18/10/2022

22nd October 2022, 7.30pm, City United Reformed Church Windsor Place, Cardiff, CF10 3BZ   Created and composed by the celebrated Welsh pianist Geoff Eales, Spirit of the Mine is a powerful multi-media musical-drama that tells the epic story of the rise and fall of the Welsh coal-mining industry, an industry that created the wealth of a nation. It is a tale of unbearable hardship, tragedy, bitter social conflict, greed and exploitation. But it is also a story of immense courage,…

08/03/2022

Public libraries in Wales are celebrating the Winter of Wellbeing campaign with three days of online national events this March (15-17). Schools and colleges across the country are being invited to tune in to join a fantastic line-up of authors and ambassadors who’ll be shining a light on the power of reading to help us cope in tough times and to connect us to others, through music, poetry, chat and debate. The Winter of Wellbeing is the Welsh Government’s cross-sector…

07/09/2021

Amgueddfa Cymru’s second Digital Food Festival will return on 6-12 September 2021. The digital event, taking place across the Museum’s website and social media channels, replaces the food festival usually held at St Fagans National Museum of History and will feature a host of exciting courses, talks, music events and cookery demos. Want to improve your skills in the kitchen? There will be a wide range of culinary courses to suit all ages including a patisserie course with Thibault Courtoisier,…

29/03/2019

Photo left to right: Dr John Thompson, Dr Richard Penketh, Dr Graham Shortland Doctors from the University Hospital of Wales are taking on an epic challenge to raise money for causes close their hearts. Dr Graham Shortland, (Executive Medical Director and Consultant Paediatrician), Dr Richard Penketh (Obstetrician Gynaecologist) and Dr John Thompson (Director of the National Poisons Information Service and Honorary Consultant), will be taking part in the Eddystone Charity Sailing Pursuit in Plymouth on Saturday 15 June 2019. The…

15/10/2018

An overview of current research in the Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary conducted by the Danau Girang Field Centre, eastern Sabah, Borneo – Tuesday 16th October 7:30 pm This is a return to a topic we last heard about from Dr Goossens in 2011. During the past ten years, students working at DGFC have helped develop research programmes on several flagship species, including Bornean elephant, sun bear, Sunda clouded leopard, Sunda pangolin, Bornean bearded pig, proboscis monkey, slow loris, and reticulated python….

03/10/2018

★★★★★ “A fine split between offence and actual brilliance – and Bianca treads it perfectly” GAY TIMES ★★★★★ “Prepare to have your sides split.” ATTITUDE MAGAZINE “On point and hilarious” HUFFINGTON POST THE BIGGEST EVER SOLO DRAG SHOW TO VISIT 13 CITIES INCLUDING GLASGOW, NEWCASTLE, BIRMINGHAM, MANCHESTER, CARDIFF, DUBLIN, LONDON AND MORE TICKETS GO ON GENERAL SALE THIS FRIDAY 5 OCTOBER, 9AM Following two consecutive sell-out UK tours, including three sold out nights at London’s Eventim Apollo, comedy queen and…

01/10/2018

St David’s Hall Monday 15 October, 7pm Doors ICONIC indie band Echo & The Bunnymen are back sounding like they never before and they are coming to St David’s Hall on Monday 15 October! Their stunning new album – The Stars, The Oceans & The Moon – sees the Liverpool legends reinterpreting 13 of their most beloved songs from their peerless back catalogue with ‘strings and things’. Starting with Bring on the Dancing Horses and finishing with The Killing Moon,…

19/09/2018

World famous conspiracy theorist David Icke is coming to Cardiff this November as part of his 11 date UK Tour. 4 Hours of life-changing information that you won’t see or hear anywhere else in the World. The man who predicted 9/11, the 2008 Banking Crash, microchipping, The Cashless Society, The War on Terror and much more is delivering his shows all over the world in the coming months ahead of April’s release of ‘Renegade’, a film about the life and…

18/04/2018

Cardiff and Vale Health Charity have organised a bed push, a 5k and a 10k run to celebrate the nhs   To celebrate the NHS at 70, Cardiff & Vale Health Charity have organised a bed push, a 5k and 10k run on 20 May 2018 at Cardiff Bay, with money raised at this event going back directly into healthcare and supporting those with brain and spinal injuries.   Behind the scenes, helping to organise this event is Paul Harrison,…

26/05/2017

  St David’s Hall Friday 20 October, 7.30pm CARDIFF PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA’S 2017/18 season starts in style with the fiery passion of From Russia…With Love on Friday 20 October – and tickets are on sale now! Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 forms a fascinating centre-piece to this programme, and is familiar to film fans as the romantic music featured in Brief Encounter. Accompanying the orchestra is 2014 BBC Young Musician of the Year, Martin James Bartlett for what will be a…