Hwyl Fawr Frank Lloyd Wright

June 2010

Community Performance and Webcast

Aberteifi/Cardigan

A seven-hour durational performance including 14 musical acts simultaneously webcast in celebration of Cardigan town’s maritime heritage and history of emigration.  The performance offered a contemporary take on Eisteddfodic traditions as the town, which claims to be the birthplace of the Eisteddfod, celebrated its 900th anniversary.  Participating community choirs and other local artists were invited to sing a short set of 20 minutes on the themes of sea, travel, trade, hiraeth, leaving and return.  The project was funded by the public art agency Safle and was conceived in response to the television series Channel 4’s Big Art Project a documentary which followed the fortunes of six communities as they embarked on a public art commissioning process.  The work proposed for Cardigan by new media artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer was never installed.  Hwyl Fawr can be taken to mean ‘big sail’ or ‘farewell’. 

Film and webcast by Tinder-farm

Further video documentation of the event please see: https://vimeo.com/13468667

Digwyddiad cyhoeddus oedd Hwyl Fawr Frank Lloyd Wright a gynhaliwyd yn Neuadd y Dref Aberteifi ar yr 8fed o Fehefin 2010 wrth i Dref Aberteifi dathlu ei nawcanmlwyddiant. Perfformiad o saith awr yn cynnwys 14 eitemau cerddorol mewn dathliad hanes morwrol y dref a'i hetifeddiaeth o allfudo.

Yn 2011 claddwyd DVD mewn capsiwl amser yng nghwrt neuadd y dref yn Aberteifi gan Bwyllgor Aberteifi 2010. Mae’r DVD yn cynnwys ffilm fer o naw munud sy’n dogfennu’r digwyddiad Hwyl Fawr Frank Lloyd Wright. Bydd y capsiwl hwn yn cael ei ddatgladdu yn 2110.

Delwedd trwy ganiatâd Tony Bowen a Rafael Lozano-Hemmer