Connected Roots
Welsh relevance in conversation
Spoke in cafés in high streets from Cardiff city to valleys out north and west.
Questions of independence, of survival and growth
Of preservation, innovation and hope
We are connected at root
from the roofs of Tiger Bay you find people who have replaced heritage with home:
home is now a space in Wales.
A place where words and hugs are exchanged, smiles from the faces of the world.
Intertwined lives brough forth at the world stage
Embraced and recognised as song filled arenas of sport
We sang with love at the core
YMA O HYD
The world remembered speed and legends of war
The melting pot at the core of the life that we live
Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday
Wales.
Mae Ali Goolyad yn fardd, actor ac ymgyrchydd cymunedol. Wedi'i eni yn Hargeisa, Somaliland, mudodd Ali i Gymru yn 1 mlwydd oed. Mae ei waith blaenorol yn cynnwys sgwennu a pherfformio yn De Gabay, (National Theatre Wales), Border Game, Storm 2, Big Democracy Project (National Theatre Wales), Borderland (Radio 4), Talking Doorsteps (Roundhouse), Mattan Injustice of a Hanged Man (BBC), a Black and Welsh (BBC Wales). Cydweithio a chyd-greu sydd wrth galon Ali ac mae wrth ei fodd gyda'r fersiwn o hunaniaeth Gymreig mae'n ei greu.
