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Celebrating Cleddau Reaches

4 July 2018|Capital Commission, News, Studio Weave, Studio Weave|

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 on a scorching day that [...]

Cleddau Reaches

29 June 2018|Capital Commission, News, Projects, Studio Weave, Studio Weave|

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. But without a fixed brief [...]

Celebrating the river

4 June 2018|Capital Commission, Collaborators, News, Projects, Studio Weave, Studio Weave|

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 of Wales through the Ideas: [...]

Haverfordwest history in lights

4 November 2017|News, River of Lights, SPAN Arts Cheerful Project, Toby Downing|

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 hundreds of children and their [...]

Something Fishy

3 October 2017|Collaborators, Haverfordwest Festival Week, Maddie Janes, News|

As part of the Lab’s place-making programme for Haverfordwest Festival Week, local Mosaic Artist, Maddie Janes facilitated drop in mosaic workshops over 2 days at the Lab. More than 50 people of all ages, including children young people and their families created 25 mosaic fish. The shoal of mosaic fish are now decorating [...]

Ruth’s story

29 September 2017|Changing perceptions, Feedback on the programme, Ruth Sargeant, Support for art and regeneration, The story so far, What art can be|

Ruth Sargeant, Artist “I first heard about Confluence through a West Wales network of artists that I belong to. And then a friend of mine, Penny,  told me that she had heard about the Riverside studio spaces that were available in Haverfordwest  and, even though I have my own set up, I thought ‘why not?’ [...]

Seren Boat Launch

18 September 2017|Clive Anderson, Haverfordwest Festival Week, Ideas Lab, Projects|

As part of the Lab's placemaking programme for Haverfordwest Festival week 2017, on 22 July around 40 people gathered at the Old Quay near the Bristol Trader to witness the launch of Seren Sailcraft’s second prototype boat. Kevin Thompson, from iDeA architects explained how the boat build had come about via a series [...]

Doing Things Differently

23 June 2017|Janetka Platun, News, Searching for the Centre|

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 downloadable version here here. The [...]

Stepping Up

23 June 2017|Changing perceptions, Mari Beynon Owen, News, Rebecca Spooner, Support for art and regeneration|

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 arts development programme in Haverfordwest [...]

Capital Commission: Emerging Concept

21 June 2017|Capital Commission, News, Studio Weave|

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 to the extensive range of [...]