List of cultural venues in Cardiff
This is a list of cultural venues in Cardiff, capital city of Wales.
Sport
Main article: List of sport venues in Cardiff
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
- Richard Burton Theatre
- Bute Theatre
- Caird Studio (50)
- Corus Recital Room
- S4C Studio (50)
- Sir Geraint Evans Recital Room (50)
- 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)
- Dance Space (100)
- Donald Gordon Theatre (1,897)
- Urdd Hall (153)
- Weston Studio (250)
- BBC Hoddinott Hall (350)
- Roald Dahl Plass (Outdoor Arena)
Entertainment venues
- Red Dragon Centre
- Mermaid Quay
- Hard Rock Cafe (Now Closed)
- Cardiff University Students' Union
- Millennium Plaza
- The Glee Club
- Jongleurs (Now Closed)
Live music venues
- Barfly (Now closed)
- CF10
- Clwb Ifor Bach
- Coal Exchange (1,000) - Venue closed in 2007, reopened in 2009 and closed again in 2013 because of safety concerns.[1]
- The Globe (350) - opened on Albany Road, Roath, in November 2008.[2]
- The Point (500) - closed in January 2009, following a single complaint from a neighbour about noise.[2]
Gay Venues
Cardiff's recent redevelopment, including the opening of St,David's 2 shopping centre, has led to a rise in the number of gay venues in the city. These sit alongside the pre-existing venues available. Similar to other major cities, Cardiff's gay venues are mostly focused around one area of the city, this being the area around Charles St and Churchill Way.
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
- Butetown History and Art Centre, Cardiff Bay
- National Museum and Gallery, Cathays Park
- Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans
- Cardiff Museum Project (under construction)
- Doctor Who Exhibition Centre, Red Dragon Centre
- 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.[3]
- 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
- Rhiwbina Library
- Rhydypennau Library
- Rumney Library
- Splott Library
- St Mellons Library
- Tongwynlais Library
- Whitchurch Library
Places of worship
Main article: List of places of worship in Cardiff
See also
- List of places in Cardiff
- List of places in Wales
References
- ↑ "Cardiff Coal Exchange: Council to do emergency safety work", BBC News, 22 June 2013. Retrieved 2014-09-28.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Cardiff needs a venue like The Globe", guardiancardiff.com, 15 April 2010. Retrieved 2014-09-28.
- ↑ "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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