List of cultural venues in Cardiff

This is a list of cultural venues in Cardiff, capital city of Wales.

Sport

Performing arts

Performing arts venues with seating capacity:

• City Hall, Cardiff (600)
• Chapter Arts Centre (180)
• Llanover Hall Arts Centre (100)
• New Theatre (Cardiff) (1,144)
• Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
  • Dora Stoutzker Hall
  • Richard Burton Theatre
  • Bute Theatre
  • Caird Studio (50)
  • Corus Recital Room
  • S4C Studio (50)
  • Sir Geraint Evans Recital Room (50)
  • Weston Gallery (80)
• Sherman Theatre
  • Main theatre (631)
  • Venue 2 (163)
  • Venue 3
• St David's Hall
  • Main auditorium (up to 1,956)
  • Level 3 Day Stage (or "Level 3 Bar") (350 including standing)
• The Gate Arts Centre, Roath (250)
• Wales Millennium Centre (Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru)
  • Dance Space (100)
  • Donald Gordon Theatre (1,897)
  • Urdd Hall (153)
  • Weston Studio (250)
  • BBC Hoddinott Hall (350)
• Roald Dahl Plass (Outdoor Arena)

Entertainment venues

• Cardiff University Students' Union
• Hard Rock Cafe (now closed)
• Jongleurs (now closed)
• Mermaid Quay
• Millennium Plaza
• Motorpoint Arena Cardiff
• Red Dragon Centre
• The Glee Club

Live music venues

• Barfly (200) - opened in 2001, closed in September 2010 ^[1]
• CF10 - in the Cardiff University Students' Union building in Cathays
• Clwb Ifor Bach
• Coal Exchange (1,000) - Venue closed in 2007, reopened in 2009 and closed again in 2013 because of safety concerns.^[2]
• The Globe (350) - opened on Albany Road, Roath, in November 2008.^[3]
• The Moon Club, Womanby Street ^[4]
• The Point (500) - closed in January 2009, following a single complaint from a neighbour about noise.^[3]
• Tramshed (1000) - opened in October 2015 in a converted Grade II listed tram depot in Grangetown. ^[5]

Gay venues

Cardiff has number of gay venues in the city, particularly in the area around Charles Street and Churchill Way. Gay-friendly venues include:

• Golden Cross - a pub featuring regular drag acts
• Kings Cross, The Hayes - gay-friendly pub for over 35 years,^[6] converted to a gastropub in 2011 ^[7]

Historic and architectural venues

This is a list of historic and architectural places and their use as a cultural venue:

• Cardiff Bay and Cardiff Barrage (has hosted open-air concerts)
• Bute Park (used for open-air concerts and festivals)
• Cardiff Castle (has hosted open-air concerts, a professional boxing match and small exhibitions)
• Castell Coch (has hosted a celebrity renewal of wedding vows)

Museums and art galleries

• Butetown History and Arts Centre, Cardiff Bay
• National Museum and Gallery, Cathays Park
• Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans
• Cardiff Story
• Doctor Who Exhibition Centre, Red Dragon Centre
• Welsh Regiment Museum
• Norwegian Church Arts Centre, Cardiff Bay
• G39 - art gallery, opened 1998 in the city centre and relocated to a larger space off City Road, Roath in 2012.^[8]
• tactileBOSCH, Llandaff
• Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff Bay

Libraries

• Canton Library
• Cathays Library
• Central Library
• Ely Library
• Fairwater Library
• Grangetown Library
• Llandaff North Library
• Llanedeyrn Library
• Llanishen Library
• Llanrumney Library
• Penylan Library
• Radyr Library
• Roath Library
• Rhiwbina Library
• Rhydypennau Library
• Rumney Library
• Splott Library
• St Mellons Library
• Tongwynlais Library
• Whitchurch Library

Places of worship

See also

• List of places in Cardiff
• List of places in Wales

References

1. "Surprise at closure of Cardiff music venue Barfly", BBC News, 1 September 2010. Retrieved 2015-11-22.
2. "Cardiff Coal Exchange: Council to do emergency safety work", BBC News, 22 June 2013. Retrieved 2014-09-28.
3. "Cardiff needs a venue like The Globe", guardiancardiff.com, 15 April 2010. Retrieved 2014-09-28.
4. "When rock met rugby: Welsh stars as you’ve never seen them before ", Wales Online, 31 January 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-09.
5. Kathryn Williams (23 October 2015) "5 gigs you shouldn't miss at Cardiff's new music venue Tramshed", Wales Online. Retrieved 2015-11-17.
6. "Regulars campaign to save Cardiff gay pub". BBC News. 8 October 2010. Retrieved 2015-06-09.
7. "Bid to save gay Cardiff pub is defeated". Wales Online. 23 February 2011. Retrieved 2015-06-09.
8. "The co-director of Cardiff’s g39 contemporary art gallery on why it had to relocate from the city centre", WalesOnline, 26 May 2012. Retrieved 2014-09-28.