Art and regeneration in Haverfordwest
Saturday 30 June 2018 marked the official end of the 3 year programme and provided an opportunity to celebrate Cleddau Reaches by Studio Weave – the town’s first permanent public artwork in sixty years. Musicians and makers, canoeists and civic leaders joined forces to celebrate the story of the sculptures…
‘…the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.’ T S Elliot On 30 June 2018, the project came to an end with a celebratory event marking the installation of Cleddau Reaches – a public artwork sited on…
At the beginning of the capital commission, we were prompted to develop a site specific artwork for Haverfordwest; with a wide range of thoughts and opinions from the ‘Ideas Lab’ consultation that had been conducted. The proposal needed to present a permanent legacy for the programme that had preceded it….
A FREE family-friendly event with music, canoe trips, making workshops and a chance to find out more about the new riverside sculptures. The event will take place along the riverside in the Riverside Shopping Centre and will complete the Lab 3-year art and regeneration initiative supported by the Arts Council…
A year ago Confluence began an ambitious project to commission a new public artwork on multiple sites along the river. Studio Weave’s design is conceived not as artworks in isolation but as indicators of change, or markers of the possible that point to the river’s potential as part of a…
People make places and on the evening of 31 October 2017, people gathered in the town square in their thousands to create a river of light celebrating ordinary people from the past who have made extraordinary contributions to the town. In the weeks and months running up to the event…
Ghost Town is the theme of this year’s River of Lights lantern parade; a celebration of Pembrokeshire’s county town highlighting the true spirit of Haverfordwest. Join 1000’s of people to watch this magical event or make a lantern at one of the workshops and participate! This will be an unmissable…
Following the success of Festival week in 2016, Haverfordwest Town Council co-ordinated individuals and organisations to build an even more diverse and ambitious programme for the 2017 festival, which took place in the last week of July. As part of the festival, The Lab worked with artists and organisations to…
As part of our aim to influence the practice of partners involved in the project as well as the thinking of key decision makers on the role that the arts might play in regeneration, Studio Weave, the architects practice working on the capital commission, were invited to work with PLANED…
Breaking out of the Gallery (BOOTG) is an Art project based in Haverfordwest. The primary objective is to bring artwork onto the streets of Haverfordwest. After the success of the first BOOTG, which took place as part of Haverfordwest Festival Week 2016, BOOTG applied to the ideas Lab to extend…
Our vision is that in ten years’ time the ancient port of Haverfordwest will have been re-imagined as a vibrant and distinctive market town, reconnected with its river, in full flow and charged by the creativity of its people.
