The symposium included presentations by Dr. George Nash, Archaeologist and specialist in Prehistoric and Contemporary Art; Dr. Ruth Jones, Artist and Curator; Lorraine Flaherty NLP & Hypnotherapist; Jonathan Sammon, Visual Artist and Filmmaker; Professor Mary Modeen, Artist and Associate Dean University of Dundee; Serena Korda, Visual Artist and Dr Iain Biggs, Visual Artist & Cultural Geographer.

The education programme included a screening of the 1998 film After Life by Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda; a book club reading and discussion of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods; Children’s book making and creative writing workshops and finally a children’s creative writing competition open to children aged 7– 10 years who live in Wales. The winning review was published in the Carmarthen Journal.