Offrymau'r hydref // Autumnal offerings
Dyma ddiweddariadau ar ein gweithgareddau a'n cyfleoedd yr Hydref
Here are updates on our Autumn activities and opportunities
Gweithdai Mudiad Mycelium Movement Workshops, Llanberis
Mae'r gweithdai Mudiad Mycelium Movement byrfyfyr hyn yn archwilio ffurfiau a swyddogaethau myceliwm, rhwydwaith mân o ffyngau tebyg i wreiddyn:Gan fynd i bob cyfeiriad, chwilio am gysylltiadau a chreu cyfnewidiadau symbiotig, yn y gofod rhwng pobl a phethau byw eraill.
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These improvised Mudiad Mycelium Movement workshops explore the forms and functions of mycelium, a fine root like network of fungi: Radiating in all directions, seeking connections and creating symbiotic exchanges, in the space between people and other living things.
Liesbeth Williams - noticing plants and weeds
In “Ysgol Cwyn - Weeds School”, a new Utopias Bach experiment, we want to explore different approaches to getting to know place, through mapping, learning from and with plants and weeds.
It is currently in development by the Collaboratory. We are creating a co-learning programme, of unknown duration, shaped by the offers and interests of those taking part.
Although it is still in development, you can already take part by uploading photos/observations/writings about ‘plants and weeds in cracks and unexpected places’
Our next discussion, to develop Ysgol Chwyn - Weeds School is at our next Collaboratory, Thursday 23rd October 11 - 12.30 over ZOOM
Crone Cast explore the site at Llyn Alaw
Weeding cares! Diological Weeding - Map o Gymru, Llyn Alaw, Ynys Môn 25.10.25
To continue with the exploration of learning with plants and weeds, Sarah Pogoda invites you to a scored encounter with the site of a massive earth work at Llyn Alaw.
The earth work, in the shape of the map of Wales, was created by Welsh artist Paul Davies with the help of students, family and friends in 1987.
Over the last few years, Sarah has been calling for volunteers to clear and weed the massive earth work but now wonders if this is really the appropriate form of care for the earth work?
So in this experiment, we will be working in a different way, using ‘scores’ to engage in weeding as a form of care for semi-permanence… perhaps resonating with mythological traces of the site as a new form of gardening for healing.
(you can see more about ‘scores’ below)
10 - 3pm (drop in anytime)
Gofod Glas - lle mae creadigrwydd yn dod â phobl a dŵr at ei gilydd // where freshwater and people meet in creative ways
Yn Nyffryn Conwy, mae Gofod Glas yn dod â phobl,at ei gilydd i archwilio sut mae dŵr croyw yn siapio ein bywydau, ein diwylliant a’n dyfodol.
Based in the Conwy Valley, Gofod Glas brings people together to explore how freshwater shapes our lives, our culture, and our future.
Gofod Glas invites members of Utopias Bach to a series of creative watery events in the Conwy Valley over the next few weeks, including walks, conversations, textile, clay and many other wonders.. and the opportunity to meet and work with Katharina Becklas, a visiting artist from Germany
Tea with a Tree publishing - 2 new books and one on the way
We are delighted to be working with Tea with a Tree publishing, a small publishing house that publishes works by visual artists and other creatives who embody new thinking. Contact Tea with a Tree if you have an idea you’d like to realise!
Here are two books that come from within the Utopias Bach community that might be of interest (click on the image to see details):
You can also pick up a copy of Stori Canthrig Bwt in Palas Print, Caernarfon and in Caban, Brynrefail
Next up! Tea with a Tree are helping Utopias Bach to produce a book of ‘Invitations and Scores’ that we’ve wanted to do for years! We use these as a way of structuring our explorations and activities, and the book will be a way to bring these together and celebrate one of the things that Utopias Bach has been pioneering over the years. You can see some of our scores here
“Scores as performance texts allows us to see how writing can activate art/life works that writing cannot contain or control… those works that somehow contain (if that’s the word) the performance in the text itself — not as a document or as performative utterance per se, but in the way that poetic writing can make something happen in the world, even if that ‘in the world’ is only in the reader’s brief imagining of potential enactments” — David Buuck