Art and regeneration in Haverfordwest
In the last week of May 2017, artist Janetka Platun returned to Haverfordwest for a week long visit to launch the artist booklet Searching for the Centre, created during her commission earlier in the year. In both English and Welsh versions the booklet is available from the Lab and as…
On Thursday 15 June, an invited audience of artists and representatives of local arts organisations came together to : review the Feasibility Study being undertaken by Arts Management Consultant, Mari Beynon Owen draw inspiration from Peak/Copa – an innovative contemporary arts programme in rural Wales build support for a future…
Our conversations so far with the Confluence partners, with stakeholder groups and with the people we have met in Haverfordwest, about the nature of a new public artwork have been much broader and far- reaching than we could have expected at the outset. During our visits to Haverfordwest– and thanks…
Performance On Saturday 3rd June Confluence partners Transition Haverfordwest hosted a performance of ‘The Lightning Path’ at the Picton Centre and offered the audience a rare chance to see some live theatre in the town centre. Written and performed by Small World Theatre ‘The Lightning Path’ combines skilled puppetry with…
Local graphic designer and member of the pop-up Haverfordwest Art Studios, Heidi Baker (assisted by three students from Pembrokeshire College’s Art & Design Foundation and BA courses) hosted three design-led public workshops. Taking part in the workshops, which ran over three Saturdays during the Easter school holidays, 52 participants of…
To celebrate World Pinhole Camera Photography Day on April 30 2017 Sharron Harries and Pauline Le Britton ran Light and Alchemy, a workshop for anyone from beginners to photography students who wanted to experiment with low-tech imagery. Light and Alchemy explored the historic Camera Obscura method of photography. Taking a…
Over the 2017 Easter holiday local illustrator, Fran Evans hosted four drop-in drawing workshops at the Lab on April 5th, 12th, 26th and May 3rd. Having made her proposal to Ideas Lab, Fran invited budding illustrators to bring along an object that prompted memories of Haverfordwest, or choose an object…
During our visits to Haverfordwest we have met with a wide variety of residents , and enjoyed acquiring local perspectives on the historical development, and sense of place in the town. Whilst Janetka Platun’s commission focussed upon ‘Searching For The Centre’, our attention has been on building an understanding of…
Studio Weave are an RIBA Chartered Architecture Practice based in London. Together with our partners Architecture 00 [zero zero], we enjoy collaborating in a shared environment where strategic, urban and social designers, architects, programmers and economists practice design beyond its traditional borders. For each of our projects, we aim to…
In January and February 2017 Transition Haverfordwest, in partnership with Confluence, presented a series of six eco/art documentary films in various venues around the town. As well as the LAB, films were shown in some local independent venues as pop-up events, in order to engage a wider audience, and to…
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.
