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Paul Eastwood – Wrecsam, Dinbych a Conwy

Siarad i greu, creu i siarad is a project that focuses on developing community creativity via the medium of the Welsh language. The project will include a number of activities and events that explore different techniques and applications, and support discussion and learning in the Welsh language. Inspiring people from all backgrounds to become part of an artistic experience.

Partners – Menter Iaith Wrecsam, Dinbych a Conwy, Oriel Mostyn, StudioMade and Perilco

Eadyth Crawford – Merthyr

“Y KandE Collective” is a year-long project engaging Merthyr through music, arts, and performance to promote Welsh language learning. Workshops, collaborative music creation, live performances, and a public art installation foster a vibrant language experience.

There will be a chance to get a taste of Llais y Lle in a special event during the Eisteddfod Genedlaethol in Pontypridd. We extend a warm welcome for all to join in in YMa, Pontypridd between 10 – 1, Wednesday August 7th.


Partner – Canolfan a Menter Iaith Merthyr Tudful

Bridie Doyle-Roberts – Rhondda Cynon Taf

Rêf Celf is a creative laboratory for artists which embraces Pop, Rave and Festival culture to explore contemporary Welsh identity whilst creating new work. South Wales artists from all artistic disciplines, especially ones who identify as Deaf, disabled or neurodiverse, are invited to play, experiment, create and collaborate in social and participatory experiences. 

Partners– Valleys Kids, Theatrau RhCT, Soar, Artis Cymuned

Marc Roberts – Pontyberem, Gwendraeth Valley

The Y Draenen Wen project offers an opportunity for the community to establish a network of Welsh and Welsh language activity in the village of Pontyberem and the Cwm Gwendraeth area by hosting various sessions/workshops/activities. The emphasis will be on creating opportunities on a grassroots level which are accessible to all, and will include folk/community singing/dance/film/creative writing and visual arts.

Partners – Pontyberem Rugby Club, the Valley’s local paper, Gwendraeth Valley Library, Fforwm Iaith Cwm Gwendraeth

Angharad Owen – Dyffryn Peris

Historical/artistic and linguistic study of the identity of Dyffryn Peris, working with the Stori’r Tir group to build on an experiment to bring people together in the valley to collaborate and recreate our lost and anonymous tales. We will work with discussion and grief methods, in order to make sense of our loss and rewrite our narrative towards the future. 

Partners – GwyrddNi, Dyffryn Peris Climate Assembly

Coastline Film Festival

We are excited to announce that the Coastline Film Festival tickets are now on sale! Programmed by TAPE’s Media Club, this year’s festival presents a selection of films with themes linked to TAPE’s 3rd feature film, Below the Waves. The festival will take place between the 14th and 16th of August at the TAPE Community Arts Centre in Old Colwyn.

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Myfanwy Alexander – Sir Drefaldwyn

Cae/Agor: Ambitious film with YFC. Using field maps, members will create performances filmed by Robbie Meade, discovering hidden Welsh in the landscapes. Codi Cân: Identify & engage local musicians, exploring barriers to using Welsh, leading to encounter sessions and co-creation. 

Partner – Ffermwyr ifanc

Sian Parri – Penrhyn Llŷn

The project’s aim is to increase the use of the Welsh language in Llangwnnadl
and the wider area by sharing and celebrating the language and its culture, increasing Welsh opportunities and co-discovering art and creative ways to welcome everyone into the Welsh language.

Llangwnnadl is based in the north of Llŷn, and inspiring and increasing use of the Welsh language as an active language in this stronghold is vital to its continued use in the future. 

Partners – Cymdeithas Pen-y-graig, Cyfeillion Llŷn, Cynghorau Cymuned Llŷn a thu hwnt, Menter Iaith Gwynedd and Cymunedoli.cyf.

Mymuna Soleman – Caerdydd a Chaernarfon

Dathlu Cymraeg y Cofi drwy lens Somali gan anelu i ddathlu Cymraeg y Cofi drwy weithdai ysgrifennu creadigol yng Nghaernarfon. Bydd y sesiynau creadigol yma yn canolbwyntio ar groestoriadedd Cymreigrwydd a hil gyda chefnogaeth y Mudiad Meithein a’r adnoddau gwych y maent wedi eu paratoi ar wrth-hiliaeth.

Ciaran Fitzgerald – Castell Nedd, Port Talbot

The intention of this project is to bring together two groups of young people who would normally have limited contact with each other despite living in the same geographical area. I intend to work with two schools, Ysgol Gyfun Bro Dur, a mainstream Welsh school in Port Talbot, and Ysgol Maes y Coed, a Special School in Neath, which has pupils with a variety of learning and communication difficulties as well as physical disabilities . My intention is to make a piece of street theater that reflects the community these young people are a part of, and display it at the Eisteddfod yr Urdd in Margam 2025. This project gives young people from different backgrounds, but from the same community, the chance to work together, and develop mutual understanding between them.

Rhiannon Mair – Pontyates, Sir Gaerfyrddin

A project based in the village of Pontyates, Carmarthenshire, which will use the fabled path of the Twrch Trwyth through the village, as well as the train track path that used to carry the coal from the pit to the port, as a basis for the Welsh language creative activity there. 


Partner –Llangyndeyrn community council and Nazareth Chapel.

Elin Mannion – Abertawe/Swansea

Cornel Cymraeg: An opportunity for the dedicated staff of the NHS Swansea Bay Health Board who currently speak or are learning the Welsh language to wade into the arts and learning, use and live the Welsh language beyond just medical terminology and Courtesy Welsh, but in creative, inspiring and exciting situations and workshops with various Welsh language artists. 

Partners- NHS Swansea Bay Health Board, Welsh Learners (staff)

Colin Daimond – Ynys Mon/Anglesey

Cwtch is an intergenerational Music, Dance, Carnival and community-led Welsh Language arts project. Cwtch will empower individuals and create community cohesion through a broad and flexible participatory program for people with all levels of Welsh fluency. All ages will co-create a contemporary Carnival performance choosing themes from the legends, images, landscapes and folk music of Wales. There will also be creative opportunities to work with digital media and recycled modelling materials.

Partneriaid – The EHE community network, Wispy Willow Creations, Plas Llwynnon

Richard Huw Morgan – Trefforest, Pontypridd

Exploring the Welsh language knowledge, attitudes and confidence of a temporal community – bus passengers in south Wales coalfield communities through one-to-one conversations. Encouraging confidence in whatever ability we have, and acknowledging that we are all on a spectrum of ability in whatever languages we speak. Documented as audio recordings for possible future sound art assemblage. 

Partner – Citrus Arts

Rufus Mufasa – Blaenau Gwent

A mixed-media multidisciplinary programme giving marginalised voices the opportunity to reimagine language & the arts, making visible the dexterity & diversity of our nation, making our nation arms wide open to all. Making the tongue of the territory accessible to all in ways that will strengthen every framework, every policy, for all of our people, today & for future generations.

Partner – Celf ar Y Blaen

Kirsti Davies – Machynlleth, Powys

Gwreiddio is an artist-led project, that aims to amplify the Welsh voice in the Dyfi Valley by celebrating its long-standing relationship and advocacy of the natural world. The project will initiate a peer-supported creative enquiry, to foster linguistic pride and ownership within the nature narrative. This process will also produce new artistic work, collaborative workshops, culminating in a celebration event. 

Partner – Ennyn, Eco Dyfi

Bert Ussher + Ophelia’s Beard + Louis O’Hara

Friday 26 July 2024

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Bert Ussher is the alias of Bristol-based musician Robert Pearson. Bert and his band, composed of Tom Gould and Marcus Jeffrey, channel a 1970s-tinged sound taking influence from the likes of Air and Neil Young. Bert was notably featured on last year’s Katy J Pearson & Friends EP of covers from cult classic folk-horror film The Wicker Man. Bert Ussher’s own debut EP, recorded at the Louisiana with Alfie Tyson Brown, comes out on show day and we can’t wait to celebrate its release at CWRW!

Support comes from Ophelia’s Beard, making their first visit to CWRW following a string of well-received dates in South Wales. Ophelia’s Beard are an original four-piece folk-rock band, fronted with powerhouse vocals and with fringes back, left and centre. Their music has been regarded ‘a multi-genre soundtrack’, swaying audiences through medieval, country, pop and indie sounds and illustrative storytelling narratives.

Also in support will be Louis O’Hara, following hotly on the heels of his full-band CWRW gig with His Burley Chassis. This solo set will see Louis performing a stripped-down set that promises to be more experimental and equally enthralling.

Lande Hekt + Private Party + Spwci + Morgan Thomas

Friday 09 August 2024

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We can’t wait to welcome Lande Hekt for her first CWRWbar performance, the day before her At the Edge of the Sea festival appearance! Support comes from Private Party and Morgan Thomas and we are now delighted to adding SPWCI to the line-up – come and see four brilliant bands and artists!

Lande’s music is born out of self-reflection, social and political awareness, and her capacity for evocative storytelling. Having explored this personal song-writing approach with her former band, Muncie Girls, with their punchy yet tender punk-flecked songs, Lande released her debut solo record Going To Hell in 2021, soon followed by House Without a View and last year’s singles ‘Pottery Class’ and ‘Axis’. Lande’s songwriting presents its raw honesty amongst understatedly luminous melodies and candid, unpretentious lyrics which contemplate queer identity, life and childhood experience and musings on her life.

The music sits beautifully alongside such essential artists as The Wedding Present, The Sundays, The Replacements, Sleeper and Sharon Van Etten. She has toured in the UK, Europe, Canada and Australia supporting the likes of Alvvays, Laura Jane Grace, The Beths and the legend that is Tricky. She has also played at Glastonbury festival, as well as events for The Big Issue and the Labour Party.

Making their debut in late 2021, Private Party quickly made their presence known around Wales. Since releasing their dreamy hook-filled debut EP Artificial Feelings they’ve played Focus Wales in 2023 and released three singles, ‘Could’ve Asked Sooner’, ‘Disconnected’ and ‘bahama mama’. This summer, Private Party played In It Together festival and their debut album Borderless is out now on all platforms.

Joining the brilliant line-up, SPWCI are a four-piece band from Wales. Their music blends the raw spirit of 90s grunge with the mind-bending kaleidoscopic vibes of 60s/70s psychedelia. We can’t wait to welcome them back to the CWRW stage.

Returning to CWRW, Welsh-born and German-raised musician Morgan Thomas has one foot in folk and another striding forward into progressive rock. With catchy melodies, swaying guitars and emotive vocals, Morgan’s passionate and individual sound is a vehicle for his personal, soul to the earth songwriting.

Bible Club x Hypothetics + Katalogen (free)

Saturday 24 August 2024

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 We can’t wait to welcome two of Bristol’s hottest new bands, Bible Club and Hypothetics, for a double-headline gig at CWRW, supported by new local indie poppers Katalogen. Free advance tickets are available now via the link above!

After touring in support of their debut EP, Bible Club have honed their engrossing live sound. ‘AD’ captures the band’s new direction, which Bible Club have been developing with a focus on writing new material. With a captivating live set that dynamically shifts from punchy tracks to post rock soundscapes, Bible Club’s permeating sound is a refreshing and unique experience.

Constantly refining, Hypothetics are an innovative psych-punk four-piece known for their hardened sound, filtered through hazy folk melodies and tortured electronics. Motivated by an intense pride in their music, they aren’t afraid to rewire themselves creatively to show the audience something new. Their reputation for progressive releases and hard-hitting performances has landed Hypothetics shows across the UK with appearances at Forwards, 2000trees and Boardmasters. Their debut EP ‘Gets Let Down!’ received extensive attention from BBC Radio 1 as well as Spotify’s editorial playlists, including ‘Hot New Bands’, ‘Post Punk’ and ‘Melomania’, and they were included in CLUNK Magazine’s ‘Ones to Watch 2024’ alongside the likes of Opus Kink and Fat Dog.

Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage + David Cronenberg’s Wife

Sunday 08 September 2024

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Jeffrey
Lewis & The Voltage will now be joined at CWRW by David Cronenberg’s Wife.
Advance tickets are now on sale!
 

“Weird?
Very… but also downright inspiring” **** – Rolling Stone

The
mind-spinning indie-rock/folk/art of Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage developed
when songwriter and comic book artist Jeffrey Lewis began recording homemade
cassettes in New York City in 1998. His critically acclaimed, unusual and
word-dense songs lead to Jeffrey signing to Rough Trade and the project evolved
into a live touring cult sensation around the world. Creating a brilliant style
of scuzzy urban indie-rock-folk, like a 21st Century mash-up of Sonic Youth,
Pete Seeger and R. Crumb, Jeffrey’s band has played countless gigs all over the
world, including as opening act icons like the Mountain Goats, Daniel Johnston,
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Dinosaur Jr, The Fall, Dr. Dog, Pulp, Roky
Erickson and The Vaselines.

 

“Jeffrey
Lewis is an amazing musician, and if you don’t know his songs you probably have
a hole in your heart that can only be filled by his words… I did!” – Regina
Spektor

Their most
recent official album is Bad Wiring on Don Giovanni and Moshi Moshi, garnering
rave reviews, but Jeffrey has also digitally self-released four DIY albums from
his apartment. Jeffrey continues to wring folksy spiel and garage bohemianism
from his ramshackle guitar, while incorporating his often politically
subversive visual artwork and cartoons into live appearances. Some of
these audio/visual projects have been hosted online by the History Channel and The
Story of Keith Haring was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art in 2021.

“Hands
down my favorite contemporary songwriter” – Ben Gibbard (Death Cab
for Cutie)

“Jeffrey is
the best pure songwriter I know of… ‘Sad Screaming Old Man’… is one of my
favorite songs ever written” – David Berman (Silver Jews)

“Ramshackle
and beautiful noise… Lou Reed’s natural successor as punk poet of the New York
streets” – Louder Than War
 
“Bizarre
but brilliant” – Uncut
 

“Dazzling” –
MOJO

“Jeffrey
is the only artist I’ve sent fan mail to.” – Jens Lekman

Neil Collins: International Velvet book launch (free)

Thursday 12 September 2024

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We’re excited to be hosting Neil Collins in conversation this September, marking the publication of his new book on Welsh music, International Velvet: How Wales Conquered the ’90s Charts. If the story of Wales in the 1990s was a movie plot, it would all seem so far-fetched. Thankfully, it was all true…

This is a free, ticketed event featuring Neil in conversation about the book, followed by an opportunity to purchase the book itself. Neil is a Cardiff-based writer and known as co-host of Welsh Music Podcast. He is the author of the Liverpool FC books Make Us Dream and Red Mist.

The 1970s and 1980s were a bleak time for much of Wales: the closure of steelworks and mines led to mass unemployment while the country’s culture and language was disregarded by politicians and the music industry alike. Some bands even travelled across the Severn Bridge to make sure their records arrived at the London offices sporting an English postmark.

The 1990s changed everything. Wales was already known for Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey and Male Voice Choirs. But suddenly bands such as Catatonia, Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics, Super Furry Animals, 60ft Dolls and Gorki’s Zygotic Mynci exploded into the charts and showed the UK population the breadth of what this small but inherently musical nation could offer. Meanwhile, S4C – the Welsh-language television channel – became increasingly prominent and a new Welsh Assembly was on the horizon.

Featuring fresh analysis and new interviews, International Velvet charts the UK in a decade where ‘Cool Cymru’ won over the masses and shows how it inspired the still-vibrant Welsh music scene into the 21st century and beyond. This summer marks 25 years since the peak of the Cool Cymru scene including No 1 albums, huge gigs and the paid finale to the 90s with Manic Millennium. Other key moments discussed include the Stereophonics 1999 gig at Morfa Stadium, the Manics’ landmark 1994 album The Holy Bible and their Glastonbury headline set five years later and, not to be outdone, Tom Jones’ 1999 renaissance with Reload!

Aildanio: Part One

A film by Culture Colony about Disability Arts Cymru’s Aildanio Arts Prize!

The Film is in two parts: Part 1 exploring the arts practices of the artists, and Part 2 showcasing the Aildanio touring exhibition itself.

Aildanio: Rhan Dau | Part Two

A film by Culture Colony about Disability Arts Cymru’s Aildanio Arts Prize!

The Film is in two parts: Part 1 exploring the arts practices of the artists, and Part 2 showcasing the Aildanio touring exhibition itself.

Aisha Kigs – Llygaid Cudd

Part of the AffriCerdd project –  Tŷ Cerdd’s partnership with the National Eisteddfod, supporting artists of colour to work
in Welsh.

Video funded by Lŵp x PYST’s music video fund.

Below the Waves

Below the Waves will be TAPE’s 3rd feature film, but our first to be animated! 

TAPE is currently in the ‘pre-production and R&D phase’ for Below the Waves. This means that we’re doing lots of experimenting. We will be holding a Below the Waves touring exhibition in early 2025. The exhibition will travel to different places in North Wales. It will show you all the different creative work that has gone into Below the Waves so far. 

Pride Projections

Join us for an evening of celebrating LGBTQ+ stories through film at TAPE Community Music and Film. Pride Projections is a queer friendly space to watch, enjoy and discuss LGBTQ+ films. For the upcoming screening, we will be featuring the film, Chuck Chuck Baby.

Get your tickets now!

Cyn Cwsg – Gwranda Frawd

Fideo gan Aled Victor. Yn cynnwys fideos a lluniau gan Aled Victor, Lleucu Jenkins, Twm Ebbsworth, Jake Rowles a Klust.

Pennod 45 – ‘Cymraeg iawn i’r Cymry i gyd’: Beibl 1588

‘Proper Welsh for all of the Welsh People’: The 1588 Bible 

In this chapter we discuss William Morgan’s amazing achievement, the 1588 Welsh Bible. Not ignoring its obvious religious significance, we concentrate on the significance of this milestone from the point of view of the history of the Welsh language and its literature. 

One of the things which makes Welsh such an incredibly rich language is the variety of registers available to authors writing in Welsh, and it was the 1588 Bible above all else which ensured that it has an enduring elevated literary register. This linguistic unity has proven to be extremely important in the context of Welsh identity as well. We all get a chance to note the reactions of some contemporary Welsh people, include a poem of praise by the bard Rhys Cain which draws attention in a memorable fashion to William Morgan’s linguistic feat.

Seren Esgynnol/Rising Star: featuring Phil Jones

Seren Esgynnol/Rising Star is a focus on early career talents from the world of poetry. Phil Jones is a poet, writer, and musician. His debut pamphlet “Summer’s Work” has been published by Green Bottle Press. His band plays under the name Dusty Cut.

Seren Esgynnol/Rising Star: featuring Laura Sheldon

Seren Esgynnol/Rising Star is a focus on early career talents from the world of poetry. Laura Sheldon is a spoken-word performer, poet and writer from Llantwit Major. She is also one of the organisers of the These3Streams arts festival (https://these3streams.uk/). As a children’s author, she has published several titles with Firefly Press and Gomer Press.

Speed Friendshipping

16/07/2024 

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Speed Friendshipping is back for July! 

Join us on the evening of the 16th at 7pm with queer psychologist Jacob Pendrey for an evening of fun activities and a chance to meet new people in a friendly, safe environment. 

We’re able to host this and all our other community events through The Queer Emporium Foundation with support and funding from The National Lottery Community Fund! 

Unable to buy a ticket but still like to come? Email us at hello@queeremporium.co.uk and we’ll help you out with a pay-it-forward ticket.

Lez Write July

24/07/2024

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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.

This month’s Lez Write is on 24th July at 6:30-8:30pm – see you there!

Please bring 1-2 pages of your writing along!

Email: lezwritecardiff@gmail.com

Transition: Styling

02/08/2024 – 7.30pm

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Transition is back and this time, the format is slightly different! Come to The Queer Emporium to get any styling advice and services you may need, from free gender-affirming haircuts by Keep the Faith, make-up tips with Alia Ramna, clothing supplied by The TIN Wardrobe and even claim a binder from The Queer Emporium’s Binder Recycling Scheme! 

Then, join us for a cabaret hosted by Cardiff’s premiere drag king, Justin Drag, who will be joined by drag artist Mariana Trench and others! 

Further Information

Alcohol will be served at this event. This is a seated event. Loud sounds may feature as part of the performances.

Accessibility Information

Our events are situated in the Royal Arcade, Morgan Quarter. Access to this can be gained via our shop front entrance, which includes a step or via our side entrance, which is level with the ground but please let us know in advance if you would like to use this one as it is often locked. There is also a disabled toilet on site. 

The Queer Emporium is situated at the lower half of St. Mary’s Street. There is a taxi rank diagonally across from the space and Uber cars are able to collect people from the Marriott Hotel, which is approximately 0.4 miles away. Here, many buses also stop to collect passengers and allow them to alight. Parking is available in St. David’s Hall 2 and the John Lewis Car Park, both of which are approximately 0.2 miles from The Queer Emporium. 

Pay It Forward

If you are facing any financial barriers that may prevent you from attending the event, please contact us. We have a limited number of Pay It Forward tickets available for all of our events.

Solidarity/Pay It Forward Tickets

This ticket option is a donation and does not provide access to the event. If all Pay It Forward tickets aren’t allocated for this particular event, the funds will go towards providing Pay It Forward tickets for future events. Your donation helps us keep our events accessible to all, thank you!

Draglings with Felicity Saunders

09/08/2024


Draglings is back! Join Felicity Saunders at The Queer Emporium for a night featuring the newest drag acts and queer talent in Cardiff!

If you’d like to apply to be involved, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/VivTJiKxemMczJXW9

Tickets are free! There will be a collection at the door to be split between all the acts. See you there!

Further Information

Alcohol will be served at this event. This is a seated event. Loud sounds may feature as part of the performances.

Accessibility Information

Our events are situated in the Royal Arcade, Morgan Quarter. Access to this can be gained via our shop front entrance, which includes a step or via our side entrance, which is level with the ground but please let us know in advance if you would like to use this one as it is often locked. There is also a disabled toilet on site.

The Queer Emporium is situated at the lower half of St. Mary’s Street. There is a taxi rank diagonally across from the space and Uber cars are able to collect people from the Marriott Hotel, which is approximately 0.4 miles away. Here, many buses also stop to collect passengers and allow them to alight. Parking is available in St. David’s Hall 2 and the John Lewis Car Park, both of which are approximately 0.2 miles from The Queer Emporium.

Pay It Forward

If you are facing any financial barriers that may prevent you from attending the event, please contact us. We have a limited number of Pay It Forward tickets available for all of our events.

Solidarity/Pay It Forward Tickets

This ticket option is a donation and does not provide access to the event. If all Pay It Forward tickets aren’t allocated for this particular event, the funds will go towards providing Pay It Forward tickets for future events. Your donation helps us keep our events accessible to all, thank you!