Walk-shops, Gorfenhaf – July 18/19, 2026. Coetir Tycanol & Neuadd Brynberian Hall Stretchy Symbionts is a celebration of our interwoven-ness with all the other beings. Specifically focussing on lichen life here in west Wales, one of the richest lichen ecosystems in Europe and indeed the planet, we will walk, touch, peer at and co-respond with these organisms. We will consider what it is to be symbiotic and play with the possibilities of being together through ‘stretchy’ Read More
April 2-5, 2026 For SUBSTRATE we return to the ancient wooded and rocky landscape of Tycanol in north Pembrokeshire, west Wales. Join us for creative community; made through walking scores, moving and dreaming with Ordovician dolerite, with multiple species of rock and tree lichen, sessile oaks, whilst touching into deep time, ‘niching’ with outcrops & navigating a nighttime landscape. A substrate describes a physical surface or medium—such as rock, or plant—upon which organisms attach, grow, Read More
28-31 August 2025 During Locator 33 we will return to Coetir Tycanol Woods, one of the most diverse lichen ecosystems in Wales and the UK. How might we learn of bodily/ interspecies collaboration and creative community from these mysterious and ancient beings? In attempting to notice and learn from these organisms and the places in which they thrive, to move as lichen is to combine our differences, to be together in ways that we couldn’t if Read More
‘Lichen has much to teach us about our relationship to the environment and our place within a living world…this little organism with its incredible life force invites a new vision (on a new scale), a new ecology.’ Vincent Zonka (2023) During Locator 32 we will spend time in one of the most diverse lichen ecosystems in Wales and the UK. How might we learn of bodily/ interspecies collaboration and creative community from these mysterious and Read More