In June 2021 Taliesin, in partnership with the Dhaka Lit Fest in Bangladesh, hosted Everything Change, an online series exploring how creativity and adaptive thinking might help overcome the challenges of the climate and ecological crises. The events, all with a global south/global north perspective, focused on seven key areas: Money, Food, Water, Energy, Justice, Story and Change itself.

A writers’ lab of 3 Welsh and 3 Bangladeshi writers immersed themselves in the conversations of Everything Change. Join us now a year later and six months after COP 26, to hear to what they learnt, discuss their responses and watch what they wrote. Chaired by Swansea University Prof in Creativity Owen Sheers and Director of Dhaka Lit Fest Sadaf Saaz.

Alys Conran
The Changing Days
A beautifully resonant animated short story about a mother keeping to her routines at the edge of climate collapse, by one of Wales’ most exciting and brilliant authors.

Kaiser Haq
The New Frontier
A dry, unflinching poetic reflection by one of Bangladesh’s most significant poets on what it means to be human in the 21st century in a maelstrom of social media, a heating world and global inequality.

This event is the first of three talks live at Taliesin with livestream from Bangladesh.

Everything Change: Writing Change – Marvin Thomspon, Abeer Hoque (Friday 17 June, 7pm)
Everything Change: Writing Change – Saad Z Hossain, Carys Eleri (Thursday 30 June, 6pm)