Treherbert Skyline
2018
In Autumn 2018, Treherbert Skyline, a festival of ideas, brought together over one hundred community members to share a meal, a walk and conversation.
Situated at the top of the Rhondda Fawr valley, Treherbert is a village overlooked by the spectacular flat-headed spur mountain, Pen Pych. Treherbert Skyline brought community members together to consider the past, present and future of this landscape, and was co-curated and coordinated with Melissa Appleton, in collaboration with Peak Cymru and Project Skyline.
Sakina Sheikh, of Platform London, spoke at the event about agendas of change, reconnection and radical reconsideration of resources. She explored themes of industrial heritage, climate change, empire and existing structures of power. In consideration of radical Welsh history, the project examined real ideas of resistance and reimagining.
Treherbert Skyline created cultural maps which celebrated the locality of Treherbert. These combined the biodiversity of the place and the history of the village with the aim of fuelling future collaboration. Further mapping workshops and a creative writing course were held at Pen Pych Community Primary School.
This valley is our resource
This place, this land, this future
The soil, the rivers, the hills
Imagine all we took was returned
Mining the Imagination not the land
Sustaining community identity
Re-modelling community ownership
Let the work of re-imagining begin!