

The Welsh Atlantis, contd...
What happens when two comedians meet with two academics on a Welsh beach? This... The day before the Brexit results, last year, six people stood on Borth beach and contemplated lost civilisation, political downfall, myths of time. Two were (mostly) dressed in wetsuits, two in archaeo gear, two held on to a camera and boom. They were Zipline Creative, myself and Martin Bates, along with John *Eggsy* Rutledge and Mike Bubbins. We were gathered on the sand to record the opening


Last Week Became a Memory Too
Last week I attended an international conference in Kiel, Germany. Technically it was an Open Workshop but in practice the format fell into conference-esque lines, with 18 sessions and 340 attendees run over five days. The primary focus was upon the creation of landscapes over the last 12,000 years, which centred upon dilemmas such as dating criteria, agent based modelling and glacial puzzles. The session I was asked to contribute to though, was on memory. Convened by Chris


Aberystwyth Storytelling Festival, March 9-12th, 2017.
During March, a wonderful thing happened: the Aberystwyth Storytelling Festival ran for its fifth session. The name disguises all that happened though because this wasn't just a celebration of the modern interpretation of traditional bardism, it also included a smidgen of academia and a steady thread of transmedial representation. There was live drawing, framed drawing, live painting, framed painting. There was music from all around the world, there was poetry and prose, myt