2006-2007 Caernarfon, Wales

Codi'r To means 'lifting the roof' in Welsh. This was a project funded by the Social Rick Fund and in collaboration with GISDA Cyf. and Digartref Ynys Mon. Both Charities that work with homeless young people in North Wales.

A green and black L-shaped object with four black hook-like shapes facing upward.

Other Ways of Learning

2007-2009 European Learning Partnership

Other Ways of Learning explored the practice and praxis of the European arts network Drums for Peace.

Group of young people posing in front of a stone building with arched windows and a metal gate, some making gestures or holding items, with various belongings around them.

Tiktika

2008-2009 European Learning Partnership

Tiktika was an European Learning Partnership which developed Sensory Labyrinth Theatre resources for schools in Romania, France and Wales.

A black and white abstract drawing of a hand resting on a surface with the word 'Tiktika' written below.

Yn Nrych y Tywyllwch

2010, Wales

Translated as 'The Mirror of Darkness'. This was a Script Development project funded by the Arts Council of Wales.

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Moments, Places, Journeys

2010 - 2011 European Learning Partnership

Moments, Places, Journeys was an international learning partnership with partner organisations from France, Wales, Portugal and Austria. Artists from our organisations were given the opportunity to get the learning they needed to create between them the social actions that make an impression on the public regarding the issues of marginalization explored with the specific communities that the learners were working with.

A group of people on an outdoor stage, some holding papers, with a person at the microphone, against a colorful striped background.

Reach the Heights

2012-2013, Wales

A project funded through the Arts Council of Wales Reach the Heights initiative to work with young people not in education, employment or training.

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Drums for Peace

2000 - 2013

Theatr Cynefin was a founding member of this European network created in 2000 to co-ordinate youth exchanges and training projects that engaged creatively with intercultural dialogue.

The Republic of the Imagination

Starting initially in 2008 as a name for an informal European network of groups that Theatr Cynefin had trained in the preceding 8 years, The Republic of the Imagination then became a charity, and organisation in its own right, registered in the UK. TROTI for short mutated into The Academy of CoArts in 2020.

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Mae Gen i Go'

Caernarfon, Wales 2017

Mae Gen i Go’ was an Ideas, People and Places project for STAMP that Theatr Cynefin co-devised with long term partners, GISDA.

The main inspiration for Mae Gen i Go’, which translates into English as “I Have a Memory”, were the ‘Sensory Memories’ of Caernarfon – tastes, sounds, sights, feelings and smells of the near and distant past.

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Students wearing purple uniforms standing in a circle, with a girl in the foreground raising her hands.

2018-2019 A creative Collaboration project with Ebbw Fawr Community Learning College. To co-design a creative mindfulness curriculum with and for 11-18 year old students.

Playing with the Present

Group of seven men posing against a plain wall, some making gestures, all dressed in casual winter clothing.

From 2018 -2020 Theatr Cynefin were commissioned by the Welsh Refugee Council to co-design workshops with refugees and asylum seekers to help raise awareness of their rights under hate crime law.

Hate Crime Workshops

Coming to Our Senses

2023 An Arts in Health project piloting a new creative mindfulness course for NHS staff in partnership with Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.

Projects