Sut wyt ti RTP? I’m still here and beginning to lose my mind with all the screaming kids
This Eisteddfod isn’t the main one – that’s always held during the first week of August (I say ‘always’ but the pandemic has prevented it from being held the last two years).
This one right now is the Urdd national eisteddfod:
https://www.urdd.cymru/en/eisteddfod/what-eisteddfod/
But yes, this one too has plenty of poetry! Reciting, but also composing it yourself. Doesn’t matter at all what your ancestry is or where you live, you’d just need to be able to perform or write your composition in Cymraeg. You’d also need to be under 25 yrs old! This is rude of me – you could well be – I need to remind myself that not everyone is as old as Alice or myself
! I feel ancient atm, 3 days in to this and with the lack of sleep and all…
But I’d say check out the main National Eisteddfod. There’s lots of different competitions and categories in that one. You’d still need to perform or write in Welsh but there are different categories depending on where you are on the ‘language journey’ as they put it.
It’s a shame that one of these events couldn’t have coincided with I&B’s time over here. I would have had my eyes peeled at all times! Ioan grew up competing in this youth eisteddfod and is a member of the Gorsedd of Bards in the ‘big one’. I’m sure they would have come if they were in Wales. Oh well. There will be plenty of opportunities in the future once he’s sorted all the current mess up I suppose.
I hope you’re ok RTP. Hate to think that that horrible article today upset you. You’re the kindest and nicest person I’ve ever met online
Cariad mawr i ti, ffrind.
ETA. Elsie is wearing an Urdd t-shirt in this video (and almost all the comments refer to it).
^ I think the link works although it says it doesn’t.