Culture

Dylan Thomas Centre to become creative world hub
23/8/2010 - Swansea's world-famous Dylan Thomas Centre could be transformed into a 21st Century hub for culture, creative industries, education and enterprise. Swansea Council is looking to join forces with the University of Wales...

Win a prize with fifty well chosen words
23/8/2010 - A Mini Saga competition, where entries must be EXACTLY fifty words, was launched on Sunday 1 August at the National Eisteddfod in Ebbw Vale by Richard Davies, Chair of the 2010 Blaenau Gwent and Heads of the Valleys Nat...

How Rome conquered Wales
12/8/2010 - Archaeologists from Cardiff University have made a major new discovery that will change the way we think about how Britain was conquered and occupied by the Roman army almost 2,000 years ago. A complex of monumental bu...

Shooting famous Welsh people
12/8/2010 - Famous faces of Wales are the subject of a new photographic exhibition coming to the Millennium Centre in Cardiff next month. The subjects - including Shirley Bassey, Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Pryce, Sian Phillips and...

Paul Robeson's Welsh links
3/8/2010 - Swansea University was launching a new learning resource about Paul Robeson, the world renowned singer, actor and civil rights activist, and his links with Wales at the National Eisteddfod in Ebbw Vale today. Heritage ...

Wales comes to life on a website
2/8/2010 - A new website launched today uses pioneering technology to tell the story of Wales through the eyes of its people. The People’s Collection Wales is a contemporary, interactive and bilingual online experience dedicated...

Only Men and Boys Aloud open Eisteddfod
30/7/2010 - Only Men Aloud tonight (Friday) headline the first of a series of concerts on the Maes as the Blaenau Gwent and Heads of the Valleys National Eisteddfod gets underway. They will also be introducing Only Boys Aloud –...

Merthy'rs greatest artist comes home
30/7/2010 - As part of Cyfarthfa Castle’s centenary celebrations, an exhibition of the work of two of Britain’s greatest artists, including local man Penry Williams, will be on display ffrom this Sunday. Selected works of Willia...

Sherlock Holmes comes to Cardiff
29/7/2010 - Cardiff University’s estate is becoming a regular feature on TV screens with the main building featuring in the BBC’s latest major drama series – Sherlock. More than 120 years after the first publication of the Arthur ...

Cardiff's fabulous big weekend
29/7/2010 - The Admiral Cardiff Big Weekend (July 30-August 1) returns to the City Hall lawn, with three days of free live music from Wales and the world on the big stage, along with the white knuckle rides and traditional family at...

Monty Python's Spamalot on its way
29/7/2010 - Todd Carty will play the role of Patsy when the comedy musical the Spamalot comes to the Millennium Centre from August 23 to August 28. Todd appeared in the BBC TV show Grange Hill, as Tucker Jenkins for five years an...

Wales spends to save its historic fabric
28/7/2010 - Wales’s oldest theatre, its largest chapel and an Anglesey church with Tudor connections are among 24 historic buildings sharing funding of £999,124 announced today by Minister for Heritage, Alun Ffred Jones. The Welsh...

Eisteddfod hosts hot debates
28/7/2010 - A week-long series of discussios is set to ignite political and cultural debate at this year’s National Eisteddfod in Ebbw Vale. For the first time the National Assembly for Wales has organised a series of discussions ...

Alex takes One Show sofa
26/7/2010 - Welsh TV presenter Alex Jones, 32, today said she was bowled over to have won an audition to replace Christine Bleakley and join comedian Jason Manford as the new co-presenter of the BBC prime time One Show from August 16...

Historic Wales on show
23/7/2010 - Cultural Olympiad celebrated at Cadw monuments A Cultural Olympiad open weekend takes place on Saturday 24 July and Sunday 25 July with a series of special events across Cadw sites in Wales. The events form part of Ca...

Plan to protect Welsh food names
21/7/2010 - Welsh food and drink products could join the ranks of Champagne and Parma Ham and have their names protected by European law with the launch today of an initiative by the Welsh Assembly Government. The new European Pro...

Swansea castle makeover
20/7/2010 - Swansea's 900-year-old Oystermouth Castle is to be be given a £2.3 million makeover including major conservation works and 21st century visitor facilities. Events and tours will be improved and a community coordinator...

Sophie Evans sings a riot
20/7/2010 - Welsh singing sensation Sophie Evans, aged 17, has travelled back in time to the Tonypandy Riots of 1910 for her latest television appearance. The “Over the Rainbow� star from the Rhondda filmed with Green Bay Medi...

Bangor medieval festival
20/7/2010 - Bangor, one of the earliest Christian settlements in Britain, dating back to 525 A.D. , will be celebrating its history with a medieval festival this Saturday. Cathedral surroundings will be transformed into medieval ...

Pillar holds secrets of ancient Welsh kingdom
17/7/2010 - A mysterious stone pillar put up by a king of Powys over a thousand years ago is to be investigated by archaeologists. An excavation of the Pillar of Eliseg, a ninth-century AD stone monument which stands on a mound ne...

Sing a song of Tonypandy
16/7/2010 - Students from two Rhondda secondary schools are to work with a leading singer-songwriter to create music to mark the centenary of the Tonypandy Riots. Pupils from Tonypandy Community College and Ysgol Gyfun Y Cymer are...

Swansea pop concerts called off
9/7/2010 - Two days of concerts next month by pop stars including Tony Hadley, Jools Holland and Bananarama have been called off because of poor ticket sales. The concerts were to be staged at Swansea's Singleton Park on August 7...

Prizes for poets
6/7/2010 - Flintshire County Council’s Library and Information Service is inviting entries for its annual poetry competition, “Poetry Power�. It is open to people aged 16 and above, living or working in the catchment area of a...

Kids can train to be a star
6/7/2010 - If you've ever wanted to dance like the professionals on Strictly, be the next Dorothy like Danielle Hope or be an award-winning actress like Catherine Zeta-Jones, then Wales Millennium Centre is the place to be this summ...

Rick Astley rocks Chepstow back to the 80s
5/7/2010 - Rick Astley will headline a concert of top music acts at Chepstow Racecourse on on its 80s racing night on Thursday 12 August. The Back to the 80s event will also feature ABC and Heaven 17. Winner of Best Act Ever a...

Philip Gross wins Wales Book of the Year
2/7/2010 - Poet Philip Gross has won the £10,000 Wales Book of the Year for I Spy Pinhole Eye - a collection of poems written to accompany Simon Denison's pinhole photography - published by Cinnamon Press. Gross's poetry collec...

Discover the secrets of your Welsh town
1/7/2010 - Wales today became the first country in Britain to make its archaeological records available online and open up the secrets of Welsh towns. At a conference organised by Cadw, the Assembly Government’s historic envir...

Best and naughtiest coming to Cardiff
1/7/2010 - The ten-day Blysh Festival of music, dance, circus, comedy and cabaret will take place in and around Wales Millennium Centre from Friday 16 July to Sunday 25 July with most performances being free of charge. The Blys...

Ex-Bangor man to run Olympic show
29/6/2010 - Oscar-winning film-maker Danny Boyle will be artistic director for the London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony, organisers have announced. The Slumdog Millionaire director, who studied his craft at Bangor University...

Arts organisations face funding cuts
29/6/2010 - Thirty two arts organisations in Wales will lose funding from April 2011 because of the financial crisis, it was announced today. Dai Smith, Chairman of Arts Council Wales, said, "We're not naïve. Wales will have to m...

Welsh cradle of human genius
25/6/2010 - Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council is bidding for a UNESCO World Heritage Status for the Cyfarthfa Heritage Area. The Cyfarthfa Heritage Area is of high worldwide historic importance. Key elements from the town’s ...

Paul McCartney in Cardiff
24/6/2010 - Paul McCartney will play his first show in Wales for 31 years at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday - supported by Welsh rockers the Manic Street Preachers and The Joy Formidable - and thousands of fans have snapped up t...

Free shows for the troops
22/6/2010 - Wales Millennium Centre will become the first cultural venue in Wales to give free tickets for some of its top shows - including Mamma Mia! and children’s classic Guess How Much I Love You - to serving members of the ...

Diggers find highly desirable 12th century house
21/6/2010 - Digs in Nevern Castle, Pembrokeshire, have revealed what are thought to be the largest group of 12th century buildings in the county. The excavations were directed by Dr Chris Caple from Durham University and supporte...