gwrando dwfn/molla wariga

During 2023, Wales Arts International has been supporting nine artists to listen to and learn from the many endangered indigenous languages of the world as part of the UN Decade of Indigenous Languages.

Veronica Calarco has been developing a deep listening and reciprocity project between artists in Australia, Ireland and Wales, creating space for the artists to reframe how they learn from each other, and share knowledge of each other’s cultural, linguistic and creative explorations. Stiwdio Maelor will be hosting a curated exhibition of the works created during the project.

An exhibition of work from the project will open on Sunday September 10th, 12-5pm with wine from 3pm

Project participants: Australia - Ricky Emmerton, Susan Peters Nampitjin, Jenny M Thomas, Brooke Wandin; Ireland - Eileen Keane, Fidelma Ní Ghallchobhair; Cymru – Angharad Jenkins, Veronica Calarco

The exhibition can viewed other days by appointment: message or email to book stiwdiomaelor@gmail.com 

Stiwdio Maelor, Bridge Street, Corris SY209SP

Wales Arts International is supporting nine artists to listen to and learn from the many endangered indigenous languages of the world as part of the UN Decade of Indigenous Languages.

As one of the nine artists, I will develop deep listening and reciprocity between artists in Australia, Ireland and Wales, creating space for the artists to reframe how they learn from each other, and share knowledge of each other’s cultural, linguistic and creative explorations. Stiwdio Maelor will host a curated exhibition of the works created during the project, showcasing the artist’s sketchbooks and drawings as well as completed works.

https://wai.org.uk/news-jobs-opportunities/announcing-gwrando-fund-recipients

The 2023 PressNorth Residency is a 3-month residency with an exhibition (June). This ongoing residency project is presented in partnership between Umbrella and PressNorth Printmakers. Calarco’s residency is funded by the International Overseas Fund, Wales Arts International, Arts Council of Wales.

During the residency, there will be an exhibition Gwrando … to listen and a 2-day lithograph workshop.

A panel discussing international fellowships, residencies, and retreats. Panelist topics: cost vs. stipend, different types of fellowships/residencies, the application process, and the resources to find international opportunities. A question and answer period will be included at the end of the session.

Panelists:

Veronica Calarco Stiwdio Maelor

Julie Upmeyer, Plas Bodfa

Nathalie Anglès, Residency Unlimited

Elsie Kagan, Interlude Artist Residencyere

Wales Arts International, the international agency of Arts Council of Wales, with support by the Welsh Government, is marking the start of the UN Decade of Indigenous Languages in 2022 by launching a new programme for artists and arts organisations. The aim of Gwrando (listening) is to nurture the art of listening to endangered languages and communities, and to learn about their efforts in protecting the land they inhabit.

Listening to indigenous languages through and with other indigenous languages enables deep cultural, creative and linguistic exploration. From these creative explorations we plan to build future collaborations and opportunities. This fund is seen as the first step in venturing deeper during the decade to come.

Through this programme we hope to learn more about the connection between language and the environment. Listening to the diverse languages of the world is as important and beneficial as appreciating the ecological diversity of our natural world.

Dr Veronica Calarco, an Australian artist living in Wales will speak about her interest in language and the land in which she lives and visits.

Yn ystod yr wyth mlynedd diwethaf, mae Veronica wedi creu dros 900 o fasgedi o hen brintiau ac edafedd, coed tân a bagiau ffrwyth, rhaff y daethpwyd o hyd iddi ar y traeth, deunydd oedd yn weddill ar ôl gwneud gwaith gwehyddu, gyda’r nod na fyddai’r corff hwn o waith yn defnyddio unrhyw ddeunydd nad oedd eisoes wedi’i ddefnyddio o’r blaen. Dechreuodd y creu basgedi fel ffordd i ailgylchu printiau nad oeddent o safon ddigon uchel i’w harddangos ac fel ymateb i’r gwastraff a gynhyrchwyd wrth greu darnau o waith - a datblygodd y syniadau hyn yn osodwaith. Mae’r gosodwaith yn sôn am y proses creadigol, ein hymateb i’r tir a’r angen i ni ymateb mewn ffordd bositif i’r gormodedd o gynnyrch gwastraff. O fewn y gosodwaith, mae pob basged yn cynrychioli naratif, yn adrodd hanes cysyniad a phrintio gwreiddiol yr artist, y rheswm pam y gwrthodwyd y print, y proses o’i drosglwyddo, lle y daethpwyd o hyd i’r edafedd, stori ei wehyddu, a’i gynnwys mewn gosodwaith sy’n newid.

The Land as Other: As part of the biannual Impact 12 conference, printmakers were invited to collaborate with environmental scientists and humanities scholars and respond to new deep-time environmental histories in Wales, language, a sense of place, the re-wilding movements and the positioning of Cymru by outsiders (notably tourists) as ‘Other’ with issues including migration, displacement, colonialism and citizenship, and a sense of loss.

Co-curated and co-led by printmakers Dr Veronica Calarco (Lecturer, Printmaking, School of Art, Aberystwyth University), Judy Macklin (creative fellow at Centre for the Inland, La Trobe University and Lincoln Centre of Water and Planetary Heath), Professor Mark Macklin (Distinguished Professor of River Systems and Global Change, University of Lincoln) and Dr Lucy Taylor (Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies, Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University), this curated exhibition will address and make a novel intervention on the conference theme of ‘Merging and Metamorphosis’.

A right to roam can be connected to calls to think, re-imagine and create, as well as to physically move or migrate, to run and cross boundaries. The call is not necessarily coming from “out there”, but also from an inner urge to roam, perhaps in response to lockdown and being constrained in so many ways.

Panel participants:

Emma Jayne Holmes

Veronica Calarco

Dawn Faye

Norma Hendrix

Join Veronica Calarco as she discusses her final Phd project, her topics will highlight the politics of endangered and minority languages and how they are consumed and colonized by a dominant language of a more powerful ethnic group. In this case, looking at an endangered Australian Indigenous language named Gunnai/Kŭrnai, the language of her native homeland, and Welsh, the language of her adopted homeland. All the works reflected her exploration of these two languages through names, words, myths, and the natural world.

Veronica will also be sharing her post doc research for Cyd-fyw a’r Tir / We Live With the Land and how the project has developed into its forthcoming exhibitons.

Researcher and artist Dr Veronica Calarco will be exhibiting 900 of her handmade baskets, made from recycled prints, in an upcoming exhibition at Mid Wales Arts Centre. The exhibition is built to showcase the strength of involvement and awareness of artists who wish to create positive environmental/ecological art in today’s climate.

The exhibition will open on Friday 5th of June and continue till the 7th of August.

Dr Veronica Calarco will be discussing Wales as a colony/Wales as coloniser, built and natural landscapes, the concept of cynefin, the colonial countryside and language and identity in Panel 8, Tuesday 7th of June, 11:30 - 1:00 pm

This conference will situate the history of Wales within global and colonial contexts. The conference invited proposals for papers that engage with current issues and debates in historiography and public policy alike. On one hand, the conference aims to expand upon recent scholarship which has cast new light on Wales’s connections to imperialism and transatlantic slavery. On the other, it will encourage discussions about how Welsh national history and identity is understood and taught.

gwrando dwfn/molla wariga

During 2023, Wales Arts International has been supporting nine artists to listen to and learn from the many endangered indigenous languages of the world as part of the UN Decade of Indigenous Languages.

Veronica Calarco has been developing a deep listening and reciprocity project between artists in Australia, Ireland and Wales, creating space for the artists to reframe how they learn from each other, and share knowledge of each other’s cultural, linguistic and creative explorations. Stiwdio Maelor will be hosting a curated exhibition of the works created during the project.

An exhibition of work from the project will open on Sunday September 10th, 12-5pm with wine from 3pm

Project participants: Australia - Ricky Emmerton, Susan Peters Nampitjin, Jenny M Thomas, Brooke Wandin; Ireland - Eileen Keane, Fidelma Ní Ghallchobhair; Cymru – Angharad Jenkins, Veronica Calarco

The exhibition can viewed other days by appointment: message or email to book stiwdiomaelor@gmail.com 

Stiwdio Maelor, Bridge Street, Corris SY209SP

Wales Arts International is supporting nine artists to listen to and learn from the many endangered indigenous languages of the world as part of the UN Decade of Indigenous Languages.

As one of the nine artists, I will develop deep listening and reciprocity between artists in Australia, Ireland and Wales, creating space for the artists to reframe how they learn from each other, and share knowledge of each other’s cultural, linguistic and creative explorations. Stiwdio Maelor will host a curated exhibition of the works created during the project, showcasing the artist’s sketchbooks and drawings as well as completed works.

https://wai.org.uk/news-jobs-opportunities/announcing-gwrando-fund-recipients

The 2023 PressNorth Residency is a 3-month residency with an exhibition (June). This ongoing residency project is presented in partnership between Umbrella and PressNorth Printmakers. Calarco’s residency is funded by the International Overseas Fund, Wales Arts International, Arts Council of Wales.

During the residency, there will be an exhibition Gwrando … to listen and a 2-day lithograph workshop.

A panel discussing international fellowships, residencies, and retreats. Panelist topics: cost vs. stipend, different types of fellowships/residencies, the application process, and the resources to find international opportunities. A question and answer period will be included at the end of the session.

Panelists:

Veronica Calarco Stiwdio Maelor

Julie Upmeyer, Plas Bodfa

Nathalie Anglès, Residency Unlimited

Elsie Kagan, Interlude Artist Residencyere

Wales Arts International, the international agency of Arts Council of Wales, with support by the Welsh Government, is marking the start of the UN Decade of Indigenous Languages in 2022 by launching a new programme for artists and arts organisations. The aim of Gwrando (listening) is to nurture the art of listening to endangered languages and communities, and to learn about their efforts in protecting the land they inhabit.

Listening to indigenous languages through and with other indigenous languages enables deep cultural, creative and linguistic exploration. From these creative explorations we plan to build future collaborations and opportunities. This fund is seen as the first step in venturing deeper during the decade to come.

Through this programme we hope to learn more about the connection between language and the environment. Listening to the diverse languages of the world is as important and beneficial as appreciating the ecological diversity of our natural world.

Dr Veronica Calarco, an Australian artist living in Wales will speak about her interest in language and the land in which she lives and visits.

Yn ystod yr wyth mlynedd diwethaf, mae Veronica wedi creu dros 900 o fasgedi o hen brintiau ac edafedd, coed tân a bagiau ffrwyth, rhaff y daethpwyd o hyd iddi ar y traeth, deunydd oedd yn weddill ar ôl gwneud gwaith gwehyddu, gyda’r nod na fyddai’r corff hwn o waith yn defnyddio unrhyw ddeunydd nad oedd eisoes wedi’i ddefnyddio o’r blaen. Dechreuodd y creu basgedi fel ffordd i ailgylchu printiau nad oeddent o safon ddigon uchel i’w harddangos ac fel ymateb i’r gwastraff a gynhyrchwyd wrth greu darnau o waith - a datblygodd y syniadau hyn yn osodwaith. Mae’r gosodwaith yn sôn am y proses creadigol, ein hymateb i’r tir a’r angen i ni ymateb mewn ffordd bositif i’r gormodedd o gynnyrch gwastraff. O fewn y gosodwaith, mae pob basged yn cynrychioli naratif, yn adrodd hanes cysyniad a phrintio gwreiddiol yr artist, y rheswm pam y gwrthodwyd y print, y proses o’i drosglwyddo, lle y daethpwyd o hyd i’r edafedd, stori ei wehyddu, a’i gynnwys mewn gosodwaith sy’n newid.

The Land as Other: As part of the biannual Impact 12 conference, printmakers were invited to collaborate with environmental scientists and humanities scholars and respond to new deep-time environmental histories in Wales, language, a sense of place, the re-wilding movements and the positioning of Cymru by outsiders (notably tourists) as ‘Other’ with issues including migration, displacement, colonialism and citizenship, and a sense of loss.

Co-curated and co-led by printmakers Dr Veronica Calarco (Lecturer, Printmaking, School of Art, Aberystwyth University), Judy Macklin (creative fellow at Centre for the Inland, La Trobe University and Lincoln Centre of Water and Planetary Heath), Professor Mark Macklin (Distinguished Professor of River Systems and Global Change, University of Lincoln) and Dr Lucy Taylor (Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies, Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University), this curated exhibition will address and make a novel intervention on the conference theme of ‘Merging and Metamorphosis’.

A right to roam can be connected to calls to think, re-imagine and create, as well as to physically move or migrate, to run and cross boundaries. The call is not necessarily coming from “out there”, but also from an inner urge to roam, perhaps in response to lockdown and being constrained in so many ways.

Panel participants:

Emma Jayne Holmes

Veronica Calarco

Dawn Faye

Norma Hendrix

Join Veronica Calarco as she discusses her final Phd project, her topics will highlight the politics of endangered and minority languages and how they are consumed and colonized by a dominant language of a more powerful ethnic group. In this case, looking at an endangered Australian Indigenous language named Gunnai/Kŭrnai, the language of her native homeland, and Welsh, the language of her adopted homeland. All the works reflected her exploration of these two languages through names, words, myths, and the natural world.

Veronica will also be sharing her post doc research for Cyd-fyw a’r Tir / We Live With the Land and how the project has developed into its forthcoming exhibitons.

Researcher and artist Dr Veronica Calarco will be exhibiting 900 of her handmade baskets, made from recycled prints, in an upcoming exhibition at Mid Wales Arts Centre. The exhibition is built to showcase the strength of involvement and awareness of artists who wish to create positive environmental/ecological art in today’s climate.

The exhibition will open on Friday 5th of June and continue till the 7th of August.

Dr Veronica Calarco will be discussing Wales as a colony/Wales as coloniser, built and natural landscapes, the concept of cynefin, the colonial countryside and language and identity in Panel 8, Tuesday 7th of June, 11:30 - 1:00 pm

This conference will situate the history of Wales within global and colonial contexts. The conference invited proposals for papers that engage with current issues and debates in historiography and public policy alike. On one hand, the conference aims to expand upon recent scholarship which has cast new light on Wales’s connections to imperialism and transatlantic slavery. On the other, it will encourage discussions about how Welsh national history and identity is understood and taught.