This is a list of cultural venues in Cardiff, capital city of Wales.
Sport
Performing arts
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 950)
- 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)
- The Gate Arts Centre, Roath (250)
- Wales Millennium Centre (Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru)
- Roald Dahl Plass (Outdoor Arena)
Entertainment venues
- Cardiff University Students' Union
- Hard Rock Cafe (now closed)
- Jongleurs (now closed)
- Mermaid Quay
- Millennium Plaza
- Motorpoint Arena Cardiff
- Red Dragon Centre
- The Glee Club
Live music venues
- Inkspot venue Cardiff - https://www.inkspot.online alternative weddings, conference rooms, live music events.
- 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]
- The Globe (350) - opened on Albany Road, Roath, in November 2008.[3]
- The Moon Club, Womanby Street [4]
- The Point (500) - closed in January 2009, following a single complaint from a neighbour about noise.[3]
- Tramshed (1000) - opened in October 2015 in a converted Grade II listed tram depot in Grangetown. [5]
- Y Plas - in the Cardiff University Students' Union building in Cathays [6]
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:
- Golden Cross - a pub featuring regular drag acts
- Kings Cross, The Hayes - gay-friendly pub for over 35 years,[7] converted to a gastropub in 2011 [8]
Historic and architectural venues
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
- Blackwater Gallery, Cardiff Bay[9]
- Butetown History and Arts Centre, Cardiff Bay
- National Museum and Gallery, Cathays Park
- Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans
- Cardiff Story
- Welsh Regiment Museum
- 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.[10]
- tactileBOSCH, Llandaff
- Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff Bay
Libraries
- 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
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.
- ^ a b "Cardiff needs a venue like The Globe", guardiancardiff.com, 15 April 2010. Retrieved 2014-09-28.
- ^ "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.
- ^ https://www.blackwatergallery.co.uk/
- ^ "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.