The Architectural Heritage Fund has awarded the Welsh Norwegian Society a grant of £4,000 which will help the society in its efforts to save the Norwegian Church in Cardiff Bay. The Welsh Norwegian Society is appealing for match funding to the public who love this iconic building and the hundreds of performers, artists and community organisations that have been a part of its story in the years since Princess Märtha Louise of Norway officially reopened the Norwegian Church in 1992….
Blue skies and high fives were the orders of the day as Cardiff and Vale University Health Board staff came out in force to support their local hospital charity at the annual Cardiff Bay Bed Push event on Sunday 12 May 2019. Hundreds of people came down to Cardiff Bay Barrage for the second Bed Push Challenge to support Doctors, Nurses, Allied Health Professionals, Health Board Staff and corporate supporters Admiral Law who were raising money for wards and…
Three generations of the same family and a team of superheroes were among 120 cyclists who took part in this year’s On Your Bike for Barnardo’s cycle ride. Organisers of the fundraising event were delighted with both its success and the perfect weather as the last attempt to run it in the autumn was scuppered by one of the biggest storms of the year. On Your Bike for Barnardo’s, which was founded back in 1982, had…
Members of BBC National Orchestra of Wales (BBC NOW) – including a former ice hockey player – joined ice hockey team the Cardiff Devils yesterday at the Viola Arena to give a special performance of Bolero, ahead of BBC NOW’s Bolero: Viva España concerts in Cardiff and Swansea this week. Ahead of the Cardiff Devils’ game in Cardiff Bay last night, sixteen members of BBC NOW took to the ice to perform a piece of music, which is synonymous…
Kyriacos Asprou and John Kiki’s 2nd February – 2nd March 2019 VISITOR INFORMATION Sunflower & I Pop-Up Gallery, Sunflower & I, 1 Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff Bay, CF10 5EE Preview: Saturday 2nd February 2019, 4pm – 10pm, Meet the Photographer Opening Times: Tuesday – Sunday, 12pm till close Admission is free to all visitors ‘I have been, and now I go back to my beginning; open myself up to seeing the world as I once saw it. Life is…
Companies from south Wales have been recognised for helping school pupils across Wales prepare for their future careers. Held at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff bay, 16 companies from across south Wales attended the Careers Wales Valued Partner Awards ceremony, which was hosted by former BBC news anchor Sara Edwards. The Careers Wales Valued Partner Awards recognises the important contribution made by businesses who consistently step up to support the workforce of tomorrow by signing up to…
Tim Wynne reviews the Welsh Winners from the 2018 Great Taste Food Awards at St David’s Hotel I’ve often thought about what it might take to eat my way around an entire country. Luckily for me the cabinet secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs, Lesley Griffiths AM, had the same idea. Also luckily for us, for convenience, she decided to make the best of Welsh Entries into the 2018 Great Taste Awards right at home in Cardiff Bay’s St…
This weekend sees the much-anticipated return of Cardiff’s International Film Festival, with an impressive jury of local and global faces set to crown the winners from ten different categories. Judges include British actresses Kimberley Nixon and Maria Pride, Sci-fi author and screenwriter Marc Zicree, director, writer and producer Anurag Kashyap, script consultant and video conceptualist Keith Williams and award-winning documentary filmmaker, Florence Ayisi. The main event will again be hosted in the historical Pierhead Building in the heart of Cardiff…
The lost communities of Cardiff’s docklands are to feature in a new four-part tv series on ITV Cymru Wales. ‘Dock of the Bay’ examines the transformation of the city’s waterfront from Tiger Bay to Cardiff Bay. It also chronicles the history and demolition of Newtown, nick-named ‘Little Ireland’ and Lower Splott, a community that was built in the shadow of the giant East Moors steelworks. The series celebrates the present day diversity of the Bay and goes behind the scenes…
Hundreds of people turned out to take part in the NHS at 70 bed push and 5k and 10k run at Cardiff Bay recently. With blue skies overhead and a sea of smiling faces, 16 teams took on the bed push sprint at Cardiff Bay Barrage, with wonderfully decorated beds and team spirit a plenty. Almost 300 people took part in the 5k and 10k run around the Bay in the glorious sunshine. Bed push racers and runners…
