Digwyddiadau - Events

Ysgol Chwyn - Weeds School (2025-2026)
Dec
21
to 22 Dec

Ysgol Chwyn - Weeds School (2025-2026)

Cyd-ddysgu gyda chwyn ac eraill ar yr ymylon // Co-learning with weeds and others at the margin

Rydym yn creu rhaglen ddysgu ar y cyd yn dechrau am 15.03 ar 21 Rhagfyr 2025, ac yn para am flwyddyn i ddechrau. Bydd yn cael ei siapio’n llwyr gan gynigion a diddordebau’r rhai sy’n cymryd rhan.

We are creating a co-learning programme starting at 15.03 on 21st December 2025, and lasting initially for one year. It will be entirely shaped by the offers and interests of those taking part.

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Cyfarfod Utopias Bach 'Scores' Book Meeting (Bangor)
Oct
25

Cyfarfod Utopias Bach 'Scores' Book Meeting (Bangor)

Mae Utopias Bach yn datblygu gwahoddiadau a ‘scores’ fel ffordd o strwythuro ein digwyddiadau a'n gweithgareddau. Dan ni hefyd wedi defnyddio'r rhain gyda sefydliadau celfyddydol ffurfiol a Phrifysgolion yn ogystal ag yn ein cyfarfodydd ein hunain.

Utopias Bach develops invitations and scores as a way of structuring our events and activities. We’ve also used these with formal arts establishments and Universities as well as within our own meetings.

This meeting is for a small group of us, working with Tea with a Tree publishing, working on collating these scores into a book. This one is Glossary and Collaborative Credits. 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

If you have a Utopias Bach-related score/invitation you’d like to include in our collection, please email us

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Iaith y Pridd: Tyfu eich lliain eich hun // Grow your own cloth
Nov
27

Iaith y Pridd: Tyfu eich lliain eich hun // Grow your own cloth

Ein pumed cyfarfod Iaith y Pridd, yn cysylltu efo’r rhaglen Henbant “Tyfu eich lliain eich hun”

// Our fifth Iaith Y Pridd gathering, connecting to the Henbant “Growing your own Cloth” programme, growing flax and indigo.

Timing TBC

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Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych)
Sept
5

Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych)

This series of sessions are for Crone Cast members to start making costumes/performance around the theme of Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge.

(Rhan o prosiect Y Gloch, y Gwrych a'r Gwlychu, yn Dyffryn Peris)

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Taith Gerdded Mapio - Mapping Walk
Sept
5

Taith Gerdded Mapio - Mapping Walk

Daith Gerdded Mapio

Dydd Sadwrn 5 Medi - 10yb

Gwahoddir chi i ymuno â Lisa Hudson a Simone Williams am daith gerdded mapio o Lyn Ogwen i Bethesda, gan ddilyn yr afon a'r hen ffordd, dod i adnabod ein cwm a dod o hyd i bethau i'w rhoi ar y map. Bydd saib am bicnic ar y ffordd, a minibws am ddim i'n cludo i fyny'r cwm.

Am ddim ond mae lleoedd yn gyfyngedig felly archebwch os gwelwch yn dda. Dewch â phecyn cinio!

Mapping Walk

Saturday 5 September - 10am

You are invited to join Lisa Hudson and Simone Williams for a mapping and noticing walk from Llyn Ogwen to Bethesda, following the river and the old road, getting to know our valley better and finding things to put on the map. There will be a pause for a picnic on the way, and a free minibus to take us up the valley.

FREE but places are limited so please book. Bring a picnic!

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Iaith y Pridd: Cân y Cynefin // Song of Belonging
Sept
4

Iaith y Pridd: Cân y Cynefin // Song of Belonging

Dewch i archwilio llais, cân a sain, gan gymryd Henbant fel ein hysbrydoliaeth.

  • Ar agor i bawb, yn enwedig y rhai sy'n teimlo na allant ganu.

  • Nid oes angen darllen cerddoriaeth (yn wir ni fydd cerddoriaeth i'w darllen!)

AM DDIM ond rhaid cofestru

//


Come and explore voice, song and sound, taking Henbant as our inspiration.

  • Open to all, especially those who feel they can’t sing.

  • No need to read music (indeed there will be no music to read!)

FREE but registration essential


This is an emergent experiment offered by Lorraine/Lŵ, an experienced Natural Voice Practitioner and the 2025 chaplain of Ynys Enlli.

Rhan o // part of Iaith y Pridd

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Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych)
Sept
1

Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych)

This series of sessions are for Crone Cast members to start making costumes/performance around the theme of Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge.

(Rhan o prosiect Y Gloch, y Gwrych a'r Gwlychu, yn Dyffryn Peris)

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Grwp Barddoniaeth Utopias Bach Poetry Group (zoom)
Aug
28

Grwp Barddoniaeth Utopias Bach Poetry Group (zoom)

An online reading group (meeting on zoom on the last friday of each month) that focuses on poems we feel relate to Utopias Bach's concerns in some way.We choose a theme, and then all are invited to find/send in poems that relate to it. We then work through the compendium, adding to it, and staying with it as long as it needs.

The theme this month is Dirt, Soil & Earth.

The group will meet over zoom. The zoom link is the same as always: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85409719450?pwd=d1VaRktoY1QveTZWSDdaUDVKQWRkQT09

Meeting ID: 854 0971 9450

Passcode: 398362

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Utopias Bach in Berlin!
Aug
24
to 28 Aug

Utopias Bach in Berlin!

Utopias Bach has been invited by Evangelische Hochschule Berlin to run sessions as part of an INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL 2026 (Germany): Debating Health & Care Services with Multidimensional Perspectives.
Lisa Hudson, Wanda Zyborska, Steph Shipley and Sarah Pogoda are going.


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Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych)
Aug
18

Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych)

This series of sessions are for Crone Cast members to start making costumes/performance around the theme of Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge.

(Rhan o prosiect Y Gloch, y Gwrych a'r Gwlychu, yn Dyffryn Peris)

Byddwn ni’n archwilio:

  • hedge as cynefin for human and more than human ecosystem

  • dod yn wrych – how we can embody a moving hedge - a shifting place of safety, threshold and connection

  • materials, sounds, stories, songs, welsh vocabulary (becoming a sonic installation)

  • historical connections including:

    • legendary witches (and connection to Canthrig Bwt a’i phlant) o   Hedge school – link to pioneering campaigner for girls’ education, Elspeth Hughes-Davies (Rhys) - she created her own hedge school in Llanberis in the 19th Century, carving words on stones/slates in walls for her children to learn.

    • Language including experimenting with exaggerated welsh sounds (ch, ll, ng, a, dd, ph, rh, th, u ac ati) linked to words like Grwach, Gloch, Gwyrch, Gwlychu

    • deconstructing sounds and language

    • Making creatures (birds, mice, insects, hedgehogs) to perform on sticks weaving in and out and along the hedge

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Making friends with Nant y Groes
Aug
17

Making friends with Nant y Groes

River walk. Short walk through the dingle with Ilsa Elford, a picnic and drawing materials.

If you are interested please email us and we’ll send you details.
Numbers are limited as this is just a beginning discussion… maybe more later…

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Iaith y Pridd: Fforiad Pridd // Exploration of Soil
Aug
14

Iaith y Pridd: Fforiad Pridd // Exploration of Soil

Byddwn yn archwilio pridd trwy ein synhwyrau i ddarganfod cysylltedd y pridd. Bydd hyn yn cynnwys taith cerdded ysgafn, cloddio, argraffu, ac arlunio. Efo Emily Meilleur & Loti Davies. Cyfieithu creadigol gan Zoe

An exploration of soil through our senses to discover the connectivity of soil. This will include a gentle walk, a little digging, printing, drawing and words. A live view of soil under the microscope will be shown. Hosted by Emily Meilleur & Loti Davies. Creative Translation by Zoe.

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Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge)
Aug
11

Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge)

This series of sessions are for Crone Cast members to start making costumes/performance around the theme of Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge.

(Rhan o prosiect Y Gloch, y Gwrych a'r Gwlychu, yn Dyffryn Peris)

Byddwn ni’n archwilio:

  • hedge as cynefin for human and more than human ecosystem

  • dod yn wrych – how we can embody a moving hedge - a shifting place of safety, threshold and connection

  • materials, sounds, stories, songs, welsh vocabulary (becoming a sonic installation)

  • historical connections including:

    • legendary witches (and connection to Canthrig Bwt a’i phlant) o   Hedge school – link to pioneering campaigner for girls’ education, Elspeth Hughes-Davies (Rhys) - she created her own hedge school in Llanberis in the 19th Century, carving words on stones/slates in walls for her children to learn.

    • Language including experimenting with exaggerated welsh sounds (ch, ll, ng, a, dd, ph, rh, th, u ac ati) linked to words like Grwach, Gloch, Gwyrch, Gwlychu

    • deconstructing sounds and language

    • Making creatures (birds, mice, insects, hedgehogs) to perform on sticks weaving in and out and along the hedge

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Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych)
Aug
8

Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych)

This series of sessions are for Crone Cast members to start making costumes/performance around the theme of Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge.

(Rhan o prosiect Y Gloch, y Gwrych a'r Gwlychu, yn Dyffryn Peris)

Byddwn ni’n archwilio:

  • hedge as cynefin for human and more than human ecosystem

  • dod yn wrych – how we can embody a moving hedge - a shifting place of safety, threshold and connection

  • materials, sounds, stories, songs, welsh vocabulary (becoming a sonic installation)

  • historical connections including:

    • legendary witches (and connection to Canthrig Bwt a’i phlant) o   Hedge school – link to pioneering campaigner for girls’ education, Elspeth Hughes-Davies (Rhys) - she created her own hedge school in Llanberis in the 19th Century, carving words on stones/slates in walls for her children to learn.

    • Language including experimenting with exaggerated welsh sounds (ch, ll, ng, a, dd, ph, rh, th, u ac ati) linked to words like Grwach, Gloch, Gwyrch, Gwlychu

    • deconstructing sounds and language

    • Making creatures (birds, mice, insects, hedgehogs) to perform on sticks weaving in and out and along the hedge

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Summer Collaboratory Haf: Chwyn a Phwll// Weeds and Pond (ZOOM)
Aug
5

Summer Collaboratory Haf: Chwyn a Phwll// Weeds and Pond (ZOOM)

Mae Steph Shipley wedi awgrymu Collaboratory fel ‘half way review’ o beth sy wedi bod yn digwydd efo’r Ysgol Chwyn.

Steph Shipley has suggested a Collaboratory as a ‘half way review’ of what has been happening with the Weeds School.

Come along to listen, share your experiences, questions, ideas, insights, updates.

Anticipate a pool of calm and a riot of weeds.

Ysgol Chwyn Weeds School

Croeso i bawb!

If you are joining us, feel free to bring anything along that you’d like to share (physically, through discussion/chat or sharing images)


This Collaboratory will be over ZOOM

Zoom link will be the same as always: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85409719450?pwd=d1VaRktoY1QveTZWSDdaUDVKQWRkQT09

Meeting ID: 854 0971 9450

Passcode: 398362

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If this is your first Collaboratory meeting, we invite you to join at 10.30am to find out more about how our meetings work and to ask any questions/tell us of any access (or other) needs.

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Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge)
Aug
4

Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge)

This series of sessions are for Crone Cast members to start making costumes/performance around the theme of Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge.

(Rhan o prosiect Y Gloch, y Gwrych a'r Gwlychu, yn Dyffryn Peris)

Byddwn ni’n archwilio:

  • hedge as cynefin for human and more than human ecosystem

  • dod yn wrych – how we can embody a moving hedge - a shifting place of safety, threshold and connection

  • materials, sounds, stories, songs, welsh vocabulary (becoming a sonic installation)

  • historical connections including:

    • legendary witches (and connection to Canthrig Bwt a’i phlant) o   Hedge school – link to pioneering campaigner for girls’ education, Elspeth Hughes-Davies (Rhys) - she created her own hedge school in Llanberis in the 19th Century, carving words on stones/slates in walls for her children to learn.

    • Language including experimenting with exaggerated welsh sounds (ch, ll, ng, a, dd, ph, rh, th, u ac ati) linked to words like Grwach, Gloch, Gwyrch, Gwlychu

    • deconstructing sounds and language

    • Making creatures (birds, mice, insects, hedgehogs) to perform on sticks weaving in and out and along the hedge

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Grwp Barddoniaeth Utopias Bach Poetry Group (zoom)
Jul
31

Grwp Barddoniaeth Utopias Bach Poetry Group (zoom)

An online reading group (meeting on zoom on the last friday of each month) that focuses on poems we feel relate to Utopias Bach's concerns in some way. An online reading group (meeting on zoom on the last friday of each month) that focuses on poems we feel relate to Utopias Bach's concerns in some way. We choose a theme, and then all are invited to find/send in poems that relate to it. We then work through the compendium, adding to it, and staying with it as long as it needs.

The theme this month is to finish the reading of our Doorways and Thresholds poems… and move onto our next theme - Dirt, Soil & Earth.

The group will meet over zoom. The zoom link is the same as always: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85409719450?pwd=d1VaRktoY1QveTZWSDdaUDVKQWRkQT09

Meeting ID: 854 0971 9450

Passcode: 398362

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Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge)
Jul
28

Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge)

This series of sessions are for Crone Cast members to start making costumes/performance around the theme of Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge.

(Rhan o prosiect Y Gloch, y Gwrych a'r Gwlychu, yn Dyffryn Peris)

Byddwn ni’n archwilio:

  • hedge as cynefin for human and more than human ecosystem

  • dod yn wrych – how we can embody a moving hedge - a shifting place of safety, threshold and connection

  • materials, sounds, stories, songs, welsh vocabulary (becoming a sonic installation)

  • historical connections including:

    • legendary witches (and connection to Canthrig Bwt a’i phlant) o   Hedge school – link to pioneering campaigner for girls’ education, Elspeth Hughes-Davies (Rhys) - she created her own hedge school in Llanberis in the 19th Century, carving words on stones/slates in walls for her children to learn.

    • Language including experimenting with exaggerated welsh sounds (ch, ll, ng, a, dd, ph, rh, th, u ac ati) linked to words like Grwach, Gloch, Gwyrch, Gwlychu

    • deconstructing sounds and language

    • Making creatures (birds, mice, insects, hedgehogs) to perform on sticks weaving in and out and along the hedge

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Cyfarfod Utopias Bach 'Scores' Book Meeting (Zoom)
Jul
27

Cyfarfod Utopias Bach 'Scores' Book Meeting (Zoom)

Mae Utopias Bach yn datblygu gwahoddiadau a ‘scores’ fel ffordd o strwythuro ein digwyddiadau a'n gweithgareddau. Dan ni hefyd wedi defnyddio'r rhain gyda sefydliadau celfyddydol ffurfiol a Phrifysgolion yn ogystal ag yn ein cyfarfodydd ein hunain.

Utopias Bach develops invitations and scores as a way of structuring our events and activities. We’ve also used these with formal arts establishments and Universities as well as within our own meetings.

This meeting is for a small group of us, working with Tea with a Tree publishing, working on collating these scores into a book. This one is Glossary and Collaborative Credits. 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

If you have a Utopias Bach-related score/invitation you’d like to include in our collection, please email us

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Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych)
Jul
25

Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych)

This series of sessions are for Crone Cast members to start making costumes/performance around the theme of Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge.

(Rhan o prosiect Y Gloch, y Gwrych a'r Gwlychu, yn Dyffryn Peris)

Byddwn ni’n archwilio:

  • hedge as cynefin for human and more than human ecosystem

  • dod yn wrych – how we can embody a moving hedge - a shifting place of safety, threshold and connection

  • materials, sounds, stories, songs, welsh vocabulary (becoming a sonic installation)

  • historical connections including:

    • legendary witches (and connection to Canthrig Bwt a’i phlant) o   Hedge school – link to pioneering campaigner for girls’ education, Elspeth Hughes-Davies (Rhys) - she created her own hedge school in Llanberis in the 19th Century, carving words on stones/slates in walls for her children to learn.

    • Language including experimenting with exaggerated welsh sounds (ch, ll, ng, a, dd, ph, rh, th, u ac ati) linked to words like Grwach, Gloch, Gwyrch, Gwlychu

    • deconstructing sounds and language

    • Making creatures (birds, mice, insects, hedgehogs) to perform on sticks weaving in and out and along the hedge

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Iaith y Pridd: Enwau Lleoedd - Place Names
Jul
24

Iaith y Pridd: Enwau Lleoedd - Place Names

Dewch i ddysgu mwy am gyfoeth enwau lleoedd Cymraeg yr ardal, a chael hwyl wrth geisio creu enwau sy’n cyfleu cymeriad y gwahanol lecynnau sydd wedi ymddangos wrth i fferm Henbant ddatblygu.

Wedi'i gynnal gan Elinor Gwynn. Cyfiethu creadigol - Loti Jones.

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Join us to learn more about the wonderful Welsh place names of the area, and to have some fun creating new names that capture the sense of place in the various spaces that have been created at Henbant over the years.

Hosted by Elinor Gwynn. Creative translation - Loti Jones

Am ddim ond rhaid cofestru - Free but booking essential

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Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge)
Jul
21

Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge)

This series of sessions are for Crone Cast members to start making costumes/performance around the theme of Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge.

(Rhan o prosiect Y Gloch, y Gwrych a'r Gwlychu, yn Dyffryn Peris)

Byddwn ni’n archwilio:

  • hedge as cynefin for human and more than human ecosystem

  • dod yn wrych – how we can embody a moving hedge - a shifting place of safety, threshold and connection

  • materials, sounds, stories, songs, welsh vocabulary (becoming a sonic installation)

  • historical connections including:

    • legendary witches (and connection to Canthrig Bwt a’i phlant) o   Hedge school – link to pioneering campaigner for girls’ education, Elspeth Hughes-Davies (Rhys) - she created her own hedge school in Llanberis in the 19th Century, carving words on stones/slates in walls for her children to learn.

    • Language including experimenting with exaggerated welsh sounds (ch, ll, ng, a, dd, ph, rh, th, u ac ati) linked to words like Grwach, Gloch, Gwyrch, Gwlychu

    • deconstructing sounds and language

    • Making creatures (birds, mice, insects, hedgehogs) to perform on sticks weaving in and out and along the hedge

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Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge)
Jul
14

Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge)

This series of sessions are for Crone Cast members to start making costumes/performance around the theme of Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge.

(Rhan o prosiect Y Gloch, y Gwrych a'r Gwlychu, yn Dyffryn Peris)

Byddwn ni’n archwilio:

  • hedge as cynefin for human and more than human ecosystem

  • dod yn wrych – how we can embody a moving hedge - a shifting place of safety, threshold and connection

  • materials, sounds, stories, songs, welsh vocabulary (becoming a sonic installation)

  • historical connections including:

    • legendary witches (and connection to Canthrig Bwt a’i phlant) o   Hedge school – link to pioneering campaigner for girls’ education, Elspeth Hughes-Davies (Rhys) - she created her own hedge school in Llanberis in the 19th Century, carving words on stones/slates in walls for her children to learn.

    • Language including experimenting with exaggerated welsh sounds (ch, ll, ng, a, dd, ph, rh, th, u ac ati) linked to words like Grwach, Gloch, Gwyrch, Gwlychu

    • deconstructing sounds and language

    • Making creatures (birds, mice, insects, hedgehogs) to perform on sticks weaving in and out and along the hedge

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Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych)
Jul
11

Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych)

This series of sessions are for Crone Cast members to start making costumes/performance around the theme of Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge.

(Rhan o prosiect Y Gloch, y Gwrych a'r Gwlychu, yn Dyffryn Peris)

Byddwn ni’n archwilio:

  • hedge as cynefin for human and more than human ecosystem

  • dod yn wrych – how we can embody a moving hedge - a shifting place of safety, threshold and connection

  • materials, sounds, stories, songs, welsh vocabulary (becoming a sonic installation)

  • historical connections including:

    • legendary witches (and connection to Canthrig Bwt a’i phlant) o   Hedge school – link to pioneering campaigner for girls’ education, Elspeth Hughes-Davies (Rhys) - she created her own hedge school in Llanberis in the 19th Century, carving words on stones/slates in walls for her children to learn.

    • Language including experimenting with exaggerated welsh sounds (ch, ll, ng, a, dd, ph, rh, th, u ac ati) linked to words like Grwach, Gloch, Gwyrch, Gwlychu

    • deconstructing sounds and language

    • Making creatures (birds, mice, insects, hedgehogs) to perform on sticks weaving in and out and along the hedge

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Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge)
Jul
7

Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge)

This series of sessions are for Crone Cast members to start making costumes/performance around the theme of Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge.

(Rhan o prosiect Y Gloch, y Gwrych a'r Gwlychu, yn Dyffryn Peris)

Byddwn ni’n archwilio:

  • hedge as cynefin for human and more than human ecosystem

  • dod yn wrych – how we can embody a moving hedge - a shifting place of safety, threshold and connection

  • materials, sounds, stories, songs, welsh vocabulary (becoming a sonic installation)

  • historical connections including:

    • legendary witches (and connection to Canthrig Bwt a’i phlant) o   Hedge school – link to pioneering campaigner for girls’ education, Elspeth Hughes-Davies (Rhys) - she created her own hedge school in Llanberis in the 19th Century, carving words on stones/slates in walls for her children to learn.

    • Language including experimenting with exaggerated welsh sounds (ch, ll, ng, a, dd, ph, rh, th, u ac ati) linked to words like Grwach, Gloch, Gwyrch, Gwlychu

    • deconstructing sounds and language

    • Making creatures (birds, mice, insects, hedgehogs) to perform on sticks weaving in and out and along the hedge

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Cyfarfod Utopias Bach 'Scores' Book Meeting (Zoom)
Jul
7

Cyfarfod Utopias Bach 'Scores' Book Meeting (Zoom)

Mae Utopias Bach yn datblygu gwahoddiadau a ‘scores’ fel ffordd o strwythuro ein digwyddiadau a'n gweithgareddau. Dan ni hefyd wedi defnyddio'r rhain gyda sefydliadau celfyddydol ffurfiol a Phrifysgolion yn ogystal ag yn ein cyfarfodydd ein hunain.

Utopias Bach develops invitations and scores as a way of structuring our events and activities. We’ve also used these with formal arts establishments and Universities as well as within our own meetings.

This meeting is for a small group of us, working with Tea with a Tree publishing, working on collating these scores into a book. This one is Glossary and Collaborative Credits. 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

If you have a Utopias Bach-related score/invitation you’d like to include in our collection, please email us

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Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge)
Jun
30

Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge)

This series of sessions are for Crone Cast members to start making costumes/performance around the theme of Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge.

(Rhan o prosiect Y Gloch, y Gwrych a'r Gwlychu, yn Dyffryn Peris)

Byddwn ni’n archwilio:

  • hedge as cynefin for human and more than human ecosystem

  • dod yn wrych – how we can embody a moving hedge - a shifting place of safety, threshold and connection

  • materials, sounds, stories, songs, welsh vocabulary (becoming a sonic installation)

  • historical connections including:

    • legendary witches (and connection to Canthrig Bwt a’i phlant) o   Hedge school – link to pioneering campaigner for girls’ education, Elspeth Hughes-Davies (Rhys) - she created her own hedge school in Llanberis in the 19th Century, carving words on stones/slates in walls for her children to learn.

    • Language including experimenting with exaggerated welsh sounds (ch, ll, ng, a, dd, ph, rh, th, u ac ati) linked to words like Grwach, Gloch, Gwyrch, Gwlychu

    • deconstructing sounds and language

    • Making creatures (birds, mice, insects, hedgehogs) to perform on sticks weaving in and out and along the hedge

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Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych)
Jun
27

Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych)

This series of sessions are for Crone Cast members to start making costumes/performance around the theme of Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge.

(Rhan o prosiect Y Gloch, y Gwrych a'r Gwlychu, yn Dyffryn Peris)

Byddwn ni’n archwilio:

  • hedge as cynefin for human and more than human ecosystem

  • dod yn wrych – how we can embody a moving hedge - a shifting place of safety, threshold and connection

  • materials, sounds, stories, songs, welsh vocabulary (becoming a sonic installation)

  • historical connections including:

    • legendary witches (and connection to Canthrig Bwt a’i phlant) o   Hedge school – link to pioneering campaigner for girls’ education, Elspeth Hughes-Davies (Rhys) - she created her own hedge school in Llanberis in the 19th Century, carving words on stones/slates in walls for her children to learn.

    • Language including experimenting with exaggerated welsh sounds (ch, ll, ng, a, dd, ph, rh, th, u ac ati) linked to words like Grwach, Gloch, Gwyrch, Gwlychu

    • deconstructing sounds and language

    • Making creatures (birds, mice, insects, hedgehogs) to perform on sticks weaving in and out and along the hedge

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Grwp Barddoniaeth Utopias Bach Poetry Group (zoom)
Jun
26

Grwp Barddoniaeth Utopias Bach Poetry Group (zoom)

An online reading group (meeting on zoom on the last friday of each month) that focuses on poems we feel relate to Utopias Bach's concerns in some way. We choose a theme, and then all are invited to find/send in poems that relate to it. We then work through the compendium, adding to it, and staying with it as long as it needs.

The theme this month is: Doorways and Thresholds (broadly understood)

The group will meet over zoom. The zoom link is the same as always: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85409719450?pwd=d1VaRktoY1QveTZWSDdaUDVKQWRkQT09

Meeting ID: 854 0971 9450

Passcode: 398362

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Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge)
Jun
22

Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge)

This series of sessions are for Crone Cast members to start making costumes/performance around the theme of Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge.

(Rhan o prosiect Y Gloch, y Gwrych a'r Gwlychu, yn Dyffryn Peris)

Byddwn ni’n archwilio:

  • hedge as cynefin for human and more than human ecosystem

  • dod yn wrych – how we can embody a moving hedge - a shifting place of safety, threshold and connection

  • materials, sounds, stories, songs, welsh vocabulary (becoming a sonic installation)

  • historical connections including:

    • legendary witches (and connection to Canthrig Bwt a’i phlant) o   Hedge school – link to pioneering campaigner for girls’ education, Elspeth Hughes-Davies (Rhys) - she created her own hedge school in Llanberis in the 19th Century, carving words on stones/slates in walls for her children to learn.

    • Language including experimenting with exaggerated welsh sounds (ch, ll, ng, a, dd, ph, rh, th, u ac ati) linked to words like Grwach, Gloch, Gwyrch, Gwlychu

    • deconstructing sounds and language

    • Making creatures (birds, mice, insects, hedgehogs) to perform on sticks weaving in and out and along the hedge

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Cyfarfod Utopias Bach 'Scores' Book Meeting (Zoom)
Jun
22

Cyfarfod Utopias Bach 'Scores' Book Meeting (Zoom)

Mae Utopias Bach yn datblygu gwahoddiadau a ‘scores’ fel ffordd o strwythuro ein digwyddiadau a'n gweithgareddau. Dan ni hefyd wedi defnyddio'r rhain gyda sefydliadau celfyddydol ffurfiol a Phrifysgolion yn ogystal ag yn ein cyfarfodydd ein hunain.

Utopias Bach develops invitations and scores as a way of structuring our events and activities. We’ve also used these with formal arts establishments and Universities as well as within our own meetings.

This meeting is for a small group of us, working with Tea with a Tree publishing, working on collating these scores into a book. This one is Noticing and Imagining. 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

If you have a Utopias Bach-related score/invitation you’d like to include in our collection, please email us

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Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge)
Jun
20

Sesiwn Crone Cast costume making session (Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge)

This series of sessions are for Crone Cast members to start making costumes/performance around the theme of Dod yn Wrych - Becoming Hedge.

(Rhan o prosiect Y Gloch, y Gwrych a'r Gwlychu, yn Dyffryn Peris)

Byddwn ni’n archwilio:

  • hedge as cynefin for human and more than human ecosystem

  • dod yn wrych – how we can embody a moving hedge - a shifting place of safety, threshold and connection

  • materials, sounds, stories, songs, welsh vocabulary (becoming a sonic installation)

  • historical connections including:

    • legendary witches (and connection to Canthrig Bwt a’i phlant) o   Hedge school – link to pioneering campaigner for girls’ education, Elspeth Hughes-Davies (Rhys) - she created her own hedge school in Llanberis in the 19th Century, carving words on stones/slates in walls for her children to learn.

    • Language including experimenting with exaggerated welsh sounds (ch, ll, ng, a, dd, ph, rh, th, u ac ati) linked to words like Grwach, Gloch, Gwyrch, Gwlychu

    • deconstructing sounds and language

    • Making creatures (birds, mice, insects, hedgehogs) to perform on sticks weaving in and out and along the hedge

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Iaith y Pridd: Egino! Fferm Henbant Farm LL54 5DF
Jun
19

Iaith y Pridd: Egino! Fferm Henbant Farm LL54 5DF

Lansiad prosiect newydd! New Project launch!

Ein cyfarfod cyntaf yn Henbant! Sesiwn hwyliog a chreadigol i gwrdd â'n gilydd, a dod i adnabod Henbant a dechrau ein harchwiliad o berthnasoedd ag iaith, diwylliant a lle.

Our first gathering at Henbant! A fun and creative session to meet each other, get to know Henbant and begin our exploration of relationships to language, culture and place.

Please register for this event:

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