Glanio is currently in being developed in Llandrindod, the collective will be engaging creatively with the community during the September 2023. To engage with the project and to keep updated please see our Glanio yn Llandrindod page, linked below.

Glanio

Glanio is collaborative project between the Glanio collective - Marla King (she/her), Clara Rust (she/her) and Fin Jordão (they/them) and Impelo.

We share a commitment to and curiosity about what the impact and potential is in changing/challenging current models of practice and what a creative response to the climate emergency could look like. 

Our primary questions here are: 

What could a new model of touring look like?  The average carbon footprint of touring work is 13,400 t CO2e excluding audience travel. In Powys,  drive times to venues average 45 minutes, adding to this large footprint.   Could a ‘slow’ model of touring working with local communities over a longer period to ‘re - produce’ the show increase engagement,  relevance, reduce carbon emissions and have a longer lasting impact by being hyper local? 

How can artists work with communities to nurture living ecosystems and our connection with them? The performance is a site-specific multi-arts promenade performance to engage communities in conversations around the climate crisis, to be invited to consider their environment in a different way and take time to slow down and build their connection and reciprocal relationship with the land they live so close to.  Nurturing links between communities, arts, science, and nature to facilitate gateways into climate awareness and action in a justice centred, intersectional way.

Glanio started in 2021 through Artscape a project with Impelo, Articulture, Natural Resources Wales and Powys County Council exploring  possibilities for post pandemic recovery through creating work in the Powys landscape.

Between March and October we’ll be co creating:

• 6 outdoor performances in 2 communities

• Sustainable production design - from travel, subsistence, process to costume and staging

• A commission for a visual artist to produce a ‘map’ of the site, it’s biodiversity and stories and a musician to create a locally extracted soundscape

• Improving health and wellbeing due to proven mental health benefits of spending time in green spaces and connecting in community

• Opportunities for 2 early career stage welsh/wales based dancers

• Digital documentation of the process, to be shared in a reflective gathering following the project, and to be available online

• A series of workshops co created with communities exploring connection to place to reshape the production in a local context

Through the project  Impelo hopes to:

• Inform design and approach to co producing with dance artists

• Support organisational improvement in developing sustainable practices of  creative working with and in rural Powys