Language, Class and Cywilydd
By @DiffwysCriafol Thank you to Peter Davies for the insightful editing of this piece. Thank you also to Rhiannon White & Ffion Wyn for creating […]
Read moreRhiannon White (Common Wealth) and Ffion Wyn Morris are researching and developing We No Longer Talk, a project exploring working-class people’s relationships to Welsh language, identity and class. As part of our research and development, we’re hosting a series of free creative workshops exploring these themes with a specific artistic lens with some of our favourite artists.
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Sat 16th Dec, 2023
11am – 4pm
Museum of Cardiff, The Hayes Saint Davids Centre, CF10 1BH
The Wrong Side of The Tracks
The Erasure of Cardiff’s working-class Heritage and How We Tell Our Story. Join activist & Cardiff resident Sarah Bowen and writer Taylor Edmunds in a creative writing & contemporary history workshop. During the workshop we will learn about Cardiff’s working class history & celebrate some key figures who have shaped the city.
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Sat 25th Nov, 2023
12pm -5.30pm
St Mellons Hyb, 30 Crickhowell Rd, CF3 0EF
Grumpy Drawing Workshop with Bedwyr Williams
Using text and drawing we will be exorcising any topic that is currently doing your head in or gets on your nerves. Anything, from the trivial to the universal.
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Sat 18th Nov, 2023
11am-3pm
The Circle Tredegar, NP22 3PS
Small Revolutions
A writing workshop with Patrick Jones that delves into radical ideas of the past in order to express ideas for now and the future.
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Sunday 17th Sept
, 2023
11am-3pm
Cyfarthfa Museum, Merthyr
Sense of Place – Visual artist Jon Pountney will collaborate with Historian Chris Parry to create an artistic, interactive workshop exploring Welsh identity, landscape and our relationship to Wales’ radical, post-industrial past. The workshop will begin in Cyfartha Castle and then be on site across historical sites & contexts in Merthyr. Once booked, organisers will be in touch to arrange travel & access needs.