LIVE ART STREAM! | Connie Creates

WELCOME TO A LIVE ART EVENT LIVE STREAMING THE SPRING LIFE IN YNYSANGHARAD WAR MEMORIAL PARK AT EXACTLY 13.09PM (THE 'SOLAR NOON') ON 17TH, 18TH & 19TH MAY 2024!

Streamed from a crafted community bench made alongside the friends of Ynysangharad War Memorial Park community gardening group gardeners! Alongside the bench, a soundscape has been composed, combining gathered sounds of Pontypridd: local voices, conversation of our interactions whilst making and gardening, wildlife, and music representative of the spring here this year. You can listen alongside the stream as well if you wish! ALL YOUTUBE LINKS AND SOUNCLOUD LINKS ARE PROVIDED BELOW....KEEP SCROLLING!

Youtube link to live streams (also shown below!):https://www.youtube.com/@connielammiman/streams

Soundscape link: https://soundcloud.com/user-226151615/final-soundscape-for-our-community-bench-1300pm-50524/s-53m73DhijUV?si=678134979bb040e989a7c2b4047850fa&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Our Community Bench

Live Stream from The Friends of Ynysangharad War Memorial Park

Seeds of Serenity: Cultivating Calm Minds and Connection through Gardening and Bench-craft

You may have come here through scanning the QR code on the bench, or have tuned in live from a poster or callout...

However you have come about this project, I welcome you to take a moment to pause as though you were resting on a bench in spring, cocooned by the sounds of birds, the wind, people...life! It encourages you to listen deeply, and to reach moments like this in nature that perhaps you may not otherwise have a moment to, or be able to do.

The bench, the sound and the location represent my moments of pausing and realising just how powerful connection and collaboration with community, strangers or friends alike, is on our lives. Particularly being outside getting fresh earth between the nails and mouth (haha!).

I hope this encourages feelings of peace, calm and laughter felt during this time spent. I couldn't be more grateful for the wonderful community who made this project. I have learned so much about gardening and the spiritual effect it can have on a person's soul, but also how it can help facilitate conversation and relation, much like artmaking...being welcomed here and proposing a crafted bench, collaboratively designed with and for the gardening group lead to such fun and a real depth of connection. Everyone has had a role in some way in turning their hands to the project, in such a creative and resourceful manner. The bench has found a place for all. A catalyst for creativity, and all the unique interests and identities of each of the members of the group.