St David's 2
Principal sponsor of Artes Mundi 3
Energetic sponsorship
The energy going into St David’s 2, the new development currently under construction in Cardiff’s city centre, has also been flowing strongly into Artes Mundi 3 and its programmes for the community, students and school children enabling Artes Mundi to:
- Appoint five artists to enage with different South Wales communities, running workshops and creating artworks that have been displayed around the SD2 site. Shoppers at the St David’s Centre engaged with 15 minute workshops.
- Develop and produce a brand new CD-Rom based bi-lingual education pack for every primary, secondary and special needs school in Wales. Packed with ideas and activities that link to the national curriculum, an interactive gallery of 101 images has been created to bring aspects of the Artes Mundi Exhibition “virtually” into the classroom. Also available on line.
- Create the first Artes Mundi Student Forum with art and design students at University of Wales Institute Cardiff (UWIC) who have volunteered, attended artist talks, helped publicise the Exhibition and, most excitingly, created their own public art installation.
- Commission Sans façon and Welsh composer John Metcalf to create Odd Sympathies – a series of free walks during which the public are “conducted” in silence through an ear-opening, promenade performance where the sounds of Cardiff become the musical score.
And, finally, it was as principal sponsor that Sir Robert Finch, Chairman of Liberty International and representing St David’s Partnership, presented the £40,000 Artes Mundi 3 Prize to Indian artists NS Harsha at a dinner for nearly 200 people on April 24th 2008
St David’s 2, currently under construction in Cardiff’s city centre, is one of the UK’s major city developments and when complete in 2009 will include Wales’ first John Lewis (and the biggest after Oxford Street!), a new state-of-the-art central library, 93 new shops, 21 restaurants and cafes, 304 luxury apartments and 3,000 new car parking spaces. Click here for more information.