Art and regeneration in Haverfordwest
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…
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…
In the spring of 2017 Transition Haverfordwest, in partnership with Confluence, will present a series of 6 documentary eco/art films followed by informal discussions focussing on some of the issues of our time and place: The Economics of Happiness 2011 (E) Garbage Warrior 2007 (15) Four Horsemen 2012 (E) Chasing…
In February 2016 Arthur Brooker came to the newly established Ideas Lab with a very simple idea: to put on an outdoor art exhibition in town centre locations that would literally ‘break out of the gallery’. Little did he know what he was letting himself in for over the next…
Reignited by a highly motivated group of Town Councillors led by Sue Murray and supported by County Councillor Wynne Evans, Haverfordwest Festival Week set out to create ‘a fun filled, action packed programme of events for all the family to enjoy’. The eight-day event, which ran from Saturday 23rd to…
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…
Phil Okwedy transported an audience of 80 people from Moylegrove to London via Chicago and Eglwyswrw with his epic tale of Wil and the Welsh Black cattle at the Transition Haverfordwest barbecue and story telling event around a campfire at the Paddocks, as part of Haverfordwest Festival Week 2016. ‘Great…
Running alongside the Open Lab event held on Saturday 19 September 2015, 10am to 5pm, Transition Haverfordwest tried out a pop-up pot-luck café, providing a choice of delicious vegetarian hot meals from the fruit and vegetables people brought in from their gardens. Guests were invited to bring any fresh fruit…
Saturday’s ‘drop in’ session with Transition Haverfordwest was open to everyone and had an environmental and sustainable theme . It was well attended and lots of ideas emerged in a constructive and lively debate around the table. We wrote/drew and plotted these on the Map. Subjects on the agenda included:…
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.
