Looking back at her recent sabbatical in Australia, our Drama Development Worker Alyson Evans has written about her experiences, thoughts and feelings upon her return to Wales. Related Articles

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Betws Community Choir is quite a special thing... dreamt of long ago, laughed about a few times, and then really imagined and made possible with a leap of faith (or a wing and a song) by Valley and Vale Community Arts... Related Articles

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A unique photography exhibition titled ‘Double Take’ opened on the 1st September at the historic Pierhead buidling in Cardiff Bay, showing differences, but more importantly, the similarities between Wales and Ethiopia... Related Articles

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To all young actors out there! This September will see the start of an exciting theatre project - Valley and Vale Community Arts Youth Theatre... Related Articles

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We have had such great feedback from our new website over the last few months that we thought we’d tell you a bit about our brilliant web design company... Related Articles

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We are working in a creative partnership with The Ethiopian Gemini Trust on a range of projects that will culminate in 2 exciting events in Cardiff this September (watch these updates to find out more soon). Related Articles

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A new Valley and Vale Community Arts photography exhibition launch takes place at The Pierhead, National Assembly building, Cardiff Bay, on 1st September at 12.30pm, and will be exhibited there for 5 weeks. Related Articles

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In The Magic Forest project in August children from Betws and the Garw Valley took part in lots of activities including making music, paper-making, designing t-shirts, dance and drama workshops, building an outdoor clay pizza oven with Cwm Tawell. Related Articles

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During our Anti-Bullying Project at East Moors Youth Centre the participants created thoughtful, moving and thought-provoking material based on their experiences of bullying. Related Articles

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Another moving film from one of our Anti-Bullying project young participants... Related Articles

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Shanice, Robyn, Sinead and Jemma, participants in our Anti-Bullying project at East Moor Youth Centre in Cardiff, wrote a song about their experiences and choreographed a dance routine. This film shows the result of their hard work... Related Articles

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As part of Valley and Vale's Cardiff Anti-Bullying project the young people used some of the writing they have done in the past years to produce short video poetry films. This is Natascha's story. Related Articles

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In partnership with the Cardiff Anti-Bullying project Valley and Vale worked with young people who experienced bullying in schools. This is Neomi's video letter to the people who bullied her brutally at school... Related Articles

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In partnership with the Cardiff Anti-Bullying project Valley and Vale worked with young people who experienced bullying in schools; because of their experiences some of the young people stopped going to school. Related Articles

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In partnership with the Cardiff Anti-Bullying project Valley and Vale worked with young people who experienced bullying in schools; because of their experiences some of the young people stopped going to school. Related Articles

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As part of her Arts Exchange with Darwin Community Arts, Alyson Evans is keeping a video diary of her experiences. Her fifth and final entry comes from her Forum Theatre workshop at Darwin Community Arts in Australia. Related Articles

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Back in Darwin I facilitated a two day workshop on Friday and Saturday where I trained people from organisations around Darwin in Forum Theatre. Related Articles

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With support from Wales Arts International, our Film Development Workers Tracy Pallant and Amy Peckham travelled with Gerald Conn from Cinetig to work with Gem TV and Gem Art on a 2 week animation project in Ethiopia. Related Articles

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As part of her Arts Exchange with Darwin Community Arts, Alyson Evans is keeping a video diary of her experiences. Her fourth entry comes from Darwin, Australia where we meet Sarah, Alyson's counterpart at Darwin Community Arts. Related Articles

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Everyone in Darwin nearly passed out when I said was going to Melbourne, cries of 'you're going to freeze!,' 'you'd better wrap up warm!' and 'but it's winter down there!' were made. I don't think they realised that I'm used to to the cold, and 17 degrees (which was what Melbourne was) isn't actually that bad! Related Articles

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