An Evening With A Welsh Wise Woman: Angharad Wynne - with music from Bethan Nia & The Brwmys

Name: An Evening With A Welsh Wise Woman: Angharad Wynne - with music from Bethan Nia & The Brwmys
Start: 2024-11-08T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Porter's Cardiff

Schedule

Fri Nov 08 2024 at 09:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Porter's Cardiff | Cardiff, WA

An Evening With A Welsh Wise Woman: Angharad Wynne - with music from The Brwmys & Bethan Nia.
The sacred power of language permeates almost every aspect of Welsh culture, and has done since the most ancient of times. It was the eminent role of a special class of skilled wisdom keepers to safeguard the most revered records, enshrining them forever in poetry, story & song for future generations. These somewhat mystic wisdom keepers were known as the Cyfarwydd, whose stories originally recited around the hearth of lowly farmhouses to the great halls of ancient Kings & Queens, still live with us to this day.
Welsh Wise Woman, Angharad Wynne has dedicated her life in search of this native spirituality, delving beneath layers of Christianity and following pathways back to the ancient myth and early poetry of Britain. She has spent the past fifteen years of her career mapping the sense of place of communities the length and breadth of Wales, uncovering their stories, histories, folk culture and the secrets of their landscapes. But, her strongest inspiration comes from journeys across Wales, listening with her feet, dreaming with the land, finding new and old ways of knowing.
Accompany us for the evening, on an enthralling journey of insight, story and music, with Angharad Wynne who will be releasing her much anticipated book: WISE WOMAN, alongside author Sharon Blackie - An unforgettable collection of retold myths and folk tales celebrating the wisdom and power of women in midlife and beyond. We are very extremely honoured to be hosting Angharad at our next Silruian Folklore event, to which you are all very warmly invited and encouraged to attend.
Be sure to check out Angharad’s website for her latest projects: https://www.angharadwynne.com/
Friday, November 8th - Free Entry - 9 Porter's, Barrack Lane, St Davids Centre, Cardiff CF10 2GS
Copies of Angaharad’s book will be available to purchase on the evening directly from the author. Seating at this event is limited, so please sign up to register for a free ticket. These events rely on the donations of attendees to cover costs and can only run with the support from members, so please feel free to donate as you wish.
Musical entertainment on the night will be provided by Welsh future folk band; The Brwmys & Welsh harpist; Bethan Nia.
- TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1011371337897

~ About Angharad Wynne

Angharad Wynne is a writer and storyteller, a place-maker and heritage specialist with over 25 years of experience in the field, working both within Wales, in the UK, Ireland and US. She is also a writer, speaker and retreat and expedition leader.
Having gained a degree in English Literature from the University of Wales Cardiff, she went on to study MA in International Marketing at the University of the West of England before beginning her career in media marketing and communications with S4C and Boomerang Television.
Angharad has worked on some of the UK’s most exciting cultural projects including the foundation of the National Botanic Garden of Wales, and as the head of Business Development and Communication for London Tourist Board during the Millennium Celebrations. Following that she travelled to the US to work as a marketing and cultural consultant on the first two highly successful UKinNY British Expo. festivals in New York. In 2001 she joined the founding team of Wales Millennium Centre where she worked as head of Media and Communications in the development years and throughout the opening phase of this internationally acclaimed project.
Angharad Wynne Marketing and Communications consultancy was formed in 2005 in response to a need for greater promotion and more creative marketing of Wales’ cultural assets, and improved communication of the Nations’ identity worldwide. The consultancy specialises in the arts, tourism and cultural sectors.
Angharad has been responsible for promoting some of Wales’s leading cultural events and cultural exports, including Bryn Terfel, Catrin Finch, and 9Bach. She also speaks widely and trains organisations on various aspects of arts marketing and cultural tourism, and consults in this field. She regularly consults for Wales Arts International, Arts Council of Wales, Welsh Government Creative Industries Team, on matters of cultural strategy and development initiatives, and with arts organisations and festivals across Wales and the UK. In terms of cultural tourism, Angharad works regularly for Visit Wales and has worked on training and development projects with organisations as far afield as Tourism Finland, Failte Ireland, and National Park authorities across the UK and Europe. For a list of just a few of her clients over the years, click here.
Over the course of the past 25 years she has also worked closely and intimately with communities across Wales, supporting re-connection between people and place, development of sense of place and regeneration strategies and initiatives. Angharad continues to work as a place making consultant, specialising in harnessing aspects of history and culture to imbue and enliven places and working with communities to re-engage them in their local landscape, cultural assets, history and stories.

Increasingly these days, Angharad is returning to her love of stories, nature and landscape; to running retreats and pilgrimages exploring the mythic landscape, the magic of nature and living soulfully. Angharad is a published poet and author, a walk and expedition leader, a proud co-founder of The Animate Earth Collective and Director of Dreaming The Land.

~ About Wise Woman
An unforgettable collection of retold myths and folk tales celebrating the wisdom and power of older women.
Ungainly giantesses. Sequin-strewn fairy godmothers. Misunderstood witches. Fierce grandmothers. Hairy-chinned hags. Craggy crones.
From early childhood, we learn about the world and its possibilities through myths and fairy tales. The heroines, though, tend to be golden-haired princesses, and the evil-doers often older women.
But women today are searching for positive versions of themselves from midlife onwards, and this dazzling array of not-to-be-messed-with characters provides them. They outwit monsters, test and mentor younger heroines, embody the cycles and seasons of the earth, weave the world into being – and almost always have the last laugh.
These women manifest their wisdom in different ways, and so offer us inspiration for how we too can walk boldly and live authentically in the second half of life.
https://sharonblackie.net/wise-women/