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For the Exhibition, we put out a call to our Friends of Facebook Page for a Q & A with the Sound Artist Team. It took us 2 hours to answer all your questions on ZOOM - please find here a 2 part edited podcast of the evening. Thankyou Bob Edwards, Caroline Lane, Andre Van Wyk, Nick Andrews Shened Hodges, Fiona Winter, Suzanne Samuels & Angie Darani for your questions
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This year, Cheryl was awarded the prestigious honour as one of the Top 100 pioneering Women of Wales for her contribution to The Arts. She began her lifelong career as a singer/songwriter, touring with the likes of Sir Bob Geldof & Lonnie Donegan. Known best for creating work that fuses her passion for environmental sound, song & life story, behind the scenes, Cheryl also facilitates her own creative digital media, from web design to sound engineering. As Director & Founder of Sound Memories, she is a well respected & published creative humanitarian, exploring the inter-dependent relationships between sound & well being. Walk 19 is her innovative vision in response to the pandemic, enabling older people to create memory resources for both themselves, and each other - cherylbeer.com
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Dancing in silver-grey spaces between This and That, multi-media practitioner Leona Jones explores the hardlyheard and underseen, the conscious and not-so-conscious to create events/performances and installations centred around language, voice, sound and spatiality. Using field recordings, audio and site-responsiveness, as well as text, she actively seeks to highlight physicality and context. Cross-disciplinary collaboration is central to her practice, and she’s worked with musicians, visual artists, dancers and performance artists. Leona makes a concerted effort to reach into an audience’s imagination, encouraging their ability to listen. She believes listening to be vital to any society. - leonajones.co.uk
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Alastair Duncan is an Award winning Sound Artist & Tapestry Artist based in Pontardulais. His first love of tapestry is reflected in his approach to sound & photography, where he listens for the texture, patterns and colours that surround us in different environments. As co-Director of his environmental sound company, Still Walks, he has won many awards and gained numerous grants for his work in the arts and education, as well as exhibiting widely in Britain and internationally. At Still Walks, he has a weekly blog where he takes the listener on beautiful walks through the countryside. - stillwalks.com
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Dwynwen Llywelyn is a creative community arts practitioner specialising in theatre, writing and producing professionally led community projects. She heads Theatr Felinfach and is responsible for the strategic development and delivery of a range of participatory arts that promote and support wellbeing, confidence, joy, Welsh language and bilingual skills. She enjoys writing and some of her work has been published, children’s stories and more recently a triology of song lyrics commissioned by Côr Cardi-gân. She lives in Felinfach, Ceredigion with her family.
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Swansea based, Michael Kennedy is a much respected ambassador of the local music scene, a radio producer & magazine editor he is one of the founders of Welsh Connections, a platform promoting Welsh musicians and creating global networks to the world. In 2020 he formed the SWND record label and magazine in partnership with Australia’s Madcap Global Entertainment Stephen Morris, ex-Barracudas frontman Jeremy Gluck and award winning film-maker Gareth Davies. With several high profile releases already, SWND is fast becoming the label to watch in Wales.
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