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Rhys Slade-Jones: Cwm Here Now
Cwm Here Now is a disruption and gathering of fragmented histories, both material and imagined. Rhys invites you to familiar terrains, to question familial bonds and to reframe, and readdress the histories and hypocrisies laid in The Valleys.
Nov 5, 2025


All My Time Is Lying on the Factory Floor Mars Saude - Oriel Davies Gallery
Using a line from a 1970s folk rock song as a starting point and theme, this illustrated lecture performance takes a discursive and digressive look at divergent experiences of time.
Nov 4, 2025


30 years of the DDA - Being Human Festival
A creative celebration marking 30 years of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA). This workshop, led by disabled artists and researchers, honours the activism that led to the DDA and reflects on its legacy and the progress of disability rights since 1995.
Oct 13, 2025


Cwrdd: Gig Buddies vs Transportation
Mark Jones is a volunteer and Transport Ambassador with Gig Buddies Cymru, a project run by Learning Disability Wales that connects people with learning disabilities and autism with volunteers who share their interests.
Oct 7, 2025


'Fragments of Us': DAC Member Rachel Carney Poetry-Film Launch at g39
DAC Member Rachel Carney was commissioned by SHAPE Arts to create a poetry-film last year. Rachel is now hosting a launch event for the film, an in-person event in Cardiff at g39 on Thursday 30 October.
Oct 6, 2025


Artist of the Month: Lyn Lording-Jones
Our Artist of the Month for October is Visual Artist Lyn Lording-Jones, a painting, drawing and sketchbook artist in Penmaenmawr, North Wales.
Sep 30, 2025


DAC Equality and Diversity, Access and Inclusion Action Group
Share your thoughts on our survey by 31/10/25.
Sep 30, 2025


Cheryl Beer: CLIMATE CRESCENDO - Behind the Scenes
DAC Member Cheryl Beer has written a blog about her Commission with Cultura Inglesa, Brazil & Unlimited which is due to launch at their festival in Brazil, during October.
Sep 29, 2025


DAC Artist TanOren: Navigating Through Time & Cynfas
DAC Artist TanOren has created 'Quirky Chirky' as part of Navigating through Time. TanOren has also written an article about her Painting and Collage of the Ladies of Llangollen 'The Power of Two' for Cynfas.
Sep 9, 2025


Cwrdd: Social Firms Wales - Self-Employment Support Programme for Creative Entrepreneurs
Learn all about free support and mentoring available from Social Firms Wales to help successfully build your creative business as a self-employed artist.
Sep 8, 2025


Artist of the Month: Tobias Weatherburn
Our Artist of the Month is Tobias Weatherburn, a multi award nominated bilingual Welsh Actor & Voice actor with experience across Stage, Screen, Video Games, Audio Dramas and Commercials.
Sep 3, 2025


Heartstrings: Extended - Ceris Dyfi Jones Exhibition
To be twisted, strung along, tied together… the language we use around thread is so interestingly intertwined with the language of being human.
Jul 31, 2025


Q&A Session: Effaith National Exhibition
Come along to our next Cwrdd your Enthusiasm and find out more about our upcoming National Touring Exhibition, and the commission opportunities alongside this in partnership with Amgueddfa Cymru and Corsydd Calon Môn.
Jul 29, 2025


Call for Commission Proposals: £10,000 Opportunity for a Disabled Artist based in Wales
Disability Arts Cymru and Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales are offering a £10,000 commission to a disabled, d/Deaf or neurodivergent artist to create a new artwork.
Jul 28, 2025


Corsydd Calon Môn Disabled Artist Commission
CCM is working in partnership with Disability Arts Cymru (DAC) to support a disabled, d/Deaf or neurodivergent artist commission exploring the corsydd sites.
Jul 28, 2025


CHINCHILLA: Rightkeysonly's next single is out on Friday!
Content warning: Domestic abuse
Taking inspiration from Sofia Isella, Keys combines clashing piano melodies with graphic lyricism and chilling vocals to drag us deep into the bellies of fear and entrapment.
Jul 24, 2025


New Welsh-language song by DAC member Frances Abigail Bolley released on Tŷ Cerdd’s ‘Sionci’ Label
Marking the continuation of AffriCerdd – Tŷ Cerdd’s partnership with the National Eisteddfod, supporting artists of colour to work in Welsh
Jul 9, 2025


Cwrdd Event: Meet the Staff and Open Mic
Who are we? The DAC6 - we are all just regular people, and some of us might prefer to stay in hiding, but for one night only, we are going to put ourselves in the spotlight for your entertainment and to show a little bit of who we are and what we get up to behind the scenes.
Jul 7, 2025


Poetry as Protest Exhibition at Nartberth Museum including DAC member Jane Campbell
Congratulations to DAC member Jane Campbell who is taking part in Narberth Museum's Poetry as Protest exhibition, an exhibition from Narberth Poets & Friends that brings together poetry and visual art to show ‘Resistance is Fertile’.
Jul 6, 2025


Cwrdd Event: Meet the Commissioned Artists
Meet the eight artists who were awarded a DAC Commission in 2024. Hybrid Event: Online & at Shed Space, Wrexham University School of Art
Jun 24, 2025
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