Llangoed Village Hall will once again have a flagpole! With support from the Balchder Bro project, we are designing flags to represent our community, celebrate special events and create a visual buzz around our local 114-year-old village hall gathering place. The flagpole will be launched with a series of ten custom-printed flags.

Curious participants learned about graphic design, flag design and had a go at designing their very own flag as part of the free design workshop at Llangoed Village Hall with artist and designer Ffion Pritchard.

These events are funded through Balchder Bro Môn, which has been funded by the UK Government through the UK Common Prosperity Fund, with financial support also from the Nuclear Recovery Services (NRS) on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA). 

Llangoed Village Hall is getting a flagpole! With support from the Balchder Bro Môn project, the students at Ysgol Llangoed are designing flags to represent our community, celebrate special events and create a visual buzz around our local 114-year-old village hall gathering place.

Visual themes were: the sea, trees, flowers, Penmon lighthouse, friends, the school, animals and dragons of course!

These events are funded through Balchder Bro Môn, which has been funded by the UK Government through the UK Common Prosperity Fund, with financial support also from the Nuclear Recovery Services (NRS) on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA). 

The sky cleared and stars appeared, multiplying exponentially as the darkness fell. Magic!
Such an honour to be a part of 🌟Welsh Dark Skies Week! ✨ in collaboration with the Anglesey Astronomical Society.

We are in the process of establishing a dark skies observatory for the use of the local community and surrounding areas.

The project has been gifted an observatory and two deep-sky telescopes in honour of the late Robert Busby and Phil Braden. Renovated and refurbished by the Seiriol Men’s Shed and many dedicated volunteers, the observatory will be dedicated as the ‘Arsyllfa Busby-Braden Observatory’ in honour of the two amateur astronomers who had a shared curiosity for that which is unknown.

Working in conjunction with Anglesey AONB and Eryri Dark Skies team we are hosting events for the local community.

Blwyddyn Newydd Dda - Hen Galan - the old new year - Calennig apples - toast with holes - joyful voices - Mari Lwyd - cider spilled - the trees awake! May the new year begin! 

A magical afternoon with Kristoffer, the Anglesey Druid Order and many friends old and new. 

🍎Old apple tree, we wassail thee

And hoping thou wilt bear 

For the Lord doth know where we shall be

Till apples come another year.

🍎For to bear well, and to bloom well 

So merry let us be,

Let every man take off his hat, 

And shout to the old apple tree!

🍎Old apple tree, we wassail thee, 

And hoping thou wilt bear Hatfuls, capfuls and three bushel bagsful 

And a little heap under the stairs, 

Hip, Hip, Hooray!

⭐️Calenning - tôn, Ymdaith Gwyr Harlech Blwyddyn Newydd dda, gyfeillion,

Rown i chwi o eigion calon, Nawr trwy ganu pêr alawon,

⭐️Blwyddyn Newydd Dda.

⭐️Yr hen flwyddyn a aeth heibio,

‘R hyn oedd ynddi gas ei guddion,

Blwyddyn Newydd wedi gwawrio,

⭐️Blwyddyn Newydd Dda!

2 folk musicians - 870 miles on foot - 40 shows
Filkin’s Drift came to our Moon Gate Garden as part of their Wales walking tour!

www.filkinsmusic.com

What a day it was - participants took a trip to Plas Bodfa to learn about the history of the 100-year-old manor house, while simultaneously exploring creativity through the actions of brambles, 'a many headed beast that can regrow from almost any of its body parts, relentless, persistant, almost impossible to suppress' (Julie Upmeyer).

Brambles! Photos from the Isdyfiant workshop - Brambles by Julie Upmeyer with a field trip to Plas Bodfa. As part of the Isdyfiant programme of Mostyn Gallery

We hosted the annual garden party of the Welsh Historic Garden’s Trust in the Moon Gate Garden. They have all been so generous with their time, knowledge and extra plants. We have been working together to uncover the Chinese characteristics of our North Garden. The moon gate, the layering and dimensions created by the terracing, elements of the ’borrowed landscape’ with views to the mountains.

The team of volunteers came to work in the garden each week leading up to their party. It was a productive and connective experience for all of us! So much accomplished and learned. As part of the work, we re-discovered the stairs to the left of the moon gate and rebuilt them.

We gathered in the greenhouse for an acoustic set by singer-songwriter Reid Anderson. Afterwards we celebrated the global premier of ‘Whalebone’, the epic music video that was filmed at Plas Bodfa earlier in the year.

Blwyddyn Newydd Dda - Hen Galan - the old new year - Calennig apples - toast with holes - joyful voices - Mari Lwyd - cider spilled - the trees awake! May the new year begin! 

A magical afternoon with Kristoffer, the Anglesey Druid Order and many friends old and new. 

🍎Old apple tree, we wassail thee

And hoping thou wilt bear 

For the Lord doth know where we shall be

Till apples come another year.

🍎For to bear well, and to bloom well 

So merry let us be,

Let every man take off his hat, 

And shout to the old apple tree!

🍎Old apple tree, we wassail thee, 

And hoping thou wilt bear Hatfuls, capfuls and three bushel bagsful 

And a little heap under the stairs, 

Hip, Hip, Hooray!

⭐️Calenning - tôn, Ymdaith Gwyr Harlech Blwyddyn Newydd dda, gyfeillion,

Rown i chwi o eigion calon, Nawr trwy ganu pêr alawon,

⭐️Blwyddyn Newydd Dda.

⭐️Yr hen flwyddyn a aeth heibio,

‘R hyn oedd ynddi gas ei guddion,

Blwyddyn Newydd wedi gwawrio,

⭐️Blwyddyn Newydd Dda!

The possibilities of a greenhouse in the dark. It was magical evening, contributing live to the final Noson Gelf Art Nights from Culture Colony live on AMAM

Streaming live from the greenhouse, we premiered two entirely new works from the duo of Charles Gershome and Dr Edward Wright and Nid Kurtz (Laurie Gane)

‘The First Story’ by Charles Gershom, Edward Wright
Blending 100,000 years of oral tradition with the methodologies of astronomical encoded motifs. Manifest as Sound.

‘Elliot – Wittgenstein’ by Nid Kurtz
Laurie Gane, philosopher/musician
John Lawrence, musician @infinitychimps (ex Gorkys Zygotic Mynci)
Music compositions by Katherine Betteridge. @katherinebetteridgecreatrix
Poems by TS Eliot
Philosophy by Ludwig Wittgenstein

A convergence of language and reality, the opposing pressures of words and sound,  a semi-improvisational celebration of the anniversary of two major influences in Gane’s life – ‘The Waste Land’ by T.S Elliot and ’Tractatus Logico Philosophicus’ by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Many thanks to Pete Telfer and Eddie Ladd for virtually hosting us!

Building upon his previous work ‘boddi’, (performed on the newly drowned piano one year ago), Ynyr Pritchard performed an entirely new composition, on and around the piano, which has spent a full year now fully immersed in the pond at Plas Bodfa. Using the structure of the Passion of Christ, along with a ruler, speakers, a bicycle tyre inner tube, two brushes, a piece of plastic sheeting and a large piece of white cloth, Pritchard explores issues of climate change, war, protest and the inevitable passage of time.

for drowned piano and dispersed tape
Duration : ~56’34”
celebrating one year of ‘Piano Drowning’
by Annea Lockwood
composed and presented by Ynyr Pritchard
24th of September 2022

Full documentation on the
‘Piano Drowning’ Project page

The Utopas Bach ‘Deconstructed Conference’ was an experiment in how to run a conference in a different way. All those involved in Utopias Bach were invited (and open to all), bringing together the various parts of the strawberry plant to exchange experiences, ideas, learnings, to see what we’ve done, where we are at and what next. More than 30 human people came, some with us from the start, some new on the day… along with about 30 toad tadpoles, 4 greylag geese and numerous other beings…

So beautifully documented on this webpage

Piano Drowning is one of three scores from Annea Lockwood’s ‘Piano Transplants’ series, in which pianos are placed in specific locations that would somehow alter their physical states. Removing the piano from the concert hall and living room, bringing the instruments into direct contact with the forces of nature, she allows the pianos to be played by the environment in which they are situated. In this occurrence, the pond at Plas Bodfa.

Full Documentation Here

For the installation’s opening in 2021, Soundlands presented a new piano work specially commissioned for Piano Drowning at Plas Bodfa. The work is composed by Ynyr Pritchard and performed on the partially submerged piano by the composer and Xenia Pestova Bennett.

The official book launch for the Sui Generis publication. All of the artists and creatives involved in the exhibition were invited for the celebration.