{"id":26814,"date":"2015-10-20T10:38:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T10:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=26814"},"modified":"2015-10-20T10:38:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T10:38:59","slug":"roald-dahl-centenary-celebrations-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2015\/10\/20\/roald-dahl-centenary-celebrations-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Roald Dahl centenary celebrations underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hundred years of pure imagination will be celebrated next year in commemoration of the centenary of Roald Dahl\u2019s birth.<\/p>\n<p>The 13 September 2016 marks a hundred years since the writer\u2019s birth, and Cardiff is already preparing to celebrate the national treasure.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26956\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 437px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/10\/NC-External.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-26956 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/10\/NC-External-437x312.jpg\" alt=\"NC External\" width=\"437\" height=\"312\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26956 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/10\/NC-External-437x312.jpg\" alt=\"NC External\" width=\"437\" height=\"312\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> In 1987, Roald Dahl was appointed the first president of the Norwegian Church Preservation Trust, but sadly died before the reconstruction of the church was complete.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Norwegian Church on Cardiff Bay where Dahl worshipped as a child, is working with the Welsh Government and Literature Wales to raise awareness of Dahl\u2019s achievements.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Caley-Burnell, conference and events co-ordinator for Cardiff Council said: \u201cWe celebrate Roald Dahl Day every year on the Sunday closest to Roald Dahl\u2019s birthday.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27125\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 438px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/10\/roald-dahl-day-landscape-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-27125 \" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/10\/roald-dahl-day-landscape-3-480x300.jpg\" alt=\"roald dahl day landscape 3\" width=\"438\" height=\"273\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27125 \" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/10\/roald-dahl-day-landscape-3-480x300.jpg\" alt=\"roald dahl day landscape 3\" width=\"438\" height=\"273\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Families enjoy Roald Dahl Day at the Norwegian Church.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Next year will be extra special, with a free family fun day being held at the Church to encourage the public to believe in magic for a hundred more years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One hundred years of magic are to be honoured in Cardiff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":329,"featured_media":26956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[269,4172,4582,395,489,1690,4583,325],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-26814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-cardiff-council","tag-centenary","tag-invent-your-event","tag-literature","tag-literature-wales","tag-norwegian-church","tag-roald-dahl","tag-welsh-government"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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