artist Wellbeing Programme / Rhaglen Llesiant Artistiaid Sut Mae’n Mynd?

How Ya Doing? was a pan-Wales artist support programme commissioned by Arts Council Wales in response to the need to support the wellbeing and mental health of freelance artists in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Delivered by Engage Cymru, How Ya Doing? was a pilot programme offering a range of different support offers including peer support groups, group gatherings, reflective practice and coaching groups. It was delivered over three seasons between November 2021 and April 2022.

The project was evaluated by Jane Willis.

“Y mae stafell…’ Catrin Gwilym

Ffilm gan / A film by Juliette Daum, Oak Wren Productions

Ar gyfer arddangosfa Catrin Gwilym yn Pontio, hyd at 28 Chwefror

Catrin Gwilym yw Artist y Mis Disability Arts Cymru! Dysgwch fwy yma

Catrin Gwilym

“A journey to understand the world and my place in it is always the starting point to my artwork – and through various mediums attempting to question what it means to belong and also how people and places on the margins fit in to the larger jigsaw. All this came about after being made redundant and my attempt to come to terms with this as a middle aged and disabled Welsh woman. Considering how some doors close and others open in wonderful and unexpected ways. Basically a storyteller trying to find her voice. And this through rummaging the layers of the tale. Collecting and connecting, as a means to find conclusions.”

Catrin Gwilym is a multidisciplinary artist from Porthmadog, who changed career paths after being made redundant at middle age. She studied art through Bangor University’s part-time courses in the community. She currently has an exhibition at Pontio, Bangor, which is her first solo show in a leading Welsh institution.

“This Journal is an account of the last ten years; periods of trying to find new ways of dealing with loss. It is a consideration of locations, dislocations and at times relocations: of opportunities, second opportunities and lack of opportunities and their potential to change lives.

It is a celebration of the places on the peripheries – through wandering, discovering and reflecting in five specific places – looking for the extraordinary in the ordinary, the unusual in the usual, and the unfamiliar in the familiar. But here also there is a lamentation for endings, for thrown-away treasures and things ceasing, whether that be through lack of investment or apathy.

Y Bocs Gwyn at Pontio was the last piece in the jigsaw in terms of exhibiting the work of the Jyrnal, but because of the pandemic the show – which was intended to include several other artists – was cancelled in May 2020. By revisiting the space recently with the film-maker Juliette Daum, I had the opportunity to try to process what had existed, what had been lost, and the things that come our way through new opportunities. And all of this through conclusions and attempting to arrive at conclusions.

More details of her exhibition, ‘Y Mae Stafell’ can be found here

SUMMIT: Artist Call Out – Cerddoriaeth O Gymru: Pioneering Change

Beacons Cymru are in search of artists to contribute works to an exhibition taking place in Cardiff on March 2nd as part of the Summit Festival 2023. The exhibition theme is “Cerddoriaeth O Gymru (Music Of Wales): Pioneering Change”. We ask that applicants submit works based on their personal interpretation of this theme. We accept […]

Noson Gelf / Art Night SBÊSHAL

This is the Noson Gelf / Art Night Sbêshal, twelve and twenty hours of live broadcasting condensed into an hour and a half to give you a little taster of what just happened. If you’d like to see the full interviews in all their live glory, then they can also be found here on our channel on AM.

Rwyt ti’n barod am newid!

Dwyt ti ddim am guddio’r mislif dim mwy. Rwyt ti am leisio dy rwystredigaeth er mwyn cael dy weld a dy glywed heb ddychryn na chynhyrfu.

Digon yw digon o ragfarn yn erbyn y mislif.

‘Period’ dim Mislif – Perchnogi’r Mislif yn y Gymraeg

‘Period’ dim Mislif – Perchnogi’r Mislif yn y Gymraeg

Dwi isio defnyddio’r Gymraeg yn naturiol i fynegi fy mhrofiad o fod yn ferch sydd yn byw gyda’r milsif.

Dydw i ddim am fenthyg geiriau i rannu pwy ydw i. DWI ISIO BOD YN FERCH GYFLAWN YN Y GYMRAEG.

Merched o dy flaen a tu ôl i ti

Merched o dy flaen a tu ôl i ti

Gyda’n gilydd mi allwn ni greu ein WAL GOCH MISLIF ein hunain.

Bloeddio cefnogaeth i’n gilydd – yma o hyd!

Merched, mislif, pêl-droed

Fe ddaw y dydd pan fydd y cylchdro yn cael ei ddathlu yn agored. Tan hynny, mi allwn ni gyd addunedu i normaleiddio’r mislif.

Merched, Mislif, Pêl-droed

Prosiect creadigol hefo merched sydd yn chwarae pêl-droed yn rhoi cyfle i rannu profiadau am y mislif. Creu gofod saff i ddychmygu byd lle mae’r mislif yn cael ei ‘normaleiddio’.

Dydi dy fislif ddim yn dy gadw ar y fainc

Gall hyfforddi a chwarae pêl-droed leddfu poenau mislif. Mae gen ti hawl i egluro sut mae’r mislif yn dy effeithio yn gorfforol ac emosiynol heb deimlo cywilydd. Mae hi’n bosibl dod dros heriau’r mislif wrth siarad yn agored a chael cefnogaeth.

“Yr un chwaraeon = yr un chwarae teg”

Nid yw sicrhau hawliau yn bygwth ond yn hytrach yn grymuso pawb. Wrth i bêl-droed merched ffynnu mae cyfleon a phosibliadau newydd yn agor i garfannau ehangach o fewn cymdeithas.

Maniffesto Cylchdro

Dyma mae merched sy’n chwarae pêl-droed eisiau ei sefydlu fel hawliau sylfaenol. Mae’n rhaid i ferched ddeall eu cyrff, eu meddwl eu hemosiynau er mwyn bod ar eu gorau ar gae pêl-droed. Rhaid darganfod ffyrdd diogel i fechgyn a dynion, a phob hunaniaeth, ddeall a siarad am y mislif er mwyn cynnig gwell cyfleon i bawb.

Gaeaf – Mislif

Mi all y cyfnod yma deimlo’n llwm ac heb gysur. Ond mae gen ti benderfyniad – defnyddia fo i dy fantais dy hun.

Rwyt ti’n arwres yn delio hefo dy fislif.

Gwanwyn – Cyn Ofylu

Mae gen ti egni di-ben-draw. Does yn ddim diwedd i beth y gelli gyflawni. Dos amdani! Neu wyt ti yn oedi ac yn pwyllo? Gwranda ar dy reddf.

Haf – Ofylu

Mae gen ti bositifrwydd .Mae’n amser delfrydol i ddychmygu beth wyt ti am gyflawni mewn bywyd.

Ond efallai bod dy gylchdro yn dylanwadu arnat ti yn wahanol ac mae hynny yn iawn.

Hydref – Wedi ofylu ond heb ddechrau gwaedu

Gall fod yn amser lle’r wyt ti’n sensitif- lle mae’n hawdd dy gorddi di. Defnyddia’r gallu hwn i asesu dy fod yn gofyn ac yn derbyn yr hyn yr wyt ti ei angen.

Mae dy sensitifrwydd yn arf i dy gynnal.

Mae gen ti hawl i deimlo pob emosiwn fel merch. Perchnoga dy wylltineb, dy rwystredigaeth a dy angerdd.

Paid ag ysgwyddo heriau’r mislif dy hun.

Paid ag ysgwyddo heriau’r mislif dy hun.

Gall siarad hefo merched eraill mewn gofod saff ysgafnhau poenau y mislif. Cychwynna sgwrs am y mislif pan wyt ti’n teimlo’n saff.

Gyda’n gilydd gallwn chwalu tabw y mislif.

Dim mwy o guddio – rydym am rannu profidau’r mislif mewn ffyrdd cynhwysol a diogel.

Mae gen ti’r hawl i amddiffyn dy hun trwy dy gylchdro.

Mae’r cylchdro yn broses naturiol sydd yn cymryd amser i’w ddeall ac i arfer hefo’r newid emosiynol , corfforol a meddyliol.

Rhaid i ti gael gofod diogel i drafod, i leisio dy anghenion a datrys yr heriau.

Ddylai ‘run ferch golli cyfle, guddio na dioddef oherwydd y mislif a’r cylchdro.

Gwyneba dy gôl yn hyderus

Mae gen ti dim o ferched o dy gwmpas i dy gefnogi.

Ffeindia dactegau sydd yn dy helpu a bydd yn agored i drio patrymau newydd.

Mae rhaid cael cydwbysedd rhwng ymosod ac amddiffyn ar gae pêl-droed fel mewn bywyd.

Ond mwynha’r gêm, beth bynnag fo’r sgôr.

Addysg Emosiynol am y mislif i bawb

Mae angen i ni gyd glywed am brofiadau’r mislif i gefnogi ein gilydd. Yn ifanc a hen yn fenywaidd, yn wrywaidd neu yn anneuaidd.

Nid dim ond ffeithiau ond effaith ar emosiynau a iechyd meddwl.

Dy egni di sy’n symud y bêl

Paid â gwastraffu dy egni. Mae dy hormonau, dy emosiynau a dy feddyliau yn newid dy egni. Ond mi elli di ail gyfeirio dy egni wrth ddeall sut mae dy gorff yn ymateb i bopeth.

Bydd yn effro yn dy gorff.

“Nid oes atebion wedi bod”

Er bod merched wedi gofyn am gefnogaeth , mae rhai sefyllfaoedd lle mae oedolion yn ei chael hi’n anodd trafod y mislif er mwyn datrys problemau.

Mae Cylchdro yn galw am drafodaeth ARORED a DIOGEL i roi atebion yn eu lle.

Madaraja Art Store

Following the success of our Madaraja art exhibitions in Cardiff and Swansea, the art work is now available to buy here!