QT WORKSHOPS 2025

Intergenerational creative project.

Establishing safe, sober, inclusive spaces for the LGBTQ+ Community.

Queertawe is running February – July with another 6 months full of FREE creative activity for the LGBTQ+ communities of Swansea and surrounding areas.

We are excited to be bringing some new people into the facilitation team as well as continuing to work with some of the wonderful creatives from 2024.

To find out more about us and what we do head to our website here: http://www.queertawe.co.uk

 

Here is a brief overview of the team this year

Cassidy Smith, Community Producer. (she/they)

Cassidy has been working in the arts in South Wales since 2017 with a background in youth theatre and facilitating arts projects within community settings . Cassidy will be present at all Queertawe workshops and is there to support you, you can’t miss her with her brightly coloured hair!

Cerian Hedd, Lead Artist & Cabaret Facilitator (they/them)

Cerian Hedd is a community artist, facilitator and clown. They’re a cofounder and host of Queer Clown Cabaret, an alternative cabaret supporting emerging acts. Cerian regularly performs as a clown and runs performance workshops in cabaret, devising and clowning!

Bethan Marlow, Lead Artist (she/they)

Bethan is a Welsh speaking queer from a small village in North Wales. They are known as a writer that creates fictional worlds with real voices and works with and within easy to ignore communities across Wales. Bethan will be facilitating some online sessions around being a queer creative.

Cj Ashen, Movement Facilitator (they/them)

C J Ashen is best known for their confident, peacockish physicality and acrobatic style. They have a playful and intuitive improvisation with their fellow performers which is used to devise performances which feel like interactive games between the artist and the audience.

Sophie Eleanor, Visual Arts Facilitator (she/her)

Sophie Eleanor is a queer, multimedia artist, designer, and printmaker based in Swansea. Her practice merges diverse creative disciplines, emphasizing community and art wellbeing. Sophie’s work explores the transformative power of creativity, fostering inclusive spaces for artistic expression and connection through workshops, collaborative projects, and printmaking techniques.

Rachel Dawson, Creative Writing Facilitator (she/her)

Rachel Dawson is from Swansea and lives in Cardiff. Her debut novel, Neon Roses, was published by John Murray Press in 2023. She is working on a second novel exploring queer parenthood and a love for history.

 

WORKSHOP BOOKINGS

Please fill in the below form to register your place at our workshops.

Please note that the Writing workshop will take place on a Tuesday.

All other workshops will be on Mondays.

Please also be aware that some Mondays have been skipped due to Bank Holidays.

Name | Enw *

Please select which workshops you would like to attend. You are welcome to attend as much or as little as you like.

There are 6 sessions in each art form in rotation:

ART - CABARET - WRITING - MOVEMENT

We encourage you to attend all workshops in a chosen art form.

Performance and Cabaret | Perfformio a Cabaret

14th JulyCranes Pop Up, 9-11 St Davids Place , Monday 6-9pm

Creative Writing | Sgwennu Creadigol

24th June22nd JulyThe Storyteller, Princess Way, Tuesday 6-9pm

Movement | Symud

30th June28th JulyCranes Pop Up, 9-11 St Davids Place, Monday 6-9pm

Please contact me via:

Plis cysylltwch â mi drwy: 

Email | Ebost

Text Message | Neges Testun

We will keep your details safe and won't pass your information on to anyone else. We will only use it to contact you about the Queertawe project.

Byddwn yn cadw eich manylion yn ddiogel a ddim yn ei basio ymlaen at unrhwy un arall. Byddwn ond yn ei ddefnyddio er mwyn cysyltu â chi ynglyn a phrosiect Queertawe.

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