It is time for another Friends of the Hafod-Morfa Copperworks Meeting! Please join us at 18.00 on Thursday 25 September at Landore Social Club http://www.landoresocial.co.uk/contact.html to hear about recent developments, plans for the future, and ways in which you might be able to contribute to the future development of the site. You can also take the opportunity to view the recently completed work on site. All welcome!
The site will be open as part of the wide range of Open House activities this weekend Saturday-Sunday 13-14 September, programme of Open House/Open Doors events. You can turn up and enjoy the new trails and features at any time, although project staff will be on site to discuss work in progress on Sunday 14 September between 11.00 and 13.00.
This video celebrates the June 2014 Living History Festival at Hafod-Morfa. It was filmed by Swansea University students for the completion of phase one of the regeneration of Morfa Copperworks at Hafod Swansea.
The day included a visit by the minister for natural resources, culture and sport, John Griffiths AM.
This is from the Copperopolis project over the river. There will be a White Rock exhibition, and John Ashley will give a short talk along with the Maesydderwen School project. Rob Hulme and Brian Perrins will lead walks of the White Rock site. Download details of the day – Hafod morfa copperworks festival june 14 2014 flyer.
“We are entering the final few months of the current development project at Hafod-Morfa Copperworks and think we need to celebrate!
“We are planning an event on 14th June from 1pm to 5pm and we hope you can join us to celebrate the work completed over the last 18 months and breathe life back into the site.
“There will be performance, children’s entertainment, guided tours, workshops, copper making demonstrations, digital interpretation demonstrations, community films and talks. We hope it will offer fun, learning and inspiration.
“We have invited schools and history societies to perform and showcase work completed as part of projects such as the connected communities project. If you are involved in a group and would like to perform/contribute, then please get in touch.”
Project Officer – Hafod Copperworks Development Project
Steph Mastoris, Director of the National Waterfront Museum, will give his celebrated talk Glad Tidings! A History of the Christmas Card. The talk starts at 11.00 in the Ocean Room at the Museum. haswansea.org.uk
Connected Communities Project
Funding Opportunities Workshop
Everyone Welcome
Join us at Mount Zion Chapel, Bonymaen for a workshop to learn about funding opportunities available for local community projects.
Organised by Swansea University’s ‘Connected Communities’ project, this workshop is open to everyone who is interested in acquiring funding for community heritage projects, including:
Mount Zion Chapel, Bonymaen
December 13, 2013
10.30-am – 12.30pm
Led by Adam Hitchings, Heritage Lottery Fund
Refreshments available.
If you would like to attend please contact Kate Spiller, Connected Communities Project Co-ordinator : k.spiller@swansea.ac.uk to reserve your place.
The next Friends meeting will be on 31st October from 10-12 noon at the National Waterfront museum.
The meeting will focus on the proposals for interpretation and art for the site. We have focussed on eight human stories which will be represented through sculpted panels and audio recordings. We would like to hear suggestions for any other stories that you think need to be told at the site, either now or in future phases of the project. An interpretation plan has been completed which will be available through our website before the meeting.
We will also provide a general progress update and plan in some work days that some people have requested to get involved in keeping the vegetation under control.
We have a new Facebook page which has some stunning photographs taken of the site this summer by photographer James Davies. If you are on face book please come and find the page. More photos of the progress on the site can be seen on our flickr site detailed below.
The interpretation of the Hafod-Morfa Copperworks site represents the shared histories of many people in the Swansea area and so we think it is important that you get a chance to input your ideas into the development of the plan for the site.We have written eight stories about the lives of characters involved in the site and presented this in the interpretation plan. Perhaps there are others that you would like to see, either now or in the future. The plan also proposes some artwork. This has been designed with the help of children at HafodPrimary School.
We particularly welcome input on the following.
You can view the interpretation plan here until 31st October and/or attend a presentation at 10am, 31st October 2013 at the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea.
Pleaese send any comments or suggestions to the Project Officer, Stuart Griffin (S.M.Griffin@Swansea.ac.uk)