List of cultural venues in Cardiff
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The following cultural venues are located in Cardiff, capital city of Wales.
Sport
[edit]Performing arts
[edit]Performing arts venues with seating capacity:
- City Hall, Cardiff (600)
- Chapter Arts Centre (180)
- Llanover Hall Arts Centre (100)
- New Theatre (Cardiff) (1,144)
- Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
- Dora Stoutzker Hall (400)
- Richard Burton Theatre (182)
- Bute Theatre (150-200)
- Caird Studio (50)
- Corus Recital Room (50)
- S4C Studio (50)
- Sir Geraint Evans Recital Room (60)
- Weston Gallery (80)
- Sherman Theatre
- Main theatre (631)
- Venue 2 (163)
- Venue 3
- St David's Hall
- Main auditorium (up to 1,956)
- Level 3 Day Stage (or "Level 3 Bar") (350 including standing)
- Wales Millennium Centre (Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru)
- Dance Space (100)
- Donald Gordon Theatre (1,897)
- Urdd Hall (153)
- Weston Studio (250)
- BBC Hoddinott Hall (350)
- Roald Dahl Plass (Outdoor Arena)
Entertainment venues
[edit]- Cardiff University Students' Union
- Mermaid Quay
- Stadium Plaza
- Cardiff International Arena
- New Cardiff Bay Arena (proposed)
- Red Dragon Centre
- The Glee Club
Live music venues
[edit]- Barfly (200) - opened in 2001, closed in September 2010 [1]
- Clwb Ifor Bach
- Coal Exchange (1,000) - Venue closed in 2007, reopened in 2009 and closed again in 2013 because of safety concerns.[2]
- Fuel Rock Club, Cardiff- (160) opened 2013[3]
- The Globe (350) - opened on Albany Road, Roath, in November 2008.[4]
- Inkspot Venue Cardiff - conference rooms, live music events[5]
- The Moon Club, Womanby Street[6]
- The Point (500) - closed in January 2009, following a single complaint from a neighbour about noise.[4]
- Tiny Rebel, Cardiff- (80-100) opened 2013, function room upstairs is often used for live music
- Tramshed (1000) - opened in October 2015 in a converted Grade II listed tram depot in Grangetown.[7]
- Y Plas - in the Cardiff University Students' Union building in Cathays[8]
Gay venues
[edit]Cardiff has number of gay venues in the city, particularly in the area around Charles Street and Churchill Way. Gay-friendly venues include:
- Golden Cross - a pub featuring regular drag acts
- Kings Cross, The Hayes - gay-friendly pub for over 35 years,[9] converted to a gastropub in 2011 [10]
Historic and architectural venues
[edit]This is a list of historic and architectural places and their use as a cultural venue:
- Cardiff Bay and Cardiff Barrage (has hosted open-air concerts)
- Bute Park (used for open-air concerts and festivals)
- Cardiff Castle (has hosted open-air concerts, a professional boxing match and small exhibitions)
- Castell Coch (has hosted a celebrity renewal of wedding vows)
Museums and art galleries
[edit]Museums
[edit]Art galleries
[edit]- Albany Gallery, Roath - established 1965 [11]
- Blackwater Gallery, Prospect Place, Cardiff [12]
- Butetown History and Arts Centre (closed 2016), Cardiff Bay
- Oriel Canfas, Canton - run by artists who were formerly based at the Old Library in Cardiff city centre until the late 1990s[13][14]
- Cardiff MADE, Roath [15][16]
- Gallery Celf, Bangor Street, Roath[17]
- Norwegian Church Arts Centre, Cardiff Bay
- G39 - art gallery, opened 1998 in the city centre and relocated to a larger space off City Road, Roath in 2012.[18]
- tactileBOSCH, Llandaff
- Third Floor Gallery (2010-2016), Cardiff Bay
Libraries
[edit]- Canton Library
- Cathays Library
- Central Library
- Ely Library
- Fairwater Library
- Grangetown Library
- Llandaff North Library
- Llanedeyrn Library
- Llanishen Library
- Llanrumney Library
- Penylan Library
- Radyr Library
- Roath Library (closed in 2014)
- Rhiwbina Library
- Rhydypennau Library
- Rumney Library
- Splott Library
- St Mellons Library
- Tongwynlais Library
- Whitchurch Library
Places of worship
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Surprise at closure of Cardiff music venue Barfly", BBC News, 1 September 2010. Retrieved 2015-11-22.
- ^ "Cardiff Coal Exchange: Council to do emergency safety work", BBC News, 22 June 2013. Retrieved 2014-09-28.
- ^ "The future of another Cardiff music venue could be under threat over a noise complaint". Wales Online. 27 March 2017. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
- ^ a b "Cardiff needs a venue like The Globe", guardiancardiff.com, 15 April 2010. Retrieved 2014-09-28.
- ^ "Inkspot Venue - Event Venue In Cardiff". Inkspot Venue.
- ^ "When rock met rugby: Welsh stars as you’ve never seen them before ", Wales Online, 31 January 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-09.
- ^ Kathryn Williams (23 October 2015) "5 gigs you shouldn't miss at Cardiff's new music venue Tramshed", Wales Online. Retrieved 2015-11-17.
- ^ "Y Plas". www.cardiffstudents.com. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
- ^ "Regulars campaign to save Cardiff gay pub". BBC News. 8 October 2010. Retrieved 2015-06-09.
- ^ "Bid to save gay Cardiff pub is defeated". Wales Online. 23 February 2011. Retrieved 2015-06-09.
- ^ "Milestone moments during 50 years at Cardiff's Albany Gallery". Wales Online. 9 November 2015. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
- ^ "Highly Anticipated Blackwater Gallery Launches in April". Business News Wales. 28 February 2019. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ^ Moore, David (30 July 2008). "Obituary - William Brown". The Guardian. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
- ^ "Art review: coastal inspiration at Oriel Canfas". Nation.Cymru. 26 March 2023. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
- ^ "How Cardiff M.A.D.E is running an art gallery during a pandemic". Alt.Cardiff. Cardiff School of Journalism. 2 November 2020. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
- ^ "'Let Us Now Praise Famous Bins' – Cardiff gallery launches exhibition and legacy project". Nation.Cymru. 30 October 2022. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
- ^ Jenny White (18 November 2023). "Major new gallery for the capital". Western Mail. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ^ "The co-director of Cardiff’s g39 contemporary art gallery on why it had to relocate from the city centre", WalesOnline, 26 May 2012. Retrieved 2014-09-28.
