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  • An extract from the performance Rendez-vous particulière – potatoes from Egypt The first Eisteddfod is believed to have taken place at Christmas in 1176 when Rhys ap Gruffydd, the then Lord of the kingdom of Deheubarth, held a feast at Cardigan Castle to celebrate having the castle he had captured from the Normans rebuilt in…

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  • Overture / Agorawd

    A creative workshop exploring the concept of an overture in relation to an opera focusing particularly on the characters and themes of Allen Raine’s novel Queen of the Rushes

  • The Allen Raine Ramble

    A ramble from Penbryn Church to Tresaith Beach in the company of musician and apprentice herbalist Ceri Owen Jones

  • Voice and Aria / Llais ag Aria

    A creative working exploring the concept of voice and aria in the form of a singing ‘seiat’

  • Allen Raine: The Radical?

    Allen Raine: the radical? A talk by Dr Rita Singer, Diversity Officer with the Dictionary of Welsh Biography

  • Rhwydwaith Adrodd ar Newid Gwledig / Narrating Rural Change

    In May 2021 I was invited by Professor Kirsti Bohata to join a reading group she was convening for Peak, an arts organisation based in the Black Mountains.  The group was one of a series of reading groups being held to commemorate the centenary of Raymond Williams’ birth – a strand of work titled, ‘Walking…

  • Y Cwm Soniarus / Where the waves meet the shore / sure

    The stated aim of my first professional performance project, Cerdded Adre: the long walk home, was to present myself as an artist in my local community.  My publicity materials for that first project were illustrated with a picture of a now well documented performance art event which took place at the National Eisteddfod in Wrexham…

  • Albion and the outlying Islands –  Odi’r teid yn mynd mas?

    https://player.vimeo.com/video/536519350?app_id=122963“> An extract from the performance Rendez-vous particulière – potatoes from Egypt The first Eisteddfod is believed to have taken place at Christmas in 1176 when Rhys ap Gruffydd, the then Lord of the kingdom of Deheubarth, held a feast at Cardigan Castle to celebrate having the castle he had captured from the Normans rebuilt…

  • Castell Aberteifi / Carnifal of Carnivals

    In March 2013 on the evening of passing the viva for my PhD (subject to minor corrections) I drove from Aberystwyth to Ferwig to give a short presentation to a local history society. I was hoping to generate interest in a digital project I was involved with at the time which centred around the idea…

  • Crossing the bar: deep maps as soul retrieval

    In November 2011 Adam Price, leader of Plaid Cymru and current Assembly Member for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr gave a lecture for the Welsh Political Institute in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. His lecture was titled, Wales the first and final colony and opened with the following words, “We are a hybrid state living…

  • The Host, the Ghost and the Witness: at the limits of hybridity

    In 2007 after finishing my MA I had sent out marketing information regarding my project Cerdded Adre. In the light of that information I was invited to become part of a PhD project hosted at the University of the West of England, Bristol. The project was part of a large academic consortium researching the lives of…

  • In Debatable Lands – an unsettled settler?

    https://embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js In 2007 having just completed an MA in Performance Making I was invited to respond to an artist’s book called In Debatable Lands.  Written in epistolary form the book is a collaboration between artists Iain Biggs, Jane Miller, Samira Abbassy and Gary Peters, and a mixture of text, images and songs with the understanding that, ‘…new…

  • New notes for an old Manifesto…

    In February 2021 I was invited to give a workshop as part of Oriel Myrddin’s National Lottery Funded project Hoelion Wyth / Pillars of Society looking at public memorials and commemoration in Carmarthen.  This work has coincided with my gaining a place on a mentoring scheme with the creative agency Addo and the prospect of researching…

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