We love to communicate through dance but when we’re not moving we love sharing our thoughts through the Impelo blog, right here!

Written and contributed to by different members of our team, it highlights our current work and opportunities while also adding our voice to the challenges and conversations around creating movement work in rural Mid Wales.

NEWS AND VIEWS

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Arts Council of Wales' Review of Dance - Impelo Statement

We welcome the Arts Council of Wales' recent review of dance in Wales and their renewed commitment to supporting this vital part of the cultural landscape. It's heartening to see recognition of the value that dance brings to individual lives, to social cohesion, and to the long-term health of the arts sector as a whole.

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Two charities, one community space

Llandrindod Wells, Powys — Two community-focused organisations, Mid & North Powys Mind and Impelo, are excited to announce a landmark collaboration, a collaboration that was made possible thanks to assistance from Powys County Council and capital grant funding from the Welsh Government’s Transforming Towns programme and the Arts Council of Wales Capital Fund programme.

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Impelo x Mid & North Powys Mind - The Dance Centre

The proposal from Mid and North Powys Mind presents an incredible opportunity for us to retain our studio space and continue to support our dance communities whilst co-habiting with an organisation who's values are so aligned with our own."

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Pressing Pause

As a dance community, we're used to expressing the inexpressible. Yet, today, words must carry the weight of our circumstances, as we explore a new future.

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Saib Dros Dro

Fel cymuned ddawns, rydyn ni wedi arfer mynegi'r anfynegadwy. Ond, heddiw, rhaid i eiriau gario pwysau ein hamgylchiadau, wrth i ni archwilio dyfodol newydd.

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#SymudwnNi

Fel yr unig sefydliad elusennol sy’n darparu gweithgareddau dawnsio cymunedol ledled Powys, teimlwn reidrwydd i fynegi ein siomedigaeth wrth ragweld effaith eang y penderfyniad i ad-drefnu portffolio Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru (CCC) yn sgil yr adolygiad buddsoddi – yr effeithiau nid yn unig ar ein sefydliad, ein gweithlu a’n cyfranogion ni, eithr ar y sector dawnsio cymunedol i gyd ar draws Cymru.

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#WeMove

As a charitable provider of community dance activities across Powys, we feel compelled to express our dismay at the wide-reaching impact of the re-organisation of Arts Council Wales’s portfolio following the investment review – not just for our own organisation, workforce and participants but for the community dance sector as a whole across Wales.

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Beth Sydd Ymlaen @ Impelo

Plymiwch i mewn i fis Medi llawn hwyl gyda ni yn Impelo, fel rhan o dymor yr Hydref Hyfryd! Ym mis Medi eleni mae gennym bentwr aruthrol o bethau gwych sy’n digwydd yn y Ganolfan Ddawnsio a mannau eraill, y caren ni ichi ddysgu amdanyn nhw! 

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What's Happening @ Impelo

Swoosh into a fun-filled September with us at Impelo as part of our Awesome Autumn term! This September we’ve got a ton of fantastic things happening at the Dance Centre and beyond that we want you to know about! 

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EPYNT: Meet the Team!

Meet the wonderful Epynt Team who are bringing their creative talents together for all aspects of Prosiect Epynt! 

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Erthygl Prosiect Epynt

Yn ystod gaeaf 1939, derbyniodd trigolion Epynt a Bwlch-y-groes newyddion gan y Swyddfa Ryfel a fyddai’n troi eu byd wyneb i waered. Roedd rhaid i bob cartref gael ei wagio erbyn haf 1940, er mwyn i safle hyfforddi milwrol sefyll yn eu lle.

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Prosiect Epynt Article

In the winter of 1939, Epynt and Bwlch-y-groes inhabitants received news from the War Office that would turn their world upside down. All homes  were to be vacated by the summer of 1940, for a military training site to stand in their place.

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Early Years Movement Practitioner (North and Mid Powys)

A freelance opportunity for an individual based in mid or north Powys which will include; training and mentoring, shadowing, CPD and time to develop your movement practice to then deliver on the Bach project for Impelo in north Powys.

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Meet the Collective!

Glanio is a partnership between 3 creatives - Marla King (she/her), Clara Rust (she/her) and Fin Jordão (they/them) and Impelo. The Glanio Collective came together in the Spring of 2021 through an Artscape project relating to sense of place, climate justice and outdoor arts.

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