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Food & Drink
Deri Reed Deri Reed, also known as the ‘ethical
chef’, set up community kitchen Cegin Hedyn in Cardigan this year. Founder of the award-winning Warren in Car- marthen, Reed’s Cegin Hedyn (Seed Kitchen) provides nutritious meals for anyone, no matter their financial state, with locally produced ingredients. Speaking about the project, Reed told us: “To act now, in the current climate, seeing that human perspective as peo- ple go from a bad situation to worse. I want to share what I’ve got.”
Cardiff Wine Passport An initiative set up this year to get
people drinking wine at indie venues in Cardiff, this scheme aims to boost Cardiff’s native hospitality sector by offering six glasses of wine from a choice of independently-owned par- ticipating venues every Sunday to Thursday once a year, at places you might not normally visit. The list this year included Bar 44, Asador 44, Rum & Fizz and Scaredy Cats. Let’s toast a glass to its return.
Simmie Vedi
Female head chefs are still sadly hard to come by, but new recruit Simmie Vedi has revamped the menu at tradi- tional French spot Bully’s in Cardiff, bringing her internal “library of Indian flavours” to the cosy, refined atmos- phere the restaurant is recognised for. Although having no formal training, Vedi learned to play with food from a young age thanks to her family – an inspiring tale for any aspiring foodie.
Maggie Ogunbanwo When Nigerian immigrant Mag-
gie Ogunbanwo was asked to create something inspired by Black Lives Matter by the Welsh Government, she was sceptical of it being a “tokenism thing”, as she told Buzz’s Eve Davies. But with the dream of writing a cook- book since childhood, The Melting Pot came into fruition anyway. Next thing she knew, it’d been crowned ‘best in the world’ at the Gourmund World Cook Book Awards; its fol- lowup, African Twist: Plant-Based Recipes was released this year.
Ceylon Spicy Pot Broadway’s Ceylon Spicy Pot is the
newest addition to Cardiff’s growing south Indian food scene; its Sri Lan- kan menu featuring hoppers, biryani, curries, traditional Ceylon dishes and noodles. On a recent snoop around the place, Buzz’s Jonathan Swain said: “The chance of crab curry is too good to pass up, though prospect trumps reality. That body comes hewn into rustic hunks, in a deep brick-red sauce it’s impossible to resist dipping into.”
Social & Community
The Talking Shop & The De- Deri Reed
mocracy Box Talking Shops, located in Merthyr Tydfil, Newport and Cardiff, are multipurpose hubs which focus on giving out information free of charge to whoever requires it. As well as being an open space to discuss democratic structures and systems, you can also find out about events and culture near you. You can also find the Democracy Box at your Talking Shop – funded by Clwstwr, this is a project which looks to end the shame surrounding not knowing the basics of UK democracy by sharing all the information 16-26-year-olds need to feel confident.
The Corp Cardiff Wine Passport
An indoor market home to a sheaf of Cardiff’s indie businesses up and running, the Corp has just celebrated its first birthday and is looking forward to having multiple Christmas pop- ups to end the year on a high. The market, a rebirthed former pub in Canton, also hosts events such as open mics, streamed rugby matches and you can book out the large back- yard upon request for private events.
Simmie Vedi
Pitch In Dedicated to producing workshops that help
break gender barriers in the indie scene, Pitch In is a start-a-band project created by National Music Officer Rosey Brown, which launched in Cardiff in March. Teaching beginner les- sons in guitar, bass, drums, keys, and song- writing, these initial workshops were run by Gwenllian Anthony of Adwaith, Casper and Chris of Telgate and drummer Emma Daman Thomas. Here’s hoping for an encore.
Railway Gardens Maggie Ogunbanwo
Following the continued success of Canton’s Bone Yard – a cluster of shipping containers repurposed as small businesses – the people behind it are teaming up with community action group Green Squirrel to transform an unused area of land off Cardiff’s Railway Street into a similar community hub. With the containers already in place, they’ll be looking for people to contribute to its development in 2023.
Hay Pride Once founders Graham Nolan and Helen Jane
Ceylon Spicy Pot
Campbell noticed the lack of LGBTQ+ spac- es in Hay-On-Wye, they had to do something about it. That something was Hay’s first-ever Pride this summer. Headquartered at the new- ly refurbished Hay Castle, Hay Pride is now set up as a nonprofit, taking donations from local businesses and the National Lottery Community Fund and giving isolated queer members of the historic border town a sense of community.
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Steeltown Murders Pitch In
Hay Pride
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