Victorian warehouse in the heart G39 Cineworld offers chart-topping new
of Cardiff Bay, Craft in the Bay is Mill Lane, Cardiff. 029 2025 5541 films, cinematic blasts from the past
home to the Makers Guild in Wales. Positioned in the middle of Cardiff’s and 3D films without having to wear
Showcasing and selling fine contem- hip Mill Lane, g39 hosts monthly gawky multicoloured-lens glasses.
porary craft, the gallery includes an exhibitions that showcase the work Student rates, special offers and
exhibition space, workshop, café, of some of Britain’s most established sickly sweet snacks are of course, a
conference room and shop. It also contemporary artists. The gallery’s given.
holds regular exhibitions of quality programme often focuses on video
Welsh craft. and installation work and is worth SHoWcaSe cineMaS
a visit by anyone looking to keep Nantgarw, Treforest Industrial
GpF GallerY abreast with the current trends in Estate. 0871 220 1000
18 George Street, Newport. contemporary art. A left turn off the A470 near Pon-
01633 264581 typridd takes you to this multiplex,
Newport-based gallery and picture cardiFF ScHool oF arT & situated among a couple of out-of-
framing service run by Janet Martin. deSiGn town eateries and business units.
With close links to the city’s museum Howard Gardens Campus, Although it’s not in the most beautiful
and art gallery, it holds regular Cardiff. 029 2041 6154 of places, it boasts bargain matinee
exhibitions of European contempo- The Howard Gardens Gallery, run by tickets, cheap Tuesday screenings and
rary art. Recent shows include John painter/photographer Richard Cox, is free parking.
Selway, Thomas Rathmell and Alex located in the Cardiff School of Art &
Arnell. The private gallery also rents Design Campus near the city centre. odeon
artist studios. Along with housing the university’s Red Dragon Centre, Cardiff Bay.
various degree shows the gallery puts 0871 2244007
MiSSion GallerY on monthly exhibitions that often If you’re looking to make a night of
Maritime Quarter, Swansea. centre on drawing and photography. it, this multi-screen, student-friendly
01792 652016 Odeon is perfect. Sat inside a centre
Housed in a former seamen’s mis- cinemas that is home to a number of bars and
sion, the Mission Gallery looks from restaurants, as well as a bowling alley
the outside like a craft shop for the and a Dr. Who exhibition, there’s
people who are stuck for buying a plenty to do before and after watching
wedding gift. But go in and you’ll be one of its blockbuster films.
confronted with an impressive exhibi-
tion space showcasing cutting-edge VUe
work by some of Wales’s best young Millennium Plaza, Cardiff.
talents. York Street, Swansea.
0871 2240240
oriel WaSHinGTon GallerY With 12 screens and over 1,700 seats,
1-3 Washington Buildings, cHapTer arTS cenTre there’s plenty of room and plenty of
Penarth. 029 2071 2100 Market Road, Canton, Cardiff. choice at this chain cinema in the
Part gallery, part café, part craft and 029 2030 4400 hearts of both Swansea and Cardiff.
bookshop, the Washington adds a Recently refurbished, Chapter is Showing the latest blockbusters,
strong degree of cultural sophistica- Cardiff’s biggest and most diverse it has the usual ‘popcorn and cola’
tion to Penarth’s otherwise shabby arts centre and regularly plays host to snacking facilities and a Ben And
town centre. Features a regular quality independent films and main- Jerry’s ice cream counter. Disabled
programme of work by local artists, stream classics. First Monday of the viewers are well-catered for, as are
as well as ambitious projects like month is Chapter MovieMaker where those who just like comfortable,
ReWorked, which draw artists from screenings of short films by indepen- normal-sized chairs.
further afield. dent filmmakers are shown. It’s free
and ideal for aspiring filmmakers. The theatres
THe MarTin TinneY GallerY Bad Film Club is a minor institution
18 St Andrew’s Crescent, Cardiff. and meets on the first Sunday of each donald Gordon THeaTre
029 2064 1411 month. They play terrible movies that Wales Millennium Centre,
City centre gallery housed in a you can shout and heckle along with Cardiff Bay. 08700 402000
wonderfully light and spacious town the comedians - very cathartic. Head for the grand-looking armadillo
house. Features regular exhibitions shaped building down the bay and not
by Welsh artists, particularly by the cineWorld only will you see the likes of NoFit
sort of landscape painters popular Mary Anne Street, Cardiff. State Circus and Matthew Bourne’s
amongst the ‘Cracach’ – the Welsh- Newport Retail Park. 0871 2002000 Dorian Gray pass through its doors
speaking elite who dominate politics, As Cardiff’s Cineworld is only a short over the next few months but, for
media and the arts in Wales. walk from Central Station and is the geeky, you’ll also be next door to
near David Street’s NCP car park, the Torchwood’s headquarters.
multiscreen cinema easily accessible.
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