Art and regeneration in Haverfordwest
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…
Ghost Town is the theme of this year’s River of Lights lantern parade; a celebration of Pembrokeshire’s county town highlighting the true spirit of Haverfordwest. Join 1000’s of people to watch this magical event or make a lantern at one of the workshops and participate! This will be an unmissable…
More than 1200 people gathered in Castle Square on Saturday 29 October, to create ‘River of Lights 2016’, a celebration of Pembrokeshire’s County Town and its links with the rural communities that it serves. Meeting at the Lab in Haverfordwest at 6.30pm to light the lanterns, the procession, accompanied by…
On the night of October 31 2015, over 600 people gathered on the riverside outside Ocky Whites, their lit lanterns bobbing, in the shadows of the castle above, as an 11ft skeleton puppet emerged from behind the river side tower and made its way across the bridge to meet the…
The River of Lights lantern parade took place on Saturday 31 October 2015 from 6pm at the Lab. Taking the story of the Skeleton Woman and the Fisherman as its starting point, River of Lights used the river Cleddau as the backdrop and inspiration for a spectacular lantern procession celebrating…
As part of the River of Lights project 2015, the following workshops were held. Drop-in lantern making workshops in the Lab Haverfordwest 10.30am-4pm on Monday 26, Thursday 29 and Friday 30 October 2015 Drop-in workshops Maenclochog, Clarbeston Road and Narberth facilitated by SPAN Arts Cheerful project 10.30am-4pm Sunday 25 October…
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.
