Mirror I: The Sea
Sammy Lee and Sarah Shin
Friday 4th November (4pm - 7pm) + Saturday 5th November (10am - 5pm)
Porthkerry Park Forest Lodge, Barry
Commissioned by SWAY, writer Sarah Shin and artist Sammy Lee have collaboratively created Mirror I: The Sea, the prologue to a video game drawing upon water symbolism, dreams and speculative mysticism. // Wedi’u comisiynu gan SWAY, mae’r sgwennwr Sarah Shin a’r artist Sammy Lee wedi cydweithio i greu Drych I: Y Môr, rhagymadrodd i gêm fideo sy’n archwilio symboliaeth dŵr, breuddwydion a chyfriniaeth ddamcaniaethol.
Weekend Programme
Friday 30 September - Sunday 2 October, Chapter
As part of Call the Waves, you’re invited to join a three-day programme of workshops, performances and talks with artists Alia Mossallam, Fern Thomas, Kandace Siobhan Walker, Maya Al Khaldi and Noureddine Ezarraf, and curators Francesca Masoero, Louise Hobson and Shayma Nader. Taking inspiration from the many ways in which the exhibition summons water, this programme delves into the songs, stories, histories and futures of the artists, musicians and historians in Call the Waves.
Friday 30 September
In this full weekend of events, we’ll begin in Chapter Gallery on Friday 30 September at 6pm for a guided walk through of the exhibition with the Call the Waves curators, Louise Hobson, Shayma Nader and Francesca Masoero. Together they’ll talk through the development of the exhibition and introduce the artists, musicians and historians drawn together in this international group exhibition.
Saturday 1 October
The next day, Saturday 1 October, we begin with a weaving and storytelling workshop from Kandace Siobhan Walker at 10am. Join a small group to learn the basic techniques of weaving a small fishing net, as we listen to Geechee folk stories.
On Saturday afternoon, at 2pm, the first of a two-part storytelling workshop with Alia Mossallam begins. In a small group, we’ll spend time with the various archives Alia shares in Rawy al-Anhar, to explore how the Nubian people resisted displacement and how a story can be re-told through archives and water.
On Saturday evening, at 6pm, the day is rounded off by a talk from artist Noureddine Ezarraf, who will share an introduction to his practice and talk through a brief history on the politics of water in rural Morocco, exploring the connected impacts on time, rituals and social relationships.
Sunday 2 October
On the final day, Sunday 2 October, we’ll return to the second part of Alia Mossallam’s two-part workshop, which will begin at 10am. To close the weekend, Maya Al Khaldi will share an intimate performance and learning circle with just eight people. Book now to join Maya in learning the songs she has reassembled in sing for them to see, learnt from the Maqam keeper of Maqam al-Nabi Ayoub - a shrine situated near a spring of the same name in the village of Ras Karkar in Palestine.
All events are individually ticketed and free for everyone. Join in at chapter.org and share your moments through #CTWWeekend #PenwythnosCTW
Water, land and borders
- a response from Jannat Ahmed
In May 2022, Angela YT Chan hosted a walk and talk which explored the shoreline as a site to consider colonial climate histories and presents, and the connected struggles of displacement and migration in a world of border building.
We invited Jannat Ahmed - Barry based writer, co-founder and editor-in-chief at Lucent Dreaming - to join this walk and write a response to the conversations shared. Jannat has written a letter to Angela.
Water, land and borders
- a walk + talk with Angela YT Chan
On Saturday 28 May 2022 artist and researcher Angela YT Chan hosted a walk and talk which explored the shoreline as a site to consider colonial climate histories and presents, and the connected struggles of displacement and migration in a world of border building. We met at low tide, when we can observe both downstream trickles of water into the sea and the sea’s waves returning back to the shore - an ongoing shaping and remaking of the porous borders between land and water.






Cloudy Waters
A low tide walk with Dr Sindia Sosdian
On Saturday 16 April 2022 Dr Sindia Sosdian hosted a guided walk exploring Barry’s hyper-tidal coastline, and the possibilities created by the cloudy waters of our turbid coastal environment. If you’ve spent time at one of Barry’s beaches, you’ll know that the water is usually quite cloudy (almost opaque sometimes) and on this walk, Sindia Sosdian discussed the coastal processes at play in these dynamic waters







