Panel Talks & Networking 2pm until 6pm (doors 1.30pm)

Making of the Wild Sky Performance Showcase 6pm until 8pm

Attendees are welcome to attend the whole event (2pm-8pm) or you’re not able to stay for the whole day you can choose to attend just the daytime event (1pm-6pm) or just the evening event (6pm-8pm).

Panel Talks & Networking

Who it’s for: individual artists, creatives, producers and culture workers

Come and join Dirty Protest with Ty Pawb, and established and emerging artistic producers working across Wales and internationally for a day discussing artistic collaboration, funding opportunities and partnership working between Wales and the world.

Learn from artists and programmers who are working internationally about the challenges and joys of creating work between Wales and other nations.

This session invites participants to share their thoughts on:

Networking with other local artists, creative industries, and culture workers

• How do you get funding
• Building networks
• How to get commissions
• Wrexham’s cultural infrastructure
• What you need to build a sustainable career and make new opportunities in and around Wrexham

Hear about the international opportunities for artists in Wrexham and Wales in 2026 and beyond from a range of artists and organisations taking Wales to the world.

Talks, Panellist and Creative Practitioners include:

• David Warren, Head of International Relations, Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh Government (Wales)
• Jo Marsh, Creative Director, Ty Pawb (Wales)
• Zélie Flach, Wales Arts International (Wales)
• Henk Keizer, Chair, Arts in Rural European Area (AREA) Network (Denmark)
• Immie Jonkman, Director of Arcadia the legacy programme of Leeuwarden European Capital of Culture (The Netherlands)
• Filipa Francisco, Choreographer & Founder Mundo em Reboliço (Portugal)
• Thiago SKP, Conscious Rapper (Brasil)
• Johnny Cotsen, Performance Artist & Access Consultant (Wales)
• Michelle Pierez, Executive Director, Theatre Iolo (Wales)
• Catherine Paskell, Dirty Protest Theatre (Wales)
• Natasha Borton, Creative Practitioner and NEMO recipient (Wales)
• Hannah Lad, Creative Practitioner (Wales)

Panel discussions will outline how you can build links with partners in other countries, find funding to take your work abroad, and how you can find new markets to build a sustainable career. Creative activities and working groups will share ideas for what Wrexham and Wales can bring to the world, and how we can use opportunities like Wrecsam2029 City of Culture to support and underpin future collaboration.

The international touring landscape has changed, especially with the impacts of Brexit and the global Covid19 pandemic, but new opportunities for collaboration have risen for Wales to show our unique artistic and cultural work to the world.

Ideas, conversations and insights will be captured and shared, helping turn discussion into collective action.

About Dirty Protest Theatre

Part of Dirty Protest’s Artist Gym. For more than 10 years, Dirty Protest has delivered collaborative projects between Wales and countries across multiple continents including Ireland, Portugal, Denmark, France, Poland, Brazil, Peru, USA, Canada, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Australia, Japan, Pakistan, and the company has toured their Wales-made theatre across the world.

Register your interest and any access requirements on our Eventbrite webpage: LINK or email info@dirtyprotesttheatre.co.uk

Supported by Wales Arts International, Arts Council of Wales, the National Lottery, and Welsh Government.

Making of the Wild Sky | Criação do Céu Selvagem | Creu yr Awyr Wyllt

Time: 6:00pm– 8:00pm

Day: Thursday 1 October

Location: Ty Pawb Performance Space, Ty Pawb, Market Street, Wrexham,

Join us for a unique showcase of live performance bringing together artists from Wales and Brazil in a collective creation of original poetry, rap, music and theatre.

The event features three Brazilian rappers and poets from the mining region of Minas Gerais, Brazil, performing live via Zoom alongside seven Wrexham-based poets, performers and rappers.

Together, they have created new original work responding to themes of climate change, connection, and Saudades – the Portuguese feeling of longing, memory and absence.

They are led by professional rapper and MC Thiago SKP Brazilian rapper and MC, whose previous collaboration with Dirty Protest on The Exquisite Corpse connected artists across Wales and Brazil through performance and spoken word.

An international project in English, Welsh and Portuguese produced by Dirty Protest in collaboration with, Ty Pawb, Voicebox Wxm, Larynx Entertainment Ltd, People’s Palace Projects (Brasil) and Baobah Produções e Eventoes (Brasil).

A celebration of international collaboration, language, music and resistance.