On Land’s Edge Festival Events 2024

Venue: Martha’s Gallery at Theatr Gwaun
Date: September 17th until October 29th
Time: All public opening times at Theatr Gwaun

Members of Fishguard Arts Society are invited to submit pieces of work that reflect the On Lands Edge theme of the festival.

Venue: The Parrog and onwards to Fishguard Square
Date: Friday September 20th
Time: 6:30pm

Art Afoot / Celf ar Droed lantern parade celebrate the beginning of the new sculpture trails linking Fishguard and Goodwick, commissioned by Pembrokeshire County Council through UK Government funding.

Venue: Theatr Gwaun
Date: Friday September 20th 
Time: 8:00pm

Seamlessly woven into Small World Theatre’s Lantern Parade for the new art trails for Fishguard and Goodwick project, Art Afoot / Celf ar Droed, our festival launch continues on from Fishguard Square as Joon Dance lead us down to Theatr Gwaun.

Venue: Theatr Gwaun
Date: Saturday September 21st 
Free Workshop: 9:30am – 12:00pm
Free Performance: 1:15pm – 2:30pm (Starting at Fishguard Square at 1:15pm, arriving at Theatr Gwaun at approx. 1:30pm)

The FADDS Youth Team return for another Festival Promenade Theatre session to brighten up our Saturday Programme!

Venue: Goodwick Scout Hut
Date: Saturday September 21st 
Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm

Join FAS artists, Kate Kelly and Mel Wilmott.  No prior experience or equipment is required, just bring your enthusiasm and willingness to explore the possibilities of paint and paper.

Venue: Ocean Lab Aquarium
Date: Saturday September 21st
Time: Pop in anytime between 11:00am and 3:00pm

Listen in to the hidden sounds made by tiny creatures that live in our teeming Pembrokeshire rockpools. 

Venue:  Meet at Slipway, The Parrog, Goodwick
Date: Saturday September 21st 
Time: 11:00am

Join us for this year’s Festival Sea Swim (Off Land’s Edge) as local swimmers and cold water swim enthusiasts take the plunge, festival style!

Venue: Fishguard Square
Date: Saturday September 21st 
Time: 11:00am – 1:00pm

Join us on The Square from 11:00am for a rousing session from the Award Winning Goodwick Brass Band.

Venue: Theatr Gwaun
Date: Saturday September 21st 
Time: 11:00am

Carreg Coast (PG) – A Relaxed Screening

“Carreg Coast” is a stunning intimate film portrait of the Pembrokeshire coast between Goodwick Parrog and Needle Rock. Journey into caves, small bays, and remote beaches enjoying the wonderful colours, textures, and scenery that make up this spectacular coastline.

Venue: Theatr Gwaun
Date: Saturday September 21st 
Time: 7:00pm

Join us for an evening of Festival Folk as Filkin’s Drift reimagine traditional melodies through pizzicato grooves, intricate guitar tunes, and boundless improvisation and Broadoak and Fishguard Folk Singers bring their blend of traditional and contemporary folk and rousing song.

Venue: Ffwrn
Date: Saturday September 21st 
Time: 9:00pm

We are rounding off day 2 of the festival with a Twmpath and DJ Set at Ffwrn.

Venue: Theatr Gwaun
Date: Sunday September 22nd 
Time: 10:00am

Richard Gwyn: In this workshop we will consider some of the ways in which a writer might engage with myth, memory and the stories absorbed in childhood.

Venue: Peppers
Date: Sunday September 22nd 
Time: 1:00pm

Hanan Issa: Hanan is the author and editor of the children’s poetry book anthology And I Hear Dragons (Firefly Press).

Venue: Ffwrn
Date: Sunday September 22nd 
Time: 1:00pm

An afternoon of literary riches. Richard Gwyn will be reading from his latest book Ambassador of Nowhere and in conversation/Q&A with Sue Lewis.

Venue: Theatr Gwaun
Date: Sunday September 22nd 
Time: 2:00pm

Float downstream with the Story Man, in Sea Legs Puppet Theatre’s gentle, musical adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson’s classic tale of belonging and identity.

Venue: Theatr Gwaun
Date: Sunday September 22nd
Time: 3:00pm

Inspired by this year’s Puppet Theatre Show, The Ugly Duckling, Melissa Pettitt returns to the festival with ‘Swanning Around’.

Venue: Gwaun Valley, Lower Town bridge
Date: Sunday September 22nd 
Time: 3:00pm – 5:00pm

Like to sketch? Need to unwind for a couple of hours? Then please join FAS artists, Judith Leyland and Barbara Price and enjoy a relaxing two hours drawing and mark making.

Venue: Theatr Gwaun
Date: Sunday September 22nd 
Time: 7:30pm

Once again we close the weekend with our Simffoni Mara evening. This year sees new music from David Pepper and Jobina Tinnemans.