Dyma ddiweddariadau ar ein gweithgareddau a'n cyfleoedd diweddaraf! Here are updates on our latest activities and opportunities!

Diweddariadau ar ein gweithgareddau a'n cyfleoedd diweddaraf! Updates on our latest activities and opportunities!

I have made twenty-two postcards for Utopias Bach. Although as images and texts the cards reflect personal concerns, many of these concerns are shared and relate to the Values and Questions of Utopias Bach. Some cards also raise questions that have been with me a long time, about inspiration in relation to the historical status of women, particularly as these questions may relate to the present and to groups like Utopias Bach.
I will “post” a new card on my website each day for the next twenty-one days…

Bilingual blog dwyieithog gan Sara Louise Wheeler

“Disgwyliwch yr annisgwyl, neu fyddwch chi ddim yn dod o hyd iddo”

“Expect the unexpected, or you won’t find it”

(Heraclitus)

Mae'n rhyfedd sut mae pethau'n troi allan weithiau. Rwyf, ar adegau, wedi cael syniad ar gyfer prosiect neu ddigwyddiad, yna symud ymlaen â'r cynllun ac mae popeth wedi dilyn mwy neu lai y llwybr disgwyliedig. Fodd bynnag, nid dyma'r ffordd y mae pethau bob amser yn mynd, a dweud y gwir anaml y mae pethau'n mynd fel hyn, ac yn sicr roedd hyn yn wir gyda fy mhrosiect Utopias bach - Yr Awen o sach Modryb Venodotia

It’s funny how things turn out sometimes. I have, on occasion, had an idea for a project or an event, then proceeded with the plan and everything has followed more or less the expected trajectory. However, this is not the way things always go, in fact it is rarely how things go, and this was certainly the case with my Utopias bach experiment - The ‘Awen’ from the sack of Aunty Venodotia

Yn ystod ein sgyrsiau ‘beth nesaf Utopias Bach’, wnaethon ni benderfynu creu cylchlythyr i rannu gwahoddiadau. Dyma ein un cyntaf!
During our 'what next Utopias Bach' conversations, we decided to create a newsletter to share invitations. Here's our first one!

Diweddariadau ar ein gweithgareddau a'n cyfleoedd diweddaraf! Updates on our latest activities and opportunities!

August 19 - 21 Mis Awst 2022

Bydd Gŵyl Metaboliaeth ydy yn cynnwys mwy na deg ar hugain o artistiaid a pherfformwyr (gan gynnwys llawer o bobl Utopias Bach), a fydd yn creu pymtheg o ddigwyddiadau neu sefyllfaoedd byw dros dri diwrnod, yn Ninas Bangor a’r cyffiniau.

Gwyl Metaboliaeth will involve more than thirty artists and performers (including lots of Utopias Bach people), creating fifteen live events or situations over the space of three days, in and around the City of Bangor.

Ymuno â ni! Join us!

In this blog Sarah Holyfield reflects on how she’s been thinking about things of late – and how coming to gatherings of Utopias Bach has been for her.

Mis Gorffenaf is the end of summer, and it is also the end of Utopias Bach’s year of Arts Council Wales funding. To reflect on and celebrate what this means, we held a weekend of events in June, and the good news (we think) is that we decided that Utopias Bach isn’t stopping! At the end of July we will be returning to our ‘unfunded’ selves, as we were for the first six months of Utopias Bach. And we have started to think of ourselves (thanks to Lisa Hudson for the idea) as a collective. We don’t yet know what that means, but there are things already afoot…

Llinos Griffin a Steffan Harri

Yn Hydref 2021, mi roddon ni alwad allan yn archwilio’r syniad o iwtopias. Pa frawddegau sy’n dod i’r meddwl wrth feddwl am iwtopias? Beth ydi’ch syniadau iwtopaidd chi? Oes ‘na synau sy’n iwtopaidd i chi? Allwch chi eu recordio nhw…
Mae’r hyn dan ni wedi ei dderbyn gan bobl o bob cwr wedi bod yn ddychmygus, yn her i’n meddyliau, yn bwerus dros ben. I ni, mae’r blethiad yma o leisiau dynol, offerynnau a synau byd natur yn iwtopia ynddo’i hun…

In Autumn 2021, we made a call out to explore the idea of utopias.Which phrases spring to mind when you think of utopia? What are your utopic ideas? Are there sounds that are utopic to you? Can you record them…
The recordings that we have received from people from all over have been imaginative, challenging to the mind and extremely powerful…. For us, this weaving of human voices, instruments and natural sounds is most definitely a utopia in itself…

By Wanda Zyborska

I am exploring four questions that have been tickling me, not as someone who knows the answers, but who is asking the questions.

What is socially engaged art? How can it be defined?

How do you tell if it is any good (and does it matter)?

Is there a place for formal, aesthetic criticism of socially engaged art, and of Utopias Bach as an example?

What does socially engaged art look like (and does it matter)?

Dan ni’n dathlu 1.5 blwyddyn o flaguro!

We are celebrating 1.5 years of becoming!

Ymuno â ni - Join us!

Dydd Sadwrn/ Saturday 11.6.22 @ Draig Beats, Treborth

Dydd Sul/Sunday 12.6.22 @ Plas Bodfa, Llangoed

Ym Mehefin, dan ni’n gwahodd pawb sy’n cyfrannu (neu ddim yn cyfrannu eto!) i ddod at ei gilydd i gael profiadau, myfyrio a dathlu pobl elfen o’r planhigyn mefus esblygedig ag yr ydi Utopias Bach. B’asen ni wrth ein boddau petaech chi’n dod yn rhan o’i greu!

In June, we are inviting all involved - whether you have been with us from the beginning or have just come upon us now - to gather, experience, reflect and celebrate all aspects of the evolving Utopias Bach strawberry plant. We’d love you to be part of creating it!

An invitation from Gaia Redgrave: Join the Cathedral of The Trees at the Utopias Bach May Collaboratories

The Blueprint of Peace Explored Through Ma / online (Zoom): Wednesday 11th May 11am - 12.30pm

Peaceful play / outdoor event : Saturday 14th May - at a time and place to suit you

If you’d like to attend one, the other or both, you need to book your (free) place….

Mapio Ennydau – sut dan ni’n cysylltu trwy Utopias Bach?

Mae Frances Williams, ein Arsylwr Cyfranogol/Cyfranwr Arsylwgar yn eich gwahodd chi i’n helpu ni fynd ‘Tu Hwnt i Werthuso’ trwy greu map o’ch cysylltiadau ac ennydau arwyddocaol ac mewnwelediadau gydag Utopias Bach.

Mapping Moments - how do we connect through Utopias Bach?
Frances Williams, our Participant Observer/Observant Participant invites you to help us go to go ‘Beyond Evaluation’ by creating a map of your connections and significant moments with Utopias Bach.

Digwyddiad - Event 16.4.22. Yn Oed Oesoedd - Hirbarhad 2.

Dewch i ni ymgynnull - Let us gather!

Gwastraff niwclear ydy’r ffurf gelfyddydol berffaith o broblem. Nuclear waste is the ultimate artform of a problem.

Ynys Faelog, Porthaethwy, Menai Bridge 11yb/am

In this blog our ‘Participant Observer’ Frances Williams, reflects on the Utopias Bach March Collaboratory meeting helping us go ‘Beyond Evaluation: The Elephant’s Ears and Tail’. She asks can we evaluate Utopias Bach through articulating our collective sense of value(s)?…

Diweddariad ar ein gweithgareddau a chyfleon! ! Updates on our latest activities and opportunities!

Llun: Yr Awen o sach Modryb Venodotia - The ‘Awen’ from the sack of Aunty Venodotia. Arbrawf newydd gan - a new experiment by - Sara Louise Wheeler

“Precarity is the condition of our time - the condition of being vulnerable to others. We can’t rely on the status quo; everything is in flux, including our ability to survive. There might not be a collective happy ending. The only reason this sounds odd is that most of us were raised on dreams of modernisation and progress
As progress tales lose traction, it becomes possible to look differently”

Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World

In this blog, Lindsey Colbourne brings us some “looking differently” by children that Utopias Bach have been working with in Gwalmai, Ynys Mon, and how their vision of the future can free adults to think and act differently

This residency is a call to peace to members of Utopias Bach by Gaia Redgrave, a chance to play, an opportunity to give voice to that which is often unheard. In conjunction with Utopias Bach, Gaia Redgrave & Cathedral of the Trees are inviting expressions of interest for 2 micro residencies. Each artist will receive a talking stick made by Gaia in collaboration with the land & the sea. Your stick will have emerged from either and be waiting to communicate its message through your interaction with it. Deadline for expressions of interest: 20 March 2022