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Gwerin y Coed is the Woodcraft Folk in Wales, an educational movement for children and young people. We aim to develop self confidence and activity in society, with the aim of building a sustainable world based on equality, friendship, peace and co-operation. We have local groups throughout Wales who meet on a weekly basis. Find out more
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Span That World With Music comes to Aberystwyth. A gig organised by young people for young people brings enthusiasm for a budding DF community in the area.
9– 11 OCTOBER - KINGS YOUTH HOSTEL, DOLGELLAU
Gwerin y Coed’s annual meet up – a chance to meet Gwerin members from all over Wales, catch up on what’s been happening over the last year, and make plans for the next year. The weekend also includes the AGM – the Annual General Meeting which is the formal business part of the Gathering
Summer 2009
on the shores of Llyn Tegid, Bala. This is an all-age camp powered by renewables where we'll be learning the skills to live in harmony with the elements and how to pass these skills on to others. Check out the website link: www.gwerin.org/celticcamp.
Welsh Thing
One EPIC barn, two days, three guitars (well, two and a ukelele), tamad o Gymraeg and lots of biscuits. LOTS of biscuits. Sounds like a Welsh Thing to me...
From the 18th to the 20th of June, DFs from Wales and England took over Ty Gwyn campsite, Ynyslas in a whirlwind of 'business', vegetarian cuisine, campfire smoke and the inevitable lost tent peg. Among workshops on Methods of Decision making, Annual Gathering Motions, How to Regain the Lost Glory of Welsh DFs, Communication as a Movement (courtesy of Tree) and Open Spaces galore, the cries of 'Jargon Buster!' (in a multitude of accents) could be heard from the substantial amount of Thing first-timers. Evening brought with it acoustic crooning, bro-fisting lions and dragons, and late night conversations, and eventually sleep, though the five a.m. train to Aber made sure that didn't last long...
On Sunday, we decamped, and left envigorated, inspired and a la a new lease of life breathed into the born-from-the-ashes Welsh DF movement (soon to meet in Penarth - be there!). All in all? Youth empowerment in practise, albeit in a field, and a Thing worth doing again.
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