CWÎR is a space for LGBTQIA+ creatives in Cardiff to connect, collaborate and grow through workshops and community.

Building on the foundations of GORWEL, we’re excited to launch CWÎR: Creative Community, a new collaboration between Creative Cardiff and Lone Worlds. Funded by Arts Council of Wales, CWÎR offers LGBTQIA+ creatives a queer-led, safe and welcoming space to connect, share and collaborate.

Each event will spotlight an LGBTQIA+ creative working in a different area of the industry, leading practical and hands-on sessions designed to share knowledge, nurture ideas and encourage meaningful networking and collaboration.

CWÎR aims to build lasting professional and personal connections across Cardiff’s creative sector, increasing visibility and creating opportunities for queer-led, grassroots and community-driven initiatives.

October's session: Ophelia Dos Santos - Fabric as Archive

Using textiles to uncover stories of place, identity and belonging.

Artist and curator Ophelia Dos Santos explores how textiles can become an archive, holding stories of identity, migration, heritage and place. Drawing on her research-led practice, this session will explore how archives, photographs, maps and everyday objects can inspire creative work.

Following a conversation about Ophelia's practice, participants will take part in a hands-on workshop, creating a small textile archive using fabric, collage, writing and simple stitch. No previous sewing experience is needed.

Ophelia Dos Santos is a textile artist and researcher based in Cardiff, South Wales. Viewing the world through textiles, her practice explores local histories alongside themes of identity, migration and heritage. Through archival research and textile making, she examines Wales’ role within the British Empire and the complex relationship between the nation and the racially minoritized communities who call it home. She is particularly interested in how textiles carry personal and collective histories, connecting stories of labour, migration and cultural identity.

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Gan adeiladu ar sylfeini GORWEL, rydym yn gyffrous i lansio CWÎR: Cymuned Greadigol, cydweithrediad newydd rhwng Caerdydd Creadigol a Lone Worlds. Wedi'i ariannu gan Gyngor Celfyddydau Cymru, mae CWÎR yn cynnig lle diogel a chroesawgar dan arweiniad queer i greadigwyr LGBTQIA+ gysylltu, rhannu a chydweithio.

Bydd pob digwyddiad yn tynnu sylw at greadigwr LGBTQIA+ sy'n gweithio mewn maes gwahanol o'r diwydiant, gan arwain sesiynau ymarferol a chymhellol wedi'u cynllunio i rannu gwybodaeth, meithrin syniadau ac annog rhwydweithio a chydweithio ystyrlon.

Nod CWÎR yw meithrin cysylltiadau proffesiynol a phersonol parhaol ar draws sector creadigol Caerdydd, gan gynyddu gwelededd a chreu cyfleoedd ar gyfer mentrau dan arweiniad pobl hoyw, ar lawr gwlad ac yn y gymuned.

Sesiwn mis Hydref: Ophelia Dos Santos - Ffabrig fel Archif

Defnyddio tecstilau i ddatgelu straeon am le, hunaniaeth a pherthyn.

Mae'r artist a'r curadur Ophelia Dos Santos yn archwilio sut y gall tecstilau fod yn archif, gan gadw straeon am hunaniaeth, mudo, treftadaeth a lle. Gan dynnu ar ei harfer sy'n seiliedig ar ymchwil, bydd y sesiwn hon yn archwilio sut y gall archifau, ffotograffau, mapiau a gwrthrychau bob dydd ysbrydoli gwaith creadigol.

Yn dilyn sgwrs am waith Ophelia, bydd cyfranogwyr yn cymryd rhan mewn gweithdy ymarferol, gan greu archif tecstilau fach gan ddefnyddio ffabrig, collage, ysgrifennu a gwaith gwnïo syml. Nid oes angen unrhyw brofiad blaenorol o wnïo.

Mae Ophelia Dos Santos yn artist tecstilau ac yn ymchwilydd sy'n gweithio yng Nghaerdydd, De Cymru. Gan edrych ar y byd trwy gyfrwng tecstilau, mae ei gwaith yn archwilio hanesion lleol ochr yn ochr â themâu hunaniaeth, mudo a threftadaeth. Trwy ymchwil archifol a chreu tecstilau, mae hi'n archwilio rôl Cymru o fewn yr Ymerodraeth Brydeinig a'r berthynas gymhleth rhwng y genedl a'r cymunedau sy'n wynebu lleiafrifiad hiliol ac sy'n ei galw'n gartref. Mae ganddi ddiddordeb arbennig yn y ffordd y mae tecstilau yn cludo hanesion personol a chyfunol, gan gysylltu straeon am lafur, mudo a hunaniaeth ddiwylliannol.

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