CEO and Artistic Director, Chapter, Cardiff

Originally from Newcastle upon Tyne, Hannah has a background in arts journalism, curation and management. She’s lived in Wales for 25 years and is currently Co-Director and Artistic Director at Chapter, Cardiff. Her achievements include curating Wales’ Venice Biennale exhibitions in 2007 and 2017, establishing Deaf Gathering Cymru festival with Deaf Gwdihŵ, and leading Chapter’s involvement in the UK-wide Assemble programme with NYT. She’s passionate about breaking down barriers to the arts, and champions community co-creation, collaboration and grassroots creativity.

CEO, Mwldan

Dilwyn has been CEO at Mwldan since 1994 and has developed the venue into one of Wales’ most dynamic arts centres. During his tenure, he has delivered a £7 million capital development project, expanded the staff team from 3 to 26 jobs, launched a record label, produced over 90 touring productions and 1,500 performances at prestigious venues worldwide, alongside building Mwldan’s programme in Aberteifi to include thousands of live performances, cinema screenings and co-producing five editions of the Other Voices festival.

Filmore!, the shapeshifting project of Irish singer, rapper, and visual artist Max Zanga, crafts immersive worlds that blur music, performance and visual art, fracturing into a daring, genre-defying approach to alternative hip-hop, hyperpop, punk and electronica. 

Celebrated as a distinct, boundary-pushing voice within the Irish alternative music scene, Filmore!’s latest work explores the deepest, most twisted depths of online culture and asks whether there’s any value left in the digital world, addressing incel culture, manosphere, misogyny, TikTok dancing to genocide and racist Twitter threads.

Rooted near Conwy in north Wales, Mared’s career has seen her combine acting with music and she won Welsh Album Of The Year 2021 for her debut Y Drefn. Since then, she has blossomed into one of Wales’ leading young musical talents, evolving into a masterful blend of folk and soul-pop. Her latest EP Everything I Left Behind blends poetic lyricism, warm acoustic textures, and bilingual storytelling, and she’s equally at home with a 7-piece band, or as here in Aberteifi, as a mesmerising solo performer.

There is a rare alchemy that occurs when Dublin’s Lemoncello (Laura Quirke and Claire Kinsella) sing together, cutting through a minimal yet dramatic soundscape driven by cyclical, finger-picked guitar and earthy, gritty cello playing. Audiences are charmed into a world of intimate observations and uncomfortable questions with irresistible chemistry, charisma, and humour, while blanketed in their unique sound - embedded in Irish folk roots, off-kilter-indie pop and contemporary classical influences. Through an intimate and devastatingly personal style of storytelling, their new album Perfect Place reflects upon the modern tension between togetherness, alienation and the chaos of human nature with radical acceptance and compassion.

Cerys Hafana is an exceptional, adventurous musician and composer who mangles, mutates and transforms traditional music into a captivating live and recorded experience. Exploring all the creative possibilities and qualities of the Welsh triple, playing with found sounds, archival materials and electronic processing, their spellbinding music is rich with atmosphere and heart, and stubbornly resistant to genre boxes and easy classification.

Artist, promoter and Film Maker

Nico Dafydd is an artist, promoter, and film maker, based in Aberteifi. A musican himself, Nico also runs iconic local label Fflach Cymunedol Cyf.

Co-Creative Director, Triongl

Gethin is Co-creative Director at Triongl, a leading Welsh film and television production company and partner in Other Voices Aberteifi. He has worked in the industry since the 1980s, producing acclaimed series and documentaries including Fideo 9, Beautiful Mistake, Y Delyn/The Harp, Festival in the Desert, Y Gwyll/Hinterland and The Miniaturist. Recent productions include two seasons of Y Golau/The Light in the Hall, broadcast on S4C, Channel 4 and Sundance Now, plus the BAFTA-nominated Other Voices Cardigan highlights for S4C and BBC Wales.

Director, Craft Fesitval Wales

Craft-obsessed Cardi Sarah James MBE is a compulsive doer, festival founder, producer, curator, podcaster, mentor, business coach and lecturer. For over 23 years, she has championed craft through multi-award-winning, not-for-profit Craft Festival, Find a Maker and The Capital of Craft Podcast. A Glasgow School of Art ceramics graduate, Sarah received an MBE for services to craft in 2023. She helps makers build sustainable businesses and creates opportunities for craft. Craft Festival Wales fulfils her dream to bring craft home.

Anna Nicoll is a Cardigan-born, Wales-based public policy and social innovation specialist, with a history degree from Cambridge and an MSc from the London School of Economics. She has worked across government, civil society and innovation, including roles with Plaid Cymru, NESTA, WCVA and the Welsh Refugee Council.

Anna is passionate about democracy, fairness, sustainability, social justice and community wellbeing. A former Welsh Government Innovation Advisory Council member and RSA Fellowship Councillor, Anna is committed to securing opportunities and prosperity for Ceredigion Penfro and Wales through collaboration and social innovation.