Ar Ymyl y Tir 2026
On Land’s Edge

Do join us!!

Friday 25th to Sunday 27th
September 2026

This year’s festival is set to be our best yet. As well as our regular sessions across the weekend, we also have a host of events planned to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the filming of Moby Dick, right here in Fishguard.

With the help of a grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, we will be weaving in a range of Moby Dick themed events and capturing and preserving the stories and memories from 1956 when ‘Tinseltown’ came to the twin towns.

Main Festival Weekend

All Festival events for 2026

Friday September 25th

Saturday September 26th

Sunday September 27th

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Pre-festival Events

There’s so much on offer for this year’s festival, so we are spreading it out and running some pre-festival events.

If our lantern parade hits the spot for you, why not sign up for one of our lantern making sessions and join the parade?

Pre-festival
EIN HANES: THAR SHE BLOWS!

A pre-festival event for this year’s ‘Moby Dick’ themed On Land’s Edge / Ar Ymyl Y Tir, with a collaboration between Theatr Gwaun and Sea Trust Wales. 

Presented by Sea Trust Wales with speakers Cliff Benson and Nadia Tomsa.

Cliff Benson and Nadia Tomsa look into the history of commercial whaling. They also discuss the ethics and sustainability of wildlife tourism and conservation activity, chasing whales with cameras rather than harpoons!

A hundred years elapsed between Herman Melville writing his novel and Hollywood’s John Huston, making his 1954 film “Moby Dick” in Fishguard.

Whaling had evolved from the whalers of Nantucket, whose sailing whaleships scoured the oceans, to becoming a mechanised industry. Our illustrated presentation looks at some of the bizarre aspects of whaling and its ultimate decline because of its unsustainability and a global shift in opinion.

We then look at how Sea Trust’s work over twenty-five years has recorded whales in Wales, and our collective responsibility for their protection.

It’s Already in Progress!

Collecting Our Community Heritage

An important part of this year’s festival is our work to research and collate some of the many stories and memories from the period in 1956 when Fishguard became one of the settings for the filming of Moby Dick. Our festival core group journalistic supremo, Mike Lewis, is out and about, talking to our community and delving into the distant memories that still remain. We are working with Hanes Abergwaun and Ein Hanes to capture and preserve those memories, our town’s heritage, for generations to come.

Monday June 29th
to Friday July 3rd

Schools Lantern Making Workshops with Small World Theatre

We delighted to have the opportunity to invite our local schools to take part in the Festival Lantern Parade. The team at Small World will be running lantern making workshops with our local schools, Ysgol Bro Gwaun, Ysgol Glannau Gwaun, Holy Name and Ysgol Wdig.

Wednesday July 8th
at 6:00pm

Ein Hanes Talk – ‘Whale Conservation’ (Speaker: Sea Trust Wales’ Cliff Benson)

Our festival is an opportunity to work with other community organisations and further develop our relationships with existing ones. We are delighted to be collaborating with Ein Hanes and Sea Trust Wales this year to bring Sea Trust Wales’ Cliff Benson back to our stage with his presentation on Whale Conservation.