Hypha Studios x FACC

Hypha Studios is a charity matching creatives with empty spaces & regenerating the high street with cultural hubs & events for local communities.

By providing free studios & project space we act as an incubator for creatives to test new ideas without financial obstacles.

We provide opportunities to those who might not be able to access space, support or visibility. 

In return for the free space, creatives organise public events, supporting the locality & benefiting the high street.

Future Arts Collective Cymru

Future Arts Collective Cymru combines the group’s complex identities to create fairer futures for all. As a collective they are community arts facilitators, musicians and performance artists, educators, film makers and craft-makers. They are formed of Kate Woodward, Reb Sutton, Neo Uganda, Cliodhna Ryan, Sereen Al Khutubi, and Skye Kimber.

They have all been recognised for their creative practice as individual artists having exhibited across the UK and Europe Our last Collective Project – ‘Remembering Inanna’ (Shift Gallery, Cardiff, Nov 2019) invited artists and community members from under-represented genders to make work around the theme of ‘Lost Matriarchies’. They held a 2 week residency at Shift Cardiff offering workshops and studio/rehearsal space to other artists which ended with a successful exhibition and event. They would like to revisit this format exploring ‘Creating Fairer Futures For All’ working with a diverse range of creatives and communities using sustainable and regenerative practices.

Firstly, they will use the space as a studio for the Collective to cultivate creative ideas for their programme of engagement and their own practice. They will host a programme of multi-disciplinary workshops that seek to inform, inspire and engage local communities about Futurism. Deliver small scale regular events such as reading and craft circles, film screenings, and showcase performances created in the studio space. They will hold three exhibitions: showcasing the work produced during their workshops, exhibiting work created by the FaCC members in the studio and an online exhibition that can reach wider audiences and access to the project.

public programme

Alongside one of their exhibitions, they would programme a one day public event inviting a series of multi-disciplinary performers to respond to the theme of ‘Creating Fairer Futures For All’ as well as sharing their own collaborative work as a Collective. This would be a day of talks and drop in public workshops with an art market and live performances.

They want to recruit lots of creatives to their cause and build stronger creative communities across Cardiff. They are all experienced workshop facilitators and bring a range of specialisms and passions underpinned by their intersectional identities:
Afro and Roma Futurism Talk
Queer Craft Circle
Sustainable Arts Practices
Herbalism
Future Festival (with National Theatre Wales Team Collective) – Potential for a combined event using Hypha as one of the
exhibition venues
Urban Rewilding
Art as Activism
Puppet Workshop
Fundraising Workshops