Mis ‘ma, this month: news of Arts Council Wales funding, work in schools, Utopias Bach Penrhyndeudraeth a’r cylch, Utopias Bach on facebook and instagram, and Metamorffosis, our very first Utopias Bach mini-festival 21 - 27 June…

Gan Seran Dolma, Ysgrifennwr Preswyl

Os wyt ti’n poeni am bethau mawr, ond yn teimlo’n fach, ni ‘di dy bobl di. Os ydi pethau fel morgrug a mwsogl yn bwysig i ti, dyma’r lle i ti. Os wyt ti’n rhyfeddu at brydferthwch y dafnau gwlith a’r wyrth ymhlyg ymhob egin, ond yn methu gwneud synnwyr o’r newyddion, tyrd i mewn…

Cyfleoedd cyffrous!

Our news and invitations this month includes invitations to take part in both ‘real world’ and online Utopias Bach events,
our new website, and lots of new little ‘experiments’ (others might call them projects) that are growing up from North Wales to Malawi!

An artistic response to an overwhelming situation

Utopias/no places...whatever I might think about them, I am often planning them, or daydreaming about them, one way or another. I thought it might be useful to have some ideas at the ready, to start discussions, to avoid beginning in a void. So I dug into my swirl of un-realised ideas, kept somewhere at the lower back of my head, sometimes leaking into my body, and rising to the surface when stimulated by Samina and Lindsey's mini-utopia idea back in summer 2020, now materialising as Utopias Bach…

It seems a bit surreal, imagining that we might be able to gather at some point in the next few months.

And if we can (an possibly even if we can’t), we have an opportunity to take part in the Metamorffosis Festival, in Bangor/Porthaethwy 21-27 June.This festival will follow on from the Surrealist Saffaru we put on last year, successfully hosted within COVID-19 regulations.
There are three things we are inviting you (and all interested, of all ages!) to create with us (as well as coming to the event itself of course)…

Our news and invitations this month includes an invitation from Julie Upmeyer at Plas Bodfa, to join a beautiful new Utopias Bach project, inspired by lockdown, possible within its constraints. Engage in a process, not an art work, that is to last a long time. The process will be observed and used as a point of connection to others in the project as well as to Plas Bodfa itself…