Art and regeneration in Haverfordwest
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…
Since launching in February 2016, Ideas Lab has been working with small scale projects to test ideas for arts and regeneration in Haverfordwest. Getting off to a flying start with Make 4– a series of Saturday Family-friendly art workshops in March 2016, led by artist Louise Bird, Ideas Lab will…
Watch an intro to the Lab – a short film about the project by film maker Sharron Harris.
…Artist Serena Korda was commissioned by Confluence to create a new participatory artwork for Haverfordwest that connected with the River Cleddau that flows through the centre of town. Paying homage to the anti-capitalist early 90’s underground rave scene in Pembrokeshire, Black Diamond harnessed the sonic power of the river to…
Watch Sharron Harris’s film of Serena Korda’s Black Diamond.
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Over a couple of days in June, artists Davis & Jones, equipped with a portable cafe and some marker pens, approached people out and about in Haverfordwest inviting them to chat about their thoughts and memories of the town. Young and old, holidaymakers, people on their own, people in groups,…
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.
