Jannat Ahmed is co-founder and co-editor of Lucent Dreaming magazine and press. She was born and grew up in Barry. She has taught creative writing, digital publishing and film with Cardiff University. 

Manon Awst is a Welsh artist who creates sculptures, performances and site-specific artworks woven with ecological narratives. From the patterns of peatlands to the textures of the intertidal zone, she explores ways in which materials stick to and transform locations and communities. She was recently granted a Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award and is currently a Future Wales Fellow as part of Arts Council Wales and Natural Resources Wales’ Creative Nature programme. She lives in Caernarfon and regularly holds workshops and curated events in her local community. 

Right to Roam: Nadia Shaikh and Jon Moses

Nadia Shaikh is a naturalist and ornithologist, she has spent most of her career working for nature conservation organisations. She is currently the co-director of the Right to Roam Campaign and her work is focused on how connection to land is vital for reversing biodiversity decline. She leads The Raven Network, a group for people of colour who work in nature conservation who are looking at decolonizing the sector.  

Dr Jonathan Moses is a national campaigner with Right to Roam and a writer on ecology on land justice. He has written reportage, features, profiles and commentary on environmental issues for a range of publications including The Guardian, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Great Outdoors and The Lead. He joined the Right to Roam campaign in 2021 after completing a PhD in GeoHumanities. He is co-editor of Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You. 

George H. Wale is an artist and designer from Abergavenny working with textiles, sculpture, performance and costume design. Their practice engages with ideas surrounding identity, belonging, materiality and the porosity of the body in its connection to landscape and made environments. George’s work has been platformed by organisations such as g39, Green Man Festival and National Dance Company Wales, with recent exhibitions including the group show ‘We Ran Together— a response’ at g39, Cardiff, supported by Artangel. George also has an established practice as a costume designer for contemporary dance, working with renowned choreographers and companies, with costume works touring nationally and internationally to leading institutions and festivals of dance. 

Beverley Bennett is an artist-filmmaker whose work revolves around the possibilities of drawing, performance and collaboration. Her practice is connected to multiple ways of making. The first of these is a concern with the importance of ‘gatherings’ to denote a methodology that differs from the more hierarchical model of the workshop; one person leading and sharing information with participants taking part in the activities. Instead 'gatherings' are cyclical, whereby everyone learns from each other and often formulate in myriad ways, from reading together to gathering at a party. This has created a 'tapestry of voices', an interweaving of communalities and differences that provide a broader view, an important part of amplifying intergenerational relationships. The second is an investigation of The Archive (often beginning projects by creating / adding to an extensive personal archive of interviews, using them for preliminary research and experimentation) and the third is collaboration. This is frequently through socially political work with other creatives, fine artists, community members, young children and their families. Her practice provides spaces for participants to become collaborators and provides a point of focus from where to unpick ideas around what constitutes an art practice and for whom art is generated.