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.
September theme: Interiors II — The World Within 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.
Our thoughts are not our own. Within us is a council – voices that advice, criticise, reassure, question. Some belong to the living, some of the past, and some we have made up ourselves. Who do we mean when we say ‘I’? In this workshop, we turn to our inner speech, the origins of our inner voices, and the ways they shape us. We’ll explore how thinking is haunted by memory and influence, and how to draw on that chorus to create characters and narrators with depth, contradiction, and history. By listening closely, we’ll understand who speaks to us and what message they carry.
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.