With most colleges in Cardiff off for the primary week of January, and far of the Christmas pleasure gone, I do know a number of mother and father are questioning how on earth to entertain their kids over the subsequent few days. I’ve rounded up all of the occasions I can discover in and round Cardiff – a number of pantos are nonetheless happening, there are some fabulous free outside trails, farm park occasions, plus you’ll be able to catch the free exhibition celebrating 100 years of the BBC in Wales at Nationwide Museum Cardiff.
All occasions are topic to alter and cancellation so please examine forward with organisers to keep away from disappointment.
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Comfortable new 12 months to you all.
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Festive occasions and outside paths
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FREE The Cardiff Bay Gingerbread Path
Throughout Cardiff Bay
Thursday 1 December-Sunday 8 January
Look out for the 9 gingerbread character statues round Cardiff Bay, plus a gingerbread sleigh in Roald Dahl Plass, with a free, family-friendly sculpture hunt this festive season.
Saturday 3 December additionally sees Gingerbread Day In The Bay, with free gingerbread adorning from 12pm-4pm at The Purple Dragon Centre, and free crafts and household enjoyable on the Senedd, Norwegian Church, Mermaid Quay and Craft within the Bay.
Plus spot the letters on every of the statues and you would be in with an opportunity of successful prizes together with an in a single day stick with breakfast at Future Inns, Everyman cinema tickets, household bowling at Hollywood Bowl, and a meal at Hub Field. Add images to social media and you would end up successful prize together with Odeon cinema tickets, a ship tour with Princess Katharine, a meal at Volcano within the Purple Dragon Centre and extra.
The Gingerbread Path is supported by The Purple Dragon Centre, Cardiff Harbour Authority, Craft within the Bay, The Senedd, Mermaid Quay, Giovanni’s within the Bay, Voco St David’s Lodge and the Coal Trade Lodge Cardiff.
Learn our full evaluation of the occasion right here. (Advert publish)
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Bute Park, Cardiff
Sunday 1, Monday 2, Wednesday 5-Saturday 8 January
From £19.50 for adults, £13.95 for kids, household £59.50
After final 12 months’s sell-out success, the award-winning gentle path is again with a bunch of dazzling new installations. Plus resulting from common demand, further dates have been added for the primary week of January. As darkness descends, Christmas at Bute Park will illuminate and rework the grounds right into a magical winter wonderland. Journey by way of a spectrum of illuminations, sculptures and particular results, together with a ‘hypnotic laser part’ and an ‘epic orb of iridescent color’, that are among the new sights for this 12 months. The path is a 1.4Km route with refreshments accessible from native road meals distributors.
Learn our full evaluation of the occasion right here. (Advert/evaluation publish)
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FREE Gentle of Winter
St John’s Backyard, off the Hayes, Cardiff metropolis centre
Till 11 February 2023, 8am-9pm
A second of peace away from the busyness of the town centre. This free gentle set up hopes to shine a lightweight on the significance of togetherness and neighborhood spirit synonymous with the season. It was impressed by the traditional Welsh Midwinter celebration, Goleuni’r Gaeaf (The Gentle of Winter), the standard feast, held on the shortest day of the 12 months, and a time to have a good time neighborhood and welcome longer, brighter days. Because the lights twinkle, you’ll additionally hear a singular model of the Welsh folksong Ar Lan y Mor, recorded by St John’s Choir enjoying across the gardens.
Learn our full evaluation right here (Advertorial publish)
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Gentle of Winter Crafts Workshops
Cardiff Story Museum
Thursday 5, Friday 6, Saturday 7, Saturday 14 January, 11am-12pm, free however have to be pre-booked
(SOLD OUT however look out on social media for particulars of tickets being returned and final minute availability)
A collection of free kids’s winter crafts workshops with native artist and creator Jack Skivens. Impressed by Goleuni’r Gaeaf, Jack has designed a set of characters – a wren, robin, and starling – which is able to assist inform the story of midwinter and information individuals to the set up, which can also be impressed by a murmuration of birds. Youngsters participating within the workshops could have the possibility to create and paint their very own birds to take residence. The session will embody a poetry studying of Jack’s Gentle of Winter poem, earlier than households are invited to then go to the set up.
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Funfair, Sur La Piste and Ice Bar, Metropolis Corridor Lawns, Cardiff
Ice Rink and Ice Stroll, Cardiff Citadel Grounds, Cardiff
Tuesday 15 November-Sunday 8 January
Entry is free however prices apply to sights
Cardiff’s Winter Wonderland is open for the primary week of January, with festive favourites together with the ice rink, funfair sights, ice bar, food and drinks and extra.
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RSPB Newport Wetlands
Saturday 26 November-Friday 6 January (closed 24 and 25 December)
£3 per exercise pack
A celebration of Aardman’s competition musical story a couple of younger robin making an attempt to slot in. Yearly Robin joins her household on an enormous sneak to seek out meals to outlive the winter. Full the path and you’ll study to sing like a robin, discover your personal superpower and use all of your senses to attach with the robin inside. The unique exercise packs will allow you to full all of the enjoyable challenges alongside the path in addition to give robin-related actions to do at residence, a certificates (for whenever you change into a superb robin) and rather more.
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The Meadows Farm Village, Gypsy Lane, Groeswen, Cardiff, CF15 7UN
Monday 2-Sunday 8 January
£7.50 per particular person age 3+; underneath 3s free
Entry from 11am
Meet the Frozen characters, Frozen film streaming, meet the reindeer and goats, petting with the guinea pigs and rabbits. Ice reward and candy store on website Elective extras at a further price: artificial ice skating £4.50, face portray worth TBC.
Mountain View Ranch, Heol Penbryn, Cardiff
Monday 2-Sunday 8 January
Adults and kids 2-16 £8, underneath 2s free
Free vary journey as you utilize your map to navigate across the Ranch, finishing actions and gathering stamps as you go. Discover and uncover two leaping pillows, guinea pigs, pygmy goats, ponies, straw bale impediment course, mushy archery, double zip wire, Fairy Forest, Roly Poly Hill, Tree Homes, The Vomit Comet, The Large Large Swing, Hobbit Hill, and the well-known Gruffalo path.
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Museums, castles and cultural
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Caerphilly Citadel
Tuesday 27 December-Sunday 8 January, 10am-3pm
Exercise included as a part of common entry payment
After one other busy Christmas, Santa’s reindeers have been grazing and pooing in Chepstow Citadel. Discover the poos and uncover what every reindeer ate for Christmas, on this enjoyable household path.
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The Large Museum Winter Path
St Fagans Nationwide Museum of Historical past, Cardiff
Nationwide Museum Cardiff Closed on Mondays, plus 1 and a pair of January
Nationwide Waterfront Museum, Swansea
Large Pit Nationwide Coal Museum, Blaenavon
Nationwide Roman Legion Museum, Caerleon
Saturday 3 December-Sunday 8 January, 10am-3pm
£1.50 per path.
Go to any of the nationwide museums of Wales this December for a festive, feel-good household path. Discover the Museum Elves to assist full the snow pal, then take it residence to remodel right into a ornament to high your tree. The path is obtainable in any respect Amgueddfa Cymru websites and is identical at every website. Trails are bilingual.
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Dyffryn Gardens, St Nicholas, Vale of Glamorgan
Till Thursday 6 January, 10am-4pm
Included in common admission costs grownup £12.10, kids £6.10, household £30.30, one grownup household £18.20 or free to Nationwide Belief members
The festivities proceed at Dyffryn Gardens, encompassing the outside, nature and historical past. You possibly can – actually – step into Christmas with festive pop-up scenes impressed by conventional Edwardian Christmas playing cards. Plus strive your hand at festive video games and discover floral garden-inspired festive decorations
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FREE BBC 100 in Wales
Nationwide Museum Cardiff
Till Sunday 16 April 2023
Discover 100 years of the historical past of the BBC in Wales on the Nationa Museum Cardiff. From its start within the Twenties into a brand new digital age, uncover how Wales has, and can proceed, to contribute to the making of the BBC.
Expertise a stroll by way of time to find extra in regards to the historical past of the BBC in Wales and the way 100 years of broadcasting has developed, in addition to a possibility to see the know-how, programmes and costumes of the previous by way of objects and archive footage.
Tickets are free. Advance reserving is really helpful though there will probably be some on-the-day availability for individuals who arrive on the Museum with out advance bookings.
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FREE Voices of The Purple Wall
St Fagans Nationwide Museum of Historical past, Cardiff
Till 17 April 2023
Supporters of Wales’ nationwide soccer groups are referred to as The Purple Wall. Dressed of their bucket hats and reproduction shirts, belting out chants from the stands, they’re usually described because the twelfth participant on the pitch.
To have a good time Cymru qualifying for the FIFA World Cup, this exhibition shines a highlight on among the individuals and communities of The Purple Wall. Trend, music, identities and politics are all right here, cemented collectively by a way of belonging.
That is their story – your story – the bricks of The Purple Wall. It’s a fan-led expertise like no different.
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Power Unleashed reside science present
Techniquest, Cardiff Bay
Sunday 2-Sunday 8 January
Age steering 5+
£2 per particular person along with common entrance charges (adults £10.90, kids £9.05, household £38.18, underneath 3s free)
The reside science present for the primary week of January explores vitality – the vitality in our meals, within the gases round us, within the parts that make up the world and extra. By way of reside experiments, you’ll expertise how the vitality behaves, how we use vitality in our our bodies, how vitality is used within the fashionable world… and see what occurs after we unleash that vitality ourselves.
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Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Till mid January
Artist Naz Syed of Ziba Artistic presents an exhibition celebrating neighborhood and Persian tradition and heritage by way of lovely pom-poms of unity, gratitude and hope from throughout the globe.
Naz is a proud Welsh, Iranian, socially engaged visible artist. She is obsessed with craftivism, neighborhood and spreading kindness by way of creativity.
Discover a pom-pom fruit platter the place you’ll be able to have a good time a life stuffed with color and pleasure as a part of the Persian competition Shab-e Yalda. ‘Yalda Evening’ is the longest and darkest night time (Yaldā means rebirth of the solar) and is a celebration of the victory of sunshine over darkness.
Discover the path the place you’ll be able to expertise every kind of craftivism and creativity together with protest pom-poms, a large neighborhood pom-pom, a wall of unity and even put on a pom-pom magic carpet cape.
Plus add your personal pom-pom together with messages of hope, unity and solidarity with the individuals in Iran who’re struggling injustice and combating for his or her freedom and the ladies who’re protesting for primary human rights and in doing so placing their lives in danger.
Workshops together with Artwork Clwb will happen on 4, 7 and 14 January, 11am-3pm. These are artistic periods the place contributors could make their very own pom pom so as to add to the wall of unity, in addition to banners to assist the protests taking place in Cardiff for Iran. Appropriate for ages 7+.
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Techniquest, Cardiff
£2 per particular person along with common entry (adults £12, kids 3-15 £10, underneath 3s free, household £22)
Techniquest’s science theatre this week hosts Power Unleashed, a reside science present that includes experiments which discover the vitality in our meals, within the gases round us, within the parts that make up the world and extra. Audiences will expertise how the vitality behaves, how we use vitality in our our bodies, how vitality is used within the fashionable world… and see what occurs after we unleash that vitality ourselves.
Plus discover greater than 100 hands-on exhibitions and actions which make science accessible to all.
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Pantomime and theatre
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The Riverfront, Newport
Tuesday 29 November-Saturday 7 January
Adults £25, concessions £23, group of 4 £85
Be part of essentially the most heroic outlaw of all of them, Robin Hood, as he strives to win the hand of the gorgeous Maid Marion whereas he and his trusty band of followers outwit the evil Sheriff of Newport. This will probably be a present packed stuffed with comedy, slapstick, motion, journey, and naturally loads of pantomime magic. ‘Newport’s favorite’ Richard Elis is again as A lot the Millar’s son, who’s determined to be one of many Merry Males, and Geraint Rhys Edwards returns as Robin Hood.
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
New Theatre, Cardiff
Sat 10 December 2022 – Solar 8 January 2023
£23.50-£45
Steps’s Ian ‘H’ Watkins, rugby legend Gareth Thomas and panto dame extraordinaire Mike Doyle star in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs following a triumphant season on the New Theatre final Christmas showing in Aladdin. The road-up additionally contains Coronation Avenue and Emmerdale star Siân Reeves, and comedy ventriloquist, BGT finalist Steve Hewlett.
Count on comedy, sensational tune and dance numbers, fabulous costumes and beautiful surroundings. Throw in a magical mirror, seven pleasant dwarfs, a phenomenal princess, a good-looking prince and loads of viewers participation and you’ve got the proper recipe to outwit the Depraved Queen and let love prevail on this glittering festive deal with for all ages.
Learn our full evaluation right here (AD/evaluation)
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The Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl
Saturday 17 December-Sunday 8 January
The Grand Pavilion presents its panto journey, Jack and the Beanstalk. The Trotts are so poor they don’t have a bean to their title and what’s extra, there’s an evil and grasping large terrifying the village. Will they actually need to promote Daisy, the household cow simply to outlive? Can Jack defeat the large, win the center of the woman he loves and switch the Trotts’ fortunes round? A household panto with a dastardly villain, a hapless comedian and a hilarious panto dame, in addition to fabulous musical numbers and luggage of slapstick enjoyable.
Learn our full evaluation right here (AD/Assessment)
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Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
13 December-14 January
From £22.50
Age steering: 8+, no underneath 2s
Again by common demand following a sell-out run, Cameron Waterproof coat’s acclaimed manufacturing of Boublil and Schönberg’s musical Les Misérables returns to Cardiff.
This good new staging has taken the world by storm and has been hailed “Les Mis for the twenty first Century”. With surroundings impressed by the work of Victor Hugo, the magnificent rating of Les Misérables contains the songs I Dreamed a Dream, On My Personal, Deliver Him Dwelling, One Day Extra, Grasp Of The Home and lots of extra.
Seen by over 120 million individuals worldwide in 52 nations and in 22 languages, Les Misérables is undisputedly one of many world’s hottest musicals.
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Jack and the Beanstalk
St Peter’s Corridor, Roath, Cardiff
Thursday 12-Saturday 14 January, 7pm
Adults £9, kids £7
Field workplace textual content 07779088623 or e mail data@tbetc.com
The annual panto from native beginner dramatics group St Peter’s Gamers will see proceeds go to little one bereavement charity 2Wish.
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