Your Space
Day 18: Your Space
Welsh translation: Eich lle
Hi, we’re Zesty’s Collective – a group of queer people in Nottingham putting on events (craft afternoons, creative workshops and meets) for other LGBTQIA+ and questioning people. Each event holds queerness at heart, away from loudness, nightlife, and a need for spending.
The ‘your space’ activity is a recurring one in Zesty’s creative workshops and crafty afternoons. Through it, we want to reflect on and celebrate the different beings (our mentors/pets/chosen or blood family), places (your local LGBTQIA+ friendly bar), and items (the piece of clothing or a book) that bring us joy and make us…us.
As LGBTQIA+ people, the spaces we’re in might not always be representative of us, so this activity works nicely to not only pay homage to what is important to us, but also prompt us to think about spaces we wish existed so that together we can make these reality.
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Helo, Zesty’s Collective ydyn ni – grŵp o bobl cwiar yn Nottingham sy’n cynnal digwyddiadau (prynhawniau crefft, gweithdai creadigol a chyfleoedd i gyfarfod) i bobl LHDTQIA+ a phobl eraill sy’n cwestiynu eu rhywioldeb. Mae cwiaredd yn ganolog i bob digwyddiad, y tu hwnt i sŵn, bywyd nos a’r angen i wario.
https://www.instagram.com/zestyscollective/?hl=en
Do
Imagine a space you can call your own, it has four walls, a floor and a ceiling – what would this look like for you?
Today’s challenge is to craft that space to life!
To create your 3D ‘space’, you could: .. dig through your recycling for a small box to work on .. have a look for a cube net online to copy onto paper .. find any other container at home to temporarily (or permanently!) use to craft your ‘space’ .. create the container from materials like clay or plasticine .. or if you’d like to work 2D, simply divide a piece of paper into six to represent the walls, floor and ceiling of the ‘space’
You can cut and stick, draw, embroider, paint, write on or sculpt your ‘space’ – whatever is handy to you.
Dychmygwch ofod y gallwch ei berchnogi, mae ganddo bedair wal, llawr a nenfwd – sut olwg fyddai ar y gofod hwn yn eich dychymyg chi? Her heddiw yw dod â’r gofod yn fyw! I greu eich ‘gofod’ 3D, gallwch: .. gloddio drwy’r pentwr ailgylchu am flwch bach i weithio arno .. edrych am dempled ciwb ar-lein i’w gopïo ar bapur .. ddod o hyd i gynhwysydd yn eich cartref i’w ddefnyddio dros dro (neu am byth!) i greu eich ‘gofod’ .. greu cynhwysydd o ddeunyddiau fel clai neu plasticine .. neu os hoffech weithio’n 2D, rhannwch ddarn o bapur yn chwech i gynrychioli waliau, llawr a nenfwd y ‘gofod’ Gallwch dorri a gludo, arlunio, brodio, paentio, ysgrifennu neu gerflunio eich ‘gofod’ – beth bynnag sy’n gweithio i chi.
Think
While you’re making your ‘space’, think about your favourite items, views, beings and places that you would fill your space with to make it truly feel like your own.
Elements of the ‘space’ could be resembling your best friends garden, your bedroom from 10 years ago or a future communal living space.
It can be completely put together from small elements that bring you joy, each wall representing a different area of your life.
Your ‘space’ can be full to the brim or just have a few things in.
Wrth i chi greu eich ‘gofod’, meddyliwch am eich hoff eitemau, golygfeydd, pobl, anifeiliaid a llefydd y byddech yn llenwi’ch gofod â nhw i chi allu teimlo’n wirioneddol gartrefol yno. Gall elfennau o’ch ‘gofod’ fod yn debyg i ardd eich ffrind gorau, eich ystafell wely 10 mlynedd yn ôl, neu ofod byw cymunedol y dyfodol. Gall fod wedi ei greu’n llwyr o elfennau bach sy’n dod â llawenydd, gyda phob wal yn cynrychioli rhannau gwahanol o’ch bywyd. Gall eich ‘gofod’ fod yn llawn dop neu gynnwys ambell beth yn unig. Eich dewis chi hefyd yw penderfynu os hoffech gadw’r gofod yn breifat, gan weithio ar y tu mewn a’i ludo/sticio at ei gilydd fel ei fod ar eich cyfer chi yn unig. Neu gallech chi dorri ambell ffenest yn y waliau, fel bod eraill yn gallu sbecian i mewn.
Share
If you’re making on your own, your ‘space’ could become a simple windowsill item to remind you of the things you hold as important.
If a specific person or place features in your ‘space’, why not WhatsApp the person your creation or tag the place on socials?
If you’re making together in a group, your multiple ‘spaces’ could become a village, even a city – you could find other items to make into paths, trees and hills to connect your ‘spaces’ together.
Tag @zestyscollective on Instagram in your photos – we’d love to see your makes!
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Os ydych chi’n creu ar eich pen eich hun, gall eich ‘gofod’ droi’n eitem sil ffenest syml i’ch atgoffa o’r pethau sy’n bwysig i chi. Os oes person neu le penodol yn ymddangos yn eich ‘gofod’, beth am anfon eich creadigaeth at y person dros Whatsapp neu dagio’r lle ar y cyfryngau cymdeithasol? Os ydych chi’n creu ar y cyd mewn grŵp, gall eich ‘gofodau’ lluosog droi’n bentref, neu hyd yn oed yn ddinas – gallech ddod o hyd i eitemau eraill i greu llwybrau, coed a bryniau er mwyn cysylltu eich ‘gofodau’. Tagiwch @zestyscollective ar Instagram yn eich lluniau – bydden ni wrth ein bodd yn gweld eich creadigaethau! Fel pobl LHDTQIA+, dyw pob gofod ddim yn ein cynrychioli, felly mae’r gweithgaredd hwn yn gweithio’n dda nid yn unig i dalu teyrnged i’r hyn sy’n bwysig i ni, ond hefyd i’n hannog i feddwl am ofodau y bydden ni’n falch petaen nhw’n bodoli, a dechrau eu troi’n realiti.
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