Cylch 2: SUSURRATION / SIBRWD Y COED
17.3.23 - 30.3.23
Croeso i Gylch 2: Welcome to Cylch 2
(Cymraeg yn isod)
During this second fortnight of the Experimental Treesense School, we will be exploring ways of communication with our tree-kin and asking the question “How can we begin to develop equal and loving relationships with trees?”
We invite you to:
1. Join the Experimental School
If you haven’t already, please join the Experimental School for FREE by registering here. We will then send you a welcome pack to the school, and details and resources for taking part in this Cylch. If you have registered, this will be sent to you automatically.
2. Join us at events @ Pontio/online (UK Times)
During the two weeks of Cylch 2: SUSURRATION/SIBRWD Y COED you are invited to:
Saturday 18th March: 11-12pm and 1-2pm. Dendropoems workshop with poet Rhys Trimble. Try three ways to create dentropoems using magazine cut-up, arboreal words and arborescent poems. At Pontio, Bangor. Adults and 11+
Wednesday 22nd March: 1-4pm Speed dating with trees in Parc y Coleg, next to Pontio, Bangor. You will meet and select your significant tree and get physical with large scale drawings. At Pontio
Wednesday 29th March: 1-3pm Sacred crafting, bonding and binding with your significant tree. At Pontio/ on Zoom.
3. Start at home
During the two weeks of Cylch 2: SUSURRATION/SIBRWD Y COED you are invited to begin by listening to message from the Guiding Custodian of the Council of Trees in Parc y Coleg, inviting you to meet and build a closer relationship with your chosen At Ein Coed Ysgol Arbrofol tree companion (from Cylch 1 EGINO), based on love, equity and symbiotic nurture. You are then invited to:
# 1 Communicate with your tree(s) through the 5 Languages of Love: Develop a relationship with your significant tree through Acts of Service, Receiving Gifts, Quality Time, Words of Affirmation, and Physical Touch
# 2 Celebrate your new relationship and connections with your tree by creating something together
# 3 Pledge to your significant tree: Perform a ritual to declare your commitment to your new tree relationship.
See resources for these invitations below
You may wish to document your experiences in your journal or use your phone to take photographs, make a short video recording or record sound. We would love you to share your experiences with us. You can do this here
Gan Rhys Trimble
Llun: Kar Rowson
Croeso i Gylch 2:
Yn ystod yr ail pythefnos Ysgol Arbrofol Dod At Ein Coed, byddwn yn archwilio ffyrdd o gyfathrebu gyda’n goeden gyfaill a gofyn y cwestiwn: “Sut allwn ni ddechrau datblygu perthynas gyfartal a chariadus gyda choed?”
Rydym yn eich gwahodd chi i:
1. Ymunwch â’r Ysgol Arbrofol
Rydym yn eich gwahodd chi i ymuno â’r Ysgol Arbrofol AM DDIM trwy gofestru yma. Byddwn wedyn yn anfon pecyn croeso i’r ysgol atoch chi, a’r manylion ac adnoddau ar gyfer cymeryd rhan yn y Cylch.
2. Ymunwch â ni yn ein diwyddiadau @Pontio/ar-lein (zoom)
Yn ystod y pythefnos Cych 1: EGINO, rydym yn eich gwahodd chi i:
Sadwrn 18fed Mawrth: Gweithdy Cerddi Canghennog 11 – 12yb a 1-2yh gyda bard Rhys Trimble. Rhoi cynnig ar dair ffordd o greu cerddi canghennog: Dull ‘Torrydd’, geiriau coed, cerddi canghenog. Oedolion a 11+. Pontio, Bangor.
Mercher 22ain Mawrth: 1 – 4yh. Canlyn cyflym gyda’r coed i ddod o hyd i goeden-gyfaill ym Mharc y Coleg, ger Pontio, Bangor. Byddwch yn cyfarfod a dewis eich coeden-gyfaill ac yn gorfforol ddarlunio ar raddfa fawr . Pontio, Bangor.
Mercher 29ain Mawrth: 1 – 3yh. Crefftio sanctaidd, cyfeillio ac ymrwymo gyda’ch coeden-gyfaill. Pontio, Bangor ac ar zoom.
3. Dechreuwch adref
Yn ystod dwy wythnos Cylch 2: SIBRWD Y COED byddwch yn dyfnhau eich perthynas gyda’ch coed-gyfaill/gyfeillion. Gwahoddir i chi arbrofi gyda ‘Meddylfryd Coed’. Fe glywch neges gan Geidwad y Cyngor Coed ym Mharc y Coleg (y coed ger Pontio, Bangor) ac:
# 1 Cyfathrebu gyda’ch coed(en) trwy 5 Iaith Cariad: Dyfnhewch eich perthynas gyda’ch coed(en) trwy Gweithred o Wasanaeth, Derbyn Anrhegion, Geiriau Cadarnhaol, Cyffwrdd Corfforol
# 2 Dathlwch eich perthynas a'ch cysylltiadau newydd â'ch coeden trwy greu rhywbeth gyda'ch gilydd.
# 3 Gwneud addewid i’ch coeden-gyfaill: Perfformiwch ddefod er mwyn datgan eich ymrwymiad i’ch perthynas newydd gyda’r goeden.
Efallai yr hoffech chi ddogfennu eich profiadau yn eich dyddiadur neu dynnu lluniau, gwneud fideo fer neu recordiad sain. Buasen ni wrth ein bodd i chi rannu eich profiadau gyda ni. Gallwch rannu’r rhain yma
Pobl sy’n creu Cylch 2: People creating Cylch 2
This Cylch is being created by:
Lisa Hudson (coordinator)
Activities and Resources
Llun: Mel Roberts
How do trees communicate with humans?
“What if you were a great teacher, a holder of knowledge and vessel of stories, but had no audible voice with which to speak? What if your listeners presumed you to be mute, save for the passive whispering of your needles? How would you bring your truth into the world? Wouldn’t you dance your story in branch and root? Wouldn’t you write it in the eloquence of cellulose? In the lasting archive of wood? Plants tell their stories not by what they say but by what they do. They tell their story in their bodies, in an alphabet once as familiar as the song of every bird, which we have also forgotten, as we became afflicted not only with plant blindness but plant deafness as well.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2021
Some ways to deepen your connection from Treesisters
https://treesisters.org/blog/ten-ways-to-deepen-your-connection-with-trees
Drawing with trees with artist Stuart Smith https://www.instagram.com/stuart._smith/