Kiri Pritchard-McLean Instagram – ⚠️ WARNING! SENTIMENTAL POST INCOMING ⚠️ This is where the magic happens. Behind this door and in this beautiful old building. We’ve been running comedy classes in Canaolfan Glanhwfa with @gwneudmakedo for a few weeks and I just have to tell you about it. After every session @misskatiegill and I have a fizzy, breathless debrief because the talent we have behind that door in the back room of a Chapel turned community centre is unreal. The kids we have coming on Saturdays have soared through our expectations and come to the sessions with big hearts, amazing brains and boundless enthusiasm. I spend every Saturday morning howling with laughter. They’re such a clever, offbeat bunch and it warms my heart because they remind me of the funny group of pals I had growing up. Tuesday nights are a special affair too. Our senior class is such a sacred place for me. It’s so hard to start learning something as an adult. For so many people comedy means public speaking or it’s their true love so the stakes are even higher. I said last night that I did a comedy course as an arrogant 22 year old with lots of free time, I did it the easy way. We have a room full of people who’re making space for this around kids and careers & I’ve got so much respect for that. I’m also so excited because I see it all ahead of them. I can see the stand ups, I can see the writers, the directors, the sketch performers. It’s so natural to them and they don’t even realise it. Katie and I set up @gwneudmakedo because we know there’s talent in the area and we wanted to give it somewhere to go. In a few short weeks I already feel like this is bigger than us and I know this school is going to be a really important and long lasting part of Wales’s cultural landscape. That’s not arrogance, it’s the people coming, not us. The magic is being made in the back room of a chapel in Llangefni and if that isn’t a reflection of culture in Wales I don’t know what is.