It’s your last chance to see Nina Thomas’ work in our café bar.
In The Broken Speaker, Nina works with captioning and silent film to explore speech, voice and silence, situating these within Deaf and disabled historical contexts.
Throughout the work, she expands captioning both within and beyond the frame, and you’ll see the captions move onto our café bar walls. She’s chosen to caption breath and hesitation – elements often omitted in traditional captioning. Rather than treated as a failure of communication, they become meaningful in their own right. Breath occupies the space between us. Nina explores instances of uncertainty and interdependence in her work, and searches for moments of shared understanding.
About the artist
Nina Thomas is an artist; her work often explores captioning as a creative medium. Nina is profoundly deaf and has worked for many years to advocate for change in the cultural sector, working with cultural venues to improve accessibility. She was a trustee of the charity Stagetext, a founding member of The Film Bunch (a deaf and hard-of-hearing film organisation). As an artist, Nina has exhibited at venues such as LUX, British Ceramics Biennial, The Crypt Gallery (NW1), Liberty Festival 2022, Tate Exchange (Tate Modern, London) and OVADA (Oxford).
📷 @danweillphotography
Dyma’ch cyfle olaf i weld gwaith Nina Thomas yn ein caffi bar.
Yn The Broken Speaker, mae Nina’n gweithio gyda chapsiynau a ffilmiau mud fel ei chyfrwng i archwilio lleferydd, llais a thawelwch, gan osod y rhain mewn cyd-destunau hanesyddol Byddar ac anabl.
Drwy ei gwaith, mae’n ehangu capsiynau yn y ffrâm a’r tu hwnt iddi; byddwch yn gweld y capsiynau’n symud i waliau’r caffi bar. Mae hi wedi dewis capsiynu anadlu ac oedi yn bwrpasol – elfennau sy’n aml yn cael eu gadael o gapsiynau traddodiadol – yn hytrach na’u trin fel methiant cyfathrebu, yma maen nhw’n dod yn ystyrlon yn eu rhinwedd eu hunain. Anadl yn llenwi’r gofod rhyngon ni. Mae Nina yn rhoi sylw i ansicrwydd a rhyngddibyniaeth yn ei gwaith, ac yn chwilio am eiliadau o gyd-ddealltwriaeth.
Mae hi’n wythnos y #CynnigCymraeg!
Gallwch sgwrs a ysgrifennu gyda ni yn Gymraeg drwy’r flwyddyn. Chwiliwch am y bathodyn neu’r laniard Iaith Gwaith. 👋
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It’s #CynnigCymraeg week!
You can chat and write with us in Welsh all year round, just look out for the Iaith Gwaith badge or lanyard. 👋
Creating for Wales’ arts & music scene is something that I feel most proud of as a freelancer ❤️🏴 One project in particular has been rebranding Chapter Arts Centre’s Caffi & Bar - Chapter Eats.
It always feels great popping into Chapter and spotting the team using the brand system and illustrations themselves for their promotional materials. Seeing something in action always feels truly fulfilling 🫶☕️
@chapter_eats@chapterartscentre
Food and drink photography for Chapter taken by @http.margaux
#chapterartscentre #welsharts #welshfreelance #welshartists
Acquisition Ongoing: Carbon Age Souvenirs by Lu Williams will be the next installation in our café from 29 May – 29 August.
Using posters and zine templates, Lu invites you to contribute to an evolving installation imagining what the world might look like hundreds of years from now.
Join us for the opening celebration on Friday 29 May from 6–8pm. You can make magnet relics, add to the artwork and get a temporary tattoo! Free to drop in.
Lu (@LuWilliamsdotcom ) is an artist working across sculpture, print, zines and socially engaged projects. Their practice explores social history, labour and accessibility through the lens of queerness, neurodivergence and working-class experience.
Commissioned by @ArcadeCampfa in partnership with Chapter.
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Acquisition Ongoing: Carbon Age Souvenirs gan Lu Williams fydd y gosodwaith nesaf yn ein caffi o 29 Mai i 29 Awst.
Gan ddefnyddio templedi cylchgronau a phosteri, mae Lu yn eich gwahodd i gyfrannu at osodwaith esblygol sy’n dychmygu sut olwg allai fod ar y byd mewn cannoedd o flynyddoedd.
Ymunwch â ni yn y dathliad agoriadol nos Wener 29 Mai 6–8pm. Gallwch greu creiriau magnet, ychwanegu at y gwaith celf, a chael tatŵ dros dro! Galwch heibio am ddim.
Artist sy’n gweithio ar draws cerflunwaith, print, cylchgronau a phrosiectau cymdeithasol yw Lu Williams. Mae eu harfer yn archwilio hanes cymdeithasol, llafur, a hygyrchedd drwy lens cwiardod, niwroamrywiaeth, a phrofiad dosbarth gweithiol.
Comisiynwyd gan Arcade Campfa mewn partneriaeth â Chapter.
Book Club deadline is tomorrow, haven’t opened the cover 📕 🫠
Luckily, Canton has everything I need to keep me fuelled and get through this book. ☕️ 🍺 🍕 📖
We’re making some changes to our opening hours
This year we turn 55, and we want to thank you, our loyal audiences, neighbours and friends for your support – you’re the people who truly make us!
As we look ahead to another vibrant year of exhibitions, performances, films and events, we also need to make some difficult decisions. This includes adjusting our opening hours.
As a charity, we receive some funding from the Arts Council of Wales, but over 90% of our income comes from ticket sales, room hires, our café bar and donations. Like many arts venues and hospitality spaces, rising costs and changing audience habits mean we’ve had to make some changes to reduce our expenditure.
Every visit, ticket, coffee or donation helps support our creative and community work, so we can look forward to seeing you at Chapter for many more years to come.
Visit our website to find out more.
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Rydyn ni’n gwneud newidiadau i’n horiau agor
Rydyn ni’n troi’n 55 oed eleni, a hoffem ddiolch i’n cynulleidfaoedd, ein cymdogion a’n cyfeillion – chi yw’r bobl sy’n ein cynnal ni!
Wrth i ni edrych ymlaen at flwyddyn arall o arddangosfeydd, perfformiadau, ffilmiau a digwyddiadau, mae angen i ni hefyd wneud penderfyniadau anodd. Mae hyn yn cynnwys addasu ein horiau gweithredu.
Fel elusen, rydyn ni’n cael rhywfaint o gyllid gan Gyngor Celfyddydau Cymru, ond mae dros 90% o’n hincwm yn dod o werthu tocynnau, llogi ystafelloedd, y caffi bar, a rhoddion. Fel llawer o leoliadau celfyddydol a lletygarwch, mae costau cynyddol a newid yn arferion cynulleidfaoedd yn golygu ein bod ni’n gwneud newidiadau yma.
Mae pob ymweliad, tocyn, coffi a rhodd yn helpu i gefnogi ein gwaith creadigol a chymunedol, ac rydyn ni’n edrych ymlaen i’ch gweld chi yn Chapter am flynyddoedd lawer i ddod.
Ewch i’n gwefan i ddysgu mwy.
Diolch i bawb a ymunodd â’n penwythnos o ddathlu! 🏴🌼
Gyda diolch i Gronfa Dydd Gŵyl Dewi @Llywodraeth .
🎥 @jakerowles
Diolch to everyone who joined our weekend of celebrations! 🏴🌼
With thanks to the @WelshGovernment St David’s Day fund.
🍕 Good vibes, great pizza
Canton’s favourite West Pizza, can be delivered straight to your table at our café bar every Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday evening.*
Hot, fresh, and delivered by hand – the perfect way to enjoy a slice, while supporting a brilliant business on our doorstep.
Come grab a slice and show some local love!
*Tuesday & Wednesday 6–8.30pm and Sunday 5–8.30pm
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🍕 Noson dda, gyda pizza da
Mae un o ffefrynnau Treganna West Pizza ar gael i’w gludo’n syth i’ch bwrdd yn ein caffi bar bob nos Sul, nos Fawrth a nos Fercher. *
Pizza poeth, ffres, wedi’i gludo â llaw – y ffordd berffaith i fwynhau sleisen a chefnogi busnes bendigedig ar garreg ein drws.
Dewch i fachu sleisen a dangos cariad at fusnesau lleol!
*nos Fawrth a nos Fercher 6–8.30pm a nos Sul 5–8.30pm
Coffee so good, you’ll want to kiss it ☕️💋
Find @hardlinescoffee Hard For You at @chapterartscentre 💕
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Coffi mor dda y byddwch eisiau ei gusanu ☕️💋
Dewch o hyd i Hardlines Hard For You yn Chapter 💕
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda pawb! We’re back for our annual Burns Evening haunt at @chapterartscentre . Join us for an evening of dancing, laughter and haggis. This year the event is being ticketed, and has sold out HOWEVER there will apparently be some tickets kept for the door, so if you’re keen to get involved get yourselves down early to bag a spot. We can’t wait!
We’re looking for an experienced leader to join us as Chair, working with our co-directors, trustees and staff to centre our community across all the work we do.
You’ll help shape our vision, raise our profile as an international arts centre, and support a sustainable future for everyone.
🔗 See the recruitment pack via the link in our bio, under 'Careers and opportunities'.
We’re also holding an informal, online sessions so you can find out more, ask questions and chat with some of our existing trustees. This will be held on Zoom on Tuesday 27 January, 5.30pm. Find out more on our website.
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Rydyn ni’n chwilio am arweinydd profiadol i ymuno â ni fel Cadeirydd, gan weithio gyda’n Cyd-Gyfarwyddwyr, ein hymddiriedolwyr a’n staff i osod ein cymuned yn ganolog i’r holl waith rydyn ni’n ei wneud.
Byddwch chi’n helpu i siapio ein gweledigaeth, codi ein proffil fel canolfan gelfyddydau ryngwladol, a chefnogi dyfodol cynaliadwy i bawb.
🔗 Gweler ein pecyn recriwtio drwy’r ddolen yn ein bio, o dan ‘Gyrfaoedd a chyfleoedd’.
Rydyn ni hefyd yn cynnal sesiwn anffurfiol ar-lein er mwyn i chi allu dysgu mwy, gofyn cwestiynau, a sgwrsio gyda rhai o’n hymddiriedolwyr presennol. Bydd hon yn cael ei chynnal ar Zoom ar ddydd Mawrth 27 Ionawr, 5.30yp. Dysgwch ragor ar ein gwefan.
