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Join us to mark the ending of one part of the exhibition ‘To Shift a Stone’.
Across 2023 – 2025, artist Sophie Mak-Schram explored how power is experienced, shared, and challenged within Amgueddfa Cymru and Chapter Arts Centre.
Working with activists, community workers, artists, and museum staff, Sophie developed collaborative ‘tools’ that challenge and reimagine power structures.
The resulting two-part exhibition, To Shift a Stone, focuses on categorisations at National Museum Cardiff and forms of assembling at Chapter.
To Shift a Stone closes at Chapter on 1 February: you’re warmly invited to assemble with the exhibition, artworks and collaborators one more time.
(To Shift a Stone at National Museum Cardiff will remain open until 15 February 2026.)
Programme
Saturday 31st January
10.30 – 11.30am Held Fast Running Club Who can run freely, and safely, through public space? This running club invites you to join us to run between Chapter and National Museum Cardiff with an artwork, and with each other.
Free and for all levels of experience, but booking is advised.
11.45am – 12:15pm Warm Leveret performance in the Main Hall of National Museum Cardiff
Warm Leveret expands the histories of welcome within the entrance hall. Harp, vocals and loops re-cite archives and memories to fold time together, drawing on past commissions with Tŷ Cerdd and live echoes of the museum itself.
12.30 – 1.30pm In-Conversation at National Museum Cardiff
With Sophie Mak-Schram [artist], Nick Thornton and Steph Burge [Amgueddfa Cymru] and Sim Panaser [Chapter] where they reflect on the work they have done together. Book your free space here
2 – 3.30pm Closing performance and procession starting at National Museum Cardiff and ending at Chapter.
*access information below
Sound, song and stones will cross the distance between National Museum Cardiff and Chapter. Led by Rubie and George H. Wale using artworks from the exhibitions, in collaboration with Sophie Mak-Schram.
Meet us in the exhibition [Gallery 15] at National Museum Cardiff to join, sing and hold along.
4:45-5:45pm Celebratory DJ set by Emma Daman Thomas at Chapter
Emma Daman Thomas plays curious covers and sampledelia. Buds growing from old roots: tracks that reshape music of the past, to close the loop of To Shift a Stone at Chapter.
Sunday 1st February
Chapter
2pm Screening: Seeking Mavis Beacon (2024)
Free screening of Seeking Mavis Beacon (Jazmin Jones, 2024), a film that resonates with Sophie Mak-Schram’s approach to engaging with history, seeking precedence and the power of imagining otherwise. Seeking Mavis Beacon follows filmmaker Jazmin Jones and Olivia Ross of Black Girls Code as they search for the black woman depicted on The Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing software.
Free but booking required, more details here.
If you have any access requirements, please email Kate Breeze on perspectives@museumwales.ac.uk to arrange support - there is a specific budget for access, which might include travel, carers, translating (including BSL), or the booking of wheelchairs etc. Access needs might be discussed in order to understand what’s feasibly possible, but we will not be requesting ‘proof’: we trust you know what you need to best be able to join us.
* Procession timings
14:00 - 14:20 Performing in National Museum Cardiff, from Gallery 15 through to the main hall.
14:20 - 15:00 walking to Chapter through Bute Park and residential streets
Bios
Warm Leveret makes soft noise. Think songless meditative voice, loops and harp from Emma Daman Thomas of the band Islet.
Christine Mak has been running since 2017, and is a qualified run leader and guide runner with Welsh Athletics. She leads the Held Fast Run Club as part of To Shift a Stone.
Rubie is a songstress, composer, and profound storyteller based in Glasgow. Rubie won End of the Road's Next Wave competition 2025, has opened for the likes of Jasmine.4.t, Tom Rasmussen, Gentle Stranger and Dominie Hooper, and is a two-time recipient of Help Musicians' Next Level award. She's currently working on her third album Like Bears, to be released in 2026.
George H. Wale is an artist, designer and maker from Abergavenny. Their multi-disciplinary practice spans sculpture, textile works, live performance and costume design for dance. Their work has been commissioned and shown by organisations such as g39, Green Man Festival and National Dance Company Wales.
Sophie Mak-Schram works across art, art historical research and radical pedagogies to engage others in place-specific work around power, collectivity, knowledges and futures. This work is informed by personal and shared experiences of cultural difference, coloniality, race and gender.
Recent projects include To Shift a Stone (2025-2026), commissioned by National Museum Wales and Chapter Arts Centre, Stretching Thresholds, Holding Streams (2024-2025) in collaboration with Jeanne van Heeswijk, commissioned by Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Switzerland and Blueprints for Studies (2024) co-curated with Rahel Sphörer at Zeppelin University, Germany.
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