Mae Alice Briggs yn artist/curadur gydag arbenigedd celfyddydol mewn iechyd. Mae hi newydd ddechrau cymrodoriaeth gelfyddydol dros ddwy flynedd gyda Sefydliad Freelands gydag oriel g39 ac mae wedi ennill bwrsariaeth CCC ar gyfer Clore Leadership Pulse 2021. Curadodd Alice yr arddangosfa 'Defaid' yn Amgueddfa Ceredigion, ac mae wedi cyd-guradu prosiectau gyda chymunedau Ceredigion ers deuddeg mlynedd. Cafodd 'Defaid' 'Ganmoliaeth Uchel' yn y Gwobrwyon Amgueddfeydd a Threftadaeth Cenedlaethol 2020. Fe'i defnyddiwyd mewn astudiaethau achos ar gyfer Swyddfa Comisiynydd Cenedlaethau'r Dyfodol Cymru, ac ymgyrch 'Amgueddfeydd sy'n Newid Bywydau' Cymdeithas yr Amgueddfeydd.
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Alice Briggs is an artist/curator with an arts-in-health specialism. She has just begun a two year arts fellowship with Freelands Foundation with g39 gallery and a ACW bursary for Clore Leadership Pulse 2021. Alice curated the “Sheep” exhibition at Ceredigion Museum, and has cocurated projects with the Ceredigion Community for twelve years. “Sheep” received a “Highly Commended at the National Musuem & Heritage Awards 2020. It has been used in Future Generations Commissioner’s Office Wales, and the Museum Association “Museums Change Lives” campaign.
Mae Zoë Quick, pensaer, artist ac addysgwr, yn dod â phrofiad sylweddol o weithio gydag archifau, tirweddau a sefydliadau diwylliannol, ac arwain gweithdai adrodd straeon, ysgrifennu a thecstilau cydweithredol. Mae ei doethuriaeth a arweinir gan ymarfer presennol yn ail-greu’r arfer Gymreig o ‘gwlana’, fel modd o fynd i'r afael â thrafodaeth dros yr ucheldiroedd.
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Zoë Quick, an architect, artist and educator, brings experience in working with cultural archives, landscapes and institutions, and leading collaborative storytelling, writing and textile workshops. Her current practice-led PhD re-enacts the Welsh custom gwlana, as a means to address debate over the uplands.
Siân Stacey, O’r Mynydd i’r Môr / Summit to Sea
Nod O’r Mynydd i'r Môr yw datblygu arferion rheoli tir cydweithredol sy'n seiliedig ar leoedd sy'n cefnogi ecosystemau iach ac amrywiol ar draws ffiniau eiddo ac yn sicrhau manteision economaidd, ecolegol a chymdeithasol sy'n briodol i'r ardal.
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Summit to the Sea is a co-created project developing place-based collaborative land-management practices which support healthy and diverse ecosytems across property boundaries and deliver economic, ecological and social benefits appropriate to the locality. Project manager Siân Stacey brings to the Verges collective the experience of building a successful co-created project from a community partnership struggling due to lack of consultation and listening.
Laura Cooper o Aber Food Surplus
Laura is passionate about ethical food and sustainable living; saving seed, growing edible plants and soil health - and she has recently been introduced to the fascinating world of fermenting and pickling! When Laura is not planting or pickling, she is working on obtaining her Masters in Sustainable Food Systems with the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT). Laura believes the academic base she is developing at CAT will fuel her ambitions of making access to sustainably produced, healthy and nutritious food available to all.
Heather MacClure o Aber Food Surplus
Mae Aber Food Surplus (partner arweiniol) yn sefydliad gwerin gwlad sy'n gweithio gyda gwirfoddolwyr a rhanddeiliaid cymunedol i gynyddu gwydnwch systemau bwyd lleol a darparu lluniaeth iach ac elw teg i ffermwyr. Fe'u cydnabuwyd yn ddiweddar gan Wobrau Aber yn Gyntaf am ymgysylltu’r gymuned gyda thyfu.
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Aber Food Surplus (lead partner Heather ) is a grass roots social enterprise it has been building links with the town for the last six years working with communities and stakeholders to increase local-food-systems-resilience and provide healthy diets and a fair return for farmers. they were recently recognised by Aber First Awards for engaging the community in growing. With an established and expanding volunteer network they bring a wealth of diverse contacts to the project.
Hannah Engelkamp is marketing lead and creative practitioner, who writes about slow travel, land, belonging, sustainability and motherhood. She walked around Wales with a donkey called Chico and became one of the Guardian’s top ten female adventurers, but writes constantly about modern adventure’s colonialist roots. Her Tedx talk about off-grid mothering set in motion the themes of her forthcoming book, funded by the Arts Council of Wales. Through an addled diary format she explores close up her family’s conflicted domestication and yearning for wildness, with a backdrop of Welsh upland sheep farming and the emergence of rewilding.