With perfect timing the sun made a brief appearance for half an hour in Cardiff.
Jenny Howell (right in photo) gave a tour of this innovative project in the centre of Cardiff to a group of Permaculture Design students taught by Michelle Fitzsimmons (left in photo) of Edible Landscaping via Cardiff University.
Visit the Aberdare Blog Gallery for thousands more photos.
Former Catatonia singer Cerys recorded the audio book which will be launched in Cardiff’s Borders bookstore on Saturday, 21st March, the first time she has undertaken such a project.
Cardiff Vale and Valleys Beekeepers are holding a talk on Urban Beekeeping at Llandaff Parish Village Hall on Tuesday 10th March at 7.30pm.
Cardiff Vale and Valleys Beekeepers is a friendly association promoting the craft of bee keeping and the benefits of the products within the hive, to the public.
They meet in Llandaff Village hall on the second Tuesday of every month from September to March and have meetings during the summer months at members’ apiary sites.
To confirm details of this talk please see the Cardiff Beekeepers website.
TWO SIDES – ONE STORY:
GUANTANAMO FROM BOTHS SIDES OF THE WIRE
Wednesday 4 February, 7 pm
The Great Hall, Cardiff Student Union, Park Place
Admission Free. All welcome.
Via Valleys Green …
Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Movement, will be giving a talk in Cardiff between 7pm til 9pm, Thursday 12th of March @ the Temple of Peace in Cathays
ROB HOPKINS will bring the ultimate transition talk to Cardiff. Covering the foundations of why climate change and peak oil need urgent action and an outline why and how transition can provide some inspiration in working towards solutions, he’ll also present a few examples of what Transition projects around the UK are up to.
Tickets £4, £3 concessions (details about where to buy tickets will be circulated nearer the time)
Organised by Cardiff Transition Project.
Visit Rob Hopkins’ home page Transition Culture here
Talk about shock and jaw on John Clinch’s Beefcake Miner in Cardiff Bay…
This is a fantastic seven feet tall bronze situated in Cardiff Bay near the Norwegian church arts centre and not far from the Senedd building.
Entitled ‘From Pit to Port’ the sculpture celebrates the industrial heritage of the South Wales coalfields community and the close links with the Cardiff port which exported the black gold across the world.
It was unveiled in July 2005 and sculpted by the late John Clinch of Tregaron and completed by Jon Buck of Bath.
Despite the size and beefy musculature of this figure, there is an almost cartoon-like softness and exaggeration.
Enjoy the Full Set of Photos of this Sculpture on Flickr here.
Message via CND Cymru, Palestine Solidarity Cymru : We are holding a new years eve vigil at Nye Bevan’s statue, Queen St Cardiff from 5-6 this Wednesday. There will also be a vigil at the same place on Tuesday at 12 noon.
While we in Wales relaxed and enjoyed a peaceful Christmas, death and destruction rained down on the men, women and children of Gaza. We watched the painful images of screaming children, hysterical mothers, the injured grasping their Korans as they were carried to the Gaza Al Awda Hospital which Welsh charitable money helped to build.
The charity Middle East Childrens’ Alliance emailed us to say that, minutes after the attacks, medicine plasma beds, drugs had run out, unable to cope with the hundreds of casualties, the dead and injured.
As mealy mouthed politicians around t he world come out with their pathetic well balanced condemnation of the violence on both sides, people ask, “what can we do?”
Please channel your anger in a response to change the never ending cycle of death and destruction, and bring justice to both sides.
We in CND Cymru, Palestine Solidarity Cymru are holding a new years eve vigil at Nye Bevan’s statue, Queen St Cardiff from 5-6 this Wednesday.
Don’t let the anger and pain we feel this week fizzle out. Use it to put pressure on our government and the United Nations to take firm
action to end the violence and the occupation.
Wife on the Ocean Wave by Graham Ibbeson at Cardiff Bay
There is a full set of photos of Ibbeson’s sculpture here on Flickr.
Graham Ibbeson’s official website contains a wealth of information on his work.
John Clinch’s From Pit to Port at Cardiff Bay, in the shadow of the Welsh Assembly ‘Senedd’ Building.
Click on the Image for a Larger Photo
Join the demonstration against the proposed military academy in South Wales.
Saturday 26 April, Assemble 1.30 pm, Cathays Park (opp. City Hall & National Museum)
The Military Academy is funded by defence multi-nationals like Raytheon, the manufacturer of cluster-bombs, £14 billion is being spent on this huge complex when we need hospitals & schools.
Needless to say the multinationals will be making a large profit on the scheme. It is also the biggest PFI (Private Finance Initiative) in history, and probably the biggest ever award of taxpayers money to Wales:
Why is there always a blank cheque for war, but no blank cheque for vital public services?
Called by the Stop the St Athan’s Military Academy Campaign and supported by UK Stop the War Coalition, CND Cymru, Cynefinywerin and many other organisations. People will be coming from all over Wales and beyond.
For background information on the Military Academy, see:
http://www.cynefinywerin.org.uk/index.php?docid=265
Image by Carlos Latuff
Honestly Guv, we’re not militarist, war-loving type people… we are latter day peaceniks. The snaps are just because we love bronze sculptures. Look there, we have Henry Richard and Keir Hardie, both pacifists.
Thus our conscience does battle with the fact we spend much of our blogging time discussing imagery of war sculptures and memorials.
Photos of Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart are now available in the Gallery.
The sculpture is situated in Gorsedd Gardens, opposite the National Museum of Wales, in Cardiff.
The sculptor was Sir William Goscombe John.
Cardiff is the Capital for Welsh Cwrw this week as it hosts the Great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival.
The hugely successful festival, which regularly attracts over 4000 customers has been organised by CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, for 7 years at the historic venue. However thousands of thirsty customers need not fear as in June next year the Great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival will be even bigger and better at the new venue, Cardiff International Arena.
According to James “Arfur” Daley, CAMRA spokesperson, “We’ve had a good few years at City Hall but have outgrown the venue. There is no room for expansion at City Hall and the Festival is getting more and more popular every year. CAMRA will be sorry to say goodbye to City Hall but we’re determined to make the Festival this year the best ever. We’ve ordered more beer and cider this year and also will be open 5 hours earlier. It’s the final year at City Hall but let’s all look forward to the CIA in 2008”.
Photos of ‘The Family’ a sculpture by the late Robert Thomas available in the Gallery.
There are 4 Robert Thomas sculptures in Cardiff Queen Street : (1) Nye Bevan statue; (2) the Family; (3) a Miner; and (4) Mother and Son.
There is also The Girl by Robert Thomas at Gorsedd Gardens, in front of the National Museum.
