Events

Hearing Colours Soundsystem

Saturday 2nd of May 2026

7pm – 1am

£10 or £8 concessions

Hearing Colours is an all analogue hi-fi soundsystem based in Bournemouth which is making its way to Cardigan for one night of musical exploits in the beautiful loft space at Walden Arts.

The Tell Tales Club Presents:

Chwedlau Gwyllt / Wild Tales

*Cancelled*

7pm – 9pm

Doors open at 6.30pm

Thursday 10th July 2025

£10 or £8 concessions

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled to unforseen circumstances. Apologies for any disappointment.

The Cosmic Giggle

Launch Party

6.30pm – 9pm

Wednesday 14th May

Free Entry

Join us for the launch of The Cosmic Giggle. A collaborative zine printed entirely in house, featuriung art and writing from contributors near and far. Limted to 500 copies, come and bag yourself a copy and enjoy some live electronic music form sound artist Jacob Whittaker. See you there!

The Tell Tales Club Presents:

Persephone in the Underworld

7pm – 9pm

Doors open at 6.30pm

Thursday 20th March

£10 or £8 concessions

Join Jessie Wild, Storyteller &
Abi Turner from The Quiet Orchard as they dive into Spring – with myth, music &folklore

Walden Arts Christmas Market

11am – 5pm

Saturday 30th November

Free

For all you Christmas shoppers wanting to avoid Amazon this year – fret not! Our Christmas market is back on with more beautiful artisinal crafts from local artists and makers. From prints to pottery, woodwork to textiles and so much more. Support your local artistic community this year and grab yourself some beatiful handmade gifts!

The Tell Tales Club – An Evening of Wonder, Magic , Music and Story with Jessie Wild

7pm – 9pm

Doors open at 6.30pm

Wednesday 13th November

£10 or £8 concessions

The nights are drawing in and the veil is thinning. Traditionally people have sat around the fire to tell ghostly stories for millennia  – come join Jessie and friends for an evening of chilling stories with music, if you dare! The evening will feature Jessie telling tales from unquiet graves accompanied by spooky sounds and Sonia Sophia sharing tales to make your skin tingle!

Cyberdelica with Carl Hayden Smith

Friday 15th November

7pm – 10pm

Doors open at 6.30pm

Talk £16

In this talk by Carl Hayden Smith we are invited to consider what it means to be human in a world where digital technology is developing at full speed. When the creative act is capable of being outsourced and externalised to our machines we ask, are we losing our senses?

Annwn/ Otherworlds

10am – 6pm

Wed 31st Oct – Sun 3rd Nov

Free

Walden Arts is very proud to anounce our very first exhibition – Annwn / Otherworlds. Tying in with Other Voices music festival in Cardigan and of course Samhain, 20 local artists will be exploring the theme of Annwn the otherworld of welsh mythology. When the veil between this world and the next is at its thinnest come and delve into a mysterious menagerie of interpretations of Annwn – said to be the sourse of inspiration and creativity!

The Tell Tales Club – An Evening of Wonder, Magic , Music and Story with Jessie Wild

7pm – 9pm

Doors open at 6.30pm

Thursday 1st August

£10 or £8 concessions

The Tell Tales Club is a brand new storytelling evening for Aberteifi. Started by local storyteller, Jessie Wild, the club will run several times a year and offer opportunities for both tellers and audiences alike!

Our inaugural evening will include shorter tales and music from local artists then, after a cuppa, Jessie will be telling a strange and twisty Russian wonder tale – The Apples of Youth and the Water of Life –  accompanied by sound artist Jake Whittaker.

Lucid Dreaming with Tree Carr

7pm – 10pm

Doors open at 6.30pm

Friday 20th September

Talk £16

Saturday Workshop £45

Talk & Workshop £60

We spend a third of our lives sleeping and a good part of that dreaming- and it’s still a mystery why we dream! Let’s learn together about the dream realm, lucid dreaming, hypnagogic states and the astral plane and how we can empower our waking lives through dream connection. Then expand your knowledge further after Friday evenings talk with an immersive workshop on Saturday morning that promises to connect you to plant allies, to awaken your inner dreamer and illuminate the mysteries of dream consciousness.

Kazz of the Seed Sistas- Herbal Evolution / Cultural Change

7pm – 10pm

Doors open at 6.30pm

Friday 12th April

£16

The 7th Kindred Spirits event welcomes Kazz of The Seed Sistas to our cosy venue at Walden Arts for an evening of herbal wonder. 

“The Seed Sistas are published authors, public speakers, medical herbalists and eco-activists. Allowing the plants to guide them, they pass on knowledge about how to learn about the plants that grow around you and to empower yourself to use them as simple remedies in the home.”

An Evening of Storytelling

7pm – 10pm

Doors open at 6.30pm

Friday 15th March

£16

Kindred Spirits presents an evening to delight the imagination, with three local storytellers taking us on a journey into the mythic realm. Stories have the power to shape our reality, to heal us and help us reimagine a new world. Let’s take a deep dive together into the land of ‘ make believe’. 

Walden Arts Christmas Market

11am – 5pm

Saturday 2nd December

Free

Following on from the success of last years market we are excited to announce we will be doing it all again this year! With over 30 stalls of local arts and crafts spread over three floors, with everything from ceramics, to green wood work, to prints, fabrics and jewellery plus loads more. What better place to do your christmas shopping this year !?

The Fabulous Tale of the Fly Agaric Mushroom with Andy Letcher

7.30pm – 10pm

Saturday 9th December

£16

Join us for our 5th Kindred Spirits event at Walden Arts for a fabulous evening dedicated to the unmistakable Fly Agaric with its dramatic red skin and white spots, a mushroom that conjures wonder and wariness in equal measure. In this talk, Dr Andy Letcher discusses the chemistry, effects, history and cultural impact of this strange, eldritch mushroom.

Rave To The Grave With Ru Callender

7pm – 10pm

Friday 6th October

£15 plus Booking Fee

Join us for our fourth Kindred Spirits event at Walden Arts for a unique evening with Ru Callender. Ru Callender is a radical Undertaker who established the Green Funeral Company in Devon, challenging the stilted, traditional, structured world of the funeral industry: fusing what he had learned from his own deeply personal experiences with death, with the surprising and profound answers and raw emotion he discovered in rave culture and ritual magick.

Ru has carried coffins across windswept beaches, sat in pubs with caskets on beer-stained tables, helped children fire flaming arrows into their father’s funeral pyre, turned modern occult rituals into performance art and, with the band members of the KLF, is building the People’s Pyramid of bony bricks in Liverpool – all in the name of creating truly authentic experiences that celebrate those who are no longer here and those who remain.

Join us for an exploration of societies highest held taboo, and some ideas of how we might do things differently.

A Creative Songwriting Workshop!

10am – 3pm

Saturday 20th May

Ages 7 – 16

£35

Join us for a one-of-a-kind workshop, where we’ll be embarking on a creative journey that needs your creative genius and input!

Guided by songwriter & musician Matthew and physical improviser Alex, we’ll create a completely new song from scratch. We’ll be learning about musical genres, song structure, melody and lyric writing – and how to play with them through intuitive exercises (group games in improvisation, rhythm, storytelling).

Together we’ll discover what story we are telling through song, whilst building our creative confidence and imaginative flair.

Let’s take your creativity to a whole new level!

Alter/Native – A Talk by Darren Deojee

7pm – 10pm

Monday 15th May

£15 plus Booking Fee

Darren Deojee is a teacher of ancient Mexican Toltec tradition. His work focuses on issues of Gender and Relating, he has been practising his unique self affirming mentor programme for 25 years. Deojee is particularly interested in how we use language and sound to relate to each other. His approach is unusual and  invites the audience to reframe how we view and use words, breaking the words down, looking at the origins of language and speech. 

Meditation & Art for Wellbeing

With Jane Borley

10.30am – 12.30pm

Wednesday 10th May

£15

A friendly, relaxed and calming class for the purpose of manifesting positive wellbeing through various teacher led activities including guided meditations, yoga breathing, and creative activities. Using a range of art materials to create a personal vision board this class is for those looking to focus on manifesting positive wellbeing in their lives.

Tawai – Intro & Live Q&A with Bruce Parry

5.30pm – 10.30pm

Sunday 5th March

£15 plus Booking Fee [Sold Out]

Erin MacAirt Events in collaboration with Walden Arts are proud to invite you to an exclusive West Wales screening of Tawai – A Voice from the Forest plus a Q&A with the award winning documentarian Bruce Parry.

This Tastes Like Love

7pm – 9.30pm

Tuesday 14th Febuary

£7.50 plus Booking Fee

A spoken word show in celebration of the new poetry book collection by Emrys Plant. Come for a date this Valentines night and lets work out what loves is all about.

Walden Arts Christmas Market

11am – 5pm

Saturday 3rd December

Free Entry

Come and have a browse of local arts and crafts, plus a snoop around the studio, with a chance to letterpress print your own Christmas cards or screen print a tote bag! Ditch Amazon this year and come and support your local creative community!

The Science of Magic Mushrooms

A Talk by Dr David Luke

Wednesday 16th November

(Previously September 19th)

*Please note the talk has been postponed to November due to unforeseen circumstances