Community Group

Screening of “Black Gold” Edwardsville, Treharris

in Uncategorised, Community Group, Community Interest Company, School, Education, Audio Visual Education, Miners, Exhibition, coal, Heritage Lottery Fund, Cyfarthfa Castle Museum, Community Workshop

Vision Fountain and Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery had a very full screening of the HLF funded project “Merthyr’s Black Gold” today. We had the entire primary school of over 200 children attending the first screening. The second screening was attended by around 25 relatives and parents and about […]

Merthyr’s Black Gold Opening at RedHouse, Merthyr

in Community Group, Cyfarthfa Castle Museum, Community Workshop, Cyfarthfa Castle, Heritage Lottry Fund, Red House, Merthyr Tydfil

The multi-media film portion of Merthyr’s Black Gold project openened at the RedHouse, Merthyr, 21st November. The two screenings were attended by participants from Cyfarthfa Primary School, Edwardsville Primary School, Pantyscallog Primary School, Ynysowen Primary and Quar and Troedyrhiw Scout Groups and their relatives and teachers. The 20 minute […]

Our Mountain Opening

in Community Group, School, Arts Council Wales, Creative Collaborations

We’ve been very busy. We had a great opening of the “Our Mountain” project at the Parc and Dare Theatre in Treorchy. The Welsh Gov. / Arts Coucil Wales’ Lead Creative scheme (Creative Collaboration) project was openied at thwe 105 year-old old miners theatre with all the young participants, their […]

Motor Mouths Workshops at the British Motor Museum

in British Motor Museum, Community Group, Education, Exhibition, workshop

Digital artists, Richard Jones, aided by Vision Fountain, has just held audio visual workshops at the British Motor museum, where children were encouraged to draw their wown car that we oput them inside and then lauched them into cyber-space!

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 […]

The Factory Youth Centre

in Automotive, British Motor Museum, Youth Group, Community Group

We’ve had several sessions with the wonderful young people at the The Factory Young People’s Centre in Longbridge, Birmingham. We’ve had portrait sessions, location hunting sessions, time lapse practical and street photography session. We’ll be adding some of the pictures here. Below are a few from the street photography sessions. […]

Vision Fountain

in Community Group, Community Interest Company, School, Education, Audio Visual Education

Vision Fountain create new and progressive styles of story-telling. We use advanced and experimental photographic techniques combining audio-visuals to create unique digital display. Projects engage with communities and are aimed at the general public.