Writing. Spoken Word. Creative Education. White Studies. Annibyniaeth. Young People’s Laureate Wales (2013-16) Poems on insta@p03tMd

Bangor, Cymru
Joined August 2012
Book launch like no other at WISERD23- Child Poverty in Wales . Powerful poetry Michael MacLean and @MartinDaws . A different way of putting a message across .
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DIWEDDARIAD PYST YN DY GLUST UPDATE 🎧 Featuring @_popeth, @tapestrimusic, @glainrhys, @martindaws, @Sustinereband + @Ivanmoult. Gwrandewch yma: orcd.co/pystyndyglust
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NEW EP NEWYDD: 'POET MD1' @martindaws 💫 Prosiect hip-hop amgen newydd y bardd a'r cerddor Martin Daws — a new alternative hip-hop project produced by veteran spoken word poet Martin Daws. 24.03 @cegrecordswales ↳ orcd.co/poetmd1
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Throwback to one of my all time favourite #leadcreativeschools #creativelearning projects for ⁦@Arts_Wales_⁩ back in 2019 with ⁦@martindaws⁩ at the helm, at what has now become ⁦@CTWCSRhyl⁩ I love the pupil voice here especially!!
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Awesome review of our latest single Bardd “Process” by Craig Mapstone of @WelshConnect , wych gael ymateb bositif. “Process” available everywhere now / Ar gael ym mhobman,ewch am sgan! Have a ganders people, parch!!!! @martindaws Henry Horrell @pystpyst facebook.com/685144661502532…
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Starting our Health and Wellbeing Project with @martindaws this Saturday with a free African Class - 12-2pm in the @WhiteRoseCenter, Rhyl - follow the sound of the drums
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Amser……………. Y Soffa! - The Sofa Sessions @PontioTweets @TrydarPontio @siwanllynor @martindaws #HomeHinterlandBangor   #AdraCynefinBangor – at Bethesda, Wales
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Dechre prosiect newydd heddiw @Home_Hinterland @PontioTweets #adracynefinBangor @martindaws @9Bach ‘Home is where your heart lies’ #adre
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Sgwrsio efo bobl yn Mangor ddoe cyn i #Arwen alw heibio @Home_Hinterland #ysoffa #adracynefinBangor @martindaws @PontioTweets @9Bach
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I’m running an online creative writing group for adults - Tuesdays 7pm - eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-y…
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I met John + Bryn @YsgLlandd to plan an exciting film + poetry/spokenword project with the amazing @martindaws funded by the fab folk at @FfilmCymruWales with top partners @intofilm_cymru @FilmWicked This summer in Wales! #AllEyesOnFilm #WorkingClassFfilmYsgol Bryn on camera!
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Amari Baraka coined the phrase “the changing same”: how the #SewellReport Report 2021 is the new face of the Moynihan Report a much discredited 1965 report that took the same non-systemic view of the issue of systemic racism tinyurl.com/wujpyrdu #changingsame #racistplaybook
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Day 31 of #whitestudiesmonth today’s feature is......drum roll...... me! I’ve spent my whole adult life as a white practitioner of cultural forms and I’d like to ask “what does it mean to be white?” First of my blog series posted today martindaws.wordpress.com/202… Peace
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Day 30 of #whitestudiesmonth today’s feature is the much criticised/lauded “Moynihan Report”, official title “The Negro Family: The Case For National Action” a 1965 report on black poverty in the United States written by sociologist Daniel Moynihan tinyurl.com/wujpyrdu
Day 29 of #whitestudiesmonth today’s feature is Clarence King (1842-1901). King, a wealthy white man and famed geologist led a double life as James Todd, a black man, marrying an African American wife from whom he, reportedly, kept his “whiteness” hidden tinyurl.com/56jrrk4h
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Day 28 of #whitestudiesmonth today’s feature is Lillian Smith (1897-1966) author of best-selling novel Strange Fruit (1944). A southern liberal, Smith was unafraid to criticize segregation and work toward the dismantling of Jim Crow laws tinyurl.com/ymrjebm2
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1/ Day 27 of #whitestudiesmonth today’s feature is Ray Sprigle (1886 in-1957) a journalist, he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1938 for reporting that Hugo Black, newly appointed to the US Supreme Court, had been a member of Ku Klux Klan...
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2/ Sprigle’s 1948 account of traveling for 30 days in the Deep South disguised as black was serialized in the press. He later adapted the series as a book, “In the Land of Jim Crow”, published in 1949. An informative assessment of his work here tinyurl.com/yeuwtc7w