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BFI Short Course

We’ve been location scouting! 

The young filmmakers on TAPE’S BFI Film Academy Short Course have been busy developing the script for their short film. There are no spoilers, but it’s a powerful story and looks great! 

Last week, the group had the chance to explore the backstage dressing rooms at Venue Cymru in Llandudno. We had a guided tour, took some reference footage, and got a sense of the space available to us. 

A huge thanks to Venue Cymru for their accommodation, we’ll be back again next week to begin filming!

Plas Glyn y Weddw

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A Vibrant arts centre and museum in a Gothic Victorian building showcasing some of the best contemporary Welsh art and crafts.

PSYLENCE 2024

Weekend of events to celebrate our friend and colleague – Emyr Glyn Williams (Emyr Ankst)

4-6/10/24

Pontio presents a weekend of special events this October to celebrate and remember our friend and colleague, Emyr Glyn Williams (Emyr Ankst).

Psylence was one of the most exciting events Emyr organised here at Pontio with bands such as Datblygu, Adwaith and R. Seiliog setting live scores to various films such as Andy Warhol’s Kiss, Maya Deren’s short films, Dovzhenko’s Earth and much more.

Emyr’s saying was ‘build it, and they will come’ – so, we are building on the most innovative, exciting and bold events Emyr curated, with a full weekend of events; Psylence 2024 is the biggest yet.

All proceeds will go to charities Cancer Research UK as chosen by Emyr’s family.

More events and artists to be announced!

More information and tickets

Hope Productions – The Right Door

The Right Door is an animated web series about mental health. It has been made by young people for young people. Each episode looks at a specific issue and offers ideas on how and where to get support. The series has been created and produced by Hope Productions in Ysgol y Gogarth through support from TAPE Community Music and Film. This is a Welsh Government project, funded and supported by the North Wales Regional Partnership Board.

Every Child a Filmmaker

Here at TAPE, we re currently delivering a 6-session program developed by Into Film. The programme has been created to encourage young people to express themselves and their stories through film. The programme will allow young people to learn filmmaking skills from professionals and bring new perspectives to the screen. 

Coastline Film Festival

We are excited to announce that the Coastline Film Festival tickets are now on sale! Programmed by TAPE’s Media Club, this year’s festival presents a selection of films with themes linked to TAPE’s 3rd feature film, Below the Waves. The festival will take place between the 14th and 16th of August at the TAPE Community Arts Centre in Old Colwyn.

Get your tickets here!

Aildanio: Part One

A film by Culture Colony about Disability Arts Cymru’s Aildanio Arts Prize!

The Film is in two parts: Part 1 exploring the arts practices of the artists, and Part 2 showcasing the Aildanio touring exhibition itself.

Aildanio: Rhan Dau | Part Two

A film by Culture Colony about Disability Arts Cymru’s Aildanio Arts Prize!

The Film is in two parts: Part 1 exploring the arts practices of the artists, and Part 2 showcasing the Aildanio touring exhibition itself.

Gwneuthurwyr Ffilmiau Cymunedol AM | AM Community Filmmakers

Earlier this year, AM shared a call-out offering four filmmakers £500 towards creating a short film about community culture in Wales. These films will document arts or social activity, or the specific work of individuals/organizations within various communities. The scheme has been funded by Arts Council of Wales as part of the multi-year funding PYST Cyf […]

Watch Africa 2024

Watch-Africa Cymru is Wales’ annual African film festival that celebrates the best of the continent’s cinema.

Launched in 2013, the festival brings a wide range of films and events by African and African diasporas as well as Welsh and international directors and artists.

Watch Africa brings a wide-range of films covering areas across the continent, as well as engaging and interactive activities and events related to the festival. It provides a platform for works by African, African diasporas as well as Welsh and international directors and artists which bring fresh perspectives on Africa to its economic, social, political and cultural life.

Teulu / Family

2 March – 23 June 2024 

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Teulu (Family) is a unique exhibition that sees 4 families from Ceredigion working with Aberystwyth Arts Centre to co-curate a major exhibition that takes inspiration and shows works from our national collections at National Library of Wales, National Museum Wales – Amgueddfa Cymru and School of Art, Museum and Galleries, Aberystwyth University. 

It is a project that breaks new ground and which is trying to find new models of working that puts the public at the heart of decision-making. At its core is the aim to break down the barriers that prevent family audiences from enjoying and taking part in the arts.

Ffilmiau Cymunedol AM Community Films

AM is offering £500 each for 4 freelance filmmakers towards creating a short film about community culture in Wales.

This could be a film about any form of arts or social activity, or the specific work of individuals/organizations within the community.

Applicants are encouraged to contact lea@pyst.net for a discussion before applying.

Applications are now closed.

Trip Ias

Eddie Ladd ar daith mewn fan hufen ia ar draws Ceredigion yn ymweld â threfi a phentrefi y mae emyn-donau wedi’u henwi ar eu hôl. A thra yno’n canu’r gân yng nghwmni’r fan hufen iâ.

Richard Harris – Being Here

Richard Harris was the first artist in residence at Grizedale Forest in the late 70’s. In this film Richard explores the influence of his times at Grizedale on the development of his career as a land artist.

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.

PERTHYN

FUTURE DIRECTIONS is a young people’s programme from MTW in partnership with Hijinx that explores how opera can become a powerfully expressive form for people of all backgrounds and identities. Working in collaboration with professional artists, the young, neurodiverse group of people devise and make a new opera, exploring their ideas and learning from and inspiring each other and the supporting artists.

For this project, Music Theatre Wales has brought together Theatre Maker and Dramaturg Jain Boon, Music Maker Mari Mathias, Singer Llio Evans and Film Maker Gavin Porter to work together with the young participants to create a new and original work in three movements. The resulting piece, Perthyn, is an opera in music, text, movement and film entirely built on the ideas and creativity of the participants, which carries a strong message from the young people for all of us to contemplate.

MTW want to know what people think of our work, to help us develop it in the future. Future Directions is a way we can learn alongside young people, and increase our understanding of neurodiversity, which helps us to create opera that everyone can enjoy. We are asking everyone who has watched Perthyn to answer these questions

Spherescape – Copper

Second 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.

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

Rhwng Dwr ac Amser – Angharad Jones

Angharad Jones Rhwng Dwr ac Amser – Between Time and Water

2022 Live performance (dance)

Passing through time in the sunken garden at Plas Bodfa, these performances explore the relationship between time, water and the landscape. The water clocks are used to decide the length of each section of the performance.

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

Creative Inclusion Plan 2030 – TAPE Community Music and Film

TAPE is excited to unveil its Creative Inclusion Plan 2030. The plan is the accessible heart of TAPE’s new business plan which takes over 15 years of delivery and development. Presenting the ethos and focus of the charity as it creates and develops more exciting new projects and opportunities for people in Wales.

POP PETH DAU 1993

Historical music video releases up in KINO ANKST. Rescued from the dusty stockroom to celebrate Ankst’s 35th birthday!
We are proud to announce the appearance of high quality digital copies of the following Ankst video conps on Kino Ankst (all released initially on VHS) 

POPETH 1992
POP PETH DAU 1993

Life After School: Introduction

This video is an introduction to the Life After School short film series. Mark and Justin talk about the things that are important to consider when planning for life after school

Life After School: Going to College

In this episode, the young person is unsure if they want to go to college after school. They and other young people ask a Careers Wales advisor about their college options.