Events
and opportunities
Events
and opportunities
Keep your eyes peeled for our upcoming events and have a look at our past ones!
Current and Upcoming
EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS
TIR CWIAR
On Your Face are excited to announce our upcoming exhibition for the Queering Wales, Connecting People project! 🎉 🎉 🎉
“Tir Cwiar” celebrates the vitality and resilience of the queer community in Wales, nurtured by land and collective identity. Through the intersecting perspectives of 10 artists, the exhibition delves into themes of liminality, connection, and belonging.
The exhibition will be opening at Elysium Gallery in Swansea on Friday the 7th of February 2025 until the 22nd of March 2025.
This exhibition was made possible through funding from the Arts Council of Wales.
Illustration: @renwolfe.studio
Mae On Your Face yn gyffrous i gyhoeddi arddangosfa sydd i ddod ar gyfer ein prosiect Creu Cymru Cwiar, Cysylltu Pobl! 🎉 🎉 🎉
Mae “Tir Cwiar” yn dathlu’r bywiogrwydd a gwydnwch y gymuned cwiar yng Nghymru, sy’n cael ei meithrin gan y tir a hunaniaeth gyfunol. Trwy bersbectif croestoriad o 10 artist, mae’r arddangosfa’n cloddio mewn i themâu o’r trothwyol, cysylltiad â pherthyn.
Bydd yr arddangosfa’n agor at Oriel Elysium yn Abertawe ar Ddydd Gwener yr 7fed o Chwefror 2025 tan yr 22ain o Fawrth 2025.
Gwnaed yr arddangosfa hon yn bosibl trwy gyllid gan Gyngor Celfyddydau Cymru.
Darluniad: @renwolfe.studio
More information here
Queering Wales, Connecting People!
New year, new projects!
We are so excited to announce we have been awarded a grant by the Arts Council of Wales!!
For the duration of a year we will be running online talks and workshops showcasing queer artists of Wales with an end of the project exhibition and event! We are so Chuffed.
We have also partnered with some local groups to bring queer creative networking events!!!
Keep your eyes peeled to find out more about our paid opportunities and our events.
Creu Cymru Cwiar, Cysylltu pobl!
Rydym mor gyffrous i gyhoeddi ein bod wedi derbyn grant gan Gyngor Celfyddydau Cymru!!
Dros y flwyddyn yma byddwn yn cynnal sgyrsiau a gweithdai ar-lein yn arddangos artistiaid cwiar Cymru gydag arddangosfa a digwyddiad i bennu’r prosiect! Rydym mor falch.
Rydym hefyd wedi partneru gyda rhai grwpiau lleol i ddod â digwyddiadau rhwydweithio creadigol cwiar!!
Gwylia mas er mwyn ddarganfod mwy am ein cyfleoedd cyflogedig a’n digwyddiadau!!
Llun: Collage digidol o ddelweddau gan bobl greadigol OYF
@renwolfe.studio @deadpaisley @iamoberonwhite @annabellehamptonart @africa.olle @petros @uglypumpkinseed
For more updated info about events and to see what we are up to, follow us on Instagram.
If you are interested in funding an event or becoming a sponsor, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Read about our past events below.
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PAST EVENTS
Our first Event!
22nd and 23rd of January, 2022.
Our first event at the Nurture Centre @nurturesnook @nurturemagu in Carmarthen was a success!
On Saturday we had a night filled with poetry, music, and art! We started with the opening of our exhibition and followed with an open mic in which many queer creatives delighted us with poetry, storytelling, and live music by Ivor Woods and Mr. Bewlay!
On Sunday we had a full day with workshops, talks, and a screening of shorts and audio-visual works by LGBTQ+ artists of Wales.
Amongst the artists who led workshops and gave talks we had: Anna Coviello, Joshua Jones, Coco, and Alun Davies.
Noson Cwîr
11th of June 2022
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We collaborated with @carmarthenshirelgbtq @alz_blaidd to organise a night of music and drag.
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From On Your Face artists, performing that evening we had:
Generation Feral (@genferalmusic) and TELGATE (@telgateuk )
With Drag acts by king Justin drag @justin.drag and Scarlet Fever @itsscarletfeve, and an amazing closing of the night with DJ Cai
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‘Queer Reflections’
at the Glynn Vivian Gallery Sunday 22 May 2022 - Sunday 6 November 2022
Led by artist Fox Irving, and supported by the team at Glynn Vivian, On Your Face are celebrating queerness in all its forms; using a restricted collection that is, on the whole, largely heteronormative and blind to the lives of LGBTQ+ people and others. Through the group’s interactions with each other and the artworks in the Glynn Vivian’s collection, the artists have playfully explored and synthesised new narratives of what it means to be gay/lesbian, queer, and/or neurodivergent in Wales today.
Each member of the collective selected artworks from Glynn Vivian that they had a natural affinity with when exploring their own queer identity. Their reflections on these selected artworks challenge the current narrative behind that art, and open up a world of contemporary queer Welsh narratives.
Taking space and changing the industry.
An LGBTQ+ panel of creatives, organisers and activists.13th of September
An online conversation with LGBTQ+ artists and entrepreneurs of Wales whose research, passion and direct action plays on representation and reclaiming spaces.
For more information on the speakers, follow the link in bio.
This event was hosted and funded by @glynnvivian as part of our collaboration for our ongoing “Queer reflections” workshops and events.
Screening and Q&A
17th of September5 queer audio-visual artists and filmmakers from OYF showed their work, followed by a Q&A.
This event was hosted and funded by @glynnvivian as part of our collaboration for our ongoing “Queer reflections” workshops and events.
