EVENTS -
EVENTS -
Gŵyl Gwymon was a week of seaweed workshops, walks and local food, as the equinoctial super-low tides uncovered the underwater world of seaweeds in the Dyfi Valley. 2023.
Gŵyl Gwymon // Seaweed Fest
PAST EVENT: Seaweed on the menu in the Dyfi Valley
All week. Sunday 19th March – Saturday 25th March 2023.
Venues across the Dyfi Valley, look out for Gwyl Gwymon posters in windows.
Seaweed is a diverse, sustainable resource and for one week, people, businesses and organisations in the Dyfi Valley will come together to trial and explore using seaweed.
You can take a self guided tasting tour by following the ‘Dyfi Seaweed Menu’, here is a link to view/download.
And keep a look out for ‘Gwymona’ postcards around the area, alerting you to seaweed stuff nearby.
Date: Saturday 25th March
Time: 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Location: Borth beach
PAST EVENT: Welsh Seaweed walk
This event is in Welsh only.
Explore the extraordinary ecology of seaweeds with this guided walk at low tide, in the company of two local seaweed experts, Cat and Eurig Joniver. They’ll take us on a journey to meet and identify some of the 450 seaweed species found in Wales in the rocky pools and crevasses of Borth. With a warming drink and delicious seaweedy snacks to finish.
Booking essential, 30 spaces available. A week before the event, we'll send you details about where to meet and what to bring.
£5 donation - get in touch if this is an issue.
Want to come and have a question about accessibility? We want to hear from you – kirsti@gwymona.cymru
PAST EVENT: Seaweed exhibition
A unique collection of intricate and diverse seaweed pressings by artist Kirsti Davies.
Collected, preserved and pressed along the local coastline of the Dyfi Valley over a year as part of her ‘Future Wales Fellowship’ with the Arts Council of Wales and Natural Resources Wales. Kirsti’s work highlights and develops the many opportunities that seaweed can provide us – now and in the future – through artwork, scientific research, workshops and walks. She joins two local artists - Elin Crowley and Heledd Wyn Hardy (also a Future Wales Fellow). Free and available during Ty Medi opening hours.
Learn the alchemy of seaweed pressing.
An afternoon of guided rockpool exploring to learn about the diversity of seaweeds in all their colours, shapes and sizes, followed by a pressing workshop at the Star of the Sea.
Includes all materials, delicious seaweedy food and an opportunity to enjoy Molly’s pressings, seaweed experiments, microscopes and books.
Molly Macleod is a Pembrokeshire based artist inspired by science - exploring scientific concepts through collaborative projects with other artists, researchers and scientists. (mollymacleod.allyou.net)
Booking essential, 12 spaces available. A week before the event, we'll send you details about where to meet and what to bring.
£5 donation - get in touch if this is an issue.
This event is in English.
Want to come and have a question about accessibility? We want to hear from you – kirsti@gwymona.cymru
Date: Friday 24th March
Time: 3pm - 6:30pm
Location: Borth beach and Star of the Sea, Borth
PAST EVENT - Seaweed pressing workshop
For a few days in March, the sun, moon and the earth's equator all align, creating an exceptionally strong gravitational pull, resulting in super low ‘equinoctial tides’. A great time to study seaweeds!
We’ll be marking this moment with a seaweed packed meal, provocations from local artists, and observing what the lowest tide uncovers with a seaweed ID walk. We’ll also be raising a toast to what we can all lean towards before the earth tilts forwards and the deepest seaweeds are covered once more.
This is an invite-only event for collaborators in the Gwymona project, but if you feel you’ve got something to offer, please contact us and let’s chat - kirsti@gwymona.cymru
This event is bilingual - Welsh and English, with no simultaneous translation.
PAST EVENT - ‘Lean in, tide out’ - A creative celebration of seaweeds
Date: Wednesday 22nd March
Location: Borth
Discover edible seaweeds in the pools and rocky edges of Borth with professional forager Jade Mellor (wildpickings.co.uk).
During this forage around the super low tides of the Spring Equinox we’ll learn about the mysterious underwater world of seaweeds and how delicious and healthy they can be. We’ll end the walk with some seaweed snacks, nibbles and a cup of seaweed tea.
Treat your mum on mother’s day (or a friend, or come on your own, everyone is welcome).
Booking essential, 12 spaces available. A week before the event, we'll send out details on where to meet and what to bring. The event is in English.
£5 donation - get in touch if this is an issue.
Want to come and have a question about accessibility? We want to hear from you – kirsti@gwymona.cymru
Date: Sunday 19th March
Time: 11am. Duration: 2 hours.
Location: Borth
PAST EVENT -Mother’s Day Edible Seaweed Forage
A workshop and shoreline adventure into the mysterious world of seaweed for the children who live and learn along it. With professional forager Jade Mellor and Gwymona project artist Kirsti Davies. We will start off making a special Mercreature bath salt with seaweed for the children to take home. Then we will take a trip to the beach to discover the seaweedy delights that low tide on Borth has to offer.
A bilingual workshop for the children of Borth School.
Date: Tuesday 21st March
Location: Borth
PAST EVENT -Seaweed Adventure
Current events
Date: Until 10th March 2024
Location: Glynn Vivian, Swansea
gludafael / holdfast
Exhibition @ Glynn Vivan
gludafael / holdfast, is a group exhibition which speaks to the experiences of individuals and communities within the climate justice framework, and explores the inequities of the systems that organise us and the world.
Within it Gwymona displays a section of gathered seaweeds, pressings, photographs and research on the use of seaweed in Wales as a resource for hope and inspiration.
We’re also running a series of events, such as a seaweed and tide line workshop for young people, and a creative celebratory day ‘the BUFFET’ on Saturday 2nd March, book (cheap) tickets here.