SPAN Arts: 2025 End-of-Year Highlights
As we reach the end of another vibrant year at SPAN Arts, we’re taking a moment to reflect on everything that has unfolded across our creative spaces. It has been a year defined by imagination, collaboration, and the incredible spirit of the Pembrokeshire community. We couldn’t be more grateful for the people who have walked through our doors, joined our projects, and brought their energy, curiosity, and talent to everything we do.
A Year of Creative Growth
From workshops and exhibitions to performances and community gatherings, 2025 has seen SPAN deliver one of its most diverse and ambitious programmes yet. Together, we have explored new ideas, nurtured emerging voices, and opened our doors to artists and audiences of all ages.
Our Welcome Wednesday and Creative Connections sessions have become weekly touchstones, places where creativity and wellbeing meet, offering gentle learning, shared moments, and meaningful connection. Whether sewing seaweed, painting, playing ukulele, or meeting artists, participants have brought enthusiasm that continually fuels our work.
Special projects also flourished, from community-led theatre development and Exhibitions like Trysor y Môr, with our Love Stories to Nature Commission, an immersive seaweed-based installation, highlighted the power of local stories told with imagination and care.
A Year of Performance and Participation
Live performance has remained central to SPAN Arts’ mission. We welcomed extraordinary artists back to Pembrokeshire, championed local creative voices, and created opportunities for audiences to experience theatre, music, workshops, storytelling and more.
Through intimate events, seasonal celebrations, youth programmes and creative experiments, we saw how art continues to bring people together, encouraging conversation, reflection, and joy.
A Community That Makes SPAN What It Is
None of this would be possible without you.
This year, hundreds of people took part in SPAN events, some returning regularly, others discovering us for the very first time. Your involvement gives purpose to every workshop, exhibition and performance. You are at the centre of our work.
We are deeply grateful to everyone who participated in sessions, supported our artists, contributed ideas, brought friends along, and helped us nurture a vibrant creative community here in Pembrokeshire. Your engagement is what keeps SPAN thriving.
Looking Ahead to 2026
As we step into a new year, we look forward to more creative opportunities, new collaborations, and continued community engagement. We’re excited for another year of making space for imagination, expression, and shared experiences.
Thank you for being part of our journey.
Thank you for believing in the power of creativity.
And thank you for making SPAN Arts a welcoming home for culture and community.
Here is a list of events, workshops and performances that have happened this year.
SPAN Highlights 2025
Jan – March
- Universe and Neurodiverse
- We Move Black History 365 celebration at the Queens Hall
- Young Carers half-term sessions
- Theatr Soffa does Shakespeare
- NAVF
- Love Stories – Natural Consequences
- Artist Support: Arti Party and Green Room Session with Unlimited
April – June
- SPAN Plant Sale
- Dydd Gwyl y Pasg
- HARP project in Tenby
- Autopsy of a Mother, a Bear and a Fridge
- Love Stories: Songs Of The Land / Canueon Y Tir
- Youth Co-Create Ysgol Greenhill and Perndergast
- Outdoor Shakespeare
- Artist Support: Green Room Session with ACW
July – Sept
- Arts Boost
- Cor Pawb One Day Choir
- We Move National Library of Wales No Welsh Art exhibition
- Sahar Saki residency
- We Move Braich Goch residency
- Swyn @ Colby Gardens
- Dwydd Gwyl Haf
- Blues Echoes with the Bartone Brothers
- Queer Creations Cee Cee Workshop
- CYNHAEAF CWIAR /QUEER HARVEST
- Writing OUT scratch night
Oct – Dec
- Enjoy every minute workshops
- Woman on the Hill
- Big Sky workshops
- Haverguard Youth Co-create
- Queer Creation Mas ar Ffilm
- Love Stories – Trysor y Mor
- Advent
- Artist support: Green room session with Bethan M and Creative Brew
Ongoing: Can Sing, Welcome Wednesdays and Creative Connections
