All of the ✨Cysur y Sêr ✨ stories inspired by the night sky are now published on the People’s Collection of Wales website!

LISTEN - 'Andromeda' by Gillian Brownson 

Earlier in the year we hosted Gillian Brownson for three Constellation Stories sessions at the Bodfa Observatory.

This story, told across millennia, and presented here for Welsh speakers, still flickers in the night sky. Andromeda's story is literally given to Galaxy M31, which is visible all year round, but especially clear in autumn and winter skies over the Northern Hemisphere.

Cysur y Sêr was a Wales-wide Welsh-language storytelling project produced by Adverse Camber.

You can trace her entire Epic story in the surrounding star-fields:

• There is Andromeda herself, the girl chained to the cliff edge.

• Her mother, Cassiopeia, the seated queen who brought terror upon the land when she offended Poseidon.

• King Cephus, the father in his house, who sought advice from the Oracle, and took the decision to chain his daughter to the cliff, as a sacrifice to Poseidon.

• Cetus, the sprawling sea monster, sent by Poseidon to punish the Queen and her realm

• Perseus, the hero who would stop the monster and pledge his love for Andromeda.

• Pegasus, Perseus' winged horse

Perseus and Andromeda from Wikicommons

Cysur y Sêr is a project of Adverse Camber supported by Theatrau Sir Gâr, Arts Council Wales, National Lottery Heritage Fund, Colwinston Foundation, The Darkley Trust, Litrature Wales, Prosiect Nos, and People Speak Up.

The Arsyllfa Busby – Braden Observatory is supported by the Sustainable Development Fund, a Welsh Government initiative in the Isle of Anglesey Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).