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Illustration, Gareth Griffiths Halloween Spectacular! Friday 28 October 2022, 7.30pm   Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra opens its new season with a programme of music suitable for the creepiest time of the year! We begin in a wild storm on Mussorgsky’s Night on a Bare Mountain and visit The Isle of the Dead with Rachmaninov’s darkly romantic and brooding score inspired by the famous painting of the same name by Arnold Böcklin. Two cinema classics with music by the great John Williams take us to the world of Harry Potter, as…

Cardiff Mind is a charity that FitHub30 feel extremely strongly about and as a gym they not only value people’s physical health but also their mental health. They specialise in helping busy Cardiff over 30’s who struggle to find the time to get to the gym as their own wellbeing goes further and further down the list compared to that of their families and others around them. Because of this, mental health is something that they talk about a lot…

  An e-learning expert has called for prison education to be prioritised as a method to cutting reoffending, in time for Adult Learners’ Week. Adult Learners’ Week will take place in Wales from 17th – 23rd October 2022,  and will also be celebrated in over 55 countries worldwide. The event aims to promote the value of lifelong learning and make learning opportunities more accessible. E-learning expert James Tweed says prisoners are often missed out when it comes to being provided…

  Air fryers, microwaves and slow cookers revealed as the most energy efficient ways of cooking as part of ‘Shop Smart, Cook Savvy’   Households reliant on oven cooking could save up to £604 per year by switching to a more energy efficient cooking method, according to new research by energy supplier Utilita. Joining together with frozen food specialist Iceland, the pair are embarking on a first of its kind partnership, that aims to help those struggling with the rising…

Ten years ago, Team GB achieved their best ever medal haul at the London 2012 Olympics – and TK Maxx is celebrating by bringing that brilliant winning feeling to customers across the country and giving them the chance to win their own ‘gold medal’ treasure. This Saturday (13th August), the TK Maxx Summer of Big Wins will hit the TK Maxx, The Hayes, Cardiff store located at 10 The Hayes, St Davids Centre, Cardiff CF10 1TD. There will be 65 ‘medals’ hidden…

  The final opening weeks of the world’s fifth oldest zoo, Bristol Zoo Gardens was marked July 21 with the unveiling of a giant interactive gorilla sculpture.   The team behind the historic attraction, which will close on September 3, are encouraging visitors to make one final visit as part of a ‘BIG Summer Send-Off.’   The centrepiece of the final summer programme is ‘Wilder’, a specially-commissioned gorilla sculpture, which is taller than the largest giraffe ever recorded, and as…

My Black Dog is a peer-to-peer support service for people struggling with their mental health.  The ambassador, Eddy Temple-Morris is a Cardiff local. All its volunteers have had their own battles with mental health and share an understanding of what it means. “My role is to help spread the word, attract good people to our cause and raise the money we need to operate – even though we are mostly powered by our amazing volunteers, we have to take care…

Cardiff-based chamber choir, Cantemus is combining with the Dutch choir, Leidse Cantorij, in a special concert which focuses on the destruction and devastation in Ukraine.  The concert, called ‘A Prayer for Peace in Ukraine’, takes place on Friday 19th August at 7.30pm in Bath Abbey.  The choirs will be directed by Swansea-born Huw Williams, who is Director of Music at Cantemus and Bath Abbey. Huw will be joined by the Dutch conductor, Hans Brons, and the choirs will be accompanied…

  The Body Coach, Joe Wicks, is taking ‘P.E with Joe’ on the road with MINI for the second year running to bring people together for wellness wins – staged as the ultimate event to get families feeling energised, mentally and physically. Seven in 10 adults say that they used exercise to manage their mental health during the pandemic – highlighting its important link to wellbeing.  As part of MINI’s Big Love initiative, Joe is out to keep families healthy…

Cowbridge Music Festival Associate Artist Llŷr Williams   This year’s theme of ‘Songs from my Homeland’ invites us to celebrate our roots. The programme features such internationally acclaimed Welsh musicians as soprano Natalya Romaniw, Cowbridge Music Festival Associate Artist Llŷr Williams, and singer Kizzy Crawford. The programme also includes world-class artists such as BBC Young Musician Winner Laura van der Heijden, 2022 BBC Music Magazine Award winners Tom Poster and Elena Urioste, plus a rare opportunity to hear stunning music from Afghanistan.    Leading violist Rosalind Ventris   Concerts take place at venues…