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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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:

This is a monthly opportunity to think more deeply about what is Utopias Bach. Originally the ‘Utopias Bach Theory Group’, we have tentatively renamed ourselves Puzzling in Practice (Expanded) or PIPE for short.

We hope our PIPE might help us articulate more clearly (or not) what UB is; help us (and others) take ourselves more seriously; help us go one step further.

The way we’ll work:

• Our conversations = the practice…

• We will use different ’stimuli’ for conversation (maybe ’theory’, maybe a quote, an image, video, text, novel etc, and may include what we’ve already written/documented)

• These ‘stimuli’ might be on socially engaged practice, love, care, pedagogy, co-learning, more-than-human alliances, conversation…etc

• Our conversations may focus on different aspects of Utopias Bach/a particular experiment/an experience, to give practice to theory (puzzling)/ (puzzling) theorising a practice

If you would like to join please email Sarah Pogoda for this month’s stimulus material

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This meeting 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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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

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

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. 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

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

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

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 will take it in turn to circulate a poem (nothing too long!) and then meet online to discuss it.

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

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. 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

Collaboratory dros ZOOM efo Ellie Davies + Anastasia Zaponidou, to discuss a potential new experiment, building on Ellie and Meilyr Tomos’ GeoMôn commission at the Aberlleiniog Sculpture Trail…

Am Byth Bythoedd: dysgu a gwrando, cyfansoddi a chreu collage, gan gloddio'n ddyfnach i'r dirwedd.

Forever and Ever: learning & listening, composing & collaging, digging deeper into the landscape.

To see more about the first iteration click here or on the image.

Croeso i bawb!

If you are joining us, please bring a rock or pebble with you.

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.

This is a monthly opportunity to think more deeply about what is Utopias Bach. Originally the ‘Utopias Bach Theory Group’, we have tentatively renamed ourselves Puzzling in Practice (Expanded) or PIPE for short.

We hope our PIPE might help us articulate more clearly (or not) what UB is; help us (and others) take ourselves more seriously; help us go one step further.

The way we’ll work:

• Our conversations = the practice…

• We will use different ’stimuli’ for conversation (maybe ’theory’, maybe a quote, an image, video, text, novel etc, and may include what we’ve already written/documented)

• These ‘stimuli’ might be on socially engaged practice, love, care, pedagogy, co-learning, more-than-human alliances, conversation…etc

• Our conversations may focus on different aspects of Utopias Bach/a particular experiment/an experience, to give practice to theory (puzzling)/ (puzzling) theorising a practice

If you would like to join please email Sarah Pogoda for this month’s stimulus material

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This meeting 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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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. 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

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 will take it in turn to circulate a poem (nothing too long!) and then meet online to discuss it.

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

Mae’n Collaboratory tro ‘ma yn gyfle i siarad am gyfle gweithio efo meddygfa Conwy - ella Mudiad Mycelium, ella mwy?

Ymunwch â ni!

This time our Collaboratory is a chance to discuss how we might work with a GP practice in Conwy - perhaps Mycelium movement, perhaps more?

Please join us!

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.

This is a monthly opportunity to think more deeply about what is Utopias Bach. Originally the ‘Utopias Bach Theory Group’, we have tentatively renamed ourselves Puzzling in Practice (Expanded) or PIPE for short.

We hope our PIPE might help us articulate more clearly (or not) what UB is; help us (and others) take ourselves more seriously; help us go one step further.

The way we’ll work:

• Our conversations = the practice…

• We will use different ’stimuli’ for conversation (maybe ’theory’, maybe a quote, an image, video, text, novel etc, and may include what we’ve already written/documented)

• These ‘stimuli’ might be on socially engaged practice, love, care, pedagogy, co-learning, more-than-human alliances, conversation…etc

• Our conversations may focus on different aspects of Utopias Bach/a particular experiment/an experience, to give practice to theory (puzzling)/ (puzzling) theorising a practice

If you would like to join please email Sarah Pogoda for this month’s stimulus material

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This meeting 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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Yn y cyfarfod hwn, fasen ni'n creu Cytundeb Nyth Cydweithredol rhwng Carreg Creative, Fferm Henbant, Utopias Bach ac yr Ymarferwyr Creadigol. Mi bydden ni’n gweu’r nyth gyda’n gilydd drwy gael sgyrsiau i’n helpu ni i ddeall sut byddwn ni’n gweithio gyda’n gilydd mewn gofod teg a meithringar (yn gorfforol ac yn drosiadol), gan gefnogi ein llesiant ein gilydd.   

At this meeting we will create a collaborative Nest Agreement between Carreg Creative, Fferm Henbant, Utopias Bach and the Creative Practitioners. We will create the nest together through having conversations to help us understand how we will work together in a fair and nurturning space (physically and metaphorically), while supporting each other’s wellbeing.

This meeting is just for the partnership - if you’d like to get involved in Iaith y Pridd see here:

Invitation to Explore Weeds Permanence‍ // Gwahoddiad i Parhau Archwilio Hirbarhad Parhad Chwyn ‍

Date: April, 9th 2026

Dyddiad: 9fed Ebrill 2026
Time: 11am – 1pm

Amser: 11am – 1pm

Where: Relief Map of Wales at Llyn Alaw

Ble: Map Tirwedd o Gymru yn Llyn Alaw‍ ‍

How to get there: LL65 4TW – detailed visual directions on request. Lifts will be arranged from Bangor and Menai Bridge.

Sut i gyrraedd yno: LL65 4TW – cyfeiriad gweledol manwl ar gais. Trefnir lifftiau o Fangor a Phortwaethwy.

Cymraeg yn isod

In 1987, Welsh artist Paul Davies (Beca) instigated the collaborative created of a „semi-permanent” Relief Map of Wales made of locally resourced rocks and soil at the shores of Llyn Alaw (Ynys Môn). In summer 1988 it was officially opened. 49 years later, the shore-site at Llyn Alaw has transformed and now is made home by Trees, Blackthorne, Gorse, Ivy, Farns, Mosses and many of our weedy kins

The Relief Map of Wales sculpture indeed seemed to have turned out to be “semi-permanent:” It looks like it did not remain unchanged.

• Or did it?

• What is semi-permanence, what is semi-permanent, particularly when referring to a sculpture set amidst a biotope as Llyn Alaw?

• Does language and its etymology help us to understand what semi-permanence might mean and how we can relate to a semi-permanent Relief Map of Wales?

• And does the term even discriminate against all the busy multi-species artists shaping and reshaping the Relief Map of Wales for almost 50 springs, 50 summers, winters and autumns?

• Is there a level of hidden violence in our understandings and applications of permanence and semi-permanence?  

I would like to invite Utopias Bach Weeds School to explore these questions through a scored visit to the site.    

Interested but not sure what to expect? Here is what might be happening (subject to change):‍ ‍

11am: Arrival at the site, welcome and introduction at top level of the site.

11:15am: Invitations // scores distributed to guide your encounter and exploration with the site and its permanence/semi-permanence. (Invitation no obligation, you can bring your own scores).

11:30-12:15: Encountering and exploring.

12:15-12:45: Sharing

12:45: What’s next?

Visit to the site is open ended, so you can bring your lunch or a book and spend further time at the site. ‍ ‍

Interested? What to bring? Wear appropriate footwear and clothing. Bring your own water and food if needed. Bring something to take notes, recordings – or other forms of documenting your exploration. Bring exploration tools: binocular, magnifier, graphic aids (for birds, mosses), pruner, saw, or any other tool (but anything motorist) you feel might help you in your exploration. ‍ ‍

Accessibility of the site: Unfortunately, Welsh Water closed the Visitor Centre decades ago, and the site is not accessible. There are two barriers to cross or subvert or circumvent to access the reservoir and further natural barriers (roots sticking from the ground, thorny plants, mud) to attend to when entering the Relief Map of Wales. There are not toilets or benches but some rocks that can offer seating.  

Further Information on Paul Davies’ Relief Map of Wales

Etymology

Permanent   "enduring, unchanging, unchanged, lasting or intended to last indefinitely," early 15c., from Old French permanent, parmanent (14c.) or directly from Latin permanentem (nominative permanens) "remaining," present participle of permanere "endure, hold out, continue, stay to the end," from per "through" (from PIE root *per- (1) "forward," hence "through") + manere "stay" (from PIE root *men- (3) "to remain").  

Semi   word-forming element of Latin origin meaning "half," also loosely, "part, partly; partial, almost; imperfect; twice," from Latin semi- "half" (before vowels often sem-, sometimes further reduced to se- before m-), from PIE *semi- "half" (source also of Sanskrit sami "half," Greek hēmi- "half," Old English sam-, Gothic sami- "half").

The Old English cognate, sam-, was used in such compounds as samhal "in poor health, weakly," literally "half-whole;" samsoden "half-cooked" ('half-sodden'), figuratively "stupid" (compare half-baked); samcucu "half-dead," etymologically "half-alive" (see quick (adj.)); and the lingering survivor, sandblind "dim-sighted" (q.v.).

The Latin element was common in formations from Late Latin, as in semi-gravis "half-drunk," semi-hora "half hour," semi-mortuus "half-dead," semi-nudus "half-naked," semi-vir "half-man, hermaphrodite." The Latin-derived form in English has been active in forming native words since 15c. Semi-bousi "half-drunk" ('semi-boozy'), now obsolete, was among the earliest (c. 1400). As a noun, semi has variously been short for semi-detached house (by 1912), semi-trailer (by 1942), semi-final (by 1942).    

Gwahoddiad i Parhau Archwilio Hirbarhad Parhad Chwyn

Ym 1987, cychwynnodd yr artist Cymreig Paul Davies (Beca) y gwaith cydweithredol o greu Map Rhyddhad "lled-barhaol" o Gymru wedi'i wneud o greigiau a phridd o adnoddau lleol ar lannau Llyn Alaw (Ynys Môn). Yn haf 1988 fe'i hagorwyd yn swyddogol. 49 mlynedd yn ddiweddarach, mae safle'r lan yn Llyn Alaw wedi trawsnewid ac mae bellach yn gartref i Goed, Draenen Ddu, Eithin, Eiddew, Ffermydd, Mwsoglau a llawer o'n perthnasau chwynog. Ymddengys bod cerflun Map Rhyddhad Cymru wedi troi allan i fod yn "lled-barhaol": mae'n edrych fel nad yw wedi aros yr un fath.

• Neu a wnaeth?

• Beth yw lled-barhaolrwydd, beth yw lled-barhaol, yn enwedig wrth gyfeirio at gerflun wedi'i osod yng nghanol biotop fel Llyn Alaw?

• A yw iaith a'i tharddiad yn ein helpu i ddeall beth allai lled-barhaolrwydd ei olygu a sut y gallwn uniaethu â Map Rhyddhad lled-barhaol o Gymru?

• Ac a yw'r term hyd yn oed yn gwahaniaethu yn erbyn yr holl artistiaid aml-rywogaeth prysur sy'n llunio ac yn ail-lunio Map Tirwedd Cymru am bron i 50 o wanwynau, 50 o hafau, gaeafau a hydrefau?

• A oes lefel o drais cudd yn ein dealltwriaethau a'n cymwysiadau o barhaolrwydd a lled-barhaolrwydd?

Hoffwn wahodd Ysgol Chwyn Bach Utopias i archwilio'r cwestiynau hyn trwy ymweliad â'r safle wedi'i sgorio.

 diddordeb ond ddim yn siŵr beth i'w ddisgwyl? Dyma beth allai fod yn digwydd (yn amodol ar newid):

11am: Cyrraedd y safle, croeso a chyflwyniad ar lefel uchaf y safle.

11:15am: Gwahoddiadau // sgoriau'n cael eu dosbarthu i arwain eich cyfarfyddiad ac archwiliad gyda'r safle a'i barhaolrwydd/lled-barhaolrwydd. (Dim rhwymedigaeth ar y gwahoddiad, gallwch ddod â'ch sgoriau eich hun).

11:30-12:15: Cyfarfyddiad ac archwilio.

12:15-12:45: Rhannu

12:45: Beth nesaf?

Mae ymweliad â'r safle yn ddiddiwedd, felly gallwch ddod â'ch cinio neu lyfr a threulio mwy o amser ar y safle.

 diddordeb? ​​Beth i'w ddod?

Gwisgwch esgidiau a dillad addas.

Dewch â'ch dŵr a'ch bwyd eich hun os oes angen.

Dewch â rhywbeth i gymryd nodiadau, recordiadau - neu ffurfiau eraill o ddogfennu eich archwiliad.

Dewch ag offer archwilio: ysbienddrych, chwyddwydr, cymhorthion graffig (ar gyfer adar, mwsoglau), tociwr, llif, neu unrhyw offeryn arall (ond unrhyw beth i fodurwyr) y teimlwch a allai eich helpu yn eich archwiliad.

Hygyrchedd y safle:

Yn anffodus, caeodd Dŵr Cymru'r Ganolfan Ymwelwyr ddegawdau yn ôl, ac nid yw'r safle yn hygyrch. Mae dau rwystr i'w croesi neu eu gwyrdroi neu eu hosgoi i gael mynediad at y gronfa ddŵr a rhwystrau naturiol pellach (gwreiddiau'n sticio o'r ddaear, planhigion drain, mwd) i roi sylw iddynt wrth fynd i mewn i Fap Rhyddhad Cymru.

Nid oes toiledau na meinciau ond rhai creigiau a all gynnig seddi.

Gwybodaeth Bellach am Fap Tirwedd Paul Davies o Gymru:

https://map-of-wales.jimdosite.com/relief-map-of-wales/

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. 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