Syrcas Circus came to Llanfyllin over the first week of Easter, for the second year running, after the great success of last years event.

The emphasis of the project was for participants to put together their own show with the full support of a professional team. THe project involved a week of intensive workshops based on the history and stories from local people of the y Dolydd workhouse.  The 53 participants learned about what life was like in a 19th century workhouse and the conditions children their own age would have been confronted with. Integrated into this was the theme of dreams and escaping into a colourful and fantastical world to escape the harsh realities of workhouse life.

Prior to the performance on the last day of workshops the troupe participated in a small parade through Llanfyllin showing off all the skills they had learnt over the week.

The final performance combined live performance, music, lights and sound sound. THe audience, of at least 100 people, were awed by the skills demonstrated by the children, young people and adults involved.

The children, young people and adults who attended developed an impressive array of circus and performance skills under the expert guidance of James Carpenter and his wonderful team and Dux the Llanfyllin Youth Worker. All those involved in the project felt they had received a lot form taking part in the workshops, which was reflected in our core participants who showed up to every workshop.

The project was funded by the Clore Duffield Foundation.

Between September 2006 and February 2007 Arts Connection offered a variety of organisations based in Llanfyllin the opportunity to take part in arts related workshops.

The Bell Ringers of Saint Myllin's worked with Ruth Carter and Cordelia Weedon to produce a hybrid Digital Story about the history and art of bell ringing.

The Creative Writing class led by Ruth Carter and run by Powys COunty Council Lifelong LEarning had their stories published.

The Film and Book are available to loan from Llanfyllin Library.

The Watercolour and Portrait classes run by Powys COunty Council Lifelong Learning had a full day each of painting with Dennis Williams and Angus Ogilvy.

Helen Young led a number of dance and drama sessions with English Playgroup which resulted in an informal showing at Christmas to their parents.

Siân James, the internationally renowned harpist visited the Cylch Meithrin for music workshops.

JAM Club also had music workshops.

The Llanfyllin Badgers took part in Circus Skills with Richard Mawson, Dance with Helen Young, Music with Tony Skeggs, Storytelling with Tish Evans and Photography with Cordelia Weedon.

Stories and memories of Llanfyllin were recorded by the residents of Llwyn Teg and then taken to the primary school where the stories were intertwined to created a short film called 'A Child's Christmas in llanfyllin'. The children also performed it live in their assembly. The project was directed and mentored by Sally Duckers and Tish Evans.

Mencap took part in projects involving dance with Helen Young and visual arts with Ingrid Maugham.

Merched Y Wawr and Cymdeithas yr laith Gymraeg attended a talk given by Twm Morys about local place names.

Vox Orbis, a singing group, recorded a number of songs which were produced by Tony Skeggs.

A number of theatre workshops took place with 120 young people from the Welsh Language Youth Theatre. They performed their show at St. Myllin's Church. The workshops and performance were overseen by Penri Roberts.