Lates / Hwyrnos

Join us for the launch of Chopsy, the new book from Maya Jordan AND Gentle as Moss on Stone, a new award winning short film from boredomresearch

FREE, but booking essential, donations welcome.

Doors 6pm

Film screening 6.30pm

Book launch 7.30pm

Chopsy is a memoir like no other – a gut-wrenchingly powerful, yet frequently funny account of a life spent defying the prejudice and inequality faced by working-class women.

Maya Jordan’s ambition and resilience was born in the library and nourished by the Open University – through poverty, early motherhood, precarious housing, caring responsibilities and chronic disability – to a point where she finally seized her right to write.

'Funny as hell and full of fight. Maya’s voice is the real deal' Daisy May Cooper


Maya Jordan was selected by A Writing Chance, a programme launched by actor and writer Michael Sheen with New Writing North, to support working-class and under-represented writers. Her work has been performed by Sheen for BBC Radio Wales’s Margins to Mainstream and was highlighted by him in a recent TEDx Talk Levelling the Cultural Playing Field.

Image photo credit: NICOLA JORDAN

Blending realism with fantasy, Gentle as Moss on Stone, presents a poetic exploration of resilience, vulnerability, and the unseen connections between human emotions and the natural world. Developed through workshops with neurodiverse students at Newtown College, the film animates fictional mosses that embody remedies for the young people’s fears and anxieties. Inspired by the often-overlooked complexity of moss, an organism both fragile and tenacious, the film offers a meditative reflection on emotional and ecological wellbeing. As scientific research continues to uncover the potential medicinal benefits of moss, boredomresearch invites audiences to consider its quiet, enduring presence as both metaphor and possibility. This film was commissioned as part of the Natur Am Byth! project by Natural Resources Wales and in partnership with Plantlife.

We are excited to learn about boredomresearchs' processes and techniques in a brief Q&A after the film screening.

boredomresearch, is a collaboration between British artists Vicky Isley and Paul Smith, established in 1999. Their art projects combine speculative biology and poetic narrative to examine the interconnected health of humans and the planet, addressing urgent environmental themes through poetic and imaginative means. In their practice they use 3D game, animation and film tools to present biological insights and creative speculations that encourage us to understand ourselves and our environment from a different perspective. www.boredomresearch.net

photo credit: The New Forest National Park Authority, 2025