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    How Welsh musicians are using social media to keep the spirit of bilingual music alive

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    Training project that aims to make screen sector more accessible gets funding boost

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    Netball participation among adults is growing as women seek a sense of community

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    Fibroid advocate takes the stage at Everywoman Festival to raise awareness of this common condition

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    The last act? Wales’ arts sector faces an uncertain future in challenging times

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Culture

44-year-old Ben Rive, a man with a brown stubbly beard, stands smiling, facing the camera, in front of the Penarth Pier Pavilion.

‘Covid-19 pandemic showed me the fragility of my dream job running an indie cinema’

Part-time indie cinema manager Ben Rive almost quit his day job to become a full-time cinephile, but the pandemic has left him glad he didn’t
Polly Amorous doing her makeup before the show.

‘If you’d told me 10 years ago that I’d be a full-time drag queen, I would have laughed in your face’

Cardiff’s up-and-coming drag queen describes how the pandemic encouraged her to ditch making martinis for makeup brushes
Local poet Johnny Giles

‘I’m working more now than I have in years’ – A South Welsh poet on life after lockdown

Local poet Johnny Giles on how he got through mental health problems and writer’s block to resume his creative practice after lockdown 

Cardiff theatre company talks about Covid-19 precautions before French tour

Hijinx theatre actors will head to Europe for the first time since the pandemic started
Taylor Edmond is reciting poetry at the COP26 protest

Young Welsh poet in residence recites poems to make social change in Wales

After reciting poetry at the Global Climate Change Conference, Taylor Edmonds will expand her Writing For Joy initiative to encourage social change in Wales

Cardiff’s pantomime returns and includes accessible performances (Oh yes it does!)

The New Theatre’s production of Aladdin will begin on 4 December and the pantomime's run will have special performances to include everyone in the festivities

Windrush Cymru exhibit on now at the Senedd celebrates cultural history of a generation

A new exhibition tells the stories of the Windrush generation who came to South Wales from areas of the Caribbean from 1948 to 1988

Newport band returns to popular city venue for intimate homecoming gig in December

After a couple of years where live music ground to a halt, South Wales quartet Finding Aurora are back with a bang - and a homecoming show in Newport to boot

Dating podcast talks to matchmaking society about next dating event and ‘cuffing season’

The Lonely Hearts fundraiser is back in December, say the organisers, to raise awareness of cardiac arrest conditions and fund kits which can help save lives

Ffotogallery Cardiff is showing a first of its kind exhibition of African photography

The exhibition explores different perspectives from across the continent and is the first such photography collection in Cardiff to have an African woman curator
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