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15/10/2024

15/10/2024

“Museum of Femininity” over and out
🌸💋🖤👍🎶

Diolch to everyone who came along to the grand opening 😉

We hope you enjoyed experiencing the exhibits and getting to know the dream team of fabulous staff members 🤭

Thank you to Parc Arts for commissioning a cohort of Make It! artists to create a performance in response to Morfydd Owen’s story. What a fantastic festival to be a part of. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and boundless enthusiasm with us 🥹

And thanks to Storyville Books for letting us work in the Badman’s space which totally inspired the piece 😍

We love love loved chatting with you about how you experienced “Museum of Femininity”, so please feel free to keep the conversation going👇/💬/📧

We’re overjoyed to have gotten to share the passion and wackyweirdness of the process with you 🥲

It takes a village to raise a museum ✊ we couldn’t have done it without you x

11/10/2024

11/10/2024

Meet the staff at the Museum of Femininity: Blod 👍

Blod ydw i.

11/10/2024

Meet the staff at the Museum of Femininity: Joy Jones 🖤

Joy is the museum receptionist and front of house. She has a BA in communications and an MA in Health and Safety.

She is incredibly enthusiastic about poetry especially the works of Sappho, she runs the biannual poetry club ‘The Sapphic Spinsters’

Joy is the founder and co president of the Pontypridd branch of the Kathryn Hahn fan club.

11/10/2024

Meet the team at the Museum of Femininity: Tracy 💋

Tracy is our senior tour guide and is very excited for the museum to open. Her passions include skin care and spending time updating her LinkedIn and Tinder profiles.

11/10/2024

Meet the founder of the Museum of Femininity: Ms Evelyn Goode 🌸

Evelyn is a critically acclaimed director of stage and screen, and the lead singer/song-writer of 10-time grammy award winning folk band; Sinners Prayer.

She was recognised as a child prodigy by the age of 8 months (pre-birth), where doctors were stunned by her remarkable sense of rhythm.

She is a humanitarian and pescetarian.

She is rumoured to have invented electricity, having gifted the patent to Benjamin Franklin when he was down on his luck.

She once briefly died and is said to be the only person who truly knows what awaits us after death. She is incredibly private about this experience, once stating “If you knew what I know, there is no hope for any of us.” This phrase went on to inspire Shrek the Third.

The 95% of the ocean that is yet to be explored is only yet to be explored because although she’s been to all of it, she wasn’t exploring, she was on holiday.

She is sexually fluid; notable dating experiences include being Jeremy Corbyn’s first love and turning down a proposal from the girl with the pearl earring three times. She is anti-marriage, and has only ever been married once, to Channing Tatum, as a joke.

In 1997 she turned down a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for ethical reasons.

Attendees of Julie Andrews’ 58th birthday party say that, as her gift to Andrews, she performed Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony in its entirety, playing every instrument simultaneously.

One of her eyelashes is on display at the Louvre. It is the only one she has lost to date.

She has no children and considers the Museum of Femininity to be her baby. She has contracted three other staff members to help realize her vision. It is the only museum of its kind. The idea for it came to her when she was inside Madonna’s sensory deprivation tank.

“I am living for the opening of the Museum of Femininity. It promises to be the best event this planet has ever seen!” - Gordon Ramsey

10/10/2024

The Museum of Femininity invites you to its grand opening. Here the indescribable is done. Yma gwneir yr annisgrifiadwy.

Inspired by the legacy of Morfydd Owen 🎶

Created by Menna Siân, Yasmin Richards, Deborah Newton-Williams, Hannah Lad and Yasmin Williams.

The Morfydd Owen Festival starts tomorrow!

Check out the full programme via the link ❤️‍🔥

https://www.morfydd-owen.cymru/

08/10/2024

Tridiau cyn dechrau Gŵyl Morfydd Owen. Ymunwch â ni yng Nghlwb y Bont nos Wener a dydd Sadwrn yma.

Three days to go before the Morfydd Owen Festival licks off. Join us in Clwb this Friday and Saturday.
https://www.morfydd-owen.cymru/

07/10/2024

🌟 GWYL MORFYDD OWEN FESTIVAL 🌟

‘Museum of Femininity’ is a site-specific creative response to Morfydd Owen’s story 🤩

We are a cohort of Make It! artists who have the incredible gift of spending all of this week devising a brand new piece of performance to be part of a local arts festival, celebrating a local icon 🙏

Yasmin Richards is a Welsh Harpist currently in their final year of study at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Her studies have taken her around the world from her home in Wales to most recently Canada and Norway.

Deborah Newton-Williams is a comedian, actor, and playwright, who has recently completed her M.A in Drama at the University of South Wales. She has previously worked with Avant Cymru, Avan Arts and Swansea Lighthouse Theatre, and is currently developing her one-woman play ‘Thunderbum’.

Menna Siân is a bilingual actor and writer from Pontypridd. Creating and making theatre in both English and Welsh within RCT. She also works as an acting tutor with Dimensions Performance Academy and Clwb Drama Yr Olwg.

Hannah Lad is a Freelance Creative from The Rhondda in South Wales. She is passionate about creating authentic working class theatre. To date Hannah has worked with organisations including WMC, Sherman, Dirty Protest and The Riverfront.

Yasmin Williams is a creative freelancer living in Pontypridd. She is a co-investigator on a selection of ongoing interwoven cultural activism projects with Arts Active. She is excited about a creative process which centres the collective and empowers artists to push boundaries.

Don’t miss it!
Saturday 12th October, 5pm at Badman’s (behind Storyville books in Pontypridd town centre) 🤩
FREE and no need to book! Come as you are x

Check out the rest of the festival via the link below 🎶

https://www.morfydd-owen.cymru/

05/09/2024

TONIGHT 📢

The artists are in the building 🤩 we can’t wait for you to see what they’ve been working on!

There’s still time to book your free ticket if you want to come along 🎟️

Mini Commission Platform
7 - 9pm Cwmparc Community Centre
bit.ly/mcptix 💥

Comisiwn Llwyfan Bach
7yn - 9yn Cymdeithas Gymunedol Cwmparc
bit.ly/mcptix ⭐️

*Cwmparc Community Centre is only able to accept cash for drinks if you are planning on buying a drink!