The Slate Landscape Of North West Wales – A Bid For World Heritage Status
The bid in question was successful, so this is a celebration of the areas included in the bid and their history in terms of the Welsh slate industry.
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What's On in Wales - Your Ultimate Guide
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8 events,
Under New Made Clouds
Under New Made Clouds
Artists Ruth Sargeant, Jess Woodrow and Sian Jones respond to the landscape around them in new and innovative ways in the mediums of landscape, painting, installation, video and audio.
Free
Windrush Cymru: Celebrating The Lives And Journeys Of A Generation
Windrush Cymru: Celebrating The Lives And Journeys Of A Generation
Race Council Cymru exhibition looking at the lives of various people, and their descendants, who arrived on the Windrush ship from the Caribbean in 1948 and ultimately made their home in Wales.
Free
Collect & Keep
Collect & Keep
Exhibition displaying objects received into this museum's collection during the past five years, reflecting the story of Gwynedd and its diverse communities with its many layers of history, economy, culture and heritage.
Free
Graham Parker: Under Star Bolted Skies
Graham Parker: Under Star Bolted Skies
An exhibition of paintings by Graham Parker with other Under Star Bolted Skies artists, based on a collaboration with (the late) poet, David (Dai) Fry.
Free
Graham Parker: Under Star Bolted Skies
Graham Parker: Under Star Bolted Skies
An exhibition of paintings by Graham Parker with other Under Star Bolted Skies artists, based on a collaboration with (the late) poet, David (Dai) Fry.
Free
Tribute Ink
Tribute Ink
This is an exhibition by the Royal British Legion featuring tattoos of people who are or were in the army, and the stories behind them. It's housed in the Firing Line Museum in these grounds. (Until Thurs 11 Nov)
Free
Wolf Alice
Wolf Alice
Indiepop faves play slightly smaller venues than normal on a tour sponsored by Music Venue Trust and the National Lottery.
£15.00
11 events,
Harry Holland
Harry Holland
Important Welsh painter who has shown here for nearly 30 years gets a retrospective 80th birthday exhibition. (On until Sat 2 Oct)
Free
Under New Made Clouds
Under New Made Clouds
Artists Ruth Sargeant, Jess Woodrow and Sian Jones respond to the landscape around them in the mediums of landscape, painting, installation, video and audio. Open Tue-Sat, 10am-4pm. (Until Sat 9 Oct)
Free
Looking Good Dead
Looking Good Dead
Detective thriller based on Peter James' crime novel; rescheduled from April/May 2021. On at 2.30pm and 7.30pm on Thurs 30 Sept and Sat 2 Oct; 7.30pm only all other days. Tickets are £19-£37 at 7.30pm on Tue 28-Thurs 30 Sept; £8-£31 for the Thurs 30 Sept matinee; £20-£38.50 on Fri 1 and Sat 2 Oct.
£19.00
Madam Butterfly
Madam Butterfly
Welsh National Opera production of Puccini's opera. Tickets: £16-£52. Also on Sun 26 Sept, Tue 28 Sept, Fri 1 Oct and Sat 2 Oct.
£16
12 events,
Rent Party
Rent Party
This is described as "a 21st century Austerity Britain immersive show inspired by the 1920s Harlem Renaissance Rent Parties" and is a collab between Welsh theatre company Common Wealth (on this leg of the tour at least) and Darren Pritchard, director and choreographer. On at 2pm and 7pm on Sat 2 Oct, the earlier show …
£10.00
Dr Rowan Williams
Dr Rowan Williams
Former Archbish talks about all manner of things I shouldn't wonder, as part of the Conversations At The Chapel series.
£10.00
The Barber Of Seville
The Barber Of Seville
Welsh National Opera production of Rossini's opera. Tickets: £16-£52. Also on Wed 29 and Thurs 30 Sept.
£16
15 events,
Susan Milne: There Is Always A Mountain
Susan Milne: There Is Always A Mountain
Sketchbook drawings made during the first lockdown of 2020 and focusing on a single landmark in the Black Mountains. Also showing work by members of the Usk Valley ArtistsÕ Co-operative. (Until Sun 3 Oct)
Free
The Barber Of Seville
The Barber Of Seville
Welsh National Opera production of Rossini's opera. Tickets: £16-£52. Also on Wed 29 and Thurs 30 Sept.
£16
Marisha Wallace
Marisha Wallace
Best known from the West End and Broadway, this show however finds her just… singing some songs.
£28
23 events,
The Laugharne Weekend
The Laugharne Weekend
This year's, obviously delayed, edition is all sold out, although there's always a chance people need to sell tickets, and the full lineup etc won't be shared until shortly before the festival, but here's some of who's playing: Caitlin Moran Jeremy Deller, Stewart Lee, Isy Suttie, Henry Normal, Alun Wyn Jones, Eliza Carthy, Alexei Sayle, …
£100.00
Aberystwyth Comedy Festival
Aberystwyth Comedy Festival
Three days of sets, many of which are works in progress. See the festival website for more. Fri 1 Oct: Jonny Pelham: Optimism Over Despair, Queens Road Bowling Club, 9pm, £8; Frank Foucault: Songs, The Cambria, 9pm, £8; Stuart Laws: Putting Zoo, Arad Goch Stiwdio, 7pm, £8; Athena Kugblenu: Mash Up, Queens Road Bowling Club, …
Jackmaster
Jackmaster
Reopening night for the Vaults, with Scottish DJ who got himself in a bit of a handsy pickle a few years ago you may recall.
£15.00
An Audience With Manchester United Legends
An Audience With Manchester United Legends
Bryan Robson, Brian McClair and Andrew 'Andy' Cole are the legends in question. There are silver and gold VIP ticket options for £95 and £185 respectively, also.
£38.00
Madam Butterfly
Madam Butterfly
Welsh National Opera production of Puccini's opera. Tickets: £16-£52. Also on Sun 26 Sept, Tue 28 Sept, Fri 1 Oct and Sat 2 Oct.
£16
27 events,
Oktoberfest
Oktoberfest
Beers, sausages, oompah band etc for the first four Saturdays of the month that's called October, in England. Two sessions per day, from 12-5pm and 5.30pm until close.
£12.00
BAMS Student Medal Project
BAMS Student Medal Project
Exhibition of art medals designed and created by students from art colleges across the UK, plus academies in Italy and Bulgaria, alongside a small selection of contemporary medals by professional makers, commissioned by the British Art Medal Society.
Free
Cardiff Mini Film Festival
Cardiff Mini Film Festival
Two-day evening beginning at 5pm on Sat 2 Oct with a screening of five shorts, then a Film Networking Social at 7pm. Sun 3: 10.30am: Animation; 12.10pm: Student Award; 1.40pm: Music Videos and One Minute Wonder; 3.15pm: Documentary; 4.50pm: Low Budget; 6.40pm: Welsh Film Award; 8.05pm: Twisted Tales; 9.00pm: Awards & Closing Party.
£6.00
DnB Allstars
DnB Allstars
This takes place after the daytime rave Journey are doing today and will feature sets from AMC & Phantom, Alcemist, Document One, Sub Zero, Simula, Particle and hosts XL, Medic and Y Dott.
£25.00
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Journey: Trance Classics
Journey: Trance Classics
Trance lifers return with a daytime rave. Room 1: Marc West & Andy Bagguley, Hywel Matthews, Richie Knight, Jonny Griffiths, Rob Davies, Callan Christie. Room 2: Joe Byrne, Stu Grady, …
£10.00
Infinite Ways Home
Infinite Ways Home
Experimental dance production by Richard Chappell, featuring an electronic soundtrack by Welsh duo Larch and live violin by Enyuan Khong.
£10.00
14 events,
Taf Rapids Stringband
Taf Rapids Stringband
These guys are a bluegrass band and they soundtrack eating and drinking in this craft beer bar every Sunday until further notice.
Free
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Smack. 10th Birthday
Smack. 10th Birthday
Smack. is a clubnight that has been going for 10 years, apparently, and this is their party to acknowledge such. It features Lil Pino and D Block Europe, Darksy & …
£8.00
8 events,
The Slate Landscape Of North West Wales – A Bid For World Heritage Status
Under New Made Clouds
Windrush Cymru: Celebrating The Lives And Journeys Of A Generation
Collect & Keep
Tribute Ink
BAMS Student Medal Project
Help I Sexted My Boss
Help I Sexted My Boss
Live version of a podcast featuring Jordan North and Willian Hanson. We interviewed them, back in March.
£15.00
11 events,
Found
Found
An exhibition of textile art by the Art Textiles: Made In Britain group. Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10am-3pm.
Free
Under New Made Clouds
Under New Made Clouds
Artists Ruth Sargeant, Jess Woodrow and Sian Jones respond to the landscape around them in the mediums of landscape, painting, installation, video and audio. Open Tue-Sat, 10am-4pm. (Until Sat 9 Oct)
Free
Iris Prize 2021
Iris Prize 2021
Returning in person after successfully digitising itself in 2020. Venues: Premiere Cinema, Chapter Arts Centre, Iris Club + Atrium, Cardiff. Tickets: £140 festival pass/£90 weekend pass/£50 online pass; tickets for individual events available. Tue 5 Oct opens at 7pm at Premiere Cinemas. Wed 6 features short film screenings from 10.30am; industry talks from 3pm; Iris …
£140
John Grant
John Grant
American beardy indie crooner performs as a duo here. Ticket prices range from £25-£30. Rescheduled from May 2021.
£25.00
Matt Ford & Capital City Jazz Orchestra
Matt Ford & Capital City Jazz Orchestra
This weekly big band jazz night is back, in the venue they were before the previous one. Here every Tuesday this month and indeed beyond.
£10.00
18 events,
FOCUS Wales: Priority Festival Pass
FOCUS Wales: Delegate Festival Pass
FOCUS Wales: Standard Festival Pass
Roger Taylor
Roger Taylor
Queen drummer filling his spare time with one of what he endearingly calls intimate shows.
£35.5
21 events,
FOCUS Wales: Priority Festival Pass
This pass offers access to all live performances over the three days, plus conference events and film screenings, and you can jump the queue.
£80.00
FOCUS Wales: Delegate Festival Pass
This pass offers access to all live performances over the three days, plus conference events and film screenings, as well as the networking events, and you get your profile on the FOCUS Wales website.
£160.00
FOCUS Wales: Standard Festival Pass
This pass offers access to all live performances over the three days, plus conference events and film screenings.
£45.00
FOCUS Wales: Standard Festival Pass
FOCUS Wales: Standard Festival Pass
This pass offers access to all live performances over the three days, plus conference events and film screenings. Events are taking place in the following venues across Wrexham: The Centenary Club, Hwb Cymraeg, Llwyn Isaf, Memorial Hall, The Parish, Peunod, Saith Seren, St Giles Parish Church and T_ Pawb.
£45.00
FOCUS Wales: Thursday Pass
FOCUS Wales: Thursday Pass
This pass offers access to all live performances, plus conference events and film screenings, on FOCUS Wales' opening day. That includes: Kim Hon + Dienw (Saith Seren, 6pm); Bahr (The Parish, 6pm) and Yr Ods + S_nami (Hwb Cymraeg, 6.30pm), as well as performances with individual tickets available.
£25.00
FOCUS Wales: Delegate Festival Pass
FOCUS Wales: Delegate Festival Pass
This pass offers access to all live performances over the three days, plus conference events and film screenings, as well as the networking events, and you get your profile on the FOCUS Wales website. Events are taking place in the following venues across Wrexham: The Centenary Club, Hwb Cymraeg, Llwyn Isaf, Memorial Hall, The Parish, …
£160.00
FOCUS Wales: Priority Festival Pass
FOCUS Wales: Priority Festival Pass
This pass offers access to all live performances over the three days, plus conference events and film screenings, and you can jump the queue. Events are taking place in the following venues across Wrexham: The Centenary Club, Hwb Cymraeg, Llwyn Isaf, Memorial Hall, The Parish, Peunod, Saith Seren, St Giles Parish Church and T_ Pawb.
£80.00
Clive Hicks-Jenkins: Adventures In Books
Clive Hicks-Jenkins: Adventures In Books
Original artworks for three of CliveÕs most recent projects, all published this year: Beauty And The Beast, a collaboration with Olivia McCannon; The Owl And The Nightingale, made for Poet Laureate Simon ArmitageÕs translation of the medieval poem of that title; and Bird House, made for a series of Bantam picture books. Open Tue-Fri, 10am-6pm; …
Free
Adelina Patti Prize Concert
Adelina Patti Prize Concert
Featuring the vocals of Charlotte Forfar (soprano), Annie George (mezzo soprano), Rhydian Jenkins (tenor) Lluis Calvet I Pey (baritone) and Michael Smith (baritone).
£16.00
25 events,
FOCUS Wales: Saturday Pass
FOCUS Wales: Saturday Pass
This pass offers access to all live performances, plus conference events and film screenings, on FOCUS Wales' final day. These include Dresden Wolves (The Parish, 3pm) and Jacob Elwy aÕr Tr_bz (Saith Seren, 5.30pm), plus all individually ticketed shows.
£35.00
FOCUS Wales: Friday Pass
FOCUS Wales: Friday Pass
This pass offers access to all live performances, plus conference events and film screenings, on FOCUS Wales' second day. This includes Deyah + Henge plus more TBC (Llwyn Isaf, 3.30pm); Bob Vylan + Haviah Mighty (T_ Pawb, 6pm); Elis Derby (Saith Seren, 6pm) and Neighbours Burning Neighbours (The Parish, 6pm), plus gigs with individual tickets …
£35.00
An Artist In The World: Jane Phillips Award
Jimmy Carr
Jimmy Carr
Performing his latest standup set Terribly Funny, and also selling his new book Before & Laughter. You can get a copy of it along with your ticket for £39.
£33.50
25 events,
Northern Eye International Photography Festival
Northern Eye International Photography Festival
Collaboration between Oriel Colwyn and Aberystwyth's The Eye Festival, bringing photographers, speakers and exhibitions to Colwyn Bay. It's centred around a core speakers weekend in Theatr Colwyn across both days, with guests including Charlie Phillips, Emma Case, Brian Griffin, Alys Tomlinson, Jack Lowe, Suzie Larke and Craig Easton. Exhibitions as part of the Fringe, meanwhile, …
£40.00
Oktoberfest
Oktoberfest
Beers, sausages, oompah band etc for the first four Saturdays of the month that's called October, in England. Two sessions per day, from 12-5pm and 5.30pm until close.
£12.00
Anathemata
Anathemata
Display interrogating the tradition of epic poetry through 20th century artists David Jones, Antonin Artaud, Sarah Kane and Pierre Guyotat, alongside contemporary artists Martin Bladh, Paul-Alexandre Islas, James Richards and Karolina Urbaniak. Previewed here: https://www.buzzmag.co.uk/anathemata-exhibition-oriel-mostyn-llandudno/
Free
Pete Jones: The Bay
Pete Jones: The Bay
Painter with a selection of work depicting the Hirael area of Bangor, where he grew up.
Free