COMPETITIONS | JULY
TICKETS TO SEE SHOW BOAT
Hailing all the way from South Africa, Cape Town Opera are bringing a musical tale of America’s Deep South to the stages of the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay. Following the lives of workers on a Mississippi River show boat the musical explores racism, love and tragedy across its 40-year plot. Show Boat contains classic songs, such as Ol’ Man River and Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man, that will be sang by the award-winning opera company. We have three pairs of tickets to the opening night of Show Boat on Tues 22 July. If you fancy sailing into the Wales Millennium Centre with a free ticket then just answer the following question before Mon 14 July.
Q: The name of the Mississippi River comes from the Native American Ojibwe word ‘Misi-ziibi’. What does ‘Misi-ziibi’ mean?
Music lovers, open yer ears. The lovely people at muso-haunt Clwb Ifor Bach are giving Buzz readers the chance to win a pair of tickets to any upcoming gig their wee heart desires. Just email [email protected], with ‘WELSH CLUB’ in the subject header and your name and number by Thur 1 June.
TICKETS TO SEE ROSIE WILBY SHOW, IS MONOGAMY DEAD?
Part comedian part teacher Rosie Wilby is heading to Cardiff Science Festival on Wed 16 July to ask Is Monogamy Dead? Do long term relationships really work? Should monogamy be challenged as a concept? Will you be subject to an erotic cereal eating experiment? You can fi nd the answers to all these questions by getting your hands on a free pair of tickets to Rosie’s show at O’Neill’s on St Mary Street in Cardiff. Just answer the following question before Fri 11 July.
Q: 90% of bird species are known tom engage in social monogamy – what percentage of mammals are known to do the same?
TICKETS TO MISS BEHAVE’S BLYSH CABARET AND SILENT DISCO
Blysh – Wales Millennium Centre’s annual festival of circus, cabaret and street theatre – is back for another summer. We’ve got a pair of tickets to give away for the festival’s opening night performances on Fri 18 July. If you fancy joining in the fun of Miss Behave’s Blysh Cabaret in a beautiful Spiegeltent just answer the following question before Fri 11 July.
Q: What year was ‘The Famous Spiegeltent’ built?
TICKETS TO AN EVENING WITH NEIL RAZOR RUDDOCK
The ‘hardest footballer of all time’ will be heading to Romilly Park in Barry to regale his audience with anecdotes of his life and time as a professional football player and Celebrity Big Brother contestant. If you fancy grabbing a pair of tickets to see An Evening With Neil Razor Ruddock on Fri 25 July then answer the question below before Fri 18 July.
Q: Where did Ruddock’s nickname ‘Razor’ come from?
Classical music lovers listen up as the Welsh Proms return to St David’s Hall in Cardiff. We have a pair of tickets to the lovely Romantic Prom on Wed 23 July, and another pair for the more dramatic Russian Prom on Fri 25 July. If you fancy winning one of these pairs of tickets send your answer to the following questions, along with your preference of show, before Mon 14 July.
Q: Who founded the Welsh Proms?
TICKETS TO THE WALES GAMES DEVELOPMENT SHOW
See exactly what Wales has to offer the video game industry with tickets to the Wales Games Development Show. Amongst presentations of local work there will be guest speakers including Alien: Isolation’s Gary Napper and LittleBigPlanet’s Michelle Ducker. If you want to get a hold of a free pair of tickets, answer the question below before Mon 7 July.
Q: Who voiced the narrator in the hit platform game LittleBigPlanet?
The final six Wallander films are coming out on DVD and hitting the shelves this month, and to celebrate we have the box set to give away. This Swedish crime drama follows the drinking-too-much-and-working-too-hard detective Kurt Wallander, and was the show to kick off the Nordic Noir craze. If you want to grab this free copy of Wallander: Collected Films 27-32, answer the following question.
Q: In 2010 Wallander author Henning Mankell was deported to Sweden from where?
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