Download the poster (pdf) for printing.

Sept 19th 2024

Beach Clean Group meet Jenipher Sambazi, East Ugandan Coffee producer https://jenipherscoffi.wales/  11.00 am start (meet at SUSSED) then afterwards at around 12.15 meet Jenipher upstairs in the Green Room above SUSSED, CF36 3BG Porthcawl. 

More information.

The Repair Café normally above SUSSED James St., Porthcawl moves to the Porthcawl Eco Day at Griffin Park for this event on Saturday 27th April 2024.

Gig 14+:

WIGWAM, ANHUNEDD, ECHDORIAD

CLWB Y BONT, Pontypridd, CF37 4SL

Fri 26th April 2024

Clwb y Bont yn cyflwyno/presents...
Gig 14+
mewn cydweithrediad

in association with Menter Iaith Rhondda Cynon Taf

WIGWAM, ANHUNEDD, ECHDORIAD
Noson i godi ymwybyddiaeth o newid hinsawdd.

Event to raise awareness of climate change issues.

Tickets:

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/clwb-y-bont/gig-14-wigwam-anhunedd-echdoriad/e-qleoxb

Some of this work will be performed at 7.30 pm, Tuesday, April 16, 2024, at ‘Le Pub’, 19, High St., NEWPORT NP20 1FW. https://www.lepublicspace.co.uk/

This will be a live performance featuring spoken word, music and film.

The event is organized by Sustainable Wales Cymru Gynaliadwy.

Details for those who wish to perform or attend, from: <robert.minhinnick@sustainablewales.org.uk>

GWENT LEVELS CAMPAIGN

Ten days before Christmas, 2023, I went with writer and artist Laura Wainwright to explore parts of the ‘Gwent Levels’, at Uskmouth. It was my first visit, although Laura is familiar with the area, sometimes taking her children walking there.

We went because the area is increasingly threatened by various developments. Only in the last four years has the Welsh government rejected plans for a new extension of the M4 motorway through parts of these wetlands.

The weather proved raw and blustery, but we were both delighted to encounter immediately some of the very particular wildlife that inhabits the area.

I saw my first ever reed bunting, and keen-eyed Laura identified a heron on the Severn mudflats, and thus we are writing, painting and sketching our expedition highlights.

This exploration occurred at the same time as the ongoing struggle between Israelis and Palestinians, especially in Gaza. Personally I found combining in my writing the situations in both Gwent Levels and Gaza, quite natural.

THE REEN

a poem for two voices

Or rhyne or rhewyn

or simply ditch but even

the word itself disappearing

but nothing to be done, nothing to be done

like the creatures

we might have discovered there

yet nothing can be done

nothing can be done

and I turn on the radio

and over the ghettoes of Gaza

in the ruined boulevards

another child is weeping

but nothing will be done

nothing will be done

 - ah, the petrol-coloured dragonfly,

the chevron of the demoiselle,

this one red, this one emerald -

or an exhibit in the museum

of barbed wire

with which we encircle the world,

no nothing to be done

nothing to be done

voice of the reaper, song of the drone

while the children must cry all night

in the rhyne  and the rhewyn in the ditch in the reen

but even the word itself disappearing

like the creatures we might

have discovered there 

 - ghost of a yellowhammer

glimpsed  though gorse,

grass snake aswim

in sedge beside the solar farm,

heron, a hermit holding on

beside its JCB scrape  -

but nothing can be done

nothing can be done

so once again I turn on the radio

and over the ghettoes of Gaza

comes the harpies’ music,

the predator’s sigh

when even the words are disappearing,

rhyne or rhewyn or ditch or reen

because it is somebody else’s language

loved and lost

but nothing can be done

nothing can be done

and then I am reminded

that language is my own

but there’s nothing to be done

nothing to be done

but how memory maims

and how all grief is someone else’s guilt

while somebody else’s country

is vanishing like pixels on a screen

yet there’s nothing to be done 

nothing to be done

in the ditch and the rhewyn and the rhyne and the reen

but nothing will be done nothing will be done

and now I am reminded by the same radio

that the country is my own,

and the voice of the reaper, the song of the drone:

they too are mine.

Yet there’s nothing will be done,

nothing will be done…

(With thanks to  Marwan Makhoul, poet born to a Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother in 1979 in the village of Boquai'a in the Upper Galilee region of Palestine).

EVENT CANCELLED

Further events are planned

Aberystwyth Arts Centre/Theatr Gron/Round Theatre,

https://aberystwythartscentre.co.uk/

Darlleniadau am yr Hinsawdd /Climate readings 

with Robert Minhinnick, John Barnie, Katie Gramich, Samantha Wynne Rhydderch, Laura Wainwright, Matthew Francis. 

Event free/Rhad ac Am Ddim but discretionary. Croeso cynnes i bawb.

notice of Sustainable Wales & Sussed Annual General Meetings 2022-23 & Social for members etc.

The Green Room, Monday November 20th 2023, 7.00pm

Guest Speaker - Sarah Murphy Ms

It is our pleasure to notify you of the Sustainable Wales (SW) and SUSSED Annual General Meetings for 2022-23, 7:00pm, followed by refreshments and buffet. To be held in the Green Room, above SUSSED.

Includes a preview screening of ‘Sleepwalking into Climate Change’ a short film produced by sustainable Wales

We are joining the events together to illustrate the connections between the two organisations.

Please RSVP, via email or phone (01656 783962) to ensure there is an appropriate amount of seating and refreshments available.

The AGM’s will update people about the work and activities of the charity between April 2022 – April 2023 and SUSSED between June 2022 – June 2023.

New or additional SW Trustees and Directors will be elected.

If anyone would like to stand as a Trustee or company Director, please send a C.V. and letter of interest beforehand to Margaret. https://www.sustainablewales.org.uk/what-we-do

Or perhaps you would like to help with fundraising, research and information or events. We would be delighted to hear from you.

As democratic community organisations our supporters are central to the work. Thus, we appreciate it when people attend the AGM and give us feedback.

We hope that you can attend what should be an informative and enjoyable evening. 

Please RSVP, via email or phone (01656 783962) to ensure there is an appropriate amount of seating and refreshments available.

GORWELION: SHARED HORIZONS

CLIMATE CHANGE ARRIVES IN FITZROVIA

The Wheatsheaf, 25 Rathbone Place, London, W1T 1JB

7.30pm TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

Words, Music, Film

ROBERT MINHINNICK
STEVE GRIFFITHS, MERRYN HUTCHINGS
TODD SWIFT
ANDREW McNEILLIE
LAURA WAINWRIGHT
REBECCA WAINWRIGHT

The writings of Tishani Doshi and Mandy Haggith.

Entry - Pay what you can afford.

Find out more at SUSSED

See the dedicated page for more information.

Better Porthcawl are inviting everyone to an after school meet-up to discuss the planned open spaces in the Porthcawl Regeneration project! We want you to have a say in what the council does with the public open space in Porthcawl and we welcome you to share all your ideas - big and small!! We'd love to to hear the young voices, the future residents of Porthcawl, and see some drawings and ideas to brainstorm before the councils public consultation event. 

Join us on Tuesday, the 7th of March from 3.30pm until 4.40pm at the Newton Primary entrance to Sandy bowl bring your bike, scooter, unicycle, dogs, cats, hamsters (everyone!) and check out the maps of the proposed open spaces in the councils plans. We can tell you all we have learnt from the council and have a chat about the exciting plans! We will get a few after school snacks to share round too!

This is a casual community meet up before the official council consultation on the 15th and 23rd of March in the Pavilion (TBC). We hope this meet-up will inspire us all with some new ideas and encourage you to attend the BCBC event and tell the council what you want for the open space in our beloved town!

Stage Door, Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl CF36 3YW

https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/delirium

This collection of short prose begins with a real 1945 diary kept in Burma, and Minhinnick telling stories to his mother in her care home.

It includes a series of pictures of war-stricken Baghdad, and vignettes about place and travel, dedicated to Jan Morris.

On the way we encounter a Middle East island devoted to sustainability, close ups of what clearing a family house reveals, and the writer’s intimately imagined Welsh sand dunes.

Minhinnick also watches the Stereophonics in Sydney, mourns the Golan Heights and meets a family of destitute Bedouins.

Throughout we encounter the Covid pandemic, threats of extinction, and images of post-apocalyptic life.

A breathless epic…

MEDI 29 SEPTEMBER 2022 - 18.30
PENRALLT SIOP LYFRAU’R SENEDD-DY
PENRALLT BOOKSHOP parliament house 
CANOLFAN Owain Glyndwr
machynlleth

https://www.penralltgallerybookshop.co.uk/events-/-medi-/-september/-digwiddiadau

Pen’rallt welcomes Jane Davidson, author of #futuregen; Robert Minhinnick, editor of Gorwelion: Shared Horizons, and one of its contributors, Suzanne Iuppa, 

joined by Sam Robinson. These are just a few of the many people working imaginatively on how Wales can realise its greatest potential and highest expression 

for the health and wellbeing of the planet and its inhabitants; they'll be here at our Senedd-dy Bookshop to share ideas and listen, too.

3 Glasfryn, Heol Penrallt, Machynlleth, Powys, mid Wales SY20 8AJ

Tel: 01654 700559

TUES. SEPTEMBER 27

7 - 10pm

LONDON WELSH CENTRE

157, Gray’s Inn Road

LONDON

WC1X 8UE

https://londonwelsh.org/

Robert Minhinnick and invited London writers

Poetry / prose / film

Gorwelion Shared Horizons / Robert Minhinnick’s Delirium at Chapter Arts

Chapter
Market Road
Canton
Cardiff
CF5 1QE

7pm JULY 7.

This is a joint event with Robert Minhinnick’s latest work, ‘Delirium’ (Review)

The regular Green Room returns on Friday 27th May 2022 at 8pm, with a mix of readings, film and a popular open mic for poetry. Hosted by Robert Minhinnick. Guest readers may be announced closer to the event.

WEDS. MAY 11, 7pm - 10.30pm.

at the ROYAL FEATHERS HOTEL, ABERAERON

More information:

NEW QUAY poet Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch and Friends of the Earth Cymru co-founder Robert Minhinnick headline a night of spoken word on the environment at The Feathers Royal Hotel, Aberaeron on Wednesday 11 May. Both will be reading from the new Gorwelion: Shared Horizons anthology published by Parthian and Samantha will discuss local impacts of coastal erosion on trees.

The free event will also include readings from Kathy Miles, Carly Holmes, Jackie Biggs, Dave Urwin and Dominic Williams with Aberaeron performer Karen Gemma Brewer acting as MC. ‘Gair llafar yn y Plu – Spoken word at the Feathers’ starts at 7pm.

All welcome Croeso i bawb

https://www.gwisgobookworm.co.uk/aberaeron-spoken-word/?fbclid=IwAR3SpDe0wMBis_zxsOAw8Rt9Ul-eMfLmg34L2fW60BB5CS1aMtXV6ZnyucI%60

https://www.facebook.com/FeathersRoyalAberaeron/

https://feathers-royal-hotel-aberaeron.hotelmix.co.uk/

Samantha Wynne Rhydderch, and invited Ceredigion authors.

Organised by Gwisgo Bookshop, Aberaeron. Diolch yn fawr iawn, Gwisgo.