pembroke festival pirates procession 2010

young people from Monkton youth club and the Tanyard youth project in Pembroke worked with artists from spacetocreate to construct two giant processional pirate ships to lead the opening night parade to mark Pembroke's annual community festival in 2010

during a series of workshops in the run up to the festival participants learned to work with willow and tissue to recreate the ships capatained by two famous pembrokeshire pirates: Hywel Davies of Milford Haven and Bartholomew Roberts from Little Newcastle, as well experimenting with a range of stencilling and fabric painting techniques to make flags and bandannas

see the procession gallery of photographs here and find out how the Monkton ship was made here and the Tanyard ship here

imageinate pembroke 2010

imageinate is a sound and animation project involving young people living in and around Pembroke, who worked with a Visual artist, musician, filmmaker and animator to explore their sense of identity, their place within their community, and their dreams and aspirations.

over 70 young people aged 11-19 attended a series of workshops in the Tanyard Youth project, Monkton Priory Learning Unit, Pembroke School and an open day at the Foundry House and the work was brought together in an animated film premiered during Pembroke Festival 2010

See the film here and visit the gallery of postcards that make up an exhibition celebtrating the project here

light up the night pembroke dock 2009

the third annual pembroke dock lantern procession was blessed with perfect weather and more than six hundred people turned out to see a spectacular procession of 150 lanterns made by over 200 workshop participants from local schools, community groups and the community at large

with pyrotechnics in the park stiltwalkers, santa claus and samba doc, the winter lantern procession is becoming one of the highlights of the pembroke dock calendar

view the gallery of photographs taken by gwen griffiths here

mythical wild and human

Oriel y Parc Gallery & Visitor’s Centre in St David’s was the location for a programme of school and community workshops inspired by the 150 carved stone corbels of mythical beasts, wild animals and human heads that adorn the Bishop’s Palace in St David’s.

Organised by the Arts Council of Wales and Cadw as part of their Cauldrons & Furnaces project and funded by the Legacy Trust, the project is part of the Cultural Olympiad programme, and is one of many events taking place over the next three years across the UK in the run up to the London Olympics in 2012.

view a gallery of images here

making faces (2) bush school pembroke 2009

Following on from a pilot project being undertaken by SPAN to engage young people in the Arts, Guy Norman and Pip Lewis worked with pupils from the school's Nurture Unit on a mask making and self-portraiture project.

Overten sessions the students experimented with a variety of materials making masks on different themes. The project included the creation of two large-scale painted canvases for hanging within the Nurture Unit.

See a selection of masks and the completed canvases here

ceramic panel neyland community school 2009

Over 90 children from years 1-3 participated in ceramic tile making sessions with Artist Pip Lewis. The tiles were designed around the theme of Neyland's maritime heritage and its ongoing links with the sea.

Colourful tiles depicting an array of trains ships sea creatures chains and anchors surround letters and symbols glazed in school colours that together make up a ceramic panel that will take pride of place in Neyland's new community school.

see the finished ceramic wall panel here

transition information dvd action for children 2009

Pip Lewis worked with two groups of young people with disabilities living in Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion to create artwork for a film exploring their experiences of making the transition from children's to adult services.

the film, commissioned by action for children wales, was made by the young people themselves with the support of sharron harris a local independant film-maker.

the artwork produced was animated by joelle brindley to create a series of animated titles to introduce each section of the film

totem 2009

Guy Norman worked with primary aged children from two small schools near Llandovery, Cil y Cwm and Capel Cynfab to make a series of animal and bird masks for a new musical work Totem created by Helen Adam for the Small Nations Festival

The new work funded by the Arts Council of Wales was premiered in Cil y Cwm school in the first week of July before going on to the Small Nations Festival later in the month

See a selection of bird masks here and animal masks here

hands up banner 2009

Around 90 children from Fenton Community School in Haverfordwest put their hands up to show their support for Haverfordwest Going Plastic Bag Free.

The children painted their hands onto a giant 60 foot banner which proclaimed the message loud and clear from its position strung across the high street in the county town throughout July.

making faces bush school pembroke 2009

As part of a pilot project being undertaken by SPAN to engage young people in the Arts, Guy Norman worked with pupils from the school's Nurture Unit on a mask making project.

Over six sessions the students experimented with a variety of materials making masks on different themes. The project included the creation of two large scale pieces Melonie and The Red Devil which went on to take pride of place at the Mexican Fiesta street party during Pembroke Dock's Midsummer Festival.

See a selection of masks here

pembrokeshire fishweek 10th anniversary 2009

A day of drop-in visual arts activities was provided for around 200 visitors of all ages and abilities to mark the opening day of Pembrokeshire Fishweek now in its tenth year.

Other arts activities during the 9 day festival included: a pilot project working with the Darwin Science Festival to make prints with primary school children from their direct observation of life in rockpools; input into the development and judging of a sculpture competition; a second visual arts workshop at Fishguard Library making masks and headdresses.

see a selection of fishy masks masks and headresse here

mexican fiesta pembroke dock midsummer festival 2009

A mexican theme provided the inspiration for this years festival. Over 100 primary school children and several hundred local people of all ages got involved in school and community workshops making masks and headdresses inspired by the colourful traditions of mexico.

The theme was developed with the creation of papel picardo colourful paper street decorations and pinata traditional sweet filled decorations building to a climax for the mexican fiesta a grand street party to mark the fourth year of Pembroke Dock's Midsummer festival.

see a selection of pictures from the festival here

mask making santes ffair 2009

St Mary's Junior School in Pembroke Dock joined forces with Golden Grove School in Pembroke and invited us along to work with their holiday club to make masks for an afternoon.

light up the night pembroke dock 2008

Building on the success of the winter lantern procession in 2007, community artists from spacetocreate worked in partnership with pembroke dock festival group, llanion communities first partnership and bush and park tenants and residents association to overcome the elements with another spectacular procession of lanterns made by school children young people and community groups

me and my town autumn 2008

As part of Neyland's rite of passage community heritage and public art project 50 year 6 pupils from Neyland Community School participated in a 6 week visual arts project exploring themselves, their town and its connections with the wider world.

The work came together in a series of panels that were displayed in Neyland as part of a touring multimedia exhibition.

narberth food festival education day 2008

Working with over 120 primary school children a series of seven transfer-printed silk flags were made during the festival education day.

The flags were designed around different groups of food from herbs and spices through to bread and cakes and each child contributed an original design to one of the flags which were then used to decorate the festival site throughout the weekend.

bluestone 2008

An arts and crafts training programme was designed and delivered for junior rangers alongside the provision of twice weekly painting classes for vistors.

The team of junior rangers was trained to deliver a range of arts and crafts activities including: lantern-making; floating lanterns; transfer printed windsocks and flags; butterflies and masks

carnival of the sea pembroke dock summer 2008

With the help of over 200 participants in ten community and school workshops, a miraculous break in a day of otherwise unseasonably atrocious weather and the magnificent Samba Tawe, the community of Pembroke Dock took the space to create a colourful and noisy celebration of midsummer, in a visually spectacular and moving... carnival of the sea

view the project gallery here

rite of passage 2008-2010

Rite of passage is an ongoing community heritage and public art project that has been developed in partnership with the Brunel Festival Association with the goal of commissioning a world-class permanent public art work for the town.

This first phase of the project involved working with the community on a series of linked projects using the visual arts, film and music to explore neylands historic links with ireland.

find out more by visting the project website here

fairtrade fortnight 2008

Community arts workshops took place during fairtrade fortnight in Broadhaven and Pembroke to raise awareness of fairtrade.

Basic techniques were used such as potato prints to make colourful banners, flags and bandanas with the fairtrade logo as a central theme.

view the project photo gallery here

light up the night pembroke dock 2007

Community artists from spacetocreate worked in partnership with pembroke dock festival group, llanion communities first partnership and bush and park tenants and residents association to create a winter procession of over 100 lanterns made by school children young people and community groups

view the project photo gallery here

one world week 2007

Working in partnership with global connections colourful banners were designed and made to raise awareness of the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade.

The banners were made in a series of workshops with community groups in Milford Haven and Pembroke Dock.

pembroke dock midsummer festival 2007

A midsummer night's dream provided the theme for the second pembroke dock midsummer festival procession.

Oberon and Titania the king and queen of the fairies appeared as giant processional puppets and were accompanied by sprites and fairies made by children in a series of workshops in local schools.