During March Arts Alive Wales and Dance Blast are working on a project with Melin Housing for girls and women. Can you help us by sharing your memories from your younger days? The stories will be used as inspiration for a dance piece that will be developed and performed by girls and young women.
Going Out – a night to remember
How has life changed for women enjoying a night out? We want to know about what it was like …
Encouraging the next generation of young, Welsh artists…
The Art Factor’s CRIW CELF programme provides extra-curricular activities for the most artistically talented and able pupils to experience inspirational visual arts workshops. The experimental sessions facilitated by professional artists, are aimed at developing the ability and confidence of pupils and encouraging the take up of arts based qualifications within Powys.
CRIW CELF has been devised for Key Stage 2 and 3 pupils based in South Powys. The project will run …
Background: During the hot summer of 1976, in the heart of the Brecon Beacons National Park, fires destroyed an area of blanket bog on Pen Trumau mountain, opposite the ‘Dragon’s Back’. The loss of bog vegetation left a raw, black, wound on this unique landscape . Artist, Pip Woolf, who had worked with wool in the past, believed that wool could offer a “healing comfort” and restore the damaged landscape to the luscious green environment it once was. The Woollen …
Creative Skills is our new project promoting creativity and wellbeing.
It offers opportunities to participate in high quality enjoyable artist-led activities, explore the environment and improve health and well-being.
Mae ‘Sgiliau Creadigol’ yn cynnig cyfleoedd i gymryd rhan mewn gweithgareddau sy’n cael eu harwain gan artist, archwilio’r amgylchedd, a gwella iechyd a lles. Ymgymerir â’r prosiect yn Whitestone (Dyffryn Gwy), Talgarth a’n Stiwdio
The project includes some open access events but is mainly targeted at groups, communities and individuals in …
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We have been back in Talgarth in 2012 running a wide variety of workshops based around 'Creative Skills'. Join us at...
A Creative Skills Project to promote well-being This project takes place in the lovely Arts Alive studio in Crickhowell...
Creative Skills: Harnessing Natural Energies November 2011 to July 2012 Arts Alive Wales Whitestone project is an outdoor...
Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal bicentenary celebration
Throughout autumn 2012 Arts Alive Wales ran a lantern making project culminating in an event at the Brecon Canal Basin on 1st December to celebrate the bicentenary of the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal.
The event featured giant, brightly coloured lanterns made by communities along the canal as well as fire sculptures, performers, live music and a stunning feature lantern made by project director Lynette Margerison.
“Lighting up the Canal was a wonderful evening …
Arts Alive Wales have been working closely with Penny Hallas, Head of Arts Therapies, Aneurin Bevan Health Board, to provide creative activities for adults with learning disabilties in 2012 and were awarded funding from the Welsh Government to run art workshops for women with learning disabilties to mark International Women’s Day.
We held free arts events on 21st February and 6th March 2012 in our studio in Crickhowell to celebrate International Women’s Day. Artist Morag Colquhoun ran the workshops.…
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In the summer of 2011, Arts Alive worked at Vintage Vision in Abergavenny on a ‘Green Fashion’ project. Weekly sessions at Lion Street offered women the opportunity to learn new skills and get creative with textiles, writing and photography.
The creative team led a series of garment creation or customisation textile workshops incorporating photography and writing to explore the significance of specific items of clothing, their social and practical functions, their value, and the memories and narratives they transmit as …
Green Fire, is a project cycle that began in Autumn 2009. It aims to promote creativity and wellbeing by inspiring individuals and communities to respond creatively to their environment and explore sustainable ways of living.
Now in its second year, Green Fire II: ’Thrive and Survive’ is a creative exploration of basic human needs. It explores the idea that the arts and creativity are as fundamental and essential to our wellbeing as food, shelter, water and clothing.
We are working …
Arts Alive worked for the first time in Talgarth, using new collaborations between artists, wildlife educators and craftspeople to bring the different parts of the community together and to build stronger awareness of its unique and precious natural resources.
Tree Dressing
Lanterns Procession
Stone Carving
Talgarth was highlighted in the local and national nation news with the renovation of the Talgarth Mill Project as an innovative model for community enterprise and a springboard for local regeneration.
Arts Alive has been …
In winter 2010/11, Arts Alive Wales worked in partnership with Wye Valley AONB to deliver a pilot project at Whitestone Forestry Commission site near Llandogo, Monmouthshire as part of the ‘Inside Out’ programme.
Whitestone was the second stage of a Wye Valley AONB project which began at Bracelands, Forest of Dean in 2009. The objective is to use the arts as a catalyst to engage and connect people from excluded and under represented groups in Monmouthshire to connect with the …
Arts Alive Wales worked in Brecon during Spring and Summer 2010. Our arts project ‘Green Fire’ had an environmental theme and was aimed at the St John’s Ward communities of North West Brecon.
Green Fire offered opportunities for people to participate in artist led activities that will create a lasting legacy for the community.
What we did:
1. Created a ‘Peace Garden’ sited at Priory Primary School
2. Explored and celebrated the ancient Maendu Well site, making flags for …
The ‘Branching Out’ project provided outdoor sessions at the Skirrid woodland Forest school site, which is beautifully maintained by the National Trust. The project ran from May 2007. Sessions were planned and led by Miranda Thomason and Tamsin Young, established artists who have Forest School Leader accreditation and wide experience in community work, a great combination of skills that makes for lively and stimulating workshops.
Sessions were run with different groups of children, young people and families who normally attended …
Over summer 2009, ‘Healing Words’, brought together artists, poets and people from Blaenau Gwent to take a journey of words and images. The project aims to give people coping with mental health issues the opportunity to express themselves through poetry and art.
‘Healing Words’ was a partnership project organised by Head 4 Arts, Gwent Arts in Health, Academi and Arts Alive. Academi writers Graham Hartill, Anita Flowers and Mike Church worked with participants to develop shared writing whilst Arts Alive …
In 2007, Arts Alive Wales worked with local schools and adult groups to create flags and bunting to decorate Brecon for the HSBC Brecon Jazz Festival. Brecon Jazz attracts visitors from far and wide, and groups created individual, bright and vibrant flags and bunting that was displayed in public places around Brecon.
Flags are potent symbols and expressions of identity and make a wonderful project for young people and adults with many opportunities to explore issues of identity, other cultures, …
During 2007, Brecon DFAS sponsored an Arts Alive project that gave over 400 pupils in South Powys the opportunity to make a textile picture of Beaufort Street, the main route through Crickhowell. The 3m long banner depicts the A40 from the Fire Station to the Bear Hotel.
Nearly 300 children in Crickhowell Primary School contributed to the artwork and each class was responsible for designing and making one of the buildings on this busy stretch of road. The 3 landscape …
The Crickhowell High Street Stitch-Up began in 2004 as part of an Arts Alive Wales development project. We asked our artists to find a community art project that would be ambitious, exciting and fun but meaningful and relevant to Crickhowell. Lisa Hellier, who had already made a map of the town, came up with the ‘High Street Stitch Up’, a textile mapping project to depict the heart of our town, basing the overall design on her own map. Lisa provided …
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