Migration: Echoes and Traces

in the Autumn of 2010 the Brunel Festival Association, supported by spacetocreate, a Pembrokeshire based community arts organisation, Pembrokeshire County Council and the Milford Haven Port Authority will be running a community arts festival under the tiltle Migration: Echoes and traces.

The festival begins at the end of August with an 8 week storytelling project, and builds up to a celebration of community arts at the end of October that will include a showcase for a variety of projects including: "Salt in the Air" - a Sea shanties project; "Hands up for Neyland"- a temporary public art project to bring the town to life with a set of 10 colourful flags and "The way we see it"- a Photography project exploring the perspectives of young people. The week-long festival running from Friday October 22-29 will also host a range of exhibitions and events to get everyone involved.

Download an english flier about the festival here and the welsh version here

Arts inspire Neyland

The preview of an exciting new multi media exhibition in Neyland’s newly refurbished library took place on Friday 21 November from 7pm – 9pm, showcasing a newly composed piece of music, a documentary film and a series of  large-scale paintings created by the pupils of Neyland Community School.

The exhibition provided a fitting tribute to the involvement of over 100 local people who contributed to the programme of community arts projects  that took place in October and November as part of Neyland’s community heritage and public art project, rite of passage.

Download the press release here

Full steam ahead

The opening of the rite of passage historical exhibition in Neyland's newly refurbished Library on Friday 19 September, marks the launch of a season of community arts projects that will inolve a wide cross section of the community of Neyland. Find out more by dowloading a flier promoting opportunities to get involved here and the schedule of community arts events here.

Commissioning Public Art Seminar

Wiard Sterk the Executive Director of SAFLE, will be visiting the proposed site and subsequently leading a seminar on November 28 that will use the Neyland project as a case study to explore different aspects of public art commissioning in Pembrokeshire. Information about the seminar is available as a download here.

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