This week sees the Creative Energy Festival in Ynysybwl as part of the AHRC’s Connected Communities ‘Community Futures and Utopias’ Festival.

There is a series of free events and activities for the whole community organised by the ‘Stories of Change’ project working with local community organisations including the Ynysybwl Regeneration Partnership, the Ynysybwl Enterprise Partnership, Daerwynno Outdoor Centre and Ynysybwl Community Centre.

Activities kick off on the evening of Thursday, May 12th with a Village Voices concert of stories, poems and song at the Ynysybwl Con Club, starting at 7 pm.

A major focus for the festival is a Pop-Up Story Studio. It takes place at the Community Centre on Friday, May 13th between 10am and 6pm, and Saturday, May 14 between 9.30am and 4pm. It features rare film archive, images and local stories from Ynysybwl and the surrounding area. The previous Story Studio we ran in…