by Robert Minhinnick

Farewell the Sustainable Wales/Cymru Gynaliadwy Green Room

Our final event before SUSSED’s relocation took place June 26, 2026. It was the end of a scorching week, weather-wise, and proved a real celebration.

Fitting that we highlighted Kristian Evans’s ‘Dunelands: A Year in Kenfig’, (Seren) and 50 years of the Glamorgan Heritage Coast.

Kristian was once employed by us, and it’s satisfying to see his literary career taking off. For the Heritage Coast, Robert Minhinnick read his essay ‘The Scheme of Things’, from ‘Watching the Fire-Eater’. (Seren). Also poems and translations about the coast. New music and film were provided by M3, (Peter Morgan, Richard Thomas and David McCormack).

The Green Room always celebrated the human imagination and creativity. This surely is a vital feature of ‘sustainability’ itself.

In a world increasingly dominated by ‘data’ harvesting and artificial intelligence, what the Green Room promoted can be seen as increasingly necessary.

While regretting our change of premises, Sustainable Wales/Cymru Gynaliadwy

pledges itself to continue arts events and maintain our commitment to such.

This event, along with events from as far back as 2014, can be heard on the Green Room Podcast.