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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.

Speak Back

This opportunity welcomes applications from under-represented Wales-based poets and spoken word artists to attend a free-of-charge course to further develop their craft. The week will explore themes of identity, climate emergency, climate justice and social justice. The tutors are Taylor Edmonds and Kandace Siobhan Walker.

Course Dates: Monday 3 – Friday 7 March 2025.

Closing date: 5.00pm, Tuesday 26 November 2024.

How to apply – https://www.literaturewales.org/our-projects/speak-back/speak-back-how-to-apply/

FAQs – https://www.literaturewales.org/our-projects/speak-back/speak-back-faqs/

Sunday Wine Club

Tickets: https://queeremporium.co.uk/products/sunday-wine-club-3

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!

Drinks with the Dolls

Tickets: https://queeremporium.co.uk/products/drinks-with-the-dolls

19:30 – 15/11/24

Drinks with the Dolls, a new fun, social bar crawl with trans femmes at the centre, is starting at The Queer Emporium next November! Starting at the shop itself with two-for-one cocktails (alcoholic and non-alcoholic), the crawl will head to a few other venues (details of which to be emailed to you closer to the date)!

Whilst this event is designed to centre trans femmes, anyone is welcome to join, no matter their gender identity or expression!

The LGBTQ+ Tour of Cardiff

Tickets: https://queeremporium.co.uk/products/copy-of-the-lgbtq-tour-of-cardiff-1

2pm – 17/11/24

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

Lez Write November

Tickets: https://queeremporium.co.uk/products/lez-write-november

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 month.

Please bring 1-2 pages of your writing along!

Brat Cocktail Party

Tickets: https://queeremporium.co.uk/products/copy-of-chappell-roan-cocktail-party

7pm – 22/11/24

Guess what we’re doing for November?

Brat summer might be over, but it’s returning for one night at The Queer Emporium! Join us for Brat themed cocktails (you’ll have your choice of 3 out 6 custom cocktails, with non-alcoholic options as well), Charli XCX music and activities, but be quick though! We only have a small amount of tickets for this one-time event, so book whilst you can!

Breakeven Bottle Whisky Night

Tickets: https://queeremporium.co.uk/products/copy-of-breakeven-bottle-whisky-night

7:30pm – 24/11/24

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!

Sara Elizabeth Jones

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 November is Sara Elizabeth Jones, an artist based in Wrexham who works in different art forms including Fine Art and Fashion Illustration.

SHLUG + Bad Shout + Lacross Club + MORN Tickets

Saturday 14 December 2024
Doors Open: 19:30
Starts: 20:00

Tickets 

SHLUG // BAD SHOUT // LACROSS CLUB

“An industrial meat grinder lugging noise between the teeth of gears.”

December marks the overdue return of SHLUG to CWRW – better still, they’ll have Bad Shout and Lacross Club in tow.

The death-coaster that is SHLUG is the unmusical bone saw of mechanical dissonances and distortions with a dubious and violent soundscape prepared to make your eardrums shatter and bleed. The noisy cutthroat non-barbershop quartet create an industrial atmosphere that will evoke primal instincts to its captivated audience, turning CWRW into a pit of rabid dogs. After the success of The Scent of Roy Keane and Self-Hate Portrait came BF/FM and Baby Teef, then debut EP Split The Grin. Don’t trust us, listen to these clever folk:

CLASH Magazine – Tom Morgan

“The abrasive and downright-feral SHLUG are, on the surface, not the band you’d expect to serve as the city’s de facto scene leaders. Think of them as the reprobate older brothers who bought you booze when you were underage. Their noise-rock/post–punk brew is best consumed live. Transgressive and primal fun from a band that have become a totem of Cardiff’s music scene.”

Buzz Magazine – Emma Way

“An ensemble who could have stepped out of the 1980s LA punk scene, in their weight SHLUG bring endless, side-splitting, noisy immediacy; on a floor-level stage like this one, it’s concentrated like a bubble about to explode at any given minute.”

BBC Radio Wales – Adam Walton

“They’re concentrating on noise, the refining noise. They’re making noise even darker and fuzzier than it’s been before. Sharp, blistering and everything I love about noisy music.”

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Bad Shout are exponents of raw, howling pync Cymraeg! Think The Damned meets early Husker Du with flecks of Oi and 60s garage…frenzied old-school punk rock!

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Lacross Club play loud, fast, catchy punk music that will make you break everything.

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Pennod 52 – ‘Cyfaill ac Anwylddyn’: Beibl Bach 1630

‘Friend and Dear Person’: The Little Bible of 1630

In order to understand to development of Welsh literature in the seventeenth century, we have to discuss the Bible again. Following the publication of William Morgan’s Bible in 1588, a revised version was published in 1620.

These were ‘pulpit bibles’, big books used in the church which were too expensive for most Welsh people to buy. But a very different one was published in 1630, the Beibl Bach or ‘Little Bible’, one which was quite a bit smaller in size and thus cheaper. While discussing its significance in this episode, we examine the Beibl Bach’s introduction, an extremely intersting piece of writing which urges the reader to let this bible live in the house with him ‘like a friend’ and ‘like a dear person.’ From the point of view of Welsh religious history, this was a milestone which would encourage Puritanism eventually. And from the point of view of Welsh literary history, this publication would encourage literacy considerably.

Cyflwynwyd gan: Yr Athro Jerry Hunter a’r Athro Richard Wyn Jones
Cynhyrchwyd gan: Richard Martin
Cerddoriaeth: ‘Might Have Done’ gan The Molenes

RHYDD – BETSAN

Côsh Records is delighted to announce that singer-songwriter, Betsan, is joining the label ahead of her new creative chapter as an artist.

Out now on all streaming platforms, ‘Rhydd’ is the first in a series of singles that Betsan will release over the coming months. Here’s a special video, funded by Lŵp and PYST Music Video Fund, to accompany the track.

METAL SOAR

A new commission for metal band and organ

David John Roche has been commissioned by Canolfan a Theatr Soar to compose a new work for a metal band and our recently restored Conacher pipe organ

Join us for a special premiere of the composition performed by members of rock band De’Lour plus performances by Merthyr band Echdoriad and North Walian nu-metal duo Celavi

Mari Mathias a Lo-Fi Jones

16/11/24 7:30yh

Tickets HERE

We are delighted to present an evening of contemporary folk music in partnership with ‘Y Parlwr’

Mari Mathias won the prize for ‘Best Welsh Traditional Song’ at the Welsh Folk Awards in 2023 and Lo-Fi Jones won the Battle of the Folk Bands at The National Eisteddfod in 2023.

General Admission £12 Concession £10

Open Invitation to the First Sikh Cultural and Religious Exhibition in Wales

Join us for a groundbreaking event celebrating the rich heritage and vibrant history of the Sikh community. This first-of-its-kind exhibition in Wales will feature an array of fascinating displays, including:

  • Historical newspaper cuttings
  • Captivating photographs
  • Archived video footage
  • Inspiring music
  • Traditional clothing
  • Stunning art

Come and explore the profound stories, cultural expressions, and spiritual insights of Sikhism. All are welcome to immerse themselves in this unique celebration of diversity and shared heritage.

Date: 4th November – 15th November 2024
Time: 11am – 6pm
Location: The Sustainable Studio Riverside CF11 6AD

We look forward to celebrating with you and sharing the beauty of our Sikh culture!

The Borzello Trust Poetry Prize

In our tenth year of the New Welsh Writing Awards we are delighted to open a new category supporting the development of poets living, working or from Wales with thanks to the generous support of The Borzello Trust.

This year competition ask the entrants to explore the theme of ‘Welsh Churchyards’ in one of their submitted poems. The other five poems entered shall be of any theme of their choosing, however as part of the winning prize included a development publishing contract we ask that entrants also submit a short proposal (200 words) on the themes that they’d wish to develop in a full poetry collection. Please read our call for entries here and for eligibility and full terms and conditions here.

There is a £10 fee for entries, however we have a number of supported entry places for low-income writers, earning £16,000 or less a year. If you wish to apply for one of these places please email newwelshreviewawards@gmail.com.

Good luck!

Submit your poetry to The Borzello Trust Prize for Poetry here. Entries open for the 2024 prize on the 1st of September 2024 and closes at midnight on the 31st of January 2025.

The Rheidol Prize: For Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting

The Rheidol Prize: For Prose with Welsh Theme or Setting has championed new voices and the development of writers for the past ten years with thanks to the generous support from R. S. Powell. We are delighted to continue the award this year calling for entries of new fiction and prose writing up to 5,000 words in length.

Open to new and established writers based in the UK, as well as writers from across the globe if they have been educated in Wales for a minimum of six months.

As part of the winning prize includes a development publishing contract with Parthian Books we also ask that entrants submit a brief book proposal (200 words) on the manuscript they’d wish to develop. Please note the form, genre and themes explored of your intended work.

Please read our call for entries here and for eligibility and full terms and conditions here.

There is a £15 fee for entries, however we have a number of supported entry places for low-income writers, earning £16,000 or less a year. If you wish to apply for one of these places please email newwelshreviewawards@gmail.com.

Good luck!

Submit your prose to the Rheidol Prize for Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting. Entries close at midnight on the 31st of January 2025

Hwb Beics Pen Llŷn Bike Hub

GwyrddNi has been collaborating with Discover Llŷn (a local private bicycle company), O Ddrws i Drws, The National Trust, Canolfan Menter Congl Meinciau, Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor (Staff and Students), Ecoamgueddfa, Canolfan Pen y Graig and Sustrans to establish the Llŷn Bike Hub in Congl Meinciau, Botwnnog.

For £20 a month, you can become a member of the Hub and borrow an electric bike. This video shows some of the feedback we’ve already received!

Want to know more or borrow a bike? Contact dafydd.rhys@ynnillyn.cymru

(Biking footage taken by Discover Llŷn)

Baudelaire + FUBELT + Marionette Tickets

Baudelaire are a six-piece post-punk band from Birmingham. Through noisy, goth-tinged soundscapes, they write songs about the darker side of the human condition. Their previous singles have received airplay from BBC Introducing and BBC Radio 6 and they’ve supported artists including Frank Turner, Heartworms, Crows and Egyptian Blue. They’ve headlined sold out shows in Birmingham and Paris.

Baudelaire’s next single drops on October 4th. ‘No Future’ is an upbeat track that pits dour lyrics against a flurry of dance beats, driving basslines and swirling synths. FFO: IDLES, Nine Inch Nails, The Murder Capital, Protomartyr, Gilla Band and DITZ.

FUBELT channel a sonic urgency, encapsulated by their dual-guitar attack, angular grooves and cathartic live performances. Influenced by late-1970s post-punk bands as well as contemporary artists such as Shame, TV Priest and Protomartyr, FUBELT have created fierce and unrelenting sound embodying elements of post-punk, noise rock and shoegaze. Their songs brood over societal discord whilst exploring the sullen underbelly of the human condition. Through a philosophical perspective, their words are bound by the anxieties of modern society and contentious political upheaval.

Formed by Alex Harries (Vocals/Guitar), Emile Driscoll (Guitar), Sam West (Bass) and Sam Fairclough (Drums), the Cardiff four-piece have played to packed-out crowds whilst supporting established acts Other Half, Seneca and Penny Rich. FUBELT are establishing themselves as a live staple on the post-punk scene as they prepare to debut new music in the coming months.

Returning to CWRW in support of Baudelaire, brand new South Wales outfit Marionette recently announced their ace new debut single ‘Your Hand’, out 27th September. Mixed and mastered by Charlie Francis this track has been a favourite in the band for a while and will be loved by fans of 60ft Dolls, The Strokes or Mini Mansions!

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Alberta Cross + Corntown Orchestra +Laila Woodward

Alberta Cross will be joining us at CWRW as part of ‘The Thief and The Heartbreaker’ Re-imagined solo tour.

Alberta Cross were formed by Swedish-born lead singer and guitarist Petter Ericson Stakee and his London pal Terry Wolfers in the mid-00s. Their anthemic Americana-tinged songs possess a vulnerability and earthiness, and it soon showed in how hugely their debut record ‘The Thief & The Heartbreaker’ began to connect with fans.

2024 will see a reworked re-release of this album featuring of wealth of musical collaborations including Katie Melua, Jack Savoretti and Band of Skulls.

This solo tour will celebrate the album and the man that helped bring it to life, Petter Ericson Stakee.

Support comes from Casper James and the Corntown Orchestra, plus rising Swansea-based singer songwriter Margo Thirlwell.

Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard + Jack Jones + Papa Jupe’s

Fresh from the release of their new album Skinwalker on Communion Records, we’re delighted to announce the CWRW debut of Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard.

Skinwalker follows the Welsh Music Prize-nominated debut Backhand Deals and was written and recorded at frontman and producer Tom Rees’s Rat Trap studio, the room where Rees has previously recorded and produced tracks for emerging talent – Panic Shack, Do Nothing and The Bug Club. The material – as previewed on Therapy and their earlier single Chew – showcases a heavier and more disquieting sound than anything the band have released to date.

This darker sound and aesthetic take inspiration from found-footage horror and the Navajo concept of the Skinwalker – a legendary malevolent shapeshifter – from which the album takes its name. Thematically, each track on the record is designed to take you through descending floors of Rees’s mind each becoming more horrific than the last with the Skinwalker at the final floor, representing his inner fears, self-sabotage, hatred, and self-doubt. It’s a deeply intimate record of self-analysis and personal growth told through heavy fuzz-drenched guitars, a crushing rhythm section and fevered vocals.

Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard have appeared at Glastonbury, Eurosonic, Latitude, All Points East, SXSW and Green Man. They’ve made of end-of-year lists with NME, DIY and Dork, and earned plaudits from the likes of The Guardian, The Telegraph, MOJO, Uncut, Record Collector, The Needle Drop, The Independent, CLASH, The Line Of Best Fit and So Young, amassing radio support from BBC Radio 1, NPR and Radio X.

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Jack Jones joins us at the very start of his UK solo tour. Jack has enjoyed Top 10 success with Trampolene on the Independent Album Charts with three Top 10 Albums, hit the road as special guest to Liam Gallagher, supported The Libertines and had the honour of being the first act to headline Swansea Arena.

South Wales daydream believer Jack Jones is a compulsive wordsmith and obsessive jotter-down of phrases. Across three studio albums over the past decade, his work with Trampolene has always drawn from this humungous, ever-accumulating verbal resource. He has also published a novel (2023’s ‘Swansea to Hornsey’) and recited poems and delivered spoken-word onstage.

For his solo album, Jack has put away his guitar and embraced a fresh and highly contemporary sound in which to couch his hard-hitting state of the nation poems of existential fear and loathing. His lyrics tackle many of today’s burning issues: mental health, drug addiction, mortality and the tortuous demands of technology. There’s also joy and hope in there.

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With post-punk, surf, disco and gospel influences, Papa Jupe’s T.C.’s sleazy and theatrical live performances lampoon masculinity, politics and power. The Cardiff 7-piece are an emerging force in the vibrant Welsh music scene. As well as being shortlisted for the Green Man Rising competition, the band has also supported indie front-runners English Teacher on their UK headline tour and played a string of sold-out headline gigs.

Papa Jupe’s T.C. invite you to join the cult of Papa Jupe. Redemption comes to those who wait. Join the Taurus.

Dwi Ar Gau – Lleucu Non (Official Video)

Official music video for ‘Dwi Ar Gau’ (I’m closed off). Combination of animation and film by Lleucu Non, including footage from Sion Roberts personal archive.

Funded by Lŵp x PYST Music Video Grant

Lleucu Non – Dwi Ar Gau

Quick on the heels of Cyn Cwsg, BERIAN and Ffion Campbell-Davies, Lleucu Non is the fourth artist to release via UNTRO, as her debut single, ‘Dwi Ar Gau’ (I’m Closed), is set to arrive next Friday 11th October.

Thematically, ‘Dwi Ar Gau’ is a track that captures the complexities and challenges that come with long distance relationships, as Lleucu samples lost conversations she found buried in her phone’s voicemail. Slipping between the raw and the dreamy, the track was produced by London-based producer and Welsh Language Album of the Year 2022 winner, Sywel Nyw, as his favoured subtle beats are planted beneath Lleucu’s infectious melodies. Both artists came together to record the track at London College of Contemporary Music as part of a longstanding collaboration between Klust and Youth Music.

Hailing from Dyffryn Nantlle but now calling Cardiff home, ‘Dwi Ar Gau’ draws on inspiration from the likes of Thallo, Mazzy Star and Cate le Bon as Lleucu crafts her own slice of dream pop. Lleucu explains: “I started writing songs around four years ago during lockdown so it’s really exciting to finally being able to release my first single!”

She adds: “Recording in London and collaborating with Sywel Nyw was a special experience and I’m delighted to have had the opportunity to work with such a talented producer. The track’s lyrics are open to interpretation, but to me, it conveys the angst many people feel after graduating, among other ideas! I’m looking forward to seeing how the single is received.”

Out of Sight

Vertical Dance Kate Lawrence in collaboration with Disability Arts Cymru and North Wales Society of the Blind present:

Out of Sight


A day-long event to explore creative approaches to access with and for visually impaired people at Pontio, Bangor.

  • Saturday 16 November
  • 10.30am – 5pm

  • Stiwdio / PL2 / Bocs Gwyn

  • Free event

Dwi Ar Gau – Lleucu Non

Official music video for ‘Dwi Ar Gau’ (I’m closed off). Combination of animation and film by Lleucu Non, including footage from Sion Roberts personal archive.


Funded by Lŵp x PYST Music Video Grant

Comisiynau Celfyddydau | Arts Commissions 2024

Comisiynau Celfyddydau Anabl a/neu Fyddar Celfyddydau Anabledd Cymru 2024

Ydych chi’n artist sy’n hunan-anabod yn anabl neu fyddar yng Nghymru? Mae Celfyddydau Anabledd Cymru yn comisiynu wyth artist i greu gwaith, mewn unrhyw ffurf celf, sy’n rhannu eu profiad byw trwy greadigrwydd.

Sut brofiad yw bod chi’ch hun? Beth yw eich profiad byw? Pa safbwyntiau unigryw sydd gennych chi fel person anabl?

Rydym am i chi ddangos i ni trwy gynhyrchu celf ragorol, mewn unrhyw ffurf celf.

Byddwn ni’n dewis wyth artist i dderbyn £1250 yr un i helpu i ddod â’r syniadau hyn yn fyw.

Am fideo IAP a thaflen sain, ewch i: https://www.disabilityarts.cymru/cy/post/comisiynau

Unity Film Festival 2024

Unity Film Festival is Back! 8 – 9 November at Chapter

Bringing the best of inclusive films from across the world to Chapter, Cardiff, this second edition of Hijinx’s Unity Film Festival is bursting with exciting, thought-provoking and distinctive features and shorts. With documentaries, animations, dramas, comedies, sci-fi, costume drama and everything in between, the second Unity Film Festival offers something for everyone, including a special session for younger audiences. Every film has been made by or with people with learning disabilities and/or autism.

Tickets:

  • There are tickets available for individual screenings: £8 / £5

  • Or alternatively you can purchase a day pass for either day (or both), for the hugely discounted price of £25 (full price) or £17.50 (concessions price)

Tickets here

Booktober: The Journey – Maggie Ogunbanwo

Want to read more but don’t know where to start? Join the Booktober Challenge!

The challenge is to read one Quick Reads book a week during October.

This special series of short books by well-known authors offers the perfect way to delve into a book. Priced at £1, and at around 100 pages each, the books are perfect for a train trip to work, a lunchtime read or ten minutes with a cuppa. New titles are published each year to add to the series.

Maggie Ogunbanwo’s journey has taken her from Lagos in Nigeria to Penygroes in north Wales., with family and food inspiring her at each step of the way. Here Maggie shares her story of raising a family in the UK, building successful businesses, learning the Welsh language, and publishing award-winning cookbooks, accompanied by favourite recipes to give you a flavour of her experiences. 

Pennod 50 – Bardd Mewn Dau Fyd:Richard Hughes, Cefnllanfair

A Poet in Two Worlds: Richard Hughes of Cefnllanfair

As we record our 50th episode, we celebrate the milestone by discussing one of the most interesting poets of the early modern period, Richard Hughes of Cefnllanfair in Llŷn.

We note that he was one of several Welsh poets who spent a great deal of time in London in the age of Elizabeth I. Richard Hughes was a footman who served the queen herself, but in addition to spending time in the court in London he also visited his old home frequently, as his poetry demonstrates.

Indeed, his work is wonderfully varied, including poetry in both free and strict metres and, as far as themes are concenred, including: courtly love poetry and poems which treat sex in an extremely bawdy manner; poems about life in London and ones about Pen Llŷn (including a lively englyn to the Bardsey Island boat); poems which pay tribute to individuals and ones which satirize other people. And, yes, discussing the poetry of Richard Hughes enabled Richard Wyn Jones to learn an old Welsh word for toilet – cachdy (shit-house)!

Her yr Hydref: Deffro’r Ddraig – Rygbi Cymru 1995 – 2024 gan Seimon Williams

Mae Her yr Hydref yn eich annog i ddarllen un llyfr o gyfres Stori Sydyn bob wythnos yn ystod mis Hydref.

Mae’r gyfres arbennig hon o lyfrau gan awduron poblogaidd yn cynnig cyfle gwych i bori mewn llyfr. Gyda’r llyfrau yn ddim ond £1 yr un, ac yn rhyw 100 o dudalennau o hyd, maen nhw’n berffaith ar gyfer taith trên i’r gwaith, darllen dros amser cinio neu ddeg munud gyda phaned.

Llyfr am rygbi Cymru yn yr oes broffesiynol yw Deffro’r Ddraig gan Seimon Williams.

Mae’r gyfrol yn edrych ar y gemau mawr, y prif gymeriadau a rhai o’r prif straeon sydd wedi lliwio’r gamp ers i’r gem droi’n broffesiynol bron dri deg mlynedd yn ôl. Daw’r stori i ben drwy edrych ar y garfan ifanc a thaith yr haf i Awstralia yn 2024.

Darllenwch y bennod gyntaf AM DDIM yma!

Ar gael o’ch siop lyfrau leol nawr.