Cardiff Music Festival
15th – 18th September: Several members of Classical Brit Award winning choir Only Men Aloud have established a new music festival to promote young artists and give them a platform alongside some of the biggest names in the musical world, raising considerable …more
Cardiff Design Festival
30th September – 15th October 2011: Cardiff Design Festival is an annual celebration of design held in October of each year co-ordinated by UWIC’s Cardiff School of Art & Design. The Festival hosts a programme of design related events that inform, inspire …more
The Iris Prize Festival
5th – 8th October 2011: The Iris Prize – Cardiff’s International gay and lesbian short film prize is the only short film prize in the world which allows the winner to make a new film. Iris is more than just a trophy …more
MadeinRoath
14th – 16th October 2011 Now in it’s third year, the MadeInRoath arts festival will take place from Thursday 13th October to Sunday 16th October. MiR continues to champion the arts in Cardiff and will be producing another dynamic and eclectic mix …more
Sŵn Festival
20th – 22nd October 2011: Sŵn is the Welsh word for ‘sound’ and is pronounced ‘soon’. Sŵn festival takes place over Thurs 20th – Sun 23rd October 2011. Around 200 bands play across over a dozen venues in Cardiff, a mix of …more
Creative Minds
28th – 29th October 2011: Creative Minds is a festival of ideas showcasing Cardiff University’s creative expertise in the fields of arts, humanities and social sciences. // Festival weekend: 28th – 29th October Come and be inspired by Wales Book of the …more
1mile² Cardiff 2011
1mile² Cardiff is a new arts, environment and community programme that inspires local people to explore the diversity of their neighbourhoods through art. Taking place in Butetown, Grangetown & Splott from June-October this year and invites local people to participate online and …more
Soundtrack
16th – 20th November 2011: The Soundtrack International Film and Music Festival was launched in 2008 as an annual event that would celebrate the distinctive relationship between music and the moving image. Based in Cardiff, the Capital city of Wales, but with …more
Wales Millennium Centre
Wales Millennium Centre opened in 2004 and has already established its reputation as one of the World`s iconic arts and cultural destinations. The vision of the Centre is to be an internationally significant cultural landmark and centre for the performing arts, renowned …more
DayLit
22nd October 2011: Literature Wales is pleased to introduce DayLit, a one-day literature festival in Cardiff Bay. This micro-festival presents a number of events linked to the main BayLit Festival’s Shock of the New theme. Featuring bards, rappers, comics, wordsmiths and everyone …more
National Museum Cardiff
Cardiff hosts Wales’s first National Museum of Art From fine and applied art to iPads and light boxes ‘Watch out Tate’ was the headline in the Western Mail as Wales’ first National Museum of Art opened in Cardiff in July 2011. For …more
Chapter Arts
Based in the bustling Canton area of west Cardiff you’ll find Chapter – one of Europe’s most dynamic arts centres. Its vibrant mix of performance, exhibitions, cinema and welcoming café-bar attracts over 750,000 visitors a year. This multi-award-winning venue also houses over …more
The Cardiff Story
The Cardiff Story opened its doors in April 2011, becoming the first museum dedicated to telling the fascinating tale of the city. The vision of the museum is to be an international cultural venue which is an inclusive, exciting and inspirational resource …more
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama is the National Conservatoire of Wales, providing professional training in music and theatre for the musicians, actors, stage managers and theatre designers of the future. In the summer of 2011, the brand-new £22.5 million facilities …more
BBC Wales
Roath Lock – BBC Wales’ new drama production studios in the new Porth Teigr area of Cardiff Bay is almost complete and the first productions will move in during September. The centre will be home to dramas Casualty, Upstairs Downstairs, Pobol Y …more

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Latest posts

Google Getting Welsh Business Online
Last Tuesday evening around 400 local business owners, members of the city’s creative communities, bloggers and industry experts came together in Cardiff’s Coal Exchange for the launch of Google’s Getting Welsh Business Online.
Line up for UK’s biggest contemporary art prize announced
From the flamboyant to the intimate, action and performance are the common threads that link the artists shortlisted for the 2012 £40,000 Artes Mundi Prize.
Faust, the Guillemots and the Soundtrack Festival
On Friday night at the Coal Exchange, South Wales’ Soundtrack International Film and Music Festival offered the public a rare spectacle; a screening of F W Murnau’s ‘Faust’ accompanied by a live improvised soundtrack from the Guillemots. A potent pretentious combination of …more
How The Gate saved itself
Plastik met up with TJ Wheeler, 24 year old director of The Gate, three months after he took over the position from the previous director. He talked to us about the repositioning that the arts centre has undergone since it almost closed …more
5 reasons to start up in Cardiff
In a world where we do everything online, location doesn’t matter for starting your startup does it? Although I personally can’t stand his writing style, Richard Florida is a smart guy and his books are good. Recently, I’ve been working my way through his …more