Carys Eleri, Hannah Daniel & Gavin Porter - Live at St John's Church [Part One]

This week my guests are the Welsh actresses + writers Carys Eleri and Hannah Daniel and director/documentary maker Gavin Porter.This is the first part of our conversation recorded live at St John's Church in Cardiff on the 25th January 2023 in front of a live audience.Carys Eleri is a Welsh actress, singer, writer, composer and presenter. Her debut show - Lovecraft (Not the Sex Shop in Cardiff) – described as a one-woman science comedy-musical about the neuroscience of love and loneliness won her many accolades and was performed at the Edinburgh Festival and last year adapted into a radio show for BBC Radio 4.Carys is also an accomplished singer and is a member of Charlotte Church's Late Night Pop Dungeon. Her memoir 'Dod Nôl At fy Nghoed' (To return to my trees) was released in 2021.Hannah Daniel is a Welsh actress and writer from Cardiff, best known for her roles on TV series such as the dual language hits Hinterland and Keeping Faith and most recently in the Channel 4 drama 'The Light in the Hall'. In 2020 she co-wrote, directed and starred in the BBC short film 'Burial' in which she plays three identical triplets bashing out their grief at their father’s funeral. A story of love, pain and reconciliation. A grieving daughter’s attempt to make sense of the madness of grief.Gavin Porter is a film/documentary/theatre maker from Butetown in Cardiff. He has previously won a BAFTA Cymru award as director of best short. He has worked for many years in collaboration with the National Theatre of Wales and in 2021 they put on his first major theatrical work Circle of Fifths. A live documentary performance, told through real life stories, rooted in tradition, music and memory.Together we discuss how my guests have used their creativity to help them through their grief.Read Hannah Daniel's piece about grief and losing a parent on the VOGUE website here.Feels Like Healing is a show where I talk to creative people about how grief has shaped their art.These conversations are here to show how those who have suffered loss have found comfort and solace through the act of being creative and how creativity can help us all better understand our grief and reach a place of healing.::You can follow Feels Like Healing on Instagram / Twitter / Facebook @flhpodcastProduced / Edited by Al LewisTheme music by Al Lewis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Feels like Healing is a series of conversations between myself Al Lewis and individuals who have turned to creativity as a way of helping them heal.Our need for healing is universal. However the reasons behind it can be oh so varied; a difficult childhood, a traumatic experience or perhaps a bereavement and our need to process grief.My search for healing stems from the death of my Dad, who died when I was 21 from Multiple Sclerosis.For over fifteen years I'd kept a quiet lid on my grief. However when it came to clearing out the last remaining boxes from my Dad's attic, that grief that I'd suppressed came rushing to the surface. It was then that I began to write songs about my Dad. Writing those songs was incredibly cathartic and I realised how useful creativity can be when confronted with the hardest parts of life.I believe that hearing other people's stories can help us to process ours and that the act of being creative can help turn something seemingly hopeless and incomprehensible in to something beautiful and hopeful.These conversations are here to provide solace and inspiration and to show you that healing can happen when we take our deepest pain and turn it into a work of art. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.