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.
Faciliator for April
Rafe Taylor is a professional editor and ghostwriter. He is currently as Creative Writing MA student at Cardiff University where he is working on his first novel.
This month's AMDANI will offer an introduction into the genre of ekphrastic poetry and prose. Drawing from a range of artworks and multimedia pieces, writers will have the opportunity to explore new avenues of inspiration and perspective in their writing through the lens of third-party art. Attendees will be encouraged to consider their work in conversation with a preexisting cultural canon, creating links between contemporary poetry and prose with paintings, sculpture and films, and utilize their writing to challenge and reinterpret old ideals conveyed through art. This AMDANI seminar will aim to teach writers how to give new life and new meaning to visual mediums through language.
Tea and coffee will be provided.
