Bettina Reeves, from Abergaveny and lecturer in Theatre design at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, makes the artwork that hangs from the ceiling at Abergaveney's Food Festival. After realising just how much work was involved the first year she took up the offer at Arts Alive to make the project a group activity in Crickhowell.

Experienced artists, interested novices and complete beginners and even just tea makers come along to take part in creating the aerial artwork and 2007's plan is to create flying chefs...

One week into the two week endeavour the chefs are beginning to take shape. Made of wood, gas piping, and paper mâché the chefs have yet to be clothed and take their wings but with another week they should be flying.

Lisa Hellier has been working on the Crickhowell High Street Stitch Up, a cooperative tapestry panel which reflects the High Street. The first two panels are hanging in the gallery at Crickhowell's Resource and Information Centre but the third has been created by pupils from Crickhowell Primary School.

Beginning in January 2007 each class, from ages 5-11, has been working on a particular building which they have researched and then made drawings of. Together the class decided which drawings were best suited to fabrics and Lisa photocopied and blew up the design while the children worked on fabric choices.

Each pupil worked on small parts, a window or a chimney, for example, but at the end of the day saw the building put together as a whole.

The buildings are now being brought together to create the street, from The Bear to the Fire Station, with details like traffic, greenery, and a sky given depth through stitching that follows the movement of birds and insects.

The edging panels will be contributed by local village schools to add to the scope and meaning of the High Street Panel and eventually all three panels will be exhibited together. They will appear at the Assembly building in Cardiff but Lisa also hopes they will take Crickhowell 'on tour' around Wales.