Past Projects - 2023 Year

Following on our collaboration work with Beyond the Border Storytelling Festival, we introduced the Anti-Racism Storytelling Pathways in our community. 
Bevin Magama, Duke Al Durham, Phil Okwedy, Ayisha De Lanerolle and Jafar Iqbal led the Anti-Racism Storytelling Pathways team – a two year programme which ensured unheard stories and voices from across Wales were represented and embedding anti-racist storytelling practice across Wales.

We recieved funding from Welsh Government’s Anti-Racist Wales Culture, Heritage and Sport Fund.

PSU held and organised a community fun day for families and young people at Danybanc in July. 

For the second year running, People Speak Up was a field at the storytelling festival in Llandeilo. We programme stories from guest artists as well as created a platform for our participants and festival attendees to share stories and music from Pod Siarad.

Hear We Are was a Deaf-led project by Jonny Cotsen in partnership with Chapter Arts Centre. It explored the perspectives of Deaf and Hard of Hearing people working in the arts, and how they gain access and support towards creative production. The programme aimed to reimagine relationships in the arts sector, placing Deaf and Hard of Hearing people at the heart of cultural production.

In September 2022, Deaf Creative Mentor, Cheryl Beer, worked with nine Deaf creatives from across Wales to record their life stories, hold conversations and understand how Deafness has impacted their arts careers. She also explored the creative aspirations of Deaf artists and their hopes for a more equitable future:

It was a moving experience to hear the life stories of fellow Deaf creatives, the challenges they have overcome, the ways in which the arts and creativity have, in many ways, been a saving grace, but mostly, I was inspired by the incredible contributions that Deaf creatives are making, not just to the arts community, but towards a greater good for everyone. 

Deaf Creative Mentor, Cheryl Beer

This project is funded by Arts Council Wales, Connect + Flourish and led by Chapter Arts Centre.

Working with LocalMotion Carmarthen we ran sessions in Carmarthen to capture conversations on Social Investment. We wanted to know how we can invest in our community, empowerment through thriving and flourishing. We held conversations at Yr Atom in Carmarthen in August 2023.

Street Play free family activities were held across the county, keeping little ones and families entertained and away from the screens during the October half term holiday.

Once a year we join the Transforming Tyisha team to help deliver the autumn October event for families. We take our Street Play programme to Tyisha and make it Halloween and crafty.

We held our International Women’s Day in March hosting free events and activities at PSU with a focus on women’s health and wellbeing.
The event was supported by Llanelli Town Council, DPA Law, SNAP Fitness and Hywel Dda Health Board.