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Dydd Miwsig Cymru: TWST, Melda Lois & Wrenna

🎶 Join us for an unforgettable night of live music! On Friday, February 7th, celebrate the vibrancy of Welsh music as part of Dydd Miwsig Cymru with a lineup of incredible talent presented by Adlais. Featuring performances by: 🌟 TWST – Known for their innovative sound and electrifying stage presence, TWST blends genres seamlessly, creating […]

Cwrdd Chwefror: Natur Sonig gyda Cheryl Beer

04/02/25 5 – 6 yh ar Zoom IAP: Cathryn McShane Cofrestrwch: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZItc-ygrz8sHdJzsbY7LQojgtGi-vGx3QX8   Pan ddeffrodd Cheryl Beer, Eco-Gerddolegydd a Gwneuthurwr Ffilmiau Cadwraeth, gyda cholled clyw, tinitws a hyperacusis 7 mlynedd yn ôl, ni fyddai erioed wedi dychmygu ei bod yn ddechrau arfer creadigol newydd a fyddai’n ei chysylltu hi, a chynulleidfaoedd ledled y byd, yn […]

Lez Write January

18:30 | 15th January 2025 – Tickets HERE Lez Write is a beginner-friendly writing workshop for lesbian and lesbian-adjacent people in and around Cardiff. We facilitate a sapphic, TINBI (Trans, Intersex, Non-Binary-Inclusive) space for people to engage with, reflect on and practise their writing. Sharpen your pencils and join us at The Queer Emporium each […]

Planet presents an evening at Y Cŵps!

Planet: the Welsh Internationalist magazine ceased publishing in 2024 after 54 years due to the loss of funding, and we hope to relaunch in the future. However, for one night Planet will awaken from its dormancy for a special bilingual event on a very hot topic… with some of the most exciting contemporary voices in […]

Gŵyl Fel ‘na Mai 2025

A dyma chi…Leinyp 2025! Gŵyl Fel ‘na Mai 2025 – 03/05/2025 Tocynnau ar werth yma | Tickets here

Gŵyl Fel ‘na Mai 2025

A dyma chi…Leinyp 2025! Gŵyl Fel ‘na Mai 2025 – 03/05/2025 Tocynnau ar werth yma | Tickets here

CWYR Issue 1 DE-VICES

Introducing CWYR issue 1: DE-VICES featuring work from nine queer artists, this issue endeavours to provide a tentative exploration into the way queer folx interact with, utilise, and resist digital technologies.

CWYR ISSUE 2 LAUNCH FULFILMENT

Get your diary out because we’re launching the second issue of CWYR on Friday 13th of December! Join us from 6:30 pm at Rare Mags to enjoy our latest edition, fresh off the (small) press.  

Plu – Yr Heliwr

7.30pm – 14/12/2024 Dydd Sadwrn / Saturday 18+ Mynediad am ddim / Free entry Gig efo’r triawd gwerin amgen ‘Plu’ A gig with the alternative folk trio ‘Plu’

Martin Jones

3.00pm Rhagfyr / December 29th Dydd Sul / Sunday Mynediad am ddim / Free entry 18+

O Benllyn i Ben Llŷn

Noson efo Tri Gog a Hwntw ac Eryrod Meirion 7.30pm – 18/01/2025 Mynediad am ddim / Free entry

Meinir Gwilym

7.30pm 01/02/2025 Dydd Sadwrn / Saturday Mynediad am ddim / Free entry

Episode 54 – ‘The earth shook: an introduction to the Welsh literature of the ‘Civil Wars’

Episode 54 – ‘The earth shook: an introduction to the Welsh literature of the ‘Civil Wars’

There is a great amount of Welsh-language literature surviving which is related to the ‘Civil Wars’ between Parliament and King Charles I.

We note in this episode that the most famous Welsh author of the period, Morgan Llwyd, was a Puritan who supported the Senate, and we quote from a poem by him which describes the warfare as an earthquake shaking his world. However, most seventeenth-century Welsh people supported the king, and we discuss how one Welsh poet suffered because of his political and religious loyalties. And although there are many texts which testify to the connections between Welsh people and the conflict and violence, we also look at one example which reminds us that it is not lightly that one takes literature as a reliable historical source.

Interview with… GAFF

Interview with… GAFF …recorded November 2024

In this interview with Gareth Bryer, GAFF (aka Alun Gaffey) discusses his album ‘Escapism’, the background, the recording process, the themes.

‘Escapism’ comes out December 6 on Recordiau Côsh Records.

Presenter: Gareth Bryer
Camera: Lois Jones

Rebecca F. Hardy

Artist of the Month is a feature where we put the spotlight on the incredible work of one of our members.

Our Artist of the Month for December is Rebecca F. Hardy, a multi-disciplined visual artist based in North Wales.

Queerly Beloved Books

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Friday 5 December, 18:30

Our new book club is back for it’s final instalment of the year!

Hosted by Wren, this month the group will be discussing Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo!

Sunday Wine Club

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Sunday 8 December, 7:30pm

The Queer Emporium has a new fancy wine menu, so join us each Sunday to work through it!

Also available each Sunday evening will be a unique wine, only available that evening! Come try, taste and see if, unlike Leslie Knope, we can tell the difference between the various wines!

Book a ticket for a guaranteed space (since their limited) and a tray of nibbles (omnivore, vegetarian and vegan options available)! Walk-ins are welcome on the night, but we cannot guarantee that seats will be free, so we advise that you book!

Festive Market

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Wednesday 11 December, 7pm

Join us for one of two Festive Market we’ll be holding, right here in the Royal Arcade, on the 11th December!

Our arcade markets are the perfect place to come support your local queer community, come meet the queer artists and makers that make Cardiff so special!

If you would like to be a vendor, please apply here: https://forms.gle/QvDHMaQYzrTMdXn2A

The Wintour Tag Team Practice Ball

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Thursday 12 December, 7:30pm

Welsh Ballroom Community presents The Wintour Tag Team Practice Ball!

Join the community as they prepare for upcoming performances in this practice ball, all categories of which tag team, so make sure you have a partner!

Wrap up warm, whether you are a spectator or competitor, because this event takes place in the Royal Arcade, in Cardiff, in December – it’ll be cold!

Sabrina Carpenter Cocktail Party

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Friday 13 December, 7pm

Please, Please, Please come to our Sabrina Carpenter Cocktail Party!

Come and Taste of our Sabrina Carpenter themed cocktails (you’ll have your choice of 3 out 6 custom cocktails (one will definitely be some type of Espresso Martini), with non-alcoholic options as well), music and activities (colouring in and a quiz), but be quick though! We only have a small amount of tickets for this one-time event, so book whilst you can!

The LGBTQ+ Tour of Cardiff

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Sunday 15 December, 2pm

OUR LGBTQ+ HISTORY TOURS OF CARDIFF ARE BACK!

In the company of one of our tour guides, you’ll depart from The Queer Emporium on a 90 minute tour around the city centre discovering current and historical sites. We recommend dressing appropriately for the weather and bringing a bottle of water.

Please note some of this tour is based on salacious gossip that we cannot confirm or deny

Wine & Whisky Night

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Sunday 15 December, 7:30pm

It’s our second breakeven bottle night, and time to bring it back to Wales with a bottle of Penderyn Welsh Whisky!

A breakeven bottle sees a bottle of whisky being sold at cost price to customers, allowing them to taste more expensive drinks! The first bottle to be split: Penderyn Ex-Rye Small Batch, at £5.67 for a double! Don’t worry, there will be other drinks available a part from this one!

Don’t worry, we’ll still be running our regular Sunday Wine Club alongside the whisky night – to reserve a spot, just book a ticket for £5.00 below (the price of which includes a plate of nibbles)!

The LGBTQ+ Tour of Cardiff

Tickets

Sunday 29 December, 2pm

OUR LGBTQ+ HISTORY TOURS OF CARDIFF ARE BACK!

In the company of one of our tour guides, you’ll depart from The Queer Emporium on a 90 minute tour around the city centre discovering current and historical sites. We recommend dressing appropriately for the weather and bringing a bottle of water.

Please note some of this tour is based on salacious gossip that we cannot confirm or deny

Mair Tomos Ifans

3pm 07/01/2025 – Dydd Mawrth / Tuesday Prynhawn o ganu gwerin a chwedlau / An afternoon of folk songs and folk tales. Mynediad am ddim / Free entry

Adwaith – Miliwn

‘Miliwn’ is the third single taken from Adwaith’s album ‘Solas’

‘Miliwn’ ydy’r drydedd sengl wedi ei gymryd o album Adwaith ‘Solas’

‘Solas’ – Is released on 7/02/25

Music video shot & edited by Rhys Grail

Fideo wedi’i ffilmio a’i olygu gan Rhys Grail

The Gentle Good – Tachwedd

Written in an off-grid cottage during a year-long residency in the Cambrian Mountains, The Gentle Good’s new album ‘Elan’ is a psychedelic portrait of the Elan Valley in Powys, Wales. Featuring songs in both Welsh and English, ‘Elan’ explores the landscape, history and politics of this remote valley, which was flooded to provide water for Birmingham at the end of the Victorian era. The first single from the album, ‘Tachwedd’ (Welsh for November) is an upbeat psychedelic celebration of autumn and a reminder to hold onto the light through the coming dark

EXCLUSIVE : GAFF ‘Chefchaouen’ video premiere

We may be heading toward end-of-year list time, but quality albums are still drifting down on us like autumn leaves. The forthcoming Escapism from GAFF, multi-instrumentalist and former guitarist in Race Horses Alan Gaffey, is a case in point. Tomorrow, second single ‘Chefchaouen’ the follow up to ‘If You Know, You Know’ is shared, and […]

Winter Reads

Looking for Christmas gifts?

Winter Reads, a taste of the brilliant books from Wales available over the coming months, is out now!
Pick up your free copy from your local bookshop, or browse the catalogue here!

GAFF – Chefchaouen

From the album ‘Escapism’ – out Dec 6 on Recordiau Côsh Records.

Music by GAFF.

Video by Nic Finch.

Pennod 53 – Pechod yn Llanymddyfri: Y Ficer Prichard

Sin in Llandovery: The Vicar Prichard

In this episode we discuss the way Rhys Prichard (c.1579-1644), vicar of Llandovery, used simple free-metre poetry to spread religious lessons.

In addition to considering his general agenda, we look in detail at one poem which shows that he was very worried by the sinful life he saw in his own parish, and which depicts Llandovery as a kind of Sodom a Gomorrah. It was only after his death that his work was published as a collection under the title Cannwyll y Cymry [‘the Candle of the Welsh’]. The work would be reprinted repeatedly, ensuring that ‘the Vicar Prichard’ was among the most popular Welsh poets of the period before 1800. However, in our opinion the most interesting thing about this poet is way in which Rhys Prichard was made part of the Welsh Puritan lineage; looking anew at evidence about his life and his own beliefs, we conclude that he was actually diametrically opposed to the Puritans who fought against the king. We thus have here a striking example of literature taken out of its original political and religious context and used for completely different ends.

Haunting stories for long winter nights

In these haunting tales, nothing is as it seems. A tormented voice calls from the barred windows of an empty room. A dusty museum exhibit possesses sinister powers. A glass of blackberry wine links the living with the sins of the dead.

Between 1965 and 1975, Elizabeth Walter published five collections of supernatural stories. But whilst the names of her contemporaries such as Robert Aickman are now widely recognised, Walter is relatively unknown to modern readers. Mixing folklore, history, and ancient traditions, these gothic stories draw on Walter’s Welsh heritage and the rich inspiration of South Wales and the border country.

Including the mysterious ritual of ‘The Sin-Eater’, the folk horror of ‘Dead Woman’ and the poignant ‘Come and Get Me’, Let a Sleeping Witch Lie is the perfect way to rediscover Elizabeth Walter’s chillingly remarkable talent.

Order Let a Sleeping Witch Lie online https://www.serenbooks.com/book/let-a-sleeping-witch-lie/ or in bookshops now

Galwad Agored Sesiynau – Gŵyl Tawe – Sessions Call Out

Menter Iaith Abertawe and Gŵyl Tawe are seeking five filmmakers to film a series of live sessions leading up to Gŵyl Tawe in June 2025. The goal of these filmed sessions is to showcase a variety of artists who have performed at the festival since its beginning in 2021. The sessions will be recorded at several unique locations across Swansea.

PAID OPPORTUNITY 

Closing Date for Applications: December 18th, 2024

Application Form: HERE

The Role of the Welsh language in community action groups (by Emily-Louise)

Emily-Louise stands in front of Bangor University sign

Emily-Louise is studying her PhD at Bangor University, exploring how people in bilingual Welsh-English communities choose which language to use, and how these choices affect their involvement in community activities.

Emily-Louise is working alongside GwyrddNi to look at the use of Welsh and English in different community settings. The research aims to shed light on how language can shape not just how we communicate, but also how we feel about our community and our place within it.

Children’s Book Cover of the Year 2024

To celebrate and recognise the contribution of illustrators and designers in bringing stories to life, our Young People’s Panel have selected 8 book covers from Wales that they believe deserve the title Children’s Book Cover of the Year 2024.

The designer/illustrator of the winning cover in each category will win or share a cash prize of £500.

Talulah – Galaru

Alawon jazzy, breuddwydiol a chymysgu iaith a genre yw’r elfennau nodweddiadol i’w disgrifio yng ngwaith yr artist unigryw, Talulah. Nhw oedd enillydd haeddiannol gwobr Triskel yn seremoni Welsh Music Prize yn 2023, gan fynd o nerth i nerth ers hynny a rhyddhau eu EP cyntaf yn ddiweddar.

Dyma fideo cerddorol i gyd-fynd â’r trac ‘Galaru’ o’r EP – ‘Solas’ sy’n edrych ar bŵer mewn pherthynas, a hunaniaeth.