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Dyddiau Du, Capitol Centre, Queen Street, Cardiff (2026)

27/03/2026

Ending/Beginning

Dyddiau Du started as a small library, by two buds Rey & Joshua, with a few bookshelves and a table, and grew into a community arts centre in the centre of Cardiff run by LGBTQ+ and Disabled folk.

We hosted exhibitions, book launches, open mics, creative workshops, and offered a welcoming space for anyone to drop by, have a tea or just be, in the heart of a semi-abandoned shopping centre.

We’ve been quiet for some time, and now looking back and reflecting on our years of events, we’re announcing the closure of Dyddiau Du as it was. Moving, eviction and burnout showed us we couldn’t give Dyddiau Du in its current form the energy it needed – but we want to leave it with gratitude for everyone who was part of it with us.

Now, Dyddiau Du is evolving into Dyddiau Du Press – an experimental publishing project celebrating Welsh and weird art and literature often overlooked by mainstream publishing. With our books and furniture now tucked in the back of g39, we’ll focus on zines, print ephemera, our Substack journal, and eventually full-length books.

Rey is stepping away to focus on his art and garden in Y Fenni. Joshua Jones, now in Pontypridd, and Ginny Darke are Dyddiau Du Press.

The library won’t be publicly accessible in the new space, but will instead be an artist research resource. We’re looking forward to working alongside g39’s own library and exploring how this new environment can shape our practice and collaborations with fellow artists and writers.

To follow the next phase, we have a brand-spanking new website and Instagram – we’ll be sharing work, opening submissions and releasing our publications there.

This old instagram will remain as an archive, a celebration of everything Dyddiau Du achieved together.

Follow us , , & , to keep up to date with absolutely everything we’re up to!

Finally, please continue to support and donate to Rey’s top surgery fundraiser as you can, as there’s still significant costs Rey will need to cover. More details on the GoFundMe page. Link in bio.

More soon. We’re just getting started.

08/11/2025

Huge thanks to everyone who came along to the first edition of Walls Have Teeth! Really appreciate all who've shared, told their friends, turned up.

Here's some pics of our readers -- huge 'ove to for coming over from Mexico City, Lawrence Kansas and ... Bristol.

Didn't get any pics of the films because am an idiot, sorry guys. But huge huge thanks to for screening your brilliant films with us.

And thank you for letting us use the cinema space! We haven't got funding or anything to run events like this so we really appreciate g39 offering us their space.

See ya at the next one folks!

And as DD slowly wakes up from its sleepy slumber, I'll post more about our new space, the direction we're heading in, etc :)

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05/11/2025

DYDDIAU DU PRESENTS:

WALLS HAVE TEETH VOL.1
A night of readings & short film screenings in g39’s cinema room!

FEATURED FILM NO.4 - Where Does One State End and the Other Begin? By Howl&Jones

Howl (they/he) is a visual, written and sound artist based in Cardiff. They study patterns and cycles – light and dark – with a focus on subtle experiences like deep listening, spiritual and elemental exploration. They are also one of the directors of Lone Worlds

Joshua Jones (he/him) is a q***r, disabled writer & artist from Llanelli, South Wales. Local Fires, (Parthian, 2023) was shortlisted for a number of awards including the 2024 Dylan Thomas Prize. He has published various pamphlets of poetry and zines, most recently I AM A MAN AT WORK (g39, 2025).

Howl&Jones is a collaborative project that incorporates visuals, sound and video.

Where Does One State End and the other Begin?, by Joshua Jones and scored by Howl, was shot on a phone when Joshua was touring the US alongside Andrew Gnade and Andrew Hykel Mears. A series of static shots from trains, cars, motels, the desert, farmland, Where… is a quiet, poetic meditation on long-distance travelling, nature, collaboration and male friendship.

Readings from —
Adam Gnade (US)
Nate Perkins (US)
Andrew Hykel Mears (UK)

Short films from —
Tom Cardew
Ruby Smith Brown
Durre Shahwar + Kandace Siobhan Walker
& Howl&Jones

Books for sale + distro from Bread & Roses Press!

6pm doors, aiming for a 9pm finish, get down early!

BYOB and entirely free, but please buy some books or donate some cash to Adam and Nate’s touring fund.

More info on the readers & films featured coming soon! and if all goes well, maybe this will become a semi-regular thing 😏

.receiver

02/11/2025

DYDDIAU DU PRESENTS:

WALLS HAVE TEETH VOL.1 - THIS WEEK!!

A night of readings & short film screenings in g39’s cinema room!

Comment if you're planning on coming!

FEATURED READERS POST
Check the comments for bios ✍️

Readings from —
Adam Gnade (US)
Nate Perkins (US)
Andrew Hykel Mears (UK)

Short films from —
Tom Cardew
Ruby Smith Brown
Durre Shahwar + Kandace Siobhan Walker
& Joshua Jones

Books for sale + distro from Bread & Roses Press!

6pm doors, aiming for a 9pm finish, get down early!

BYOB and entirely free, but please buy some books or donate some cash to Adam and Nate’s touring fund.

More info on the readers & films featured coming soon! and if all goes well, maybe this will become a semi-regular thing 😏

Swipe to the end for some pics of when JJ, Adam & Andrew were last together 🖤

.receiver .hubbard

30/10/2025

DYDDIAU DU PRESENTS:

WALLS HAVE TEETH VOL.1

A night of readings & short film screenings in g39’s cinema room!

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FEATURED FILM NO.3 - GATHERING

Gathering explores the ways in which people of colour define and create their identities within nature, and the safe spaces we all seek out in an increasingly unsafe world. A collaboration between Durre Shahwar and Kandace Siobhan Walker, who are both writers and artists, it brings together poetics fragments, thoughts, conversations, and film footage accumulating in a video diary montage that invites the audience to consider the themes of identity, belonging, landscape, place-attachment, and memory.

Durre & Kandace's bios in the comments!

Readings from —
Adam Gnade (US)
Nate Perkins (US)
Andrew Hykel Mears (UK)

Short films from —
Tom Cardew
Ruby Smith Brown
Durre Shahwar + Kandace Siobhan Walker
& Joshua Jones

Books for sale + distro from Bread & Roses Press!

6pm doors, aiming for a 9pm finish, get down early!

BYOB and entirely free, but please buy some books or donate some cash to Adam and Nate’s touring fund.

More info on the readers & films featured coming soon! and if all goes well, maybe this will become a semi-regular thing 😏

Footage from Joshua Jones' film, 'When Does One State End and the Other Begin?', music from the film's score by .hubbard /

.receiver .hubbard

27/10/2025

DYDDIAU DU PRESENTS:

WALLS HAVE TEETH VOL.1

A night of readings & short film screenings in g39’s cinema room!

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FEATURED FILM NO.2 -- Machynys Forgets Itself by Tom Cardew

Tom Cardew is a Welsh artist and writer based in Cardiff. He makes films, installations and performances that drift between superstition, reconstructed memory and the social structures of the present. He is interested in how language, belief and memory persist through societal collapse, how stories endure, mutate and refuse to die even when the societies, communities and places that made them disappear. His approach is collaborative and often site-specific, working with performers, translators and communities to explore the porous edge between past and future.

Machynys Forgets Itself is a film about place, memory, and transformation, tracing the layered histories of a small peninsula on the edge of Llanelli, South Wales. Once the site of a sixth-century monastic settlement and later a major centre of tinplate production, Machynys was home to a working-class community until its demolition in the 1970s. Today it has been remade as a golf course, spa, and gated housing estate: a landscape overwritten by successive regimes of faith, industry, and capital.

The film reimagines these shifting strata of time through an absurdist lens, creating an anachronistic atmosphere where history and the present collide.

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Readings from —
Adam Gnade (US)
Nate Perkins (US)
Andrew Hykel Mears

Short films from —
Tom Cardew
Ruby Smith Brown
Durre Shahwar + Kandace Siobhan Walker
& Howl&Jones

Books for sale + distro from Bread & Roses Press!

6pm doors, aiming for a 9pm finish, get down early!

BYOB, entirely free, please buy some books or donate some cash to Adam and Nate’s touring fund.

More info on the readers & films featured coming soon! and if all goes well, maybe this will become a semi-regular thing 😏

.receiver .hubbard

24/10/2025

DYDDIAU DU PRESENTS:

WALLS HAVE TEETH VOL.1

A night of readings & short film screenings in g39’s cinema room!

~~~ FEATURED FILM POST NO.1 ~~~

Water Into Wine by Ruby Smith-Brown

Water Into Wine is a Welsh language experimental film exploring addiction amongst young people. A young woman awakes in a dream world, in which her alcoholism surrounds her and as she is confronted by her addiction, she realises her connections to childhood, heritage and language may offer her an escape.

Ruby Smith-Brown is a Welsh writer and director, whose work falls within experimental and poetic fiction film. In form and theme, her work focuses on landscape and language, and the point at which these collide. Water Into Wine is her first film, with her next film due to be released in December - a BFI and Chapter Arts Centre funded Welsh language micro-short.

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Readings from —
Adam Gnade (US)
Nate Perkins (US)
Andrew Hykel Mears (UK)

Short films from —
Tom Cardew
Ruby Smith Brown
Durre Shahwar + Kandace Siobhan Walker
& Joshua Jones

Books for sale + distro from Bread & Roses Press!

6pm doors, aiming for a 9pm finish, get down early!

BYOB and entirely free, but please buy some books or donate some cash to Adam and Nate’s touring fund.

More info on the readers & films featured coming soon! and if all goes well, maybe this will become a semi-regular thing 😏

Footage from Joshua Jones' film, 'When Does One State End and the Other Begin?', music from the film's score by .hubbard /

.receiver .hubbard

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