Happenings Programme 2016

Photography by Megan Winstone

Sun 9 – Sun 16

Outside wall of Juno Lounge

Disability Access: Yes
Family friendly: Yes

The Valley Project is an ongoing series documenting thriving communities in South Wales Valleys. Villages in the valleys have been named the most poverty stricken places in the UK and with up to 50% of it’s young residents unemployed. This has been an issue since the pit closures and continues to offer few opportunities for the generations who came after the industrial boom. These photos show how members of the community are fighting back this stigma and individuals who are proud of their environment. Abercynon is a prime example of this, this small village in the Rhondda Cynon Taff has a strong community which has continuous efforts to provide opportunities with various approaches from it’s popular library to their well loved all male choir. The subjects within my photos are from relationships, not by passers, my ultimate rule when approaching this sensitive situation is to gain the trust of my sitter.

Ross and Bella Woodfield

Sun 9 – Sun 16, view from the street
Free Bank Of Roath Giveaway: Sat 15, 10am – 4pm

Disability Access: Yes
Family friendly: Yes

Everything is folding… banks, businesses, politicians, the country…Brexit.

Meanwhile, most of us are still busy working for ‘The Man’
At the heart of it all is the murky world of finance.
Here in Roath it’s going to be different; we’re not going to take it anymore,

we’re going to give it away.

Welcome to the Money Laundry…
https://www.facebook.com/freebankofroath

Selected artists curated by Rory Duckhouse

Sun 9 – Sun 16

Proposals for the Public invites artists to propose small acts or interventions into people’s everyday lives. The proposals will invite the public to consider how they live their lives and invite them to participate in a creative act. The proposals will place people in dialogue with artists and invite them to engage in a creative discourse, asking them to complete the artwork.

www.roryduckhouse.com

Disability Access: Yes
Family friendly: Yes

Sun 9 – Sun 16
Throughout Roath

Follow this trail to appreciate some of the best of the amazing range of beautiful decorative tile panels in the porches of our houses in Roath. Printed maps available from Penylan Library, The Gate and other MiR locations.

Disability Access: Yes
Family friendly: Yes

Sun 9 – Sun 16

Various locations

Exploring topics such as political and social inequality, the class system, and political figures, (Im)polite Notice will seek to share the opinions and frustrations of those living and working in Roath through a series of posters in a variety of locations during the festival.

Prior to the festival, Honey Jones-Hughes will undertake a period of research to carry out a series of conversations within the community. Concerning issues in the current political climate, these conversations will then be used to design the text based posters.

Disability Access: Yes
Family friendly: Yes

Sun 9 – Sun 16

Multiple locations
Presenting – exciting upcycled street art from a new group of creative cross stitchers in streets, alleyways, fences, gates and walls of Roath and Adamsdown. Including:
Plasnewydd Community Garden, Shelley Walk, CF24 3DX
Mackintosh community garden,
Arran Street, CF24 3JW
Edible Adamsdown community garden,
Star resource centre, 10 G Moira terrace, CF24 0EJ

Disability Access: Yes
Family friendly: Yes

Keep your eyes peeled as you explore the streets of Roath and Adamsdown to discover colourful wildlife and plants adorning fences and walls. These flourishing flowers, voluptuous vegetables and cute creatures are all leading you to some gorgeous green spaces…find out more
www.greencityevents.co.uk/event/crossing-paths

A&E Productions

Follow on twitter @little_ari for locations and times updates

For the past year Arielle & Elliot have been converting an old Mercedes truck into a liveable space. It took months of trial and error, late nights, scrunched up pieces of paper, blood, sweat, tears and love to turn a box into a home. Join them for drinks and a jam if you see them! Tweet @little_ari for locations, and look out for pop up events during the week too.

Family Friendly: Yes

Disability Access: no

Sun 9 – Sun 16, 11am – 4pm
Preview Sun 9, 2pm
Mon 10 – closed

Disability Access: No
Family friendly: No

Echoing the visits to the ancient ruins of Athens in the Eighteenth Century by the elite on their ‘Grand Tour’, Fragments For A City In Ruins imagines a visitor from the future, wandering through the city, its ruins, both ancient and modern.

Post-apocalyptic and elegiac, poetic and political, Rees’ film responds to the geopolitical context of Athens, in relation to the seismic events of the continuing global financial and refugee crises. Ruins, as “unstable sites of temporal fluctuation in which past, present and future coexist”, provide a trope through which notions of history and empire can be excavated in relation to spatial politics. Thus, the work invites reflection on the construction of historical narrative with regard to contemporary discourses of power and, through its exploration of the city of Athens, the entwined histories of democracy and financialization, debt and dispossession, empire and ruins.

Adjacent to Beech Tree, Roath Park Pleasure Gardens, CF23 5HB

Fri 14, from 4pm – Sun 16

Disability Access: No
Family friendly: Yes

I am an environmental artist who uses natural and organic materials to create installations for the natural environment or digital images that reflect a potential threat. Using the theme ‘Fold’ I will be creating three dimensional forms inspired from plant structures. The structure will open and invite the viewer into a journey through the artwork.

Charlotte Biszewski, Nick Willsher & George Rumney

Fri 14 – Sun 16
11am – 4.30pm

Disability Access: Yes
Family friendly: No

Ensemble, puts together its first collaborative project, this sister group of Rusty Squid, crosses the boundaries of art, design and engineering. Creating a new winged form in the world of robotics and art.
An upturned mechanical moth, responsive to the actions of its handler, it plays with both our instinctual empathy with the vulnerable and our internal intrigue in insects. This basketball size creature invites its viewer to pick it up, pass it around. The moth’s interaction increases through this handling and its wings will gradually unfold.
Combining the aesthetic beauty of paper folding, printing and casting, with robotics to create this digitally refined piece. Working with the internal need to protect and aid vulnerable beings, and Inspired by the true form of moths, this vulnerability affects how it is handled. Exposed mechanisms and paper wings accentuate this idea and bring the world of robotics on display in an open, tangible and accessible form.
www.rustysquid.org.uk

Ross and Bella Woodfield

Sun 9 – Sun 16, view from the street
Free Bank Of Roath Giveaway: Sat 15, 10am – 4pm

Disability Access: Yes
Family friendly: Yes

Everything is folding… banks, businesses, politicians, the country…Brexit.

Meanwhile, most of us are still busy working for ‘The Man’
At the heart of it all is the murky world of finance.
Here in Roath it’s going to be different; we’re not going to take it anymore,

we’re going to give it away.

Welcome to the Money Laundry…
https://www.facebook.com/freebankofroath

RCMA Enterprise

Sat 15
Farmers Market, 9.30am – 1pm
Blas – Streetfood, 4.30pm – 9.30pm

Disability Access: Yes
Family friendly: Yes

Join us in the morning for Roath Farmers Market, featuring fresh produce from local ‘farmers, growers & producers’ including barista coffee and bacon rolls. Return for Blas Roath; a Streetfood evening with local venders, local producers and a local ingredients bringing tasty food to go. Pizza, Spiced dishes, artisan burgers & hotdogs,grilled cheese, veggie and vegan options. Food vendors announced as the day nears. Local ales on the bar plus a few acoustic guitars and tunes. Blas by @rcmamarkets.

Sat 15
11am – 4pm

Society founded 1978. Our area of study is the ancient parish of Roath, which today includes Splott, Adamsdown and Penylan.

If you are interested in our Winter lectures and/or Summer visits, please contact the Secretary, Peter Gillard, Tel: 2241 1717.

Sat 15
11am-4pm

Originally from Trinidad, I have been resident in Wales since 2003. My current preoccupation is the Trinidad Carnival experimenting with different ways of engaging manifestations of this performance in diverse spaces. Of particular interest to me is the idea of masking to reveal alternative often subdued aspects of ‘self’ and the idea of wearing or performing stories of personal, social, political relevance in public spaces.

‘Presence’ develops a drawing performance that utilizes public outdoor spaces to insert re-presentations of aspects of self. Here I consider questions around visibility/invisibility, belonging and un-belonging and the significance of a post Brexit protest in a space that appears already disenfranchised and at times irritated by immigrant presences.

This work is interested in public ‘in-between’ places exploring both the drawing/painting of self-representations and the very public performance of doing the act of drawing/painting.

http://arteola.blogspot.co.uk

Sat 15
11am – 4pm

A festival in a festival… in a giant dome! Participation Station invites you to sing, dance, play, make, guffaw, be yourself and express yourself…

Goldies Cymru will get you belting out classic tracks, Laughter Yoga will move you to a higher (and funnier) level and the Tuneless Choir provides the freedom to sing regardless of ability. This is an art project that seeks to improve your life in weird and wonderful ways, so come along and participate!

Check out www.leecampbell.org for individual times and even more activities.

Sat 15
11am-4pm

The letters spelling out Once Upon a Time have become tangled in a tree. Where have they come from? Are they lost? There may be one beginning, middle and end to this tale or more probably many.There is one story that suggests a G for Girl and a D for Dog find the answer but there are many other stories which could begin here…

James Cocks

Sat 15, 12pm – 3pm
Sun 16, Flags exhibited at Welcome House

Flags of Roath is a new project by artist James Cocks. Through a series of printed flags, which explore the rich cultural, social and historical identities of Roath, James will be hosting a celebratory procession through the streets of Roath to introduce these images to the community, highlighting all that is positive about Roath. The procession will feature performers, Welcome House artists, musicians and James Greens’ masks.

The flags will be on display at Made in Roath’s studios at Welcome House at the beginning of the day on Saturday 15th. From Welcome House, the procession will work its way to the Global Home event on Plasnewydd Rd to join the Puppet Parade before travelling on to 28 The Parade. On Sunday, the flags will be exhibited at Welcome House.

This project draws upon James’ involvement in the Red Route marches of Made in Spring ‘15 & ‘16 and the Cardiff without Culture protest earlier in the year.

Contact: jpcocks1@hotmail.co.uk

Jessica Higgins and Owen Piper

Sat 15 & Sun 16
Performance – Sat 15, 1pm

Disability Access: Yes
Family friendly: Yes

‘The Shop’ is a new collaborative public artwork by Glasgow based artists Owen Piper and Jessica Higgins. For madeinroath 2016, the artists will re-imagine the signage of a cornershop and present a new performance piece exploring ideas of social refuge, shelter and the socio-political architecture of local amenities.

http://www.owenpiper.com
http://www.jessicasusanhiggins.info

shaping vulval forms in paper and clay.

Sat 15, 3pm – 9pm
Sun 16, 1pm to 6pm

Disability Access: No
Family friendly: Yes

Playful hands-on vulval making! Come and explore the possibilities of forming vulvas in paper and/or clay, Taking Hanna Wilke as an inspiration, starting with a flat piece of raw clay you can fold it to form the size or shape as you desire, absolutely no trimming allowed! Origami can also be explored freely.
This workshop deals with genitalia but intends to be inoffensive and lighthearted.

Music of the Spheres
Gareth Ziggy

Opening event: Sat 15, 6.30pm – 7.30pm
Sun 16, please check back closer to the date for opening times

Disability Access: Yes
Family friendly: Yes

Music of the Spheres uses mathematics, and attempts to demonstrate that everything, including the Earth and planets, produce a resonant pitch. Gareth Ziggy is an artist primarily working with sound.
The piece consists of an interactive spinning globe that emits frequencies and will light up in specific locations depending on sounds made by the viewer. In harmony with the piece the viewer becomes part of the celestial symphony that is ever present but normally inaudible to the human ear. The artist also links the use of sound by humans throughout the ages to produce certain effects, such as healing the body and building the Great Pyramid of Giza through to torture methods used by the American military and shopkeepers playing specific tones to drive teenagers away from hanging around outside their premises.

A CREATE@Roath Park Pleasure Gardens Event

Sun 16
11am – 2pm, 15 minute workshops throughout the day

Wish upon a crane at this informal drop in session and it may come true!

Mixed media artist Karen O’Shea will teach you how to fold the most classic of Japanese origami, the crane, a symbol of long-life with the ability to grant wishes. Add your wish and display it in your home or garden. A link to crane folding instructions are provided on Karen’s facebook page so that you can start making ahead of the festival (facebook.com/karenosheaart) and to enable you to make more afterwards at home. Tweet photos of your beautiful colourful cranes and wishes to the festival social media @madeinroath2016 and to @karenosheaart #cranespotting

Karen is an award winning mixed media artist running creative workshops for all ages and abilities, specialising in wellbeing. For more information visit @karenosheaart on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest & Twitter.

Music of the Spheres
Gareth Ziggy

Opening event: Sat 15, 6.30pm – 7.30pm
Sun 16, please check back closer to the date for opening times

Disability Access: Yes
Family friendly: Yes

Music of the Spheres uses mathematics, and attempts to demonstrate that everything, including the Earth and planets, produce a resonant pitch. Gareth Ziggy is an artist primarily working with sound.
The piece consists of an interactive spinning globe that emits frequencies and will light up in specific locations depending on sounds made by the viewer. In harmony with the piece the viewer becomes part of the celestial symphony that is ever present but normally inaudible to the human ear. The artist also links the use of sound by humans throughout the ages to produce certain effects, such as healing the body and building the Great Pyramid of Giza through to torture methods used by the American military and shopkeepers playing specific tones to drive teenagers away from hanging around outside their premises.

Sun 16
12pm – 2pm

Celebrate Wales’ return to the world footballing stage by kicking a ball around the Rec with lots of other people of all ages. Expect half-time oranges & jumpers for goalposts, and hopefully some new Gareth Bale-esque hairstyles – the best will get a special prize!

Disability Access: Yes
Family friendly: Yes

Wellfield Court Arcade Traders

Sun 16
12pm – 5pm

Ten independent traders celebrate the diversity of Roath’s eclectic culture. The Arcade will be open for a special day of competitions, live music, dining, retails therapy and much more.

Click ‘learn more’ below to go to the facebook event page where more info will be added closer to the date.

Family friendly: Yes
Disability Access: Yes

Sun 16

Richard Powell in conversation with Mike Tooby 3pm
Samuel Hasler in conversation with Dan De’Ath 4pm
Sara Rees in conversation with Julia Thomas 5pm

Join us for an afternoon of conversation exploring the various ways in which artists can intervene with civic structures and organisations in creative ways.