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Cymru Hip Hop Wales
2023
We are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Kool Herc Party by celebrating Wales's contribution to Hip Hop.
Heritage Lottery, GWR Community Fund and Eagles Meadow are supporting and exhibition and events, with Queens Hall Narbeth supporting a tour to West Wales and Welcome to Our Woods supporting a tour to Treherbert. .
Everyone is welcome to be involved. The exhibition opened in Wrexham this summer, Visited Narbeth this January and is heading to Treherbert this March.
Current collection will be on display, but the story collecting will contine and the exhibition has room to include more stories, images and items.
This exhibition is deigned to ensure that the next getneration know about Wales's Hip Hop contribution and will be built by those who want to collaborate and get involved.
National touring of the exhbition is underway, combined with Hip Hop events run and designed by the community. The door is open for conversations, reach out and shape the exhbition you want to see. hello@avantcymru
This project is made possible is ‘made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund, with thanks to National Lottery players and Great Western Railway Community Fund.
The Silent Volunteer
2023 / 2024
TICKETS:
St Elfan's Church April 11th 2pm
St Elvan's Church April 11th 7pm
Tylorstown Welfare Hall April 12th 2pm
Tylorstown Welfare Hall April 12th 7pm
When Sue Bevan came to us with her play Hireath and her story about being a 10-year-old volunteer at the Aberfan disaster, we reached out to the community.
We heard in Tylorstown how recent landslides had affected people's lives, we heard from the survivors of Aberfan about how they were told "not to talk about it". We reached out to our families who told us that they were encouraged not to speak, not to share what they saw.
We have been undertaking trauma-informed training and we have been discussing how the disaster has shaped our lives and the lives of those in our community and along with Sue Bevans' play, we are ready to talk some more and share what we have people want to be shared.
People are welcome to be involved as they wish, we are starting with building Lego replica of the valleys and there is a post box at the Rhondda Heritage Park for anyone who wants to write a letter to the Aberfan community, to share with them how the disaster impacted them as a volunteer or as a family member of someone who was there.
The Silent Volunteer is a play about the voices that haven't yet found the words to speak, but who want the world to know the Aberfan disaster was not “an act of God”
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The Witness
2023 
A young Jehovah’s Witness falls into a deep depression when he is expelled from his religious community. He mysteriously wakes up in the hospital morgue alongside an out gay man, who has died prematurely.
Tensions rise, as it quickly becomes clear that the two men both lived and died in very different ways. Now, as they take time to understand each other’s journeys, trading opposing views on sex, love, and religion, they learn that their way out is not just to talk, but to listen."
Read the tour pack here and get in touch to book the show:
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2023
Shakespeare was influnced by the Welsh Fairy Pwca when writing the fairy characters, naming Puck after the Pwca.
Our version of this Shakespeare classic takes this influnce a step futher and all characters will have a welsh mythological link. Performed in RCT on the doorstep of the entrace to fairy kingdom, we have plenty to inspire you to ask "Are you sure that we are awake? It seems to me that yet we sleep we dream"
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Static Conversation
In Partnership with ILL-Abilities and Hjinx Unity Festival.
BBoy Lazy Legs Choreographer and BBoy FLexton are creating a Breakin' piece 'Static Conversation'. Talking about disability, mental health and life.
This piece has been comissioned by Hijix for Unity Festival and will be performed this June in Cardiff.
https://www.hijinx.org.uk/unity-festival/
Wales Millenium Centre
Macbeth
July 7th 2022 - St Elvans Church Aberdare
10:30, 13:00 and 19:00
The Scottish play, according to theatrical superstition speaking the name Macbeth inside a theatre, other than as called for in the script while rehearsing or performing, will cause disaster.
Our creation of the Scottish play took place summer 2022.
As part of the project we also cleared an area of the woodlands in Treherbert, filling a skip with tyres, fridges, metal left on the mountain.
Hydo Jam 2022
Community Hip Hop Jam in partnership with Welcome to Our Woods, Treherbert.
The world's first most climate-friendly Hip Hop Jam. Set in the woodlands in Treherbert, Rhondda, the jam is powered by the streams from the mountains. This is converted into energy for the DJ and mics. The stage is made from locally sourced wood partners and hosts 'Welcome to Our Woods' maintain the woodlands on the site of the jam.
Breakin' cyphers/competitions. Graffiti Alley, MC's, Experimental jam and music workshops. Alongside the first collecting event for the Welsh Hip Hop Exhibition, which will be held at the National Museum Cardiff and Swansea Waterfront. More details on the collection to be found on our social media.
URDD Urban Games
June 18th 2022 & 2023
Avant as UK Breakin' events hub ran the first Breakin' competition as part of the URDD Urban Games.
With better weather in 2023, the event took place infront of the Peirhead Building Cardiff Bay with an All Styles Battle on the Saturday and a Breakin' Battle on the Sunday.
Henry V was performed at Porth Football Club (Porth AFC) Summer 2021 and the company began to use their newly formed stage combat skills to the test
Twelfth Night
RCT yearly Shakespeare
Avant pledged to bring a relevant Shakespeare to RCT every year, so that young people in the valleys can access their first Shakespeare on stage instead of sat at a desk.
In 2020 we were the first company in wales to make the work accessible, safe, social distant, outdoor work with a digital version forllowing guidelines with social distance measures in place, offering Shakespeares comedy Twelfth Night, with the classic text but with a modern setting. Supported by Commuinity Foundation Wales, arts council Wales and National Lottery Good Causes.
