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An organisation providing funded training opportunities alongside one of the biggest challenges in the world, the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, will return this Spring to deliver further programmes on the West Coast of Scotland. Our Isles and Oceans launched in June and has already seen forty young people go through its training and development programme. The Our Isles and Oceans mission statement is ‘Youth Opportunity and Professional Development for Sustainable Livelihoods’. The initiative intends on, through the vehicle…
Two teenagers from Cardiff have beaten learners from across Wales to win a national debating competition and represent the UK at a global exhibition in Dubai. Marzooq Subhani, 16, and Crystal Tran, 15, both Seren learners at Willows High School in Splott, secured their places to attend and debate at this year’s World Expo in Dubai after winning the Welsh leg of the ‘Dubai Expo Factor’ – a UK competition which sees teams of two young people from across the…
There can’t be too many comedy touring shows this year revolving around the throwing of a bread roll. Nish Kumar’s Your Power, Your Control strongly features that time he was on the receiving end of a baked-product hurling at a charity gig. For a while he was an undisputed rising star of the British stand-up scene with one excellent Edinburgh Fringe show after another and media appearances ranging from hosting Newsjack on the radio and The Mash Report on TV,…
WOW Wales One World Film Festival, the UK’s longest running world cinema festival, celebrates its 21st birthday. Presenting 21 festival favourites from across the world online between Friday 25 February and Sunday 13 March. 21 years, 21 films, 21 tickets to travel to far flung places to enjoy stories to share with family and friends. With strands like ‘Reasons to Be Cheerful’, ‘Weird & Wonderful’, ‘Female Voices’, ‘Ecosinema’, & ‘Teenage Kicks’, there’s something for everyone to savour. Our partner festivals…
Building Heroes, an award-winning military charity, has opened a brand new centre in Wales, expanding its construction skills and training courses across the UK at thirteen training locations. Established in 2014, Building Heroes is a charity that provides free construction skills training to the military community and supports employment. They aim to tackle unemployment among those that have kept us safe by offering them a seamless career in construction. Brendan Williams, CEO of Building Heroes, said: “When we first started…
Photo Credit: Jon Stone Fierce & Fantastic – RuPaul’s Drag Race Cardiff 2022 Season 2 of RuPaul’s drag race being ‘full of diversity and variety’ took place at St David’s Hall on Saturday February 19th. What a night to remember! Eleven individual and unique Drag Queens, including Tayce, Ginny Lemon and A’Whora, took to the stage with plenty of show stopping talent. Although the Season 2 winner Lawrence Chaney was absent from the show, therefore, Tayce opened the show and…
What a way to start the week! Early noughties singer, and self-confessed ‘guilty pleasure’, James Blunt was welcomed to the stage in the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff on Monday 7th February 2022. Throughout Blunt’s musical career, there’s been an apparent shift in his music style, his adherence to emotive soft rock is echoed within his earlier singles, such as his tear jerking (and chart topping) ballads ‘You’re Beautiful’ and ‘Goodbye My Lover’ from the debut album ‘Back to Bedlam’…
Trebby Jones, a keen young fisherman had a birthday wish, to meet his sporting idol – team captain for the Welsh Ladies Carp Team – Kayleigh Watkins. The Welsh Ladies Carp Team is a low profile international women’s fishing team, that only those in the fishing industry would have heard of. The team first got together in 2015 and since then they have gone from strength to strength, and are undergoing preparations for this year’s International season, with their hardest…
Postmodern Jukebox are bringing “the most sensational ’20s party this side of The Great Gatsby” across the pond, in the shape of The Grand Reopening Tour. The time-twisting musical collective known for putting “pop music in a time machine,” are set to make the ‘20s roar again – kicking off in Belfast on 20th April, the tour will delight 20 cities across the UK, including Liverpool, Cambridge, Manchester, Glasgow, Nottingham, Leeds, Edinburgh, Guildford, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Bristol, Northampton, Birmingham, Ipswich, Margate, Southend, Oxford, Norwich and renowned London venue – the Palladium….
Ali Campbell of UB40 has announced that his upcoming UK tour beginning in February 2022 will go ahead, now in memory of his departed friend and bandmate of over four decades, Astro. Ali said: “I can’t wait to get back on stage and see all our wonderful fans. It’s going to be incredibly difficult without Astro by my side. Remembering Astro, let the music play on. Big love, Ali” UB40 topped the UK singles chart on three occasions and sold…
