Local Arts
Valley and Vale Community Arts is based in an old chapel in the ex- mining village of Betws, South Wales. We have been working in South Wales since 1981. We came into the Garw Valley to work with the local community during the miners' strikes in the 1980's, offering Community Arts as an effective way for local people to document their lives at a time of huge socio-economic change.
We prioritise working with people and communities who are often marginalised, vulnerable or at risk. A large part of this work takes place under our Local Arts Programme, where we work with the local community in our village of Betws, throughout the Garw Valley and further across the communities of the Bridgend Borough.
This is grassroots Community Arts work, using Community Arts to bring people and communities together, and as such is an essential part of what we do. We work locally but think globally, bringing our local communities together with people from other communities and countries to share creativity and learn from each other.
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