Climate Change: Creative Conversations - Screening Programme

Ymgodi o'r Gaeaf / Emerging from Winter | 2:08
Written by the Llanrwst Flood Action Group, edited by Taylor Edmonds - the Poet in Residence for the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales and read by schoolchildren at Ysgol Bro Gwydir.
To coincide with the launch of the report, Inequality in a Future Wales, Poet in Residence Taylor Edmonds collaborated with people in Llanrwst in the Conwy Valley, which has suffered extensive flooding over the past few years. In the poem, Emerging from Winter, members of Llanrwst Flood Action Group speak of being ‘dragged from our beds at 3am to fill sandbags’ and question what kind of future their great grandchildren face. Local school children at Ysgol Bro Gwidyr recorded readings of the poem for this poignant video.
Yr Afanc Rap | 2:24
Pigtown Theatre Company, Mr Phormula and Conwy residents
Through a fusion of art, myth and environmentalism, Pigtown Theatre led a series of workshops and community sessions exploring flooding through the eyes of mythical Mabinogion creature, Yr Afanc. A community day was held in Conwy where legendary local rapper, Mr Phormula, worked with local children and families to create this special rap film about Yr Afanc.
Hagira | 4:48
Crone Cast
Crone Cast is a collective of artists identifying as old/older women, based in North Wales. We explore aging, power, identity, eccentricity and merging with the more-than-human as a process of becoming, in symbiosis with the precariousness of our times. Hagira, filmed at Dinas Dinlle, is an expedition to the edge of the land, on the margin of where we live, travelling somewhere and nowhere, becoming sand, bird, wind and storm. We are battling our own and the planet's extinction.
Mae popeth yn dibynnu ar popeth arall (Everything depends on everything else) | 36:00
Project initiated by Lauren Heckler and Alex Paveley, footage shot by residents in Cwm Penmachno, foley soundscape performed and recorded by residents in Llanrwst, screening furniture built in Conwy by Creating Enterprise Trainees and students from the Centre for Alternative Technology, interviews held by members of the Youth Climate Ambassadors for Wales.
Between January and March 2022, Lauren and Alex invited communities in Cwm Penmachno, Llanrwst and Conwy to work on the co-creation of a new moving image work, with the production travelling down the course of the River Conwy. Residents from each location focused on making different elements of the work, with the process exploring the role that collective creative action can have in facilitating meaningful conversations around climate change. The film combines workshop outcomes, community interviews and a record of the process, as it weaves together the landscapes, expressions and opinions of communities linked by weather and water.