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    A popular country music night in Cardiff brings fans together to make new friends

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    Local Welsh art projected on station as part of a huge Light of Winter trail

    Author and storyteller launches typewriter-for-hire service in Cardiff market

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    Two chefs to open a restaurant after the decline in Wales’ hospitality industry

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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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    Local yoga instructor sees a rise in men embracing yoga classes to improve wellbeing

    ‘Men and women are not built the same’: Fighting for female-friendly fitness gear

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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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    Fashion crisis unwrapped: The ‘rental revolution’ for Welsh consumers’ wardrobes

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    ‘Men and women are not built the same’: Fighting for female-friendly fitness gear

    AI Generated image of an empty theatre

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

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    Fashion crisis unwrapped: The ‘rental revolution’ for Welsh consumers’ wardrobes

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Social Life

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Social Life

Cardiff Zine Fest is set to hit Chapter Arts Centre

The first-of-its-kind festival aims to rival other UK cities’ similar events through its celebration of illustrators and zine makers
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Culture

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is making a stop in Cardiff

The Wales Millennium Centre is opening its doors to the sweetest musical in town despite the recent controversy over insensitive character descriptions in Dahl's books
Could Welsh choirs be the antidote for gen Z's loneliness epidemic?
Long Reads

Could Welsh choirs be the antidote to gen Z’s loneliness epidemic?

Young people increasingly seek connection online, but a choir's Welsh Wellbeing Award suggests the answer to combating loneliness could lie in Welsh history books
Alan Whitfield, stood centrally against a white wall in an art gallery, alongside two paintings by Tina Rogers on his left and Lia Bean to his right.
Culture

Disabled Welsh artists showcase their work in prized exhibition

‘Aildanio’ features 26 pieces of artwork created by artists who might not normally have the opportunity to have their work shown
a blonde haired woman sitting at a table in a cafe, smiles at the camera.
Long Reads

Drinking alcohol isn’t the only way to have fun at Christmas

Sober Gals Wales is creating a safe space for non-drinking women to celebrate and socialise without booze this festive season
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Social Life

Five decades of Welsh photography in Ffotogallery exhibition

Ffotogallery’s Marian Delyth exhibition celebrates 50 years of her photography, part of the FfotoCymru festival’s focus on female photographers in Wales
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Social Life

Getting creative to avoid loneliness through the financial crisis

A number of people within the UK fear that they will experience loneliness during the cost of living crisis due to limiting their socialising costs
Culture

How Yma O Hyd is connecting communities across the capital

Welsh people are embracing the language as part of their identity as Wales’s World Cup campaign puts Cymru on the world stage
Social Life

Just a young performer on a ‘musical high’

Local musician Jack Chandrinos is known for his covers of famous singers. Here he talks about being an up-and-coming artist in Cardiff 
The Welsh beach korfball team and supporters holding the Welsh flag at the Beach Korfball World Cup in Poland, 2023.
Social Life

Korfball grows in Wales as beach korf joins the World Games

A niche sport you’ve never heard of is growing in popularity as beach korfball takes its next steps towards the Olympics
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