On Tour
The Silent Volunteer
2024-2026
Preparing for touring
When Sue Bevan came to us with her play Hireath and her story about being a 10-year-old volunteer at the Aberfan disaster, we reached out to the community.
We heard in Tylorstown how recent landslides had affected people's lives, we heard from the survivors of Aberfan about how they were told "not to talk about it". We reached out to our families who told us that they were encouraged not to speak, not to share what they saw.
We have been undertaking trauma-informed training and we have been discussing how the disaster has shaped our lives and the lives of those in our community and along with Sue Bevans' play, we are ready to talk some more and share what we have people want to be shared.
People are welcome to be involved as they wish, we are starting with building Lego replica of the valleys and there is a post box at the Rhondda Heritage Park for anyone who wants to write a letter to the Aberfan community, to share with them how the disaster impacted them as a volunteer or as a family member of someone who was there.
The Silent Volunteer is a play about the voices that haven't yet found the words to speak, but who want the world to know the Aberfan disaster was not “an act of God”
The Witness
Initially performed 2023, now available for booking.
A young Jehovah’s Witness falls into a deep depression when he is expelled from his religious community. He mysteriously wakes up in the hospital morgue alongside an out gay man, who has died prematurely.
Tensions rise, as it quickly becomes clear that the two men both lived and died in very different ways. Now, as they take time to understand each other’s journeys, trading opposing views on sex, love, and religion, they learn that their way out is not just to talk, but to listen."
Read the tour pack here and get in touch to book the show:
The Lab Eagles Meadow Shopping Cente, Wrexham LL13 8DG
The Lab has wide doors, a disabled toilet the floors are flat throughout and disabled parking in the shopping centre.
Hearing loop System in the building.
Y / The Lab
2024 onwards
What will you create?
After a sucessful smmer 2023 in Eagles Meadow our partnership continues in a new unit, where you can experiment, create and showcase your talents.
Currently looking for partners:
- do you want to run learning sesions?
- do you want to run events?
- do you want to put on performances?
Then please get in touch, creative space available from September 2024.
Hire charges £25 per hour
2 hours 10% discount
4 hours plus 20% discount
8 hours plus 30% discount
For more information read the hire document below and email us at:
hello@avant.cymru
Kizomba North Wales
February 28th
TICKETS https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/avantcymru
Class with Anna and Nino
DJs DJ Romi and HDEE
Class 8:30-9:30pm
Social 9:30pm-1:30am
£10 and a drink
Parking in Shopping Center car park LL13 8DG
March 28th
Kizomba Wrexham with UK Open 2025 are excited to put on a UK Open Qualifier in Wrexham, alongside the qualifier is a Bootcamp and social dance
1pm - 6pm Kizomba Intensive day bootcamp | 2 LEVELS
Level 1 : Beginners | Stolid
Level 2 : Improvers + | Elisha & Miss Ginga Boo
8.30-9.30pm Kizomba Open level
9.30pm - 1am Party & UK Open Competition
Featuring DJ Amine
Also up and coming Kizomba DJ, Hdee, not one to be missed!
Price:
Bootcamp and social costs:
Early bird offer first 12 people £40
next 15 people £45
At the door £50
Party price:
Early Bird offer first 10 people £10
Next 15 people £12
At the door £15
This is a licensed premises/bar so you cannot bring your own drinks (including soft drinks) - please support the bar.
Shopping centre parking is available under the venue.
Weekly sessions
Wednesdays
Rap
Taught by Dave Acton
4-5pm
Breakin'
Taught by BBoy Flexton
5-6pm
Popping
Taught by Tom Kiba
6-7pm
Hip Hop Socials
A space to share, learn, test and have fun, what will you create?
8-11pm
Thursdays
Indian Folk Dance
Taught by Krishnapriya
4-5pm
Belly Dance
Taught by Alyna
7-8pm
Previous
Black History Cymru 365
19th October 2024
Free Community Event
Jam packed day of dance, music and celebrating how Black History has impacted the globe.
Taith and Avant learning Journey to Toyko
November 2024
Continual Professional Development
Head to our YouTube page, watch Erics Video here, and see the videos reflecting what we learnt in Tokyo!
Cymru Hip Hop Wales
2023 - 2024
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Kool Herc Party by celebrating Wales's contribution to Hip Hop.
Heritage Lottery, GWR Community Fund and Eagles Meadow are supporting and exhibition and events, with Queens Hall Narbeth supporting a tour to West Wales and Welcome to Our Woods supporting a tour to Treherbert. .
Everyone was welcome to be involved. The exhibition opened in Wrexham summer2023, Visited Narbeth January 2024 Treherbert this March 2024
This exhibition is deigned to ensure that the next getneration know about Wales's Hip Hop contribution and will be built by those who want to collaborate and get involved. 
This project is made possible is ‘made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund, with thanks to National Lottery players and Great Western Railway Community Fund.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2023
Shakespeare was influnced by the Welsh Fairy Pwca when writing the fairy characters, naming Puck after the Pwca.
Our version of this Shakespeare classic takes this influnce a step futher and all characters will have a welsh mythological link. Performed in RCT on the doorstep of the entrace to fairy kingdom, we have plenty to inspire you to ask "Are you sure that we are awake? It seems to me that yet we sleep we dream"
Nerd
FEATURED IN UPCOMING FILM FESTIVALS
Read the review for Think Shorts here:
Macbeth
July 7th 2022 - St Elvans Church Aberdare
10:30, 13:00 and 19:00
The Scottish play, according to theatrical superstition speaking the name Macbeth inside a theatre, other than as called for in the script while rehearsing or performing, will cause disaster.
Our creation of the Scottish play took place summer 2022.
As part of the project we also cleared an area of the woodlands in Treherbert, filling a skip with tyres, fridges, metal left on the mountain.
Hydo Jam 2022
Community Hip Hop Jam in partnership with Welcome to Our Woods, Treherbert.
The world's first most climate-friendly Hip Hop Jam. Set in the woodlands in Treherbert, Rhondda, the jam is powered by the streams from the mountains. This is converted into energy for the DJ and mics. The stage is made from locally sourced wood partners and hosts 'Welcome to Our Woods' maintain the woodlands on the site of the jam.
Breakin' cyphers/competitions. Graffiti Alley, MC's, Experimental jam and music workshops. Alongside the first collecting event for the Welsh Hip Hop Exhibition, which will be held at the National Museum Cardiff and Swansea Waterfront. More details on the collection to be found on our social media.
URDD Urban Games
June 18th 2022 & 2023
Avant as UK Breakin' events hub ran the first Breakin' competition as part of the URDD Urban Games.
With better weather in 2023, the event took place infront of the Peirhead Building Cardiff Bay with an All Styles Battle on the Saturday and a Breakin' Battle on the Sunday.
Henry V was performed at Porth Football Club (Porth AFC) Summer 2021 and the company began to use their newly formed stage combat skills to the test
Twelfth Night
RCT yearly Shakespeare
Avant pledged to bring a relevant Shakespeare to RCT every year, so that young people in the valleys can access their first Shakespeare on stage instead of sat at a desk.
In 2020 we were the first company in wales to make the work accessible, safe, social distant, outdoor work with a digital version forllowing guidelines with social distance measures in place, offering Shakespeares comedy Twelfth Night, with the classic text but with a modern setting. Supported by Commuinity Foundation Wales, arts council Wales and National Lottery Good Causes.
