RAFT 2026
10TH-12th July
Parc & Dare Theatre Treorchy
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FRIDAY EVENTS!
10TH OF JULY
Wild Play at RAFT!
10:00am – 12:00pm
Meeting at Treorchy library before venturing over to Ystradfechan Playing Field
Make your own Charcoal
10:00am – 2:00pm
Treorchy Library – Collab Space Garden
Community Film Screening
Hourly Screenings
Tŷ Agored
10:00am – 2:00pm
Park & Dare Garden
Letter Press Workshop with artist, Catherine Hammerton
11:00am – 1:00pm
Treorchy Library – Collab Space
Your Creative Role in the Climate Crisis Workshop
3:00pm – 5:00pm
Treorchy Library – Collab Space
Gaming with Generation Rhondda
4:00pm – 6:00pm
In Conversation with photographer, Jon Pountney
6:00pm – 7:00pm
Treorchy Library
IRL: In Real Life
6:30pm – 7:30pm
Words, Art, Music – Gathering
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Treorchy Library
Live music with The Rogues
8:30pm – 10:00pm
SATURDAY EVENTS!
11TH OF JULY
Tactile Bosch
All Day Event
Pokémon Card Design Workshop!
Ages 5 – 10 & 11 – 18
10:00am – 12:00pm and 1:00pm – 3:00pm
The Bear and the Piano
10:30am – 11:00am and 11:30am – 12:00pm
Twitch, Glitch, Flap
11:00am – 11:45am (Welsh Language Version)
2:00pm – 2:45pm (English Language Version)
Stiwdio 1
How to Enter the Art World with Hettie Judah
1:00pm – 3:00pm
Photography workshop with Robin Chaddah-Duke
1:00pm – 4:00pm
Meeting at Treorchy Library
Quilting Panel Talk
3.30pm – 4.30pm
Treorchy Library
Silent Disco
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Madfabulous, including a Q&A with star, Callum Scott Howells
6:00pm – 8.30pm
CWM RAG late night party
8:45pm – 10:00pm
SUNDAY EVENTS!
12TH OF JULY
Valley Veterans Band and Military Letter Readings
11:45am – 12:30pm
Stiwdio 1
Walk and Draw workshop
12:00pm – 4.00pm
An Afternoon with the work of Frank Vickery
2:00pm – 3:30pm
Stwdio 1
Make It! 10 hour plays
6:00pm – 7:00pm
Stiwdio 1
Live music with Kizzy Crawford and Mari Mathias
7:30pm – 9.20pm
Park & Dare Main Hall
OUTDOOR STAGE AREA
11TH – 12TH OF JULY
TREORCHY LIBRARY GATED CAR PARK
SATURDAY 11TH
Rachel Stephens / 11 – 11.45am
Richard Devereux / 12 – 12.45pm
Sunshine and Rain / 1 – 1.45pm
James Rees / 2 – 2.45pm
Detective Larsson / 3 – 3.45pm
Local Rainbow / 4 – 4.45pm
The Semantics / 5 – 5.45pm
SUNDAY 12TH
Mythical Adventures / 11.30am – 12.15pm
Park and Dare Brass Band / 12.30 – 1.15pm
Choirs for good / 1.30 – 2.15pm
One Voice Choir / 2.30 – 3.15pm
Jade Morris / 3.30 – 4.15pm
Pat Smith & Ned Clamp / 4.30 – 5.15pm
Welcome to our Woods ‘PLASTIC FOR PURPOSE’
Plastic pollutes our planet, harms wildlife, harms us and, less than 9% is recycled globally
OUR SOLUTION
- We see plastic as a resource
- Transforming waste into useful, creative new products
- Building a circular economy
EXHIBITIONS!
10TH – 12TH OF JULY
A Sense of Place
Friday 10th – Saturday 11th July
Hot Gossip Cafe, Treorchy
Desire Lines
Friday 10th – Sunday 12th July
Treorchy Library
Station To Station
Friday 10th – Sunday 12th July
Treorchy Train station
A photography exhibition taking place on the train station platforms between Pontypridd and Treorchy.
This is a project by this year’s resident photographer, Robin Chaddah Duke. The images document social and community spaces across the Rhondda Valleys. The work was made during a time of growing social isolation and continued threats to public spaces through closure and underfunding, exploring the importance of community and everyday life across towns throughout the Valleys.
YSTRADYFODWG ART SOCIETY EXHIBITION
Friday 10th – Sunday 12th July
Treorchy Library
Friday 10th at 10.30am
Derek will be giving a painting demonstration
Ystradyfodwg Art Society are Treorchy’s local elderly art group and have now been established for over 50 years. Based at Abergorki Hall, where they have their own studio. This exhibition will show work created by the society through weekly workshops and from their studio practice.
Find out ways of getting involved with the society during the festival.
Thank You To Our Sponsor!
RHONDDA ARTS FESTIVAL