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.
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.
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Photograph : the overladen skip was photographed mid-way down Caroline Street Cardiff
See the full set of photographs in the Gallery
Nice peoples the Bevan Massive Crew is havin a Blogging Gig in Cardiff Bay.
It be happenin soon.
DJ Peter Black be there.
Boom boom, shake the room.
He big nice tie man, wear me shades.
Vicky W of the Bevan Massive Crew be there.
Betsan Bloop be there. She be be be by the sea woman.
Tea be there…. “re fresh ments provided”.
You be there ?
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.
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The Great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival, organised by CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, will this year be held in June in the larger surroundings of Cardiff International Arena.
Open Friday 13th & Saturday 14th June 11-11
Admission £5 includes souvenir glass and programme
Over 250 real ales, ciders, parries and foreign beers will be available at the festival. The 2008 Great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival will be the biggest event of its kind in Wales and one of the largest beer festivals in the UK. CAMRA will aim to have every Welsh real ale brewery represented supplemented with other breweries from across Britain.
Entertainment will also be available at the CIA this year… Friday night will see Sheelanigig who offer an eclectic blend of folk, jazz and world music as well as an outstanding 7-piece UK soul band called Soul miners. Saturday will see the Fore Shadows and later on in the early evening the Treorchy Male Voice Choir will be raising the rafters of the CIA with their renditions of old favourites.
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
WORLD AGAINST WAR
Cardiff Peace Conference
Monday 3 March at 7.30 pm
Law Building
Cardiff University
Park Place
Hosted by CARDIFF STOP THE WAR COALITION
WITH SPEAKERS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE INCLUDING:
HASSAN JUMAA, Leader of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions (Iraq)
ROSE GENTLE, Military Families against the War (Scotland)
IBRAHIM MOUSAWI, Editor of Al-Intiqad, Hezbollah Newspaper (Lebanon)
ANNE GREAGSBY, Co-ordinator, No2MilitaryAcademy Campaign (Wales)
PROFESSOR JUSTIN LEWIS, Head of Cardiff School of Journalism (Wales)
Chaired by LEANNE WOOD AM
FREE ENTRY! ALL WELCOME!
Artwork 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.
Merthyr people raise a glass in celebration tonight as the local brewery wins the top award in Cardiff at the Great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival 2007.
The Champion Beer of Wales competition has been won by Rhymney Brewery of Merthyr Tydfil with their classic beer, Dark. The competition, run by CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, was held at the Great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival at Cardiff City Hall today. The beer was judged by a panel of beer experts from a selection of more than 200 real ales that are brewed every year in Wales. The judges looked at the aroma, appearance, taste and aftertaste of the top beers of Wales and came to the unanimous decision that Rhymney Dark was the best beer brewed in Wales this year. The beer is 3.9% ABV.
Rhymney Brewery was set up 3 years in Merthyr Tydfil ago by father and son team Steve and Marc Evans. Said Steve Evans, “This award is something that we’ve been aiming for since we started the brewery. It’s a dream come to true to win Champion Beer of Wales and have the recognition from CAMRA”.
In the photograph : Steve Evans of Rhymney Dowlais Brewery
