• Skip to main content
  • Skip to header right navigation
  • Skip to site footer
  • Magazine
  • Our Story
  • Buzz Learning
  • Buzz TV
  • Contact Buzz
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
Buzz Magazine

Buzz Magazine

What's On in Wales - Your Ultimate Guide

  • Culture
    • Art
    • Books
    • Comedy
    • Dance
    • Film
    • Music
    • Sport
    • Theatre
    • TV
  • Life
    • Reviews
    • Interviews
    • Travel
    • Food & Drink
    • Community
    • Environment
  • Regions
    • South Wales
    • Mid Wales
    • West Wales
    • North Wales
  • What’s On
  • Culture
    • Art
    • Books
    • Comedy
    • Dance
    • Film
    • Music
    • Sport
    • Theatre
    • TV
  • Life
    • Reviews
    • Interviews
    • Travel
    • Food & Drink
    • Community
    • Environment
  • Regions
    • South Wales
    • Mid Wales
    • West Wales
    • North Wales
  • What’s On

  • Magazine
  • Our Story
  • Buzz Learning
  • Buzz TV

  • Contact Buzz
  • Write for Buzz
  • Advertising
  • Jobs
  • FAQs
  • Privacy Policy

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
You are here: Home / Life / 10 THINGS TO DO | JANUARY 2021

10 THINGS TO DO | JANUARY 2021

January 22, 2021 Category: Life, Music, Sport, Art, 10 Things To Do This Week

10 THINGS TO DO | JANUARY 2021

 

Naysayers and sadsacks will tell you that right now, there is “nothing to do”, but there are things. Exactly 10 of them, in fact. And these are they.

 

M.A.D.E. GIGATHON – Mon 25 Jan

Independent Venue Week takes place at the end of January as standard, this time with a paradox at its core: the more distant the prospect of visiting an independent [music] venue seems, the more important it is to toast their existence. M.A.D.E. in Cardiff – best known as a gallery and shop, but quietly good for live music on its day too – is getting involved, screening a compilation of footage from its events over the last few years on Mon 25, then one archive set apiece every evening until Fri 29.

 

HORIZONS INDEPENDENT VENUE WEEK TOUR OF WALES – Mon 25-Fri 29 Jan

Also down with IVW is the BBC Wales/Arts Council Of Wales-birthed Horizons scheme, which supports and mentors a crop of upcoming Welsh acts each year. Actual tours might be off the menu for early ‘21, but they’ve managed to gain access to otherwise-shuttered venues to record some exclusive sets – audienceless, apart from you listening at home that is. The acts are Mace The Great, Faith, Those Damn Crows, Leila McKenzie & K(e)nz, Jodie Marie, Rona Mac, Ennio The Little Brother, Ifan Pritchard, Alffa, Body Water and Malan; the venues are Neuadd Ogwen (Bethesda), The Queens Hall (Narberth), Galeri (Caernarfon), Sin City (Swansea) and Le Public Space (Newport).

 

FORTÉ PROJECT 2021

In further Welsh music mentoring-related news, this month has also seen the announcement of Forté Project’s plans for the year ahead. Aimed at Wales-based musicians aged between 16 and 25, selected Forté acts are given six months of industry support such as workshops tackling various elements of the game. Names enlisted to host these in the coming months include Bring Me The Horizon producer Romesh Dodaganda, Katy Perry songwriter Corey Sanders, Boy Azooga mainman Davey Newington and Bethan Elfyn of Radio Wales (and the Horizons scheme – crossover event!). The nine acts getting a hand this year, meanwhile, are Aderyn, Elina, Demzie, Hemes, Kingkhan, Lewys, Mari Mathias, Mojo Jnr and The Honest Poet [pictured, top].

 

RUN WALES: FROM MY DOOR

You know how you’ve been hearing a lot more about exercise – when and where you’re allowed to do it and who with, mainly – in the last 10 months? Well, that’s still a going concern, and what with the basic concept of exercise broadly considered ‘good’ both in and out of a pandemic, athletic advocates Run Wales have recently launched the From My Door campaign. Its aim is to encourage people to get out of the house and give road running a go, with an online community out there for support even if running clubs can’t convene in the traditional manner. There’s also a ‘virtual running’ event planned for St David’s Day, according to the RW website.

 

CASTLE QUARTER HIDDEN COURTYARD

Strictly speaking, this isn’t a ‘thing to do’ yet, but if plans come to fruition it will be. A space between High Street and Duke Street, two of Cardiff’s city centre arcades, is currently sitting unoccupied, though taken up by what was once the Emporium nightclub. Rio Architects have submitted plans to Cardiff Council to knock this down, creating an open courtyard space encircled by units which could be filled by bars/restaurants.

 

G39 ONLINE EXHIBITIONS – until Mon 1 Mar

This Roath gallery and performance space has long been at the vanguard of experimental art in Wales, and while enforced closure has nobbled the live-action element of the fare it hosts, several artists have made video (or video-friendly) work which G39 has been showing on its website since October, and will do so until March. Adéọlá Dewis presents a work in progress themed round the Trinidad Carnival; Sarah Jenkins’ Request Stop is set in a rural Welsh village train station; and Nasima Begum interviews six women about The Value Of Housework, as her title has it. G39 have also announced the artists selected to take part in their Fellowship programme, which will run until 2022.

 

PENDERYN VIRTUAL TASTING – Thurs 4 Feb

These kinda carry-ons, where one orders a specific type or types of booze to be delivered then samples them with likeminded drinkers via video link, have proved popular in times of isolation – “any port in a storm,” you could say, if you were tasting port. This is however Penderyn, Wales’ eminent whisky distillers, although they make other things too, such as Siddiqui rum. On Thurs 4 Feb there’ll be a virtual tasting featuring both. For £30 you get five double measures from their specials range (three rums, two whiskies) and a video link for when it starts.

 

MIKE PETERS: LOVE HOPE STRENGTH BIG NIGHT IN – Thurs 4 Feb

The same evening also features a charitable online gig by the frontman of Welsh rock veterans The Alarm, who turn 40 this year (as a band, not people) donchaknow. Peters and what the publicity blurb promise will be “very special guests” will serve up an hour of music, variously live and prerecorded, plus interviews, kicking off at 9pm. Feb 4 is World Cancer Day, and there’s a charity auction via Peters’ own Love Hope Strength Foundation – both he and his wife Jules have been afflicted by the disease in recent years – with memorabilia from the likes of Duff McKagan and Billy Idol.

 

LITERATURE WALES WRITER COMMISSIONS – by Tue 26 Jan

A newly announced venture between Literature Wales and the Royal College Of Psychiatrists In Wales is offering £2,000 each to four writers, with the aim of creating projects which explore the links between literature and mental wellbeing. There’s an emphasis on tailoring them to people on low incomes, and on devising ideas which can be used in the future. An application form is available to download at the above link.

 

DYDD MIWSIG CYMRU / WELSH LANGUAGE MUSIC DAY – Fri 5 Feb

Another annual celebration called upon to figure out workarounds to its normal interactive goings-on, there’ll be plenty of activities for the day (including livestreamed gigs and launches of songs and videos, all via the AM platform) to be announced still. One that looks like fun: a challenge devised by hip-hop artist Mr Phormula and proposed to school-age kids, to write and record a Welsh-language rap before sharing it with Dydd Miwsig Cymru (details here). There’s £250 on offer for the school of the winners. For more mother tongue musical jollity, check out DMC’s Spotify playlists here.

  • Tweet
Tag: 10 things to do, Arts Council Of Wales, BBC Wales, buzz feature, castle quarter, DYDD MIWSIG CYMRU, forte project, g39, Horizons, independent venue week, literature Wales, love hope strength, M.A.D.E, mike peters, mr phormula, Penderyn, run wales, the alarm, the honest poet, welsh language music day, world cancer day

You may also like:

Panic Shack - credit Emma Way

6 MUSIC FESTIVAL: HORIZONS X BBC INTRODUCING showcases sold-out Welsh lineup

James Bay - credit Tim Alban

JAMES BAY returns to his live roots in Cardiff for Independent Venue Week

Mace The Great - credit Charlie J

MACE THE GREAT headlines a knock-out night of Wales’ finest MCs

PALE WAVES cement nostalgia-baiting pop-punk sound with UNWANTED

Danger Mouse & Black Thought

DANGER MOUSE & BLACK THOUGHT: hip-hop heavyweights make effortlessly cool collab

Arch Enemy

Swedish metal titans ARCH ENEMY don’t let up on triumphant 11th album


Sidebar

Looking for something to do?

The Ultimate Guide to What’s on in Wales!

See What’s On
Advertisement
Tickets
BTP - Campaign

Buzz archives

Buzz Magazine

12 Gaspard Place
Barry
Vale Of Glamorgan
CF62 6SJ

[email protected]

Contact Us
  • Jobs
  • Advertising
  • Editorial
  • Submit an Event
  • Write for Buzz
About Us
  • Our Story
  • Magazine
  • Buzz Learning
  • Media Services
  • FAQs
  • Privacy Policy
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • YouTube


Copyright © 2022   |   All Rights Reserved   |   Buzz Magazine   


We are using cookie tracking to give you the best experience on our website.

You can find out more about which cookies we track and personalise your preferences in settings.

Powered by  GDPR Cookie Compliance
Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings.

If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again.