September 2017 – VisionFountain

Archive for September, 2017

Wales’ Largest Onshore wind Farm Opens 28.09.17

in Film, Wind Farm, Vattenfall, Arts Council Wales, Renewables, Pen-y-Cyoedd

Wales’ largest wind farm will open today on the top of Rhigos Mountain-side at the end of the Rhondda Valley. Creative director, Richard Jones, shot part of his Arts Coucil Wales backed Energy+Notion project there. Here’s an extract:

Creative Collaboration with Rhigos & Pen-Pych Primary Schools

in School, Education, Audio Visual Education, Digital Installation, Arts Council Wales, Creative Collaborations

Vision Fountain have been awarded a small grant from Welsh Government / Arts Council Wales through their Creative Collaborations partnership scheme. We are excited to be creating a mixed media film with the children from Rhigos Primary and Pen-Pych Community School, right at the end of the Rhondda Valley. The […]

Pen-y-Cymoedd

in Community Group, Education, Miners, Exhibition, Film, Pen-y-Cymoedd, Wind Farm, Vattenfall

Vision Fountain’s, creative director, Richard Jones’ short film, “The changing Industrial; Landscape of Wales” (supported with an Arts Council of Wales R+D grant in 2015 )will be shown at the opening of the Pen-y-Cymoedd Wind Farm next week. Vattenfall UK, who manage the wind farm, allowed Richard to shoot parts […]

Elliot Colliery’s 50th

in Community Group, Elliot Colliery, The Winding House Museum, White Rose Community Resource Centre, Miners, Exhibition, Digital Installation, Film

Just delivered a “digital installation” to The winding House Museum that celebrates the 50th anniversary of the closure of Elliot Colliery. More than that the short film celebrates the massive and important contribution the miners made to the community. It was hard work to find some of the ex-miners, many […]