Afon (Deep Listening) has been a slowly meandering two year project during which a group of artists in residence have developed relationships with our local rivers, taking time to listen, reflect and respond. These events open a window into their artistic responses and reveal where they are with them now.

With music, dance, films and installations from artists Indigo Tarran, Jacob Whittaker, Gwen Siôn, Simon Whitehead, Ceri Jones & Elsa Davies, Stirling Steward, Rhowan Alleyne, Holly Holt, Jasmine Dale, and Omari Carter.

On Friday evening, we will open with A Nightingale’s Song, folk musician Sam Lee’s film, which is embedded in a practice of Deep Listening. We will also launch a small publication that has arisen from our project.

On Sunday, there will be the opportunity to participate in a day of walks, dances and song. Starting with a morning walk joined by river ecologist Emma Withers from the West Wales Rivers Trust, we imagine the day to be a spacious invitation to spend time with the artists’ work and contemplate your own relationships with these rivers.

Programme

Friday 13th June, 7 - 9pm Abercych Village Hall

The Nightingale’s Song film screening and launch of Afon (Deep Listening) zine.

In The Nightingale’s Song we meet Sam Lee, a British folk singer who joins nightingales in song during their mating season each spring. As climate change and development threaten their habitats, nightingales may disappear from England within fifty years. What would be forgotten, Sam asks, if we no longer heard the call of this beloved bird? The film follows Sam’s journey of becoming a traditional folk singer; and follows him to the woods of southern England where he sings with nightingales as both an act of rebellion against their imminent extinction and an expression of love for the living world. By honouring the ways previous generations heard the spirit of the land in the call of birds, Sam works with song and a practice of deep listening to nurture an embodied kinship with the nightingale that he hopes will lead to its protection.

Sunday 15th June, 10.30am - 7pm

Afon, a day of Deep Listening to the rivers Dulais and Cych

Gather at Abercych Village Hall for a day of walks, performance, dance workshops, film installations and time to reflect and share on the central role of rivers in our lives and landscapes. Pick up a map and explore in your own time, and join us for specific events within the programme (full details to be announced).

Refreshments available in the Village Hall.

Tickets

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Mae Afon (Gwrando'n Ddwfn) wedi bod yn brosiect dwy flynedd droellog araf lle mae grŵp o artistiaid preswyl wedi datblygu perthynas â'n hafonydd lleol, gan gymryd amser i wrando, myfyrio ac ymateb. Mae'r digwyddiadau hyn yn agor ffenestr i'w hymatebion artistig ac yn datgelu ble maen nhw gyda nhw nawr.

Gyda cherddoriaeth, dawns, ffilmiau a gosodiadau gan yr artistiaid Indigo Tarran, Jacob Whittaker, Gwen Siôn, Simon Whitehead, Ceri Jones & Elsa Davies, Stirling Steward, Rhowan Alleyne, Holly Holt, Jasmine Dale, ac Omari Carter.

Ar Nos Wener, byddwn yn agor gyda A Nightingale’s Song, ffilm y cerddor gwerin Sam Lee, sydd wedi’i gwreiddio mewn ymarfer o Wrando Dwfn. Byddwn hefyd yn lansio cyhoeddiad bach sydd wedi deillio o'n prosiect.

Ar ddydd Sul, bydd cyfle i gymryd rhan mewn diwrnod o deithiau cerdded, dawnsio a chân. Gan ddechrau gyda thaith gerdded foreol yng nghwmni’r ecolegydd afonydd Emma Withers o Ymddiriedolaeth Afonydd Gorllewin Cymru, dychmygwn y diwrnod i fod yn wahoddiad eang i dreulio amser gyda gwaith yr artistiaid ac ystyried eich perthynas â’r afonydd hyn.

Rhaglen

Nos Gwener 13 Mehefin, 7 - 9pm Neuadd Bentref Abercych Dangosiad ffilm The Nightingale’s Song a lansiad cylchgrawn Afon (Deep Listening).

Yn The Nightingale’s Song cawn gwrdd â Sam Lee, canwr gwerin Prydeinig sy’n ymuno â’r eos i ganu yn ystod eu tymor paru bob gwanwyn. Wrth i newid hinsawdd a datblygiad fygwth eu cynefinoedd, efallai y bydd yr eos yn diflannu o Loegr ymhen hanner can mlynedd. Beth a anghofid, gofyna Sam, pe na chlywem mwyach alwad yr aderyn anwyl hwn ? Mae’r ffilm yn dilyn taith Sam i ddod yn ganwr gwerin traddodiadol; ac yn ei ddilyn i goedydd de Lloegr lle mae'n canu gyda'r eos fel gweithred o wrthryfela yn erbyn eu difodiant sydd ar fin digwydd ac yn fynegiant o gariad at y byd byw. Trwy anrhydeddu’r ffyrdd y clywodd cenedlaethau blaenorol ysbryd y wlad yng ngalwad adar, mae Sam yn gweithio gyda chân ac arfer o wrando’n ddwfn i feithrin perthynas ymgorfforedig â’r eos y mae’n gobeithio y bydd yn arwain at ei hamddiffyn.

Dydd Sul 15 Mehefin, 10.30am - 7pm

Afon, diwrnod o Wrando Dwfn ar afonydd Dulais a Cych

Ymgynnull yn Neuadd Bentref Abercych am ddiwrnod o deithiau cerdded, perfformiadau, gweithdai dawns, gosodiadau ffilm ac amser i fyfyrio a rhannu ar rôl ganolog afonydd yn ein bywydau a’n tirweddau. Codwch fap ac archwilio yn eich amser eich hun, ac ymunwch â ni ar gyfer digwyddiadau penodol o fewn y rhaglen (manylion llawn i'w cyhoeddi).

Lluniaeth ar gael yn y Neuadd Bentref.

Tocynnau

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