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 (400)
  • Richard Burton Theatre (182)
  • Bute Theatre (150-200)
  • Caird Studio (50)
  • Corus Recital Room (50)
  • 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)
• 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

• Cardiff University Students' Union
• Mermaid Quay
• Stadium Plaza
• Cardiff International Arena
• Red Dragon Centre
• The Glee Club

Live music venues

• 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]
• Fuel Rock Club, Cardiff- (160) opened 2013^[3]
• The Globe (350) - opened on Albany Road, Roath, in November 2008.^[4]
• Inkspot Venue Cardiff - conference rooms, live music events^[5]
• The Moon Club, Womanby Street^[6]
• The Point (500) - closed in January 2009, following a single complaint from a neighbour about noise.^[4]
• Tiny Rebel, Cardiff- (80-100) opened 2013, function room upstairs is often used for live music
• Tramshed (1000) - opened in October 2015 in a converted Grade II listed tram depot in Grangetown.^[7]
• Y Plas - in the Cardiff University Students' Union building in Cathays^[8]

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,^[9] converted to a gastropub in 2011 ^[10]

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

• National Museum and Gallery, Cathays Park

Museums

• Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans
• Cardiff Story
• Welsh Regiment Museum

Art galleries

• Albany Gallery, Roath - established 1965 ^[11]
• Blackwater Gallery, Prospect Place, Cardiff ^[12]
• Butetown History and Arts Centre (closed 2016), Cardiff Bay
• Oriel Canfas, Canton - run by artists who were formerly based at the Old Library in Cardiff city centre until the late 1990s^[13][14]
• Cardiff MADE, Roath ^[15][16]
• Gallery Celf, Bangor Street, Roath^[17]
• 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.^[18]
• tactileBOSCH, Llandaff
• Third Floor Gallery (2010-2016), 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

Main article: List of places of worship in Cardiff

See also

• Art in Cardiff
• Culture and recreation in Cardiff
• List of places in Cardiff
• List of places in Wales

References

1. "Surprise at closure of Cardiff music venue Barfly", BBC News, 1 September 2010. Retrieved 2015-11-22.
2. "Cardiff Coal Exchange: Council to do emergency safety work", BBC News, 22 June 2013. Retrieved 2014-09-28.
3. "The future of another Cardiff music venue could be under threat over a noise complaint". Wales Online. 27 March 2017. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
4. "Cardiff needs a venue like The Globe", guardiancardiff.com, 15 April 2010. Retrieved 2014-09-28.
5. "Inkspot Venue - Event Venue In Cardiff". Inkspot Venue.
6. "When rock met rugby: Welsh stars as you’ve never seen them before ", Wales Online, 31 January 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-09.
7. Kathryn Williams (23 October 2015) "5 gigs you shouldn't miss at Cardiff's new music venue Tramshed", Wales Online. Retrieved 2015-11-17.
8. "Y Plas". www.cardiffstudents.com. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
9. "Regulars campaign to save Cardiff gay pub". BBC News. 8 October 2010. Retrieved 2015-06-09.
10. "Bid to save gay Cardiff pub is defeated". Wales Online. 23 February 2011. Retrieved 2015-06-09.
11. "Milestone moments during 50 years at Cardiff's Albany Gallery". Wales Online. 9 November 2015. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
12. "Highly Anticipated Blackwater Gallery Launches in April". Business News Wales. 28 February 2019. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
13. Moore, David (30 July 2008). "Obituary - William Brown". The Guardian. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
14. "Art review: coastal inspiration at Oriel Canfas". Nation.Cymru. 26 March 2023. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
15. "How Cardiff M.A.D.E is running an art gallery during a pandemic". Alt.Cardiff. Cardiff School of Journalism. 2 November 2020. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
16. "'Let Us Now Praise Famous Bins' – Cardiff gallery launches exhibition and legacy project". Nation.Cymru. 30 October 2022. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
17. Jenny White (18 November 2023). "Major new gallery for the capital". Western Mail. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
18. "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.