

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: HANAN ISSA Bridging Cultures 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 10 Mar, 2026 at 06:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Poetry Bridges: Visiting Writers
HANAN ISSA
National Poet of Wales
Date: Tuesday 10th March
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: PL2, Pontio
Fee: Free
 
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Telford Suspension Bridge, English Literature and Creative Writing (School of Arts, Culture and Language) present a series of guest writer events to celebrate poetry as a means of bridging: connecting ideas, places and people. These are free, public events open to all, supported by the generosity of alumni through the Bangor Fund and by Literature Wales.
 
A Welsh-Iraqi poet, filmmaker, scriptwriter, and artist, Hanan Issa is the current National Poet of Wales, the first Muslim to hold the title. She champions the ancient Welsh poetic form cynghanedd and aims to broaden engagement with poetry. Her work explores themes of identity, belonging and nature. A versatile artist, she wrote and directed The Golden Apple (2022) and contributed to Channel 4’s We Are Lady Parts. Her writing also features in notable anthologies, including Welsh (Plural): Essays on the Future of Wales and Just So You Know: Essays of Experience, which she co-edited. She was awarded an honorary degree from Bangor University in 2025.


Pontydd Barddoniaeth: Llenorion Gwadd
HANAN ISSA
Bardd Cenedlaethol Cymru
Dyddiad: Nos Fawrth 10fed Mawrth
Amser: 6:30pm
Lleoliad: PL2, Pontio
Ffi: Rhad ac am ddim

 
I ddathlu 200 mlynedd ers adeiladu Pont y Borth, mae Llenyddiaeth Saesneg ac Ysgrifennu Creadigol (Ysgol Iaith, Diwylliant a'r Celfyddydau) yn cyflwyno cyfres o ddigwyddiadau yng nghwmni llenorion gwadd i ddathlu barddoniaeth fel ffordd o bontio, gan gysylltu syniadau, lleoedd a phobl. Digwyddiadau cyhoeddus yw’r rhain sy’n rhad ac am ddim ac yn agored i bawb. Cânt eu cefnogi gan Llenyddiaeth Cymru a thrwy haelioni cyn-fyfyrwyr trwy Gronfa Bangor.
 
Bardd, gwneuthurwr ffilmiau, sgriptwraig ac artist Iraci-Gymreig yw Hanan Issa a hi yw Bardd Cenedlaethol Cymru ar hyn o bryd - y Mwslim cyntaf i gael ei hanrhydeddu â’r teitl. Mae’n ymhyfrydu yn nhraddodiad canu ar y gynghanedd yn Gymraeg a’i nod yw ehangu ymgysylltiad pobl â barddoniaeth. Mae ei gwaith yn ymdrin â themâu hunaniaeth, perthyn a natur. Mae’n llenor amryddawn. Hi ysgrifennodd a chyfarwyddo The Golden Apple (2022) a chyfrannodd at y rhaglen We Are Lady Parts ar Channel 4. Mae ei gwaith hefyd wedi ymddangos mewn blodeugerddi o bwys, gan gynnwys Welsh (Plural): Essays on the Future of Wales a Just So You Know: Essays of Experience, sy’n gyfrol yr oedd yn gyd-olygodd arni. Dyfarnwyd gradd er anrhydedd iddi gan Brifysgol Bangor yn 2025.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/bangor/hanan-issa-bridging-cultures/200029777512457
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Bangor
- **state**: WA
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Pontio Arts and Innovation Centre / Pontio Canolfan Celfyddydau ac Arloesi
- **lat**: 53.2264322
- **long**: -4.1303621
- **full address**: Pontio Arts and Innovation Centre / Pontio Canolfan Celfyddydau ac Arloesi, Bangor, United Kingdom

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- **organizer**: Zoë Skoulding (https://allevents.in/org/zoë-skoulding/596782)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 10 Mar, 2026 at 06:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Pontio Arts and Innovation Centre / Pontio Canolfan Celfyddydau ac Arloesi, Bangor, United Kingdom
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Zoë Skoulding
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Art, literary-art
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