Valley and Vale Community Arts' dance development worker, Issie Lloyd leads a dance workshop 'Soul Train' with the one and only Yami (aka 'Rowdy'). Read More

This short film was made by young people in our 2011 Summer Arts College which we facilitated in partnership with Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot Youth Offending Teams. As part of the project the young people created this rap by writing their own parts of the song, working with rap worker Jason Camileri and filmed by Tracy Palland and Amy Peckham. Read More

RWE npower at Aberthaw approached Valley and Vale Community Arts to create artwork for its new ACE2 Education Centre. The aim was to engage local people and begin greater dialogue between them and the Power Station. We devised three Community Arts projects addressing issues of energy; we involved around 100 people of all ages and resulted in two… Read More

In Ethiopia the Meskel Ceremony (The Founding of the True Cross) is one of the most colourfully celebrated occasions for Ethiopian Orthodox Christians, but nowhere more so than in the Guraghe region of Ethiopia. This documentary explores the tradition. Read More

Valley and Vale worked with women from Bridgend Women’s Aid and The Genesis Project during this project. The group of women worked through a process of sharing their experiences and devising dramatic scenes based around their own stories. We worked with them to create a script which we then filmed with the group and they directed and assisted. Read More

Interviews with the cast and crew of Bend it Like Betws. The movie was shot during snow blizzards in Betws and follows the story of Lily, a 10 year old girl who loves football. Her dad is the Under 12’s Coach and the local Ice-Cream Man and has old-fashioned ideas; he doesn’t think that girls would be interested in or any good at playing football.… Read More

This short film shows excerpts from Pretty Ugly, a devised forum theatre play that was created by our Bridgend Community Youth Theatre group in 2010, working with our Drama Development Worker Alyson Evans. This thought-provoking production toured around the Bridgend area in a sell-out programme for Anti-Bullying week during November 15th provided… Read More

In January 2011 Valley and Vale Community Arts took part in an evening of film, dance and the spoken word to explore the untold stories of the Holocaust at The Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. This short showreel of the night aims to give you a flavour of the event, which explored untold stories of young and older people in the Bridgend area, exploring t… Read More

Digital Stories Training Workshop Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A collection of short films exploring the lives and experiences of individuals in Addis Ababa. Facilitated by Valley and Vale Community Arts. This Digital Stories film project was made as part of our International Development programme, working with The Ethiopian Gemini Trust and GEM TV in A… Read More

On the night of 10th-11th March 1945, Seventy German prisoners tunnelled to freedom from Camp 198 in Bridgend. It was the biggest escape attempt made by German P.O.W.s in Great Britain during the Second World War. This film tells the story of the German P.O.W Camp at Island Farm in Bridgend and was screened at the Holocaust Memorial events in Bridg… Read More