Volunteering project at DOVE Workshop

 

Simon Pope’s film ‘Primary Agents of a Social World’.

This event features free refreshments and includes a discussion and Q&A after the screening. In attendance will be the filmaker Simon Pope and Mair and Hywel Francis.

Commissioned by the National Museum Wales, Primary Agents of a Social World is Simon Pope’s film about coal and community in South Wales, touring to four key venues across the coalfield this September. In the film a group of people, related to a large coal sample from the Amgueddfa Cymru/ National Museum Wales collection, take a bus journey that follows the coal seam from Blaenavon to the north of Cardiff, picking people up along the way, and eventually meeting the coal sample itself in the Museum stores. The resulting film asks whether new types of community can be formed by tracing connections between this specific coal specimen and those whose lives it may have transformed.

 

Success stories from Oxfam Cymru’s Livelihoods Project

Wonderful weather for the Sponsored walk today raising money for CATCH food bank, we made it to the trig point about 11.45am.

Well done to all the volunteers who came along and thanks to all those who sponsored us.

The Open University in Wales’ “Pathway to Success” programme

• Explore with the OU’s experts  
• Try extracts from course materials
• Watch, listen and interact

 

 

Welsh and Appalachian Mining Communities is a documentary and community engagement project that explores how two coal communities survive dramatic job loss. The filmmakers want to receive feedback from the people featured in the film before distribution to a wider audience.

Go to: www.aftercoal.com

We offer the chance to gain skills in the following subjects:

• Knit and Natter              Weds am
• Sugarcraft                       Thurs pm
• Family History              Weds early evening

All these are held in a very informal setting

Day:          Thursday
Time:        13.30 – 15.30
Tutor:        Peter
Duration:   8 weeks