Carnival Procession, Blodeuwedd Puppet 27 September

On Saturday 27 September families from all over Gwynedd gathered at TheatrHarlech to create a 3 metre tall rod puppet of Blodeuweudd- the girl fromWales' greatest saga The Mabinogion who was created from floweres by a magician to become the bride of the hero Lleu. The event marked the launch of the biggest community project to happen in the history of the theatre.It is the start of a 10 month project involving 400 young people which will culminates in a multi media presentation of the Mabinogi in July 2009. Theproject also co-incided with the launch of the cultural Olympiad- a 4 year project of arts activities across the UK in preapartion for the 2012 OlympicGames.

Working with carnival artists Jude Davies and Ben Wood the local people also created bird masks and a huge owl puppet and brought the town of Harlech to a standstill as they processed through the town to the castle where theyenacted a masqued play of the scene from the Mabinogi when the girl offlowers is punished for betraying her husband by being turned into an owl. '