Have a go at making this summer with featured maker, Sophie Snow in a fun and colourful hands‑on textiles workshop.

Sophie will share her experience of contemporary quilting, and guide participants to tell the story of their own scenic scene. Learn creative techniques with embroidery threads, play with colour, shape and pattern in fabrics and create your own quilted scene to take home.

No previous experience is needed, just curiosity and a willingness to have a go.

What to expect:

• An introduction to contemporary quilting

• Hands-on techniques for applique and composition of materials

• A supportive, creative environment with expert guidance

• Your own handmade textile piece of a colourful scene to take home

Materials are included within the cost and there are tools available to use within workshop time.

Booking essential

Please bring a packed lunch.

Tea and coffee provided.

£60

To share access needs or to ask any questions please e-mail the team at engagement@orielmyrddin.com or call 01267 222775.

Learn more about Oriel Myrddin’s Featured Maker

How do landscapes become part of our cultural memory? Who shapes the stories we tell about the places around us, and how might young people begin to curate new relationships with them?

Led by Oriel Myrddin's Engagement Manager Abby Poulson and local contributors, this Curatorial Fieldnote invites young people to explore the Towy Valley as both landscape and archive. Beginning at Oriel Myrddin with visual histories of Carmarthenshire, participants will then travel to Paxton's Tower, where creative workshops, conversation and collective reflection will consider how place, memory and imagination shape our understanding of landscape.

Part walk, part workshop and part conversation, the day offers space to think together about how curatorial practice can emerge through observation, storytelling and lived experience. No previous experience is required.

This event is for people aged 16-30

If you are outside of this age and working with young people in West Wales and interested in the arts, cultural sector or the environment and would like to join this event as well, please get in touch.

Lunch and transport between Oriel Myrddin and Paxton's Tower will be provided.

To share dietary requirements, access needs or to ask any questions please e-mail us at engagement@orielmyrddin.com or call 01267 222775

About Curating Otherwise

A new public programme by HOUSE OF DREAD, commissioned by Southbank Centre.

What does it mean to curate your way through the world?

Bringing together artists, young people, cultural workers and communities, Curating Otherwise explores how stories are remembered and retold, how public spaces shape cultural life, how sound carries memory across generations, and how new cultural futures are imagined together. Through conversations, workshops, walks, open calls and collective reasoning, the programme creates opportunities to shape culture, care for memory and imagine new ways of gathering, making and sharing knowledge.

Grounded in HOUSE OF DREAD's anti-disciplinary methodology, the programme centres listening, gathering and reasoning as curatorial practices. Each encounter begins with a provocation drawn from Southbank Centre's archives, histories or public spaces, opening new ways of reading the past and imagining cultural futures. Participants bring their own experiences, references and cultural knowledge into the conversation, building a shared language for curating together.

Engage Cymru is hosting the final event in this series of meetups at Oriel Myrddin in Carmarthen. Following the gallery’s reopening in November 2025, this is an opportunity to visit the new spaces and learn more about the work from the Oriel Myrddin team. 

Our meetups are relaxed, friendly, and inclusive, and you’re welcome to attend all or part of the session. The introduction will be bilingual, and discussion and conversation are encouraged in either Welsh or English. Presentations and workshops will be delivered in English.  

Each session lasts approximately two and a half hours. While no formal breaks are scheduled, participants are free to take a break at any time.  

The aims of the session are to:  

• Connect with colleagues from across Wales  

• Learn and share more about inclusive participatory practice in the visual arts 

What to expect 

• Creative Producer Catherine Spring will introduce Oriel Myrddin’s upcoming programme and opportunities.  

• Engagement Manager Abby Poulson will share details of the forthcoming engagement programme.  

• A creative activity led by artist Daisy Buckle of Natural Curiosity Studio. 

• Opportunities throughout the session to chat, network and connect with other attendees. 

Location and Access 

This event will take place at Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen. 

The building is fully accessible, and access to the space we are using is via lift or stairs. 

There are accessible and gender neutral toilets.  

Public car parks are located nearby; St Peter’s Car Park is the closest. Please park in the white bays so you can activate all day parking.  

The gallery doesn’t open to the public until 11 am. To access the building please ring the office bell on the door to the right.  

If you have any access requirements or would like to discuss how we can support you to attend, please let us know.  

You can contact Sian by email at cymru@engage.org

Refreshments 

Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided, including:   

• Vegan options  

• Gluten-free options  

• Oat milk  

• Semi-skimmed dairy milk  

Please let Sian know if you have any other dietary requirements.  

Booking information  

This is a free event, but spaces are limited, so booking is required.  

Please book your place via Eventbrite. 
If you are no longer able to attend, please cancel your booking or let Sian know so someone else can take your place.  

Supported by Arts Council Wales, with thanks to Disability Arts Cymru for their advice. 

Join our Engagement Team at Llandeilo Literature Festival this Saturday, and create your own sketchbook to take with you around the festival.

Oriel Myrddin will be at Yr Hen Farchnad, as part of Kids Fest, surrounded by exciting free creative activities, all suitable for children and families.

Drop in Workshop - Free

Clwb Collage is back for another evening of cutting and pasting, and this time we are at Cegin Diod in Llandeilo!

Come along for a friendly and fun evening where we will create our own collages inspired by all that lives and flows through the Towy Valley. This event is free, and all collage materials will be provided, book your ticket now to guarantee your place.

We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. For requests or for inquiries about accessibility, please contact Abby Poulson - apoulson@carmarthenshire.gov.uk

Food

Food and drinks are available at Cegin y Diod from 6. You are welcome to join us earlier for food - to book your table for food contact marketing@diod.cymru / 01558 824023

After an incredible first session, we’re thrilled to return to CWRW for another night of creative collage-making led by Abby Poulson, this time celebrating the Spring Equinox! As the seasons shift, we’ll explore themes of renewal, balance, and transformation through art, all in a relaxed and friendly setting.

We’ll be working with images from local and national collections inspired by the visual narrative of Spring. We’re excited to share that collaborating with us on image collecting are Carmarthenshire based El James and Matt Walker. Both will be sharing local images that aren’t usually seen, to cut and paste with on the night.  

El James (she/her) is a Carmarthenshire based Horticulturist, Photographer & Science Engagement Officer at the National Botanic Garden of Wales. El is currently working on digitising the Herbarium, a botanical archive, and engaging the public with the 30,000 pressed plant collection as part of the National Heritage Lottery Funded project, ‘Plants Past, Present and Future’. El will be sharing a curated selection of digitised plant specimens. 

Matt Walker (he/him) is a Collections Assistant at Carmarthenshire Museum and will be sharing relevant photographs from the CofGâr collection. The collection holds more than 50,000 years of Carmarthenshire’s history, from the last Ice Age to today so we are excited to see what gems will be shared. 

No need to book, just drop in, grab a drink, maybe a snack, and get stuck into some old-fashioned cut-and-paste with like-minded folks. We can’t wait to see you all there!

On Sunday 16th of March 2-4 pm, in the Old Kitchen at Dinefwr, join us in creating your own witch from the woods. Using materials gathered from the parkland, you’ll have the opportunity to make your own puppet witch, inspired by fairytales and folklore in a family friendly setting.

This workshop is part of a series of sessions delivered by Oriel Myrddin for the community to celebrate the upcoming reopening of the gallery, and to explore the themes of our launch exhibition Gwrach/Witch Clive Hicks-Jenkins - A Fairy Tale Retold. The gallery is set to reopen in the Autumn.

The workshop is free, and there’s no need to book!