Gwanwyn

Gwanwyn Festival 2024: Celebrating ‘change’. Changes we’ve made, changes we’ve seen, and how change inspires us to be creative in older age.

Gwanwyn is a month-long national festival held across Wales in May each year, showcasing creativity in older age. Since 2007, Gwanwyn has worked with artists and organisations of all sizes to promote a wide range of arts activities, from stand-up to stitching, from Bollywood to book clubs.

Gwanwyn Festival offers opportunities for older people to become involved in arts and creative activities, either as practitioners, organisers or audience members. Gwanwyn Festival also helps older people to recognize the benefits that being creative can bring to their health and well-being.

The theme for May 2024 is ‘change’. We’ve been inspired by older people that have created cultural change in Wales, and want to know what change means to you.

There will be opportunities throughout May to get involved in festival activities, try something new and showcase your creativity.

Part of the aim of Gwanwyn is for us to challenge stereotypes of ageing and older people and we will be highlighting activities, events, artists and groups that represent the diversity of experience of older people throughout Wales.

To upload an event to our Festival Events calendar, simply fill in our online form

To keep up to date with news and find out how you can get involved in Gwanwyn Festival, join the mailing list by emailing gwanwyn@agecymru.org.uk