At Creative Cardiff, we host regular opportunities for creatives to come together for connection and collaboration through networking events, panels and socials. Since 2022, we’ve also hosted a range of ‘Creative Cardiff Classroom’ workshops, from pitching to public speaking to wreath-making to writing.
These workshops provide an opportunity for creatives to deep dive into specific topics with a group of like-minded individuals.Running alongside our Creative Cardiff Classroom events, we’re delighted to launch a new AMDANI pilot initiative (roughly translated from Cymraeg as 'GO FOR IT'), bringing artists, freelancers and businesses together to get creative and network in an informal environment, facilitated by an emerging creative.
We’re delighted to announce that our first AMDANI series will be delivered in partnership with Cardiff University’s MA in Creative Writing.
Taking place monthly from February 2025, Creative Cardiff will host an open, free-to-attend Writing Group for creatives at Tramshed Tech, Cardiff. Each monthly Writing Group will be facilitated by a student currently studying for their MA in Creative Writing and will focus on a different topic, theme or genre.
August theme: Interiors I — The World Before Us
Interiors is a two-part series of workshops on the worlds we carry inside us – and how to write them. Moving from the sensory world to the reflective, the sessions look at perception, and the geography of our thought, giving poets and prose writers new ways to approach description, atmosphere, and voice – as well as developing a better understanding of our inner-life.
We never meet the world as it is. The moment we enter a room, it changes – transformed under our gaze, our intuition, and the weight of the memories we hold. In this workshop, we turn to perception: how we shape what the world feels like, and how to write it. We’ll work with description that attends to what is present, and what is absent, and how atmosphere textures how things feel. By examining how we perceive, we learn to write places that hold our imprint, and to people them with the ghosts of our own seeing.
Damian Healy is an experimental writer with a focus on perception, memory, and interiority. He is currently undertaking an MA in Creative Writing at Cardiff University.