cardigan mash

A village, a camp, a community.

Creatives in arts, design, making, baking, playing, growing, cooking.

Talking, teaching, selling and making mischief Cardigan Mash. Good to eat.

Regeneration 1 In 2014 cardigan castle will open its gates to show the fruits of a 10 year campaign and ÂŁ12 million budget. It will be It will be a major attractor for the town. People will come, they will want to do more.

This is a big opportunity for our creative buskers.

Regeneration 2 Lots of good stuff that cardigan makes isn't value added.

Simple, pure, honest, hand made, local grown. Tradition. Meaning.

These are things that our visitors are looking for.

Regeneration 3 A place for festivals, workshops, events, performance and markets.

Somewhere to stay, to look, to eat, to learn, to talk, to gather.

An alternative for corporate and educational events.

A platform for promotion of local artisan producers.

A tourist destination and community resource.

Regeneration 4 A place that adapts and performs for every type of creativity.

A beautiful and secure historic Quayside environment.

For the last 5 years fforest has co-organized and hosted the cardigan quays festival to showcase the great things we have in and around Cardigan Great local produce.

Great local artists and craftspeople.

Great local musicians and performers.

Great people making and creating great things.

Cardigan has an opportunity to present itself as a real destination not just for tourists but for Cardigan and its people, and those from surrounding areas, all year round.

To cater for the higher income active and cultural tourist, Cardigan must be able to offer facilities and accommodation that appeals to these people and, just as importantly, show that Cardigan represents a fresh contemporary idea of Wales as well as one steeped in the history and tradition.

Cardigan Mash will be a rich mix: craftspeople, artisan food producers, artists, photographers, potters, antiques dealers, booksellers, shipwrights, growers, musicians, poets, joiners, haberdashers, historians and designers, coming together to promote Cardigan as an emerging destination for what contemporary rural culture can become.

Cardigan Mash can establish Cardigan as a tourist hub and destination. It will celebrate Cardigans rich cultural and maritime heritage. It will provide contemporary, welldesigned places to stay, to eat, to relax and for people to share their passions for this very special part of Wales

Recipe for the mash 1 River and food festival Cardigan quays festival Colony contemporary arts festival Rivers edge festival/do festival Cardiganpizzatipi From 200 people eating wood fired pizza, drinking penlon beer and listening to live music Saturday night in august, to hosting a 3 day music and ideas festival that will embrace the whole town.

Festivals are the driver. We will do more than stripey market stalls.

We will confound peoples expectations. They will come back.

The mash is a place that will both complement Cardigan's historic regeneration and create a new reputation.

Recipe for the mash 2 1000m2 of open air and covered areas available for food markets, craft markets, art exhibitions and performance events. This new venue will complement existing temporary or occasional markets, offering producers an additional outlet for their products and inspiring more local people to design, make, grow and sell direct from an attractive, affordable, well promoted base Produce and production: individual studios/workshops/shops Creative industries, creative growers, creative makers. A mix of units flowing into the main spaces, on a daily basis, providing sales space, workspace, demonstrations and public participation workshops.

Food and drink: Pizza tipi in the courtyard, smwglins brewery and tafarn, riverside canteen and local produce market: all can be used for events; flexible, spontaneous, boundaries blurred...

The quayside bunk; Somewhere to stay: somewhere simple. Somewhere groups can stay. somehere coast walkers can stay.

Like a hotel without the fuss. A cross between a sleeper train and a Scandinavian lakeside cabin. 8 rooms for up to 8 people each, with a meeting/eating/learning/dancing room big enough to hold them all Music and performance Music and performance is the binding agent that will unite the spaces and places. At the quays festival we already run all day music programmes. At the do lectures we have had Scritti Politti, Gruff Rhys, King Creosote, Josie Long, Bill Drummond. buskers in the courtyard and fiddlers in the pub. Wherever people gather there will be music: a catholic mix with a Presbyterian emphasis.

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arrangement 1 courtyard area for open air markets and exhibitions 200m2

Giant tipi wood fired pizza and bbq restaurant with live music at weekends

The canteen restaurant and market hall workshop/ creative/ retail spaces

Enclosed exhibition/ event/ performance area adjoining studios/workshops:

Ground floor tafarn smwglin 2 upper floors of studio/ gallery/creative space; each 800 sq ft

arrangement 2 Tafarn smwglin pub.

Smells of tar.

Licensed for trade in beer and tall tales.

No.3 Cambrian quay Catering kitchen, 1st floor meeting/ dining room for 60 and spontaneous singing or crying whilst watching rugby

Riverside courtyard and garden for dining, drinking, getting married, watching boats

No’s.1&2 Cambrian quay Future development as accommodation for tolerant guests

Giant tipis. home to the pizzatipi and live local music of variable quality

Toilets, services and showers for visitors and bunkhouse guests

The canteen restaurant and market hall. creative/ retail/ artisan food pods

Upper floor cabin accommodation.

Strictly no roustabouts or jolly-jack-tars

courtyard area for servicing, open air markets and exhibitions.

Enclosed exhibition/ event/ performance area adjoining studios/workshops:

eventspace 1 A place to stay, to look, to eat, to learn, to talk, to gather.

eventspace 2 Main gallery/event/performance space 240m2. height is 4.5m tapering to 3m. space is accessible from quay street to the west and prince charles quay/ Cambrian quay to the east. Central access to canteen and market hall area and riverside terrace beyond. Central stage area to the north 4mx 8m. 6 workshop/studio/teaching areas each 4x4m adjoin the main space to the north. Each with independent service access from the rear.

Rear access yard and indepent loading doors to studio/workshop/teaching units

Giant tipi wood fired pizza and bbq restaurant with live music at weekends

Colony Contemporary Art festival 

During august 2012 Artist, Lee Williams, recently returned to his native Wales from London gathered together a group of artists to show work in buildings either side of the river Teifi on Cambrian Quay and Teifi Wharf.

This committed group of artists organized a convincing and professional series of installations in only 6 weeks. This event was the forerunner for the for the colony arts festival which will run during august 2013, with the principal festival weekend falling between the river and food and cardigan quays festivals.

‘35 artists, installation art, performance art, international filmmakers, live broadcasts. This could be the biggest visual art event in Wales in 2013’

Giant tipi wood fired pizza and bbq restaurant with live music at weekends

Open courtyard area for open air markets and exhibitions 2000sq ft

Enclosed market hall/ exhibition/event area adjoining studios/ workshops: 3000sq ft

High ceiling first flloor exhibition/ gallery/ studio space: 800sq ft

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Dance like your dad 

Music is the heartbeat of any community.

From pre-match singalongs, to improvised male voice choirs to international bands on their only visit to the West Wales Coast, music will be the heartbeat of Cardigan Mash.

Cardigan Mash will gladly host any type of music that knows how to have a good time and tell an interesting story.

The eight hundred capacity outdoor site will be an integral part of a Music & Ideas festival, one where geeks can feel uninhibited enough to dance (like their dad) and local crowds will see bands and artists they would normally have to cross the Severn Bridge for.

Cardigan Mash will provide a new occasionally hoarse and certainly wayward voice in the land of song.

Canteen/market 1 A combined potential event capacity of 7-800 people.

Canteen/market hall The canteen and market hall area will provide an open space of200m2 linked to the main event and performance space and to the courtyard spaces via the riverside terrace and walkway. As well as having a dedicated bar and kitchen offering the best of local produce, there will be sales pods for local growers and artisan producers to market and sell.for larger events the market hall and gallery space will have a combined floorspace of around 500m2, creating a potential capacity of 7-800 people.

Creativity is in the craft.

Cardigan quays village

Canteen/market hall 3

Canteen/market hall 4

Riverside bunk 1 A great place to visit needs a great place to stay.

Riverside bunk 2

View from riverside through window

Riverside bunk 3 8 adaptable flexible rooms, each holding up to 8 people in bunk mode (with meeting table, storage and small kitchen area, but can be adapted to provide more comfortable and spacious family accommodation for 4 or 6. high quality wc, shower and sauna provision provided in separate block. Meeting/event room /lounge available on same floor for up to 60 available.

Giant tipi wood fired pizza and bbq restaurant with live music at weekends

Ground floor cafĂŠ/bar 2 upper floors of studio/gallery/creative space; each 800 sq ft

Riverside bunk 4

8 serviced riverside studio/workshop/ creative/ retail spaces each 150sq ft

Giant tipi wood fired pizza and bbq restaurant with live music at weekends

Ground floor cafĂŠ/bar 2 upper floors of studio/gallery/creative space; each 800 sq ft

Cost of the mash 1 Cheap is good.

Patina, use, smells. A sort of alternative heritage.

What is sense of place? Can a new building ever have it?

Why do creative people inhabit spaces on the edge of town, Places with a history of other use?

Its emotional texture. The creative spirit feeds on it.

Sometimes called authenticity. Difficult to buy.

Lloyds wharf’s got a lot of that. We’ll be using it, We’ll be fixing up, keeping it simple, keeping the smell.

Great creative moments are born of recessions.

And it’s cheap.

Cost of the mash 2 cost of the mash: indicative costs Phase 1

£360,000

Creation of main event areas, market areas, workshops, canteen, riverside terracing, services including toilets, kitchens, infrastructure Phase 2

£240,000

Creation of 64 person bunkhouse including all services, infrastructure, new insulated roof structure with PV power generation for lighting system Phase 3

£360,000

Completion of internal fit-out to listed buildings around Cambrian quay courtyard to provide mixture of tourist accommodation and commercial space

total

£960,000

James lynch Graduated from st martins school of art 1981 From setting up a design studio in Shoreditch immediately after graduating, he went on to become a developer, creating over 200 apartments, business spaces and live/ work, studios mainly for rent to the creative industries including Dazed & Confused, Alexander McQueen, Jake Chapman, Rankin.

Moved with partner sian tucker and their 4 boys to west wales 2006 to reinvent the good life and be near the mother in law.

He has never had a proper job, but keeps busy.

related projects: www.coldatnight.co.uk www.thedolectures.co.uk www.granaryloftscardigan.co.uk www.pizzatipi.co.uk

James.lynch@bigft.co.uk 07956 385787