Wales: A Home from Home: Pop-up Exhibition

Wales: A Home From Home Pop-up multi-media exhibition, left Senedd Cymru (Welsh Parliament) and is moving to venues across Wales as a touring pop-up exhibition. The pop-up can be for a day or a few days- depending upon availability and venue. The exhibition will run through 2026, bringing a rich blend of stories and cultures to communities across the country.

The pop-up features: 16 x printed banners, 2 x videos – of 12 mins and 25 mins, 1 x immersive 360° video and I x interactive virtual reality experince (via 5 x Oculus Quest3 headsets) –

About the Project

Over the past 18 months, Wales: A Home From Home has brought together stories from Wales’ diverse communities in a multi-media celebration of cultural heritage and migration.

We have met and recorded the experiences of;  Descendants of Italians who arrived in the 1920s.  Yemeni families who lost loved ones while supporting the D-Day landings.

Iraqi Kurds who settled here in the 1970s. Sikh doctors and Hindu families who came from India via Kenya in the ’70s.

We’ve also met more recent arrivals; Syrians fleeing war, Ukrainian families displaced by the Russian invasion and Hong Kongers seeking refuge from political repression.

The migrants featured all call Wales home, thier Nation of Sanctuary – a place of safety for their families.

The project has captured oral histories, portraits, archive materials, videos, 3D models, and immersive 360° films.

The exhibition presents a fusion of traditional and immersive media.

As well as printed banners we have:

1) 360° video immersive global cultural experience – all captured in Wales

2) A virtual reality art gallery showcasing artswork and video portraits of project participants created by school children

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Touring Exhibition Dates : More to be added.

Maesteg Town Hall – 06th September 2025 Pyle Library – 09th September 2025 Port Talbot Library – 27th September 2025 Cyfarthfa Castle Museum + Art Gallery – 30th September to 05 October 2025 National Waterfront Museum – Sat 11th October 2025 Moorland Primary School – 22nd / 23 rd October 2025 Cardiff Hong Kongers – Sun 02nd November 2025 Pontypridd Library – Fri /Sat 07 & 08 November 2025 Ysgol Hamadryad, Primary School – 21 st November 2025 Port Talbot Library – 27th November 2025 FairOak Primary School – 02nd December 2025 St John’s Roman Catholic School – 27th November 2025 Cardiff Central Library, Friday 16th & Saturday 17th January, 10am-4pm (Floor3 exhibition space)

yddiadau’r Arddangosfa

Cymru: Cartref o Gartref — ein harddangosfa amlgyfrwng — wedi gadael Senedd Cymru ac yn teithio i leoliadau ledled Cymru fel arddangosfa “pop-up” deithiol.

Bydd y daith yn parhau drwy 2025 a 2026, gan ddod â chymysgedd cyfoethog o straeon a diwylliannau i gymunedau ar hyd a lled y wlad.

Mae’r arddangosfa “pop-up” yn cynnwys baneri printiedig, teledu sgrîn fawr, a phrofiadau rhithwir (VR) trochi.

Dyddiadau a lleoliadau cychwynnol y daith:

Neuadd y Dref Maesteg – 06 Medi 2025
Llyfrgell Pyle – 09 Medi 2025
Llyfrgell Port Talbot – 27 Medi 2025
Castell Cyfarthfa – 30 Medi i 05 Hydref 2025
Amgueddfa Glan Môr Genedlaethol – 11 Hydref 2025
Hong Kongiaid Caerdydd – 02 Tachwedd 2025
Llyfrgell Pontypridd – 07 a 08 Tachwedd 2025

Am y Prosiect

Dros y 18 mis diwethaf, mae Cymru: Cartref o Gartref wedi dod â straeon ynghyd o gymunedau amrywiol Cymru mewn dathliad amlgyfrwng o dreftadaeth ddiwylliannol a mudo.

Rydym wedi cwrdd â phobl ac wedi cofnodi profiadau disgynyddion o’r Eidal a gyrhaeddodd yn y 1920au, teuluoedd o Yemen a gollodd anwyliaid wrth gefnogi glaniadau D-Day, Cwrdaid Irac a ymgartrefodd yma yn y 1970au, a meddygon Sicaidd a theuluoedd Hindŵaidd a ddaeth o India trwy Kenya yn y ’70au.

Rydym hefyd wedi cwrdd â mewnfudwyr mwy diweddar gan gynnwys Syriaid yn ffoi rhag rhyfel, teuluoedd o Wcráin a orfodwyd i adael popeth ar ôl ymosodiad Rwsia, a Hong Kongiaid yn ceisio lloches rhag erledigaeth wleidyddol.

Mae’r cyfan bellach yn galw Cymru’n gartref, gan ei gweld fel Cenedl Noddfa — lle diogel i’w teuluoedd.

Mae’r prosiect wedi cipio hanesion llafar, portreadau, deunyddiau archif, fideos, modelau 3D, a ffilmiau 360° trochi.

Mae’r arddangosfa’n cyfuno dulliau traddodiadol gyda chyfryngau trochi. Yn ogystal â’r baneri printiedig, rydym yn cynnwys profiad trochi 360° o ddiwylliant byd-eang a’r oriel gelf VR sy’n arddangos gweithiau celf a phortreadau fideo o gyfranogwyr y prosiect, wedi’u creu gan blant ysgol.

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