Gŵyl Tyisha
On Saturday 11 July 2026, Tumble marches with Rebecca. Gŵyl Tyisha is a community festival honouring John Hughes, known locally as Jac Ty'isha, a central figure in the Rebecca Riots. We built the festival's website.
The project
Gŵyl Tyisha is led by artist Huw Alden Davies with Sian James and Aled Thomas (Beast Promotions), in collaboration with Llannon Community Council. The festival needed a website that could carry its punk protest zine look and still do the practical work: parade times, the route through the village, what's on in the park, and how to take part.
Welsh first
gwyltyisha.cymru lands on the Welsh edition; English is one click away. Every page exists in both languages, and the build stops if the two editions fall out of step. Parity is checked by a machine, not left as a promise.
How it's built
- Cut-out ransom lettering generated at build time from typewriter and woodtype faces
- A hand-drawn SVG map of the parade route, traced from OpenStreetMap geometry
- Self-hosted fonts and no tracking, so no cookie banner and nothing sent to third parties
- Responsive images in modern formats, sized for a patchy phone signal in the park
- A static site (Eleventy) with no client-side framework: less to load, less to break
How it performs
A small village festival gets the same engineering rigour as anything else we build:
- WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility, with zero axe violations, checked automatically on every change
- Lighthouse scores of 100 for accessibility, best practices and SEO on every indexable page
- Works fully without JavaScript
Something like this for your organisation?
If you run a community project, a public body or a local business in a Welsh-speaking area, this is how we build as standard: bilingual, accessible, and fast on any phone.