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
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.
Community & Commercial Hires Manager
We’re currently on the look out for a Community and Commercial Hires Manager to join our team at Impelo.
Will you be part of our neighbourhood?
We’re eagerly on the lookout to recruit a brand new board to take Impelo into a brave new era!
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.
As we move through time, what does it mean to be a good ancestor?
Explore this question with Dance Artist Marla King in an informal conversation together as part of her residency with Impelo.
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."
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.
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.
#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.
#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.
Glanio yn Llandrindod: Meet the Dancers!
Meet the dancers, who along with the Glanio collective, will be in Llandrindod this Autumn as part of the Glanio project!
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!
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!
EPYNT: Meet the Team!
Meet the wonderful Epynt Team who are bringing their creative talents together for all aspects of Prosiect Epynt!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sbri, Rhwydwaith Dawns Blynyddoedd Cynnar Cymru: CADWCH Y DYDDIAD A GALWAD
Cyfle i ymgynnull, rhwydweithio, trafod a datblygu rhwydwaith effeithiol i hybu dawnsio i’r blynyddoedd cynnar yng Nghymru.
Sbri, Early Years Dance Network for Wales: SAVE THE DATE and CALL OUT
An opportunity to gather, network, discuss and develop an effective network for early years dance in Wales.