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List of cultural venues in Cardiff
The following cultural venues are located in Cardiff, capital city of Wales.
Sport
Performing arts venues with seating capacity:
Entertainment venues
Live music venues
- 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
Cardiff has number of gay venues in the city, particularly in the area around Charles Street and Churchill Way. Gay-friendly venues include:
Historic and architectural venues
This is a list of historic and architectural places and their use as a cultural venue:
Museums and art galleries
Museums
Art galleries
- 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
Places of worship
See also
References
- ^ "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.
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