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Washington Green, fine art publisher to Castle Galleries and Castle Fine Art, has launched IN:SIGHT 2015; their campaign to encourage unsigned, emerging visual artists to apply to join the ranks of its big names, with the chance to exhibit at their flagship Birmingham gallery in the summer. The prestigious art group, with a gallery in Cardiff’s St David’s Dewi Sant, boasts the likes of Ronnie Wood, Bob Dylan, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso and famous art forger John Myatt in their…

Following its hugely successful ‘Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur’ campaign showing millions the cruel truth behind fur, PETA, the world’s largest animal rights organisation is today partnering with FightMe to launch its latest initiative on the war against fur. Well known for its bold campaigns, the charity has enlisted the help of the world’s first challenge-based app, FightMe, to launch a thought-provoking video challenge calling for people to make a stand and spread its anti-fur message. The first-of-its-kind online video protest…

This June Children’s Art Week (Sat 13th – Sun 21st June 2015) will be back bigger and better than ever! Don’t miss the chance to get creative with your kids at one of the hundreds of events being held in venues around the UK. With everything from; ‘Weird & Wonderful Weaving’ to ‘Mosaic Making’ there’s bound to be something on near you to engage children of all ages. Find out what’s on near you by visiting the Children’s Art Week…

800 students to be taught CPR in a mass one-day session by heart charity volunteer medics. On Thursday 23rd April Welsh Hearts charity team of medics will train up over 800 students at Lliswerry High School, Newport, Gwent in CPR and the safe use of defibrillators in just one day! Our doctors, nurses, paramedics and community first responders from all over Wales have been providing free CPR and defibrillator training as part of the “Saving Lives in Wales” campaign with…

Cardiff Centre for Lifelong Learning are running short and intensive language courses in June and July this year at all levels ranging from beginners to advanced.  Perfect for learning language skills for a summer holiday or consolidating existing languages skills.  Languages include: French, German, Italian and Spanish. We are running a competition from Monday 27th April to Friday 1st May, the prize of a free summer course running in 2015. We’ll be dropping clues on our Facebook, Google + and Twitter sites. To play, you’ll need to search around our summer language…

Gretchen Peters +Support   @ The Gate, Cardiff Tuesday 30th July 2015 || Doors: 7.30pm £20 adv.stbf || Reserved Seating Online Tickets: The Gate || gigantic Golden Globe and two-time Grammy nominee, country and folk songstress Gretchen Peters announces this Cambridge Folk Festival warm-up concert at The Gate in Cardiff. Since the release of her “career album” (NPR), 2012’s Hello Cruel World, she has been in near-constant motion, touring prolifically throughout the past two years. 2014 saw her both headline her…

Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular celebrates its first ever UK tour with homage to legendary Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover In advance of the forthcoming Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular which visits six cities across the UK during the May half term week* from May 23rd, artwork has been released today to capture the monsters and characters from Doctor Who, alongside the musicians taking part in the tour.   Paying homage to the classic Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club…

When you tell people you work in a nursery they just think you sit around and play all day, but it is so much more than that! Getting the chance to watch children develop and seeing their personalities shine through even at such an early age is the best part of the job. At Meithrinfa Y Pelican we are all about learning through play and letting the children achieve their own objectives while playing. If they want to draw a…

Asda stores in South Wales have raised an incredible £7,350 for Velindre Cancer Centre. Welsh International rugby union player, Sam Warburton, made an appearance at Asda’s Cardiff Coryton store to congratulate Asda colleagues on their fantastic fundraising achievements, and present the cheque to Velindre representative, Kylie McKee. Colleagues at Asda’s 20 stores in South Wales raised money through a range of fundraising activities over St. David’s Day, including fancy dress, community raffles and sponsored events. Asda’s Blackwood store raised the…

Miller and Carter Steakhouse in Bath teamed up with young local entrepreneur, Daniel Williams, to host a sensational ‘Dining in the Dark’ experience, where all diners were blindfolded for the duration of the event so they could understand the challenges of having a visual impairment. Daniel, who is visually impaired himself, also aimed to dispel preconceptions and assumptions that many have when meeting people for the first time. Inspirational Daniel Williams, 23, celebrated the 1-year anniversary of his business Visualise…