This special event brings to a close the series of activities held during February and March 2026 as part of the Er Mwyn Dyn / For Crying Out Loud project. There will be a live recording led by the host of the Aberystwyth Book Club Hannah Loy who will be discussing Mari Ellis Dunning’s book Witsh. The Aber Criers will also cry out a poem written by Mari Ellis Dunning in response to online abuse experienced by Athika Ahmed, a young woman’s health ambassador in Wales. The poem will include lines of poetry collected from poets across Wales.

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Entry is free and all are welcome but please reserve your place in advance on Eventbrite. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/voices-and-visibility-womens-stories-across-time-tickets-1985288715992

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An event to celebrate the creative work of workshop participants, PhD Symposium, and other contributors to this partnership project between Aberystwyth University School of Art and the Spineless Wonders network. A pop-up exhibition featuring a range of work will be open between 4pm and 6pm, with readings by Reading the Landscape: Spineless Wonders contributors and participants between 5pm and 6pm. No booking required and all welcome.

Directions to the School of Art

Learn the basics of book art structures, following templates to create a selection of folded artefacts. Considering the book as a permeable container, we’ll be exploring physical gestures such as folding, cutting, tearing, collaging, tracing, and erasing, to create sequences held within its form. The workshop will be led in English and Welsh by visual artist Catrin Menai and print specialist Harriet Fuller.

All materials will be provided, but you’re invited to bring any papers, fragments, notes, or found elements you feel drawn to incorporate into the process. Reserve your free place in advance on Eventbrite. This project is a collaboration between Aberystwyth School of Art and the Spineless Wonders network.

The landscape can speak to us… if only we are willing to listen. This guided workshop will encompass a gentle walk in which participants will be encouraged to observe and absorb their surroundings. Maybe we will hear the starlings click and whistle, smell the sea foam or notice the hue of the castle ruins. We will interact with the landscape through both words (poetry and prose) and drawing and mark-making. Participants will have opportunity to write and draw the landscape and to make the everyday extraordinary. Led by writer Mari Ellis Dunning and artist Elin Crowley, this project is a collaboration between Aberystwyth School of Art and the Spineless Wonders network.

A collaboration between Big Wave/Ton Fawr and Aberystwyth University’s Dialogue Centre brings contemporary public art pieces to the town’s streets. As part of the wider Heddwch a Chariad creative season, Stop for Peace will feature installations at three bus stops – two in Penparcau and one on Penglais Hill near Bronglais Hospital – exploring the theme of Positive Peace. The aim is to offer people a moment of reflection and mindfulness during their everyday journeys. The artwork will appear on the bus stops during the last week of March.

This in-person Symposium: Reading the Landscape is organised by Miranda Whall – interdisciplinary artist, academic, and coach/mentor – and doctoral students at the University’s School of Art, Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, and Department of English and Creative Writing. The symposium brings together guest speakers Ben Porter and Elinor Gwynn, chairs Zoe Quick and Heledd Wyn Hardy, and the University’s doctoral students to explore new ways of being, perceiving, representing, and reimagining the Welsh landscape. The first hour includes the online symposium above. For further information and to book your free place, please visit our Eventbrite page.

Addressing the theme of Reading the Landscape, this online Zoom event will bring together special collections at the National Library of Wales/Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, Aberystwyth; University College London; Senate House Library, University of London; and the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester.

Including presentations by Timothy Cutts and Miidong P. Daloeng from NLW/LlGC; Liz Lawes, UCL: Tansy Barton and Leila Kassir, SHL; and Tabitha Tuckett, UoM, we will be sharing small press publications and other ephemera that relate to Reading Landscapes, which is one of the overarching themes of Dinas Llên Aberystwyth Ceredigion UNESCO City of Literature. This online event forms the first section of the in-person PhD Symposium taking place at Aberystwyth School of Art between 2 and 6pm – see details below.

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A session for Cymraeg learners and those interested in land and language. Dinas Llên writer in residence Esyllt Lewis and Land artist Brian Swaddling lead a relaxing series of guided activities, exploring the relationship between making art about or in the landscape. Looking at the interplay between landscape and language, they will explore what this coexistence can teach us about nature, the way we engage with the natural world as people, and the importance of names in order to understand our square mile. Any level of language proficiency is welcome. Please bring walking boots and gloves… and a jacket! Entry is free but please reserve a space in advance.

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Reserve a free place: https://aberystwythartscentre.co.uk/event/gweithdy-tirio-workshop/

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Learn the basics of book art structures, following templates to create a selection of folded artefacts. Considering the book as a permeable container, we’ll be exploring physical gestures such as folding, cutting, tearing, collaging, tracing, and erasing, to create sequences held within its form. The workshop will be led in English and Welsh by visual artist Catrin Menai and print specialist Harriet Fuller.

All materials will be provided, but you’re invited to bring any papers, fragments, notes, or found elements you feel drawn to incorporate into the process. Reserve your free place in advance on Eventbrite. This project is a collaboration between Aberystwyth School of Art and the Spineless Wonders network.

The landscape can speak to us… if only we are willing to listen. This guided workshop will encompass a gentle walk in which participants will be encouraged to observe and absorb their surroundings. Maybe we will hear the starlings click and whistle, smell the sea foam or notice the hue of the castle ruins. We will interact with the landscape through both words (poetry and prose) and drawing and mark-making. Participants will have opportunity to write and draw the landscape and to make the everyday extraordinary, and will leave with a small booklet full of their own creations. Led by writer Mari Ellis Dunning and artist Emily Wilkinson, this project is a collaboration between Aberystwyth School of Art and the Spineless Wonders network.

Join writers, artists and geographers for a walking tour and creative activities along Aberystwyth’s coastal landscape and start a new writing journey. The activity will be led by Nuala Dunn, Hywel Griffiths, Dewi Roberts, Brian Swaddling and Stephen Tooth.

Meet at ‘The Hut’ on South Beach at 12:30 and walk along the coast before returning to Canolfan Arad Goch at 17:30 for refreshments followed by a creative writing workshop.

Tickets are free but places are limited so please register by emailing hmg@aber.ac.uk noting any dietary or accessibility requirements by 8 March.

Gareth Bonello/The Gentle Good in conversation with Professor Mererid Hopwood, discussing his album Elan, and performing the songs inspired by the history and landscape of the Elan Valley.

The Irish poet Dairena Ní Chinnéide will also perform her work, while Mererid reads translations of her poems into Welsh. Simultaneous translation will be provided.

Entry is free but spaces are limited so please reserve a place by emailing Arad Goch: post@aradgoch.org