Good to see the youth of Cardigan rising up. Reminds me of the good old days (words courtesy of Bob Dylan, named of course after Wales' own poet Dylan):

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

This comes from the august journal that is the Tivy-Side Advertiser:

"The Big Art project could be the best thing that's ever happened to Cardigan - that's the view of younger people in the town it was claimed this week.

After months of negative comments about the £600,000 project, younger people are now coming forward to voice their support.

This comes in the wake of warnings that the project will fail if it does not get the backing of the community.
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"Big Art is a fantastic idea and something that will bring tourists and customers into Cardigan," said 22-year-old Liz Greenhalgh, who will be taking over a town shop in the next few months.

"It's far better that the money is invested in our town rather than any other. I'm all for it - and so are a lot of young people."

Liz's views were backed up by artist Rowan O'Neill, 31, who wants to use Rafael Lozano Hemmer's floating buoys to create her own project."

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"We could have changed the way people look at this city. And they didn't let us." - here's a great account by Alexandra Topping from The Guardian of Toms Keeley & James' dogged campaign to transform industry into art.

" From the window of the Sheffield Supertram, Tom James watches despondently as the city's out-of-town shopping centre, Meadowhall, comes into view. Just beyond this mecca of consumerism, with its Disney-style dome and legions of parked cars, rises an altogether different landmark. The Tinsley cooling towers - bleak, elegant, real - are often the first and last thing people see as they enter and leave the city. But soon, like Sheffield's industrial golden age, they will be consigned to history, demolished to make way for a new power station. James reflects: "Imagine, when the towers are gone, Meadowhall will be the only thing you'll be able to see from the tram and the M1. How depressing."

Over the last three years, the 1940s towers have become symbolic of the battle for the city's soul - between those determined to create a 21st-century gleaming metropolis and those intent on preserving and celebrating some of the city's industrial heritage.

At the heart of that battle are Tom James and Tom Keeley, self-proclaimed "post-industrial city lovers" in their mid-20s. For two and a half years, they have been campaigning to have the redundant 76 metre-high towers, which stand just 17 metres from the motorway, transformed into a space for public art. "The idea was to transform the cooling towers into something amazing," Keeley says. "Our Angel of the North - something that would really make people think about Sheffield differently". "

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