Local Theatre Designer Di Ford came along to the Ideas Lab, with an idea for making puppets from artists mannequins, which was developed into a a series of 5 bookable 2-hour afternoon creative workshops for Haverfordwest Festival Week 2017. The workshops involved designing and making a character inspired by the nick-names of local people and [...]
Local writer, Kerry Steed, took to the streets of Haverfordwest during festival week in July 2017, stopping to ask people their thoughts about the town – memories, descriptions, impressions – and writing these down. These poems are composed entirely from the words and sentences collected. Some sentences are written as heard, others have been undone; [...]
A varied programme of 15 place-making events made up the Lab's contribution to Haverfordwest Festival Week 2017. Featured image: Studio Weave The Poetry of Haverfordwest image courtesy of Haverfordwest Town Museum.
Our ‘Emerging Concept’ to “encourage wildlife who are natural residents of the reaches back into the town, and the urban residents of the town out into the reaches” contains inherent dualities between natural and manmade, and between the reaches and the town. In developing our ideas to explore the notion of a ‘habitable river infrastructure’ [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 beautiful animation and original music. [...]
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 all ages used a magnetic [...]
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 break from digital imagery, [...]
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 from a 'Memory Table'. Fran [...]
