Tan â Llif – [sut I fynd] i mewn ac allan o’r cabinet: [how to get] into and out of the cabinet

This event is hosted by Carreg Creative as part of a commission by Oriel Celf Gyfoes Genedlaethol i Gymru/Wales Contemporary Art Gallery and Storiel.

AM DDIM - FREE!

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Ar gyfer ein comisiwn, mae Carreg Creative (Lisa Hudson a Lindsey Colbourne gyda Wanda Zyborska) yn gwahodd pobl greadigol lle mae eu hymarfer yn canolbwyntio ar gydweithio, proses ac ymgysylltu, i gymryd rhan mewn ‘sgwrs chwilgar’ (ar-lein/yn Storiel).

Bydd y ‘sgwrs chwilgar’ yn archwilio [sut i fynd] i mewn ac allan o'r cabinet. Sut gallai ein harfer ymgysylltiol fod yn berthnasol i oriel gelf gyfoes genedlaethol Cymru (gwefan Celf ar y Cyd) a chasgliad Storiel?

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For the commission, Carreg Creative (Lisa Hudson and Lindsey Colbourne with Wanda Zyborska) are inviting creative people whose practice focuses on collaboration and engaged practice to take part in a ‘curious conversation’

Our ‘Curious Conversation’ will explore how creative practice that focuses on collaboration, process and engagement* can get into and out of the cabinet: How could engaged practice relate to the national contemporary art gallery for Wales (Celf ar y Cyd website) and Storiel’s collection?

This meeting will be at Storiel, Bangor, with an option to join via ZOOM.

Mwy o wybodaeth, Rhaglen ac ati mynd at Eventbrite:

For More information, programme etc go to Eventbrite:

An online reading group (at 4pm 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 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

Grwp Dysgu Cymraeg Utopias Bach

Mae grwp bach ohonon ni, sy isio ymarfer a dysgu Cymraeg are meeting dros zoom ar 3ydd bore dydd gwener unwaith y mis. There is no tutor, we are just dysgu together, and supporting each other to teimlo mwy hyderus to siarad Cymraeg, yn arbennig efo geiriau ‘art’ related.

We you would like to take part, email Utopias Bach

Collaboratory - Sgwrs Chwilgar - Curious Conversation

This Curious Conversation is hosted by Carreg Creative as part of a commission by Oriel Celf Gyfoes Genedlaethol i Gymru/Wales Contemporary Art Gallery and Storiel.

The conversation will be an opportunity to continue the conversation we started with our March Collaboratory, and which has led to some great reflections and ideas (you can see/add to these here as a great introduction to the conversation)

In this collaboratory we will be further exploring polarities and ideas for [how to get] into and out of the cabinet. More information here

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Zoom link will be the same as usual

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

Meeting ID: 854 0971 9450

Passcode: 398362

Please ensure all notifications are turned off before joining the session.

If this is your first Collaboratory, we invite you to join at 10.30 to find out more about Utopias Bach and how we work, and in particular, how we manage the collaboratory meetings to enable all to participate.

Annwyl Pawb,

Hoffwn wahodd chi I Taith Tywyrchen Dydd Sadwrn 6ed Ebrill am 10.30. Bydd y taith yn mynd o Bethel Ar draws caeau I egylws Llandeiniolen ac yn ol. Mae’r taith yn cymryd tua dwy awr i cerdded.

Ebostio Emily am fyw o fanylion emily1one@yahoo.co.uk

Dear All,

As part of Stori’r Tir, I would like to invite you on a turf walk on Saturday 6th April at 10.30. The walk will go from Bethel across the fields to Llandeiniolen Church and back again. The walk takes about two hours.

Contact Emily for more information emily1one@yahoo.co.uk

An online reading group (at 4pm 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.

This month we agreed that we'd continue to look for poems related to rivers - and, given our discussion about rain and the water cycle maybe water more generally - but also go back to our earlier theme of birds. Obviously any poems you find about birds, rivers and rain will hit the spot perfectly!  

If you can, please let Iain Bigs have any poems you want to include by January 19th (email Iain). Iain will then put them into a pdf and circulate them in time for people to read them before we meet.

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 collaboratory is an informal opportunity to get together, have a panad and catch up and do a bit of quilting! (NB Quilting doesn’t necessarily mean sewing See more here about Cwilt Utopias Bach Quilt)

Kindly hosted by Irene Gonzalez at her house, please email if you’d like to join us in person or on zoom. We’ll then send details.

At Awen 33 studio, 41 Glanrafon Bangor LL57 1LH

Mwy o fanylion - more details: Facebook

Resilient Stages: Live Performing Arts and Crisis Policy after COVID-19

An event by the Societies and Cultures Institute, exploring how lessons learned across G7 countries help us create a live performing arts sector in the UK that is resilient and prepared.

Utopias Bach and Sarah Pogoda’s work is featured in a new book as part of this work!

FREE. Reserve a place here

Tan â Llif – [sut I fynd] i mewn ac allan o’r cabinet: [how to get] into and out of the cabinet

This Collaboratory will be hosted in partnership with Carreg Creative as part of a commission by Oriel Celf Gyfoes Genedlaethol i Gymru/Wales Contemporary Art Gallery and Storiel.

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Ar gyfer ein comisiwn, mae Carreg Creative (Lisa Hudson a Lindsey Colbourne gyda Wanda Zyborska) yn gwahodd pobl greadigol lle mae eu hymarfer yn canolbwyntio ar gydweithio, proses ac ymgysylltu, i gymryd rhan mewn ‘sgwrs chwilgar’ (ar-lein/yn Storiel).

Bydd y ‘sgwrs chwilgar’ zoom efo Utopias Bach yn archwilio [sut i fynd] i mewn ac allan o'r cabinet. Sut gallai ein harfer ymgysylltiol fod yn berthnasol i oriel gelf gyfoes genedlaethol Cymru (gwefan Celf ar y Cyd) a chasgliad Storiel?

Bydd y ‘sgwrs chwilgar’ hon ynddo’i hun yn rhan o, ac yn arwain at greu gwaith ar gyfer y cabinet a thu hwnt. Bydd rhan o'n gweithgarwch ar y cyd yn cynnwys gwahanol fathau o ddogfennaeth i [casglu? Cynrychioli? Gwneud yn weledol?] ac adlewyrchu ar natur a lleoliad y gelfyddyd ymgysylltiedig - sut mae'n amlygu neu gwireddu ei hun?

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Our ‘Curious Conversation’ will explore how creative practice that focuses on collaboration, process and engagement* can get into and out of the cabinet: How could our (individual and Utopias Bach) engaged practice relate to the national contemporary art gallery for Wales (Celf ar y Cyd website) and Storiel’s collection?

This ‘curious conversation’ will of itself be part of, and will lead into the creation of work for and beyond the cabinet in Storiel. Part of our collective activity will involve various forms of documentation to [collect? Represent? Make visual?] and reflect on the nature and location of the engaged art – how is it manifest?

Our starting point for our ‘curious conversation’ will be:

• Tan â Llif (poster BECA) by Paul Davies in Storiel’s collection

• Mappa Mundi by Paul Davies on Celf ar y Cyd website and Michael Iwanowski’s ‘Map according to You’  on Celf ar y Cyd

[*The ‘outside the gallery’ nature of engaged contemporary practice often results in artefacts/art works as a parallel strand of collaborative, embodied activity which encompasses conversation, performance, film, sound and installation. These are difficult to ‘contain’ or represent within a ‘cabinet’, whether the cabinet of a website (Celf ar y Cyd) or a physical cabinet (at Storiel) and even within the ‘cabinet’ of the art world as a whole.]

This meeting will be over zoom

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

Meeting ID: 854 0971 9450

Passcode: 398362

If this is your first Collaboratory meeting, we invite you to join at 10.30, to find out a bit about Utopias Bach’s work and approach, and any questions you may have, before the main meeting.

Grwp Dysgu Cymraeg Utopias Bach

Mae grwp bach ohonon ni, sy isio ymarfer a dysgu Cymraeg are meeting dros zoom ar 3ydd bore dydd gwener unwaith y mis. There is no tutor, we are just dysgu together, and supporting each other to teimlo mwy hyderus to siarad Cymraeg, yn arbennig efo geiriau ‘art’ related.

We you would like to take part, email Utopias Bach

PLaCE International Symposium, co-hosted by Iain Biggs, maybe of interest to Utopias Bach members!

National Theatre Wales + Pontio are hosting a day long event to explore working with nature and the practical challenges of making theatre responsibly. Free. All welcome

(As part of the event we’ll be sharing Utopias Bach’s Ysgol Arbrofol Dod at Ein Coed Experimental Tree Sense School)

How we can be good to the environment while making great theatre?

Book a spot for our Welsh Theatre and the Climate Crisis event to join the conversation. ♻️

📅 10:30 - 16:30 on Thursday 7 March

📍 Pontio, Bangor

💷 It’s free!

Book now

Oes gen ti ddiddordeb mewn sut y gallwn fod yn well i'r amgylchedd tra'n dal i wneud gwaith gwych?

Ymuna â ni yn ein digwyddiad Theatr Cymru a'r Argyfwng Hinsawdd. ♻️

📅 10:30 - 16:30 ar ddydd Iau 7 Mawrth
📍 Pontio Bangor
💷 Mae'n rhad ac am ddim!

Stori’r Tir Egino: Cadwch y dyddiad! Save the date!

Y Ganolfan, Llanberis 2-4 yh/pm

Arwyddwch i fyny am ddiweddariadau/mwy: Stori’r Tir

Sign up for updates/more: Stori’r Tir

Collaboratory Utopias Bach

Edrych ymlaen at ein Collaboratory Mis Chwefror. Dydd Mawrth 27.2.24 dros Zoom.

Sgynnon ni ddim agenda ffurfiol! Dan ni’n eich gwahodd i chi ddod â rhywbeth i’w drafod, i barhau â thrafodaeth flaenorol neu dewch i weld beth sy’n dod i’r amlwg! Byddwn ni hefyd yn cwiltio-wrth-fynd, ar gyfer ein Cwilt Utopias Bach Quilt  

Fel rhan o’r drafodaeth, bydd Lisa a Lindsey yn cyflwyno Carreg Creative  sef partneriaeth newydd sy’n cefnogi ymarfer creadigol sy’n ymwneud â’r amgylchedd ac yn gymdeithasol, a chyfle i aelodau Utopias Bach fod yn rhan o brosiect gyda Storiel, fel rhan o’r rhaglen ddosbarthu genedlaethol newydd. Oriel Celf Gyfoes Genedlaethol i Gymru.

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Looking forward to our February Collaboratory! Tuesday 27.2.24 over zoom

We haven’t got a ‘formal' agenda! You are invited to bring something to discuss, to continue a previous discussion or just come and see what emerges! We’ll also be quilting-as-we go, for our Cwilt Utopias Bach Quilt

As part of the discussion, Lisa and Lindsey will be introducing Carreg Creative, a new partnership supporting environmentally and socially engaged creative practice. We would like to talk about an opportunity for members of Utopias Bach to be involved in a project with Storiel, as part of the new distributed National Contemporary Art Gallery Wales.

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This meeting will be over zoom

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

Meeting ID: 854 0971 9450

Passcode: 398362

If this is your first Collaboratory meeting, we invite you to join at 10.30, to find out a bit about our work and approach, and any questions you may have, before the main meeting.

Hwyl!

An online reading group (at 4pm 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.

This month we agreed that we'd continue to look for poems related to rivers - and, given our discussion about rain and the water cycle maybe water more generally - but also go back to our earlier theme of birds. Obviously any poems you find about birds, rivers and rain will hit the spot perfectly!  

If you can, please let Iain Bigs have any poems you want to include by January 19th (email Iain). Iain will then put them into a pdf and circulate them in time for people to read them before we meet.

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

Grwp Dysgu Cymraeg Utopias Bach

Mae grwp bach ohonon ni, sy isio ymarfer a dysgu Cymraeg are meeting dros zoom ar 3ydd bore dydd gwener unwaith y mis. There is no tutor, we are just dysgu together, and supporting each other to teimlo mwy hyderus to siarad Cymraeg, yn arbennig efo geiriau ‘art’ related.

We you would like to take part, email Utopias Bach

Utopias Bach: Y flwyddyn i ddod? The year ahead?

Mae’r Collaboratory hon yn gyfle i drafod a siapio’r flwyddyn sydd i ddod i Utopias Bach … i barhau gyda Chwilt Utopias Bach Quilt a jyst i ddal i fyny, deud helo 😊

This Collaboratory is an opportunity to discuss and shape the year ahead for Utopias Bach… to continue with the Cwilt Utopias Bach Quilt and just to catch up, say hello

The meeting will be face-to-face, in North Wales. with an option to join on zoom.

Bangor University Main Arts Building, College Road, Bangor LL57 2DG

Access via the sliding doors to the Main Arts Building facing the big car park on College Road (roughly where it says ‘Bangor University Library’ on the map below). 

As the sliding doors require assistance for access, please arrive between 10:45 and 10:55, so we can gather in the entrance hall and then proceed together to the room upstairs.  If earlier/later or you need more directions, please call Sarah Pogoda on 07519 249048.

As the university is officially closed, the barriers for the car park are down, however there is plenty of parking available on the road  - All areas in red on the map below show parking options.

Note: Lift access to the room is not wide enough for a mobility scooter. Please call Sarah if any questions about this (number above).

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

Meeting ID: 854 0971 9450

Passcode: 398362

An online reading group (at 4pm 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.

This month we agreed that we'd continue to look for poems related to rivers - and, given our discussion about rain and the water cycle maybe water more generally - but also go back to our earlier theme of birds. Obviously any poems you find about birds, rivers and rain will hit the spot perfectly!  

If you can, please let Iain Bigs have any poems you want to include by January 19th (email Iain). Iain will then put them into a pdf and circulate them in time for people to read them before we meet.

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

Utopias Bach: Y flwyddyn i ddod: The year ahead?

Mae’r Collaboratory hon yn gyfle i drafod a siapio’r flwyddyn sydd i ddod i Utopias Bach … i barhau gyda Chwilt Utopias Bach Quilt a jyst i ddal i fyny, deud helo 😊

This Collaboratory is an opportunity to discuss and shape the year ahead for Utopias Bach… to continue with the Cwilt Utopias Bach Quilt and just to catch up, deud hello

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This meeting will be over zoom

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

Meeting ID: 854 0971 9450

Passcode: 398362

If this is your first Collaboratory meeting, we invite you to join at 10.30, to find out a bit about our work and approach, and any questions you may have, before the main meeting.

Grwp Dysgu Cymraeg Utopias Bach

Mae grwp bach ohonon ni, sy isio ymarfer a dysgu Cymraeg are meeting dros zoom ar 3ydd bore dydd gwener unwaith y mis. There is no tutor, we are just dysgu together, and supporting each other to teimlo mwy hyderus to siarad Cymraeg, yn arbennig efo geiriau ‘art’ related.

We you would like to take part, email Utopias Bach

Ymunwch â ni (Pontio, Bangor ac ar lein) i’r dadorchuddiad mawr o’r holl waith y mae Cysyllte - Connecting… wedi bod yn ei wneud dros yr haf… gan ddefnyddio ystod o ymarferion celf i    

ROI SAIN I’CH LLAIS-CAEL EICH CLYWED-CYSYLLTU-ADFER!   

Yn sicr, bydd yn brofiad unigryw a chreadigol, gan ddefnyddio geiriau, cerddoriaeth, clai, paent (a mwy!), gyda cherddoriaeth a dawns a gyfansoddwyd yn arbennig yn treiddio drwy’r cyfan. 

Dewch i brofi sut y gall Cysylltu… gael ei ddatblygu mewn presgripsiynu cymdeithasol – y cyntaf o’i fath yng ngogledd Cymru  

AM DDIM OND FE’CH CYNGHORIR I ARCHEBU YMLAEN LLAW GAN Y BYDD LLEOEDD YN BRIN 

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There will be an exhibition and sharing of work in progress at Pontio, Bangor (and online) for

Join us (Pontio, Bangor and online) in the big reveal of all the work Cysyllte - Connecting… has been doing over the summer…. using a range of art practices to  

SOUND YOUR VOICE- BE HEARD- CONNECT -RECOVER!  

It will be a truly unique and creative experience, using word, music, clay, paint (and more!) Interwoven with specially composed music and dance.  

Come to experience how Cysylltu… can be developed in social prescribing - a first for North Wales! 

FREE BUT ADVANCED BOOKINGS ADVISABLE AS PLACES ARE LIMITED 

An online reading group (at 4pm 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.

This month we’ll be continuing to gather and share poems relating to RIVERS.

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

Collaboratory: New Welsh Art, Avant Garde and Utopias Bach + Avant Quilt! (Hybrid event - Bangor/Zoom)

Dr Sarah Pogoda will lead us in a conversation to explore her work, how things we are doing in Utopias Bach link to the Avant Garde - how all this relates to art, history, capitalism and particularly Avant Garde art.

Bangor University Main Arts Building, College Road, Bangor LL57 2DG

Access via the sliding doors to the Main Arts Building facing the big car park on College Road (roughly where it says ‘Bangor University Library’ on the map below). 

As the sliding doors require assistance for access, please arrive between 10:45 and 10:55, so we can gather in the entrance hall and then proceed together to the room upstairs.  If earlier/later or you need more directions, please call Sarah Pogoda on 07519 249048.

As the university is officially closed, the barriers for the car park are down, however there is plenty of parking available on the road  - All areas in red on the map below show parking options.

Note: Lift access to the room is not wide enough for a mobility scooter. Please call Sarah if any questions about this (number above).

Avant-Quilt! You are also invited to bring your Quilting materials, to cwilt-as-we-go, as part of Cwilt-UtopiasBach-Quilt (see here for more details about the Quilt)

Please bring/have to hand

- any materials you are drawn to bringingf for quilting

- your own food (there’s kettles, cups, microwave and fridge)_

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Zoom link will be the same as usual (but please let us know if you want to attend on zoom)

The 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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Collaboratory - Cwilt a Conversation: Stori’r Tir and learning from Utopias Bach Experiments

You are warmly invited to our December Collaboratory, in which we will chat about and feed ideas into Stori’r Tir (Story of the Land) a new creative experiment in Dyffryn Peris (the valley running from Pen y Pass to Caernarfon, including Llanberis). This experiment is being led by Angharad Owen, Emily Meilleur and Lindsey Colbourne for GwyrddNi Community Climate Assembly. The experiment will try to bring some of the Utopias Bach learning to working with communities, how to make ‘call outs’ that work, how to support people in trying new things, share ideas etc

You are invited to bring along material to Quilt while the meeting is held, if you wish. See more about Cwilt Utopias Bach Quilt here

11 - 12.30pm

Note: If this is your first Collaboratory you are invited to join from 10.30 to find out a bit more about Utopias Bach, how these Collaboratories work etc.

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Zoom link will be the same as usual

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

Meeting ID: 854 0971 9450

Passcode: 398362

Grwp Dysgu Cymraeg Utopias Bach

Mae grwp bach ohonon ni, sy isio ymarfer a dysgu Cymraeg are meeting dros zoom ar 3ydd bore dydd gwener unwaith y mis. There is no tutor, we are just dysgu together, and supporting each other to teimlo mwy hyderus to siarad Cymraeg, yn arbennig efo geiriau ‘art’ related.

We you would like to take part, email Utopias Bach

An online reading group (at 4pm 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.

This month we’ll be continuing to gather and share poems relating to RIVERS.

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

The Quilt [note: this collaboratory is taking place on a Tuesday]

Penrhyn Room, Neuadd Reichel, Bangor University, Ffriddoedd Road, Bangor  LL57 2TR

[The venue is fully accessible with disabled parking on site. Others please car share if possible]

What better winter activity than to be quilting in community? 

This Collaboratory is an opportunity to meet ‘in the flesh’, and start our Utopias Bach Ecosystem Quilt, with an option to join on zoom (link below)

The idea of the Quilt came from our Collaboratory in September, where we were discussing how we might embody our Utopias Bach evolving ‘feel, experience, invitation, system, policies, etiquette, cultures’ rather than having a dry set of ‘fixed’ paper-based policies and descriptions.

You can watch the original discussion below.

Please bring/have to hand

- any materials you are drawn to bringing

- your own food and drink 

NB We ask that you do not attend this meeting ‘in the flesh' if feeling unwell.

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Zoom link will be the same as usual (but please let us know if you want to attend on zoom)

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

Meeting ID: 854 0971 9450

Passcode: 398362