WaleS MillenniUM cenTre
Cardiff Bay. 08700 402000
Presbyterian Church, the centre has Wales’ most impressive cultural
a Christian ethos, although welcomes landmark of recent times. The WMC
of the Vale Of Glamorgan. Along- people of all faiths and none. boasts a premier-league programme
side adult education classes and of West End musicals, opera ballet,
workshops, the centre hosts various naTional MUSeUM & GallerY contemporary dance, stand-up
theatrical performances, including Cathays Park, Cardiff. comedy and art exhibitions. Home
the Wales International Storytelling 029 2039 7951 to the internationally renowned
Festival. Art exhibitions are also held Every proud nation needs its own Welsh National Opera Company, this
in its intimate gallery. national museum – and this is Wales’. iconic building also hosts popular free
Famous for its superb collection of lunch-time performances.
TalieSin Impressionists, featuring master-
Singleton Park, Swansea. pieces by Monet, Cezanne and Van art galleries
01792 602060 Gogh, the museum also houses
Gallery, theatre, cinema, bookshop, galleries devoted classical art in aTTic GallerY
café bar, craft shop, Egyptian museum Britain, Italy and Holland. Recently 14 Cambrian Place, Old Maritime
(I kid you not) and local branch of opened galleries of Welsh portraiture Quarter, Swansea.
Lloyds TSB – is there nothing the and landscape painting provide some 01792 653387
Taliesin doesn’t do? Situated on native character. Swansea’s most successful commer-
Swansea University campus, this com- cial gallery, housed in a loft apart-
pact multipurpose venue hosts plays, THe riVerFronT ment slap-bang in the centre of the
concerts and films, as well as regular Bristol Packet Wharf, Newport. town’s fashionable maritime quarter.
exhibitions by local artists. 01633 656757 Features regular exhibitions by local
The newest arrival on the south artists such as Glenys Cour, Valerie
THe GaTe arTS cenTre Wales arts scene, the Riverfront is a Ganz and George Little, providing
Keppoch Street, Cardiff. state-of-the-art venue, encompassing visitors with a good insight into
029 2048 3344 a gallery, studio, café bar and a 493- Swansea’s vibrant art scene.
Committed to helping local people seat theatre. Particularly impressive,
develop and discover creative skills, though, are its workshop spaces, cBaT: THe arTS &
The Gate is a community arts centre which host classes in everything from reGeneraTion aGencY
that provides a broad programme of youth theatre to circus skills, break- 123 Bute Street, Cardiff.
dance, music, theatre, singing, visual dancing and DJing. 0845 241 3684
art and writing. Housed in a former When the Cardiff Bay Develop-
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