Gofod Glas work with local communities, creatives, researchers, individuals and organisations to:
Activities
Cultural Bridge Exchange Podcast
Part of our Cultural Bridge project ‘Bridging Rural Communities – People, Process, Place’ is to explore each others’ practices, share and challenge each other, and so we thought we’d record a conversation together while Syndikat Gefährliche Liebschaften were in Cymru in January 2025 visiting Dyffryn Dyfodol. Here is an unedited version of our conversation in… Continue reading Cultural Bridge Exchange Podcast
Migneint Tour
During Syndikat Gefährliche Liebschaften’s visit to Cymru in January 2025 we visited a large blanket bog peatland, Y Migneint, near Llyn Conwy with artist and ecologist Emily Meilleur. She invited us to take part in some creative activities with peat and sphagnum including ’turf walking’. Also joining us was artist Rhodri Owen who shared stories… Continue reading Migneint Tour
Field Notes for Creative Friends
What is it and how did it come about? As part of the Dyffryn Dyfodol research process I was seeking to gently embed myself into a community to explore and encourage creative activity.I lived many miles away from the community I was working with and initially found it difficult to quickly build deep relationships and… Continue reading Field Notes for Creative Friends
Slow travel
We didn’t want to fly, so we embraced the idea of slow travel on the trains to from Cymru to Germany to visit Syndikat Gefährliche Liebschaften in December 2024. As part of our journey we engaged people in conversation about water, using props to start conversations with strangers. Camera credit: Rhys Edwards
Creative Review
We invited creatives to have a look at what we’ve been doing with the Dyffryn Dyfodol project, inviting them to dive into our project folders and files full of info, plans, possibilities and documentation. Then to respond in whatever way they wanted to, with creative freedom and no restrictions. This is what emerged! Through this… Continue reading Creative Review
Meppen visit 2025
About the partnership: Syndikat Gefährliche Liebschaften and Dyffryn Dyfodol’s creative practice is place and people based. During our field trip exchanges as part of our Cultural Bridge partnership in December 2024 and January 2025, we explored each other’s practices by meeting people, visiting places and sharing experiences; we asked questions, explored possibilities and discovered different ways of… Continue reading Meppen visit 2025