Pontypridd Art Workshops
February 4, 2008
Pontypridd schoolchildren are getting involved in the ongoing regeneration strategy for the popular market town.
This week Welsh poet and playwright Menna Elfyn visited Pontypridd High School and held workshops with teenagers to develop an inscription to appear on new art work planned for the town centre.
One of the many ongoing schemes to re-establish the town as major shopping destination in the South Wales Valleys, is the introduction of a selection of art-works.
Following funding by Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council and the Welsh Assembly Government artist Howard Bowcott, has been commissioned to erect two arched sculptures inspired by the links made at the famous Brown Lenox Chainworks..
The works will be placed at the opening of the traffic-management scheme area on the junction of Crossbrook Street with Taff Street during the next few months.
This area will undergo a major refurbishment so shoppers, residents and visitors to the town can visualize how these designs could be introduced throughout the entire town centre as part of the ongoing regeneration strategy.
Menna Elfyn, an established poet and playwright who travels the world for readings or television work and theatre productions, held classes with 13 and 14-year-olds at the school to inspire pupils to consider what words they would like to see appear on the new art work.
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