[Commlist] Storytelling and the Environment Symposium 2019

Storytelling and the Environment Symposium 2019

The George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling is pleased to announce 
our thirteenth annual symposium—two days of provocations, presentations, 
panels, workshops and multi-media performances on the theme of 
“Storytelling and the Environment” at USW Atrium Cardiff, 12th-13th 
April 2019. The question of how to communicate the hard truths of 
emerging climate emergency in ways which are engaging and inspiring is 
surely one of the most important facing both academic and industrial 
research today. The symposium brings together a wide range of speakers, 
performers, educators and practitioners from major industrial 
initiatives to mediate climate change such as the RICE project, to our 
free launch event where noted environmental anthropologist Dr Susie 
Crate will answer questions following a screening of her film The 
Anthropologist.  The symposium will inspire, encourage, and showcase 
important storytelling projects and research aimed at protecting and 
enhancing natural and cultural resources. We recognise that storytelling 
is an art of relationships, and the relationship between humans and the 
natural and built environments is perhaps the most urgent problem facing 
our planetary home. Storytelling has always served to weave an 
imaginative fabric that binds people to their environment by populating 
it with emblematic figures embodying group wisdom, ethical aspirations, 
and conflicts. The ways we tell our stories can be as diverse as the 
subjects within them, from oral traditions of storytelling, to theatre, 
journalism, digital stories, or documentaries. Whatever the medium, 
stories contain the potential to create their own kind of environment of 
receptivity and contemplation—safe spaces of listening where human 
truths can be shared and understood beyond the hardened postures of 
economic expedience and political exploitation. See all George Stewart 
Evans Centre events 
here:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-george-ewart-evans-centre-for-storytelling-15048884925 


Mae Canolfan Adrodd Storïau George Ewart Evans yn falch i gyhoeddi ein 
13eg symposiwm blynyddol — dau ddiwrnod o bryfocio, cyflwyniadau, 
paneli, gweithdai a pherfformiadau amlgyfrwng ar thema “Adrodd Storïau 
a’r Amgylchedd” yn Atrium PDC Caerdydd, 12fed-13eg Ebrill 2019. Mae’n 
siŵr mai’r cwestiwn o sut i gyfathrebu gwirioneddau anodd yr argyfwng 
newid hinsawdd mewn ffyrdd sy’n denu ac yn ysbrydoli yw un o’r 
cwestiynau pwysicaf sy’n wynebu ymchwil academaidd a diwydiannol heddiw. 
Mae’r symposiwm yn dwyn ynghyd amrywiaeth eang o siaradwyr, perfformwyr, 
addysgwyr ac ymarferwyr o fentrau diwydiannol mawr i gyfryngu newid 
hinsawdd fel prosiect RICE. Yn ein digwyddiad lansio am ddim, bydd yr 
anthropolegydd amgylcheddol nodedig, Dr Susie Crate, yn ateb cwestiynau 
yn dilyn dangosiad o’i ffilm, The Anthropologist.  Bydd y symposiwm yn 
ysbrydoli, yn annog ac yn arddangos prosiectau ac ymchwil ym maes adrodd 
storïau sydd â’r nod o ddiogelu a chyfoethogi ein hadnoddau naturiol a 
diwylliannol. Rydym yn cydnabod bod adrodd storïau yn gelfyddyd sy’n 
ymwneud â pherthnasau, ac efallai mai’r berthynas rhwng pobl a’r 
amgylcheddau naturiol ac adeiledig yw’r un bwysicaf sy’n wynebu ein 
cartref ar y blaned hon. Mae crefft adrodd stori bob amser wedi 
cydblethu ffabrig dychmygus sy’n rhwymo pobl i’w hamgylchedd drwy ei 
lenwi â ffigurau emblematig sy’n ymgorffori doethineb grŵp, dyheadau 
moesegol, a gwrthdaro. Gall y ffordd yr adroddwn ein storïau fod mor 
amrywiol â’r pynciau sy’n rhan ohonynt, o draddodiadau llafar y grefft o 
adrodd storïau, i theatr, newyddiaduraeth, storïau digidol, neu raglenni 
dogfen. Beth bynnag yw’r cyfrwng, mae storïau’n cynnwys y potensial i 
greu eu math eu hunain o amgylchedd o dderbyngarwch a myfyrdod—mannau 
diogel i wrando lle mae modd rhannu a deall gwirioneddau dynol y tu hwnt 
i safiadau caled hwylustod economaidd ac ymelwa gwleidyddol.


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