all events free sun 15 - sun 22 oct 2017 3 Welcome to madeinroath festival’s 2017 brochure! We hope that this brochure helps you to enjoy this year’s festival, seeing some of the exceptional work that’s been produced this year - from our commissioned programme of Happenings, through to our ever popular Open Houses and Studios, and everything in between! The theme of this year’s festival is ‘When You Have More Than You Need, Build A Longer Table, Not A Higher Fence’ and as we organise madeinroath, we’re reminded time and again of how lucky we are to be able to live and work in such a rich, welcoming creative and inspiring community as Roath. Every year we’re surprised and glad that more and more people want to participate, offering their homes, shops, gardens, energy and talents to help create the festival. We hope that as you wander around Roath, you’ll have an eye to chancing upon something new or intriguing. We’re constantly surprised by the creativity and ingenuity of the festival’s contributors, and we’re sure you will be too. As we imagine looking along our Longer Tables though, at the faces of all the friends sitting along it, we’re also remembering those who aren’t around to take up their place anymore - and how we miss them. Naomi Grisewood, who died very suddenly in May, was a special and lovely friend to madeinroath , supporting us from the festival’s very creation in 2009. Naomi and her family opened their house on several occasions, hosting numerous artists with openness and generosity, and frequently helping out with random mir tasks including administration: her lightning quick touch typing became invaluable at deadlines! We will especially remember the way she championed the value of community and her deep commitment to social justice and we will miss her always. And Sam Aldridge - a Welcome House studio holder and creative powerhouse. We loved Sam, his brilliant sense of humour, his friendliness, his art. We were so excited to see what came next for Sam, he was destined for brilliance. Until we meet again, friends, we’ll save you a seat… 4 “… but I’m new here, will you show me around.” To such a request madeinroath offers an answer, ‘how long you’ve got?’ Made in the mind, the hand, the eye and ear, made in the studio, the kitchen, the garden and shed, made in languages and symbols common and those known only to the maker. Made in jest in haste, in anger, sorrow or doubt or certainty, made in squares, crescents, places, lanes and dead-ends. Made in Teal, Rose, Lily and Miskin, made in Florentia, Fanny, Minny and May. Made the whole year through, in an instant in materials as light as air, and in the dark of night. Made to provoke, to provide, to be given away, made to make a living, made to satisfy the necessary wound. It’s as long as it takes, it’s a chance encounter along the way to another appointment. It’s the memory the next time you pass this way. While madeinroath hasn’t been around for too long, it’s stuck around long enough to get itself and those around it noticed. To the newcomer it might not seem so, but there was a time when it wasn’t so. When Roath wasn’t particular about such things, when it wasn’t conscious of or didn’t care to know that such things could be, of the people and things Roath is and has, rather it slept. Waiting out the years, waiting for a permission, for a talisman of a jubilee, a civic 50-100 years of waiting since the stone was laid or the ribbon cut. For a national lamentation and coronation, an international factotum to grace it giving off colour, and collective memories. It didn’t proceed then in the ways it does now, increasingly by its own authority and conviction, giving up to itself and others what it has and might still have in the future. Not unsurprisingly neither place nor process has yet been fulfilled or exhausted. As ever there’s danger ahead, the danger of becoming an assumed satisfied expectation, so foreclosing on further expectations of and for itself. Without those peoples places materials and times, without their collective expectation – once seemingly unreasonably held ideas once unreasonably nurtured into realisation, we sleep away the all too few and precious days we have. In the meantime, I’m new here, and now we’re awake, will you show me around madeinroath? 5 By My Side, Come Rain or Shine All of the original art work will also be displayed in an al fresco exhibition adorning the railings surrounding The Mackintosh Sports Club throughout the full week of the festival. The project will be part of the opening day of this year’s festival on Sunday 15th October. We will come together as one community to walk through Roath taking in important community and festival locations and ending at Inkspot Arts Space. Food and music will welcome the walkers and flags. Stick around for the evening and you will be treated to musical and visual delights at the madeinroath opening party ‘Congregation’. The By My Side, Come Rain or Shine project has worked with community groups, charities, schools and A very warm welcome to the By My Side, Come Rain colleges from the far reaches of Roath. We would like or Shine project. Join us in celebrating the diverse to applaud the wonderful creativity of: communities, locations, friends and family that make Vision Twenty One, TAVS, Journeys, The Trinity Roath a very special corner of Cardiff. Centre, Cardiff High School, St. Teilo’s Church in Wales High School, Roath Park Primary School, madeinroath, in collaboration with James Cocks will Tredegarville Primary School, Albany Primary School, be occupying the streets, parks, highways and byways The Mackintosh and Plasnewydd Community Gardens, for By My Side, Come Rain or Shine. The project is a Cardiff School of Art and Design and (from a little culmination of several months of meeting and working further afield) The Trebanog Project. with communities in a series of collage based design workshops. Producing printed postcards available to We hope you will stand by us to kick off madeinroath buy at various locations throughout the festival. 2017 as a community, flags-a-waving in the breeze, come rain or shine. A selection of the designs will be transformed into large-scale flags representing all the groups worked James Cocks, Lead Artist & with throughout the project. Pip Tudor, CREATE co-ordinator categories: many thanks to: Huge thanks must go, as ever, to all of our contributors, our exceptional artists, and our open houses & studios generous hosts. spoken word A special thank you to The Gate and Inkspot this year for their generosity and create accommodation of so many events. To Vince and Jill who have generously offered Old Laundry space on Braeval St. Our brilliant creative coordinators, Tom Betts (film), Rachel- happenings Helena Walsh (performance),Christina Thatcher (Spoken Word), Fiona McDonald (marketing), exhibition Georgina Allen (volunteers), Dai Howell (social media), George Keane and Georgia Bowles - our brilliant design team. We’d also like to thank all the local businesses whose support if digital arts so invaluable, Trinity Centre, Spit and Sawdust for storage so much of our stuff and g39 for stage lending us stuff and being lovely. Not forgetting our excellent and very important volunteers who make it all possible (special nod to the ‘Roped In’ crew) and finally Roath! We wouldn’t Disability key: Access want to be anywhere else! Family Thank you xx Friendly The information in the brochure is correct when going to print. However, please check website for any updates or changes to the programme. Thankyou. 6 RKCP Multicycle (Every Little Helps) 2017 Artist Emily Price was commissioned by madeinroath Roath Comminity Garden Project and g39 to work with Plasnewydd and Mackintosh Community Gardens, from April – October 2017. Emily has initiated and facilitated a project: Multicycle (Every Little Helps) 2017, an adaptable and multifunctional vehicle that will serve both community gardens and the wider community in Roath. Multicycle will change form appropriately, as and when is needed; from a portable kitchen, portable storage unit to a portable plant sale. Join Emily and the gardens on the closed road to find out more about Multicycle (Every Little Helps) 2017 and the principles of Arte Útil, which has informed the project. domain of the Office of Useful Art, 3 Garden Shed, g39, Cardiff state. Arte Útil case studies show how During madeinroath week, artist Emily Price is these initiatives opening-up her studio, the garden shed outside are not isolated g39, as a temporary Office of Useful Art. incidents, but part of a larger historical The shed will act as a place where people can find trajectory that is out about Multicycle (Every Little Helps) 2017, a now shaping our project developed by Emily and Plasnewydd and contemporary world.’ http://www.arte-util.org/ Mackintosh Community Gardens, during her six- month residency with madeinroath and g39. Throughout madeinroath week, Emily and members of Mackintosh and Plasnewydd Community As well as offering a physical information centre Gardens will be present in the Office of Useful Art, about the community gardens and the project that ready to answer questions about the project and Price has developed with the garden communities, for people to find out how to get involved with both Office of Useful Art will showcase other projects community gardens that happen a stones throw from the Arte Útil Archive that involve the land, from the garden shed at g39.