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Merthyr’s Black Gold – in the news

in Community Interest Company, Charity, School, Education, Miners, Exhibition, Heritage Lottery Fund, Cyfarthfa Castle Museum, Cyfarthfa Castle, Merthyr Tydfil

Merthyr’s Black Gold, vision Fountain’s project in collaboaration with Cyfarthfa Museum and Art Galler and Heritage Lottery Fund in the news. The project featureed in the Western Mail’s Week-End magazine and on Walesonline. See link: Walesonlinelink Thanks to Will Hayward for covering this important ongoing project.

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 […]

Edwardsville Primary come to Cyfarthafa Castle Museum

in Uncategorised, School, Education, Audio Visual Education, Miners, 3-d, workshop, Heritage Lottery Fund, Cyfarthfa Castle Museum, Community Workshop

Last week was Edwardsville Primary School’s chance to experience an audio visual workshop at Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery. Over 40 children attended the full day workshop. They brought in lots of stories that their relatives had told them, they took photographs of one another in costumes related to […]

First Audio-Visual Workshop with Cyfarthfa Castle Museum

in Education, Audio Visual Education, 3-d Render, Heritage Lottery Fund, Cyfarthfa Castle

Vision Fountain and Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery held the first audio-visual heritage workshop with Ynysowen Primary School as part of the HLF funded Merthyr’s Black Gold project. During the workshop the children drew items related to their coal heritage, recorded stories that their relatives had told them and […]

Working with Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & The Heritage Lottery Fund

in Miners, coal, workshop, Heritage Lottery Fund, Cyfarthfa Castle Museum, Community Workshop

Vision Fountain have started a project about Merthyr’s Coal Heritage called “Merthyr’s Black Gold” with project partners Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and the Heritage Lottry fund. Four primary schools and two scout troops in the area will be actively involved in the project. We will be teaching the young learners how […]

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!

Winding House Installation on front page of Rhymney Valley Express

in Elliot Colliery, The Winding House Museum, White Rose Community Resource Centre, Miners, Exhibition

Arthur Mellard, Les Lewis and Peter Francis, ex-miners from Elliot Colliery from the installation at the Winding House Museum, photos by Richard Jones / Vision Fountain

Walesonline and Wales on Sunday feature Winding House project

in Uncategorised, Elliot Colliery, The Winding House Museum, Miners, Exhibition, coal

Wales online and Wales On Sunday featured our project with the Winding House Museum commemorating 50 years since the closure of Elliot Colliery http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/rats-cockroaches-characters-friends-crushed-13824915 All quotes from the article are taken from the interviews we conducted with the ex-miners: Rats, cockroaches, characters, and friends crushed to death – the extraordinary […]

The Winding House Museum

in Uncategorised

Great morning with the old miners of Elliot Colliery to celebrate their contribution to the community. The Winding House Museum, New Tredegar featured a digital installation from Vision Fountain as part of the exhibition to clebrate the 50th anniversary of the closure on the mine: