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December//January 2011

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Come DancingCome Dancing is a brand new weekly social fixture at Cardiff Arts Institute.

Learn some amazing moves in a laid-back friendly environment, from the Lindy Hop and Swing to Hip-Hop, Hoedowns, Jive and even Tango. Beginners, experts and the curious are all welcome.

Come Dancing every Tuesday from 8pm.

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But what is the vision of the City that you want to live in ? What is the identity that makes our City unique? As we enter 2011 we see Cardiff is on the cusp of change, home to a wide range of passionate peo-ple, cultural projects and bubbling un-dercurrents. In this new age of mass-col-laboration, what do we need to do to take Cardiff to the next level? We want to ask the city a question, find it’s real voice. What would happen if it was re-wired? What if the way we work, play and relate to each other changed? What if our city planners radical-ly re-thought our environment, instead of creating mega-malls creating and nurtur-

ing spaces of experimentation, cheap rent, start ups, easier planning. Would this cre-ate conditions for sustainable innovation? Could Cardiff become the City of 2011?

The Institute and resident Wednesday so-cial design group ARKLAB will present a small annual event for thinkers and drink-ers Future//Cardiff is your chance to dis-cuss ideas for Cardiff’s future alongside key thinkers, creatives and stakeholders in an informal environment. If you are inter-ested in changing the place where you live, collaborating on ideas for the future or just want a place to rant your concerns about the City then this is the place to do it.

Future//Cardiff is an event structured for the Independent and cultural sector an ideas event for urban thinkers, creatives, promoters, Independent venue owners, shop owners, musicians, actors, cynics, evangelists and people like you and me.

We will ask key figures who are helping to shape Cardiff’s future to give their vision for the City of Cardiff in 2011, we will then have an open debate on the future of Car-diff.

The Institute supports forward thinking for our City with real debate. Future//Cardiff will explore key questions for the City: What is the vision for our City? What is the opportunity people in Cardiff need to col-laboratively grasp? How can we join up this thinking? How can independent venues, shops, business, culture have a stronger voice?

January 24th - 30th

Cardiff Arts Institute

Future//Cardiff We will host a number of talks, events, exhibitions, gigs that profile the ones to watch in 2011.

A full schedule of events will be released 1st week of January.

cardiffartsinstitute.org join the mailgroup: [email protected]

Future//CardiffWe see this city as an ongoing experiment, a crazy laboratory of ideas that shift, move and change with the people that live, work and play here.

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Cardiff Arts Institute: A space to explore creative vision and push the boundaries of what it means to live, work and play in Cardiff right now. Join bands, musi-cians, artists, poets, comedians, DJs, thinkers, drinkers and party people on a new adventure.

Canteen:The canteen serves “Institution-al Classics” from 12PM - 9PM everyday from Boutique Burg-ers to Sunday Roasts to Shame your mother...

Social Club:A social club for the next gen-eration, free wi-fi, coffee & cake, meeting room and wide range of social activities.

Music Room:Supporting local musicians and promoters while bringing the best national and international acts. Powered by Funktion 1 Soundsystem

Drink:International beers, local ales, extensive spirit range and TIKI cocktail bar. Weekly drinks of-fers for all regular card holders.

Cardiff Arts InstituteCardiffartsinstitute is a joint project between 580 Ltd the people behind Nation of Shop-keepers (Leeds), Start the Bus (Bristol) and The Lock Tavern (Camden) and the Welsh collec-tive Something Creatives who dreamed up (Milgi, Secret Car-nival, Northcote Lane Market and The World Famous Big Love Inflatable Church).

29 Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3BA

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Sunday - Thursday 12pm - 12am Friday - Saturday 12pm - 4am

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CardiffCastle

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Cathays Park

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Come in take off your shoes and if there is anything we

can do to make you feel more comfortable just ask. We

have loads going on over the Winter Season our fes-

tive real ale and cider festival takes place from the

5th-12th December and is the perfect opportunity

to warm your cockles and enjoy some of the best

real Ales and Ciders on offer. As always Spike &

Kaptin (events Team) have been busy in the

lab booking bands, DJs, Artists that make up

our eclectic events listings. We are loving

our regular ‘Come Dancing’ sessions

and we’re especially looking forward

to our Christmas Party (18th Dec)

only because it involves lots of

mistletoe. Then a couple of

weeks later, our New Years

eve Celebration (tickets on

sale now) so why not pop

in for a mince pie and

who knows you might

even pull a Cracker.

Happy Christmas,

Nadolig llawen from

all of us at The Institute.

Dan, Becky, Tracey,

Asha, Aaron, louise,

Amy, Carlo, Charlotte,

Hannah, lucie, Sophie,

Will, Benj, Kat, Sam,

Spike, Kaptin, Becca,

Gaby & matt

xxx

No.29 Park PlaceWelcome Home, Cardiff Arts Institute is a

uniquely converted Georgian town house,

opposite the National Museum of Wales.

During the festive period we would love you

to pay us a visit. We're full to the rafters with

good old fashioned family hospitality. After

all our house is your house...

Editorial

Mondays

Newspaper ClubEvery Monday we get together

to create the Institute newspa-per, photographers, designers, illustrators, artists, writers -unite in an explosion of creativity.

7pm//Free

Tuesdays

Life DrawingOpen life drawing sessions

with one male and one female model in individual and joint poses every Tuesday. This low cost weekly session is a must for all local artists.

7pm - 8.30pm//£5 donation

Tuesdays

Come Dancing Whether you’re single, on a

date or friends out for a laugh. Come Dancing is the place to learn some amazing dance moves - from the Lindy Hop and Swing to Hip-Hop and even Tango.

8-10pm/£4 Drinks Offer: Three Bellinis £10

Wednesdays

ARKARK is a weekly group for any-

one interested in using design thinking to respond to social is-sues in the community. The aim is to work with the public, organ-isations and education estab-lishments, using social design to encourage discourse and re-sponse to social issues. It's free to attend and all are welcome.

7pm//Free

No SweatOur weekly live music social

staple, delivering wholesome local bands and magical treats. Laid back vibes and bean bags all you have to do is come along .

9pm//Free

Fridays

Future Fridays Future Fridays has the hottest and most fun dancefloor action in town, all powered by our ba-dass Funktion1 Soundsystem with a turned up load of pump-ing bass. (Curated by Kaptin and upstairs by CityBass)ass)

Resident DJs // Stacey Steve French // Kaptin is Dead // The Towel // Orange Elvis10PM - 4AM // Free before 11PM with regulars card. Drinks Offer : Vodka & Mixer £2

Saturdays

Saturday Night Live Expect hand-picked bands

that put the show back into show business each and every week. Rock n Roll/ Dub/ Ska/ Big Beat/ Baille Funk/ Bhangra/ Rockabilly/ Afrobeat/ Electro-Swing/ Balkan Beats.

10PM - 4AM // Free before 11PM with regulars card. Drinks Offer: 4 Red Stripe £10

Sundays

The Sunday Recovery Project

Meet up over a late Sunday Roast, or just laze around with fellow hungover friends on the Sofas*. Leftfield DJs, our Interac-tive cut & paste Sunday News-paper Collage and the make & do craft box.

* Just ask for our extensive list of boardgames

12 - 9pm//Sunday Roasts to shame your mother (while they last)

Squeaky Hill Pub Quiz A Sunday institution. The only

quiz that provides you with a general all round work out, uti-lising the physical, mental and creative parts of the brain quiz-zes just can't reach! free to play and fabulous prizes to be Won!

4pm-6pm//Free

Weekly RegularsHere’s a run down of the weekly nights at the Institute. For full listings and specials turn to pages 7 & 11

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Combining tight grooves and a heavyweight sound, Gentle-man’s Dub Club bring the party to crowds of all ages hungry for a dance floor workout, with their gigs often ending in a frenzied mosh pit reminiscent of a mid 80’s ska night. We’re absolutely stoked at the prospect of the GDC performing for Traffic at Cardiff Arts Institute on Friday 17th December. So to get the ball rolling, ‘Traffic’ lynchpin, Jack Doran set about asking GDC frontman, Jila, some introduc-tory questions.

Jack Doran: Gentleman! Let's start from the top, how did GDC come to exist?

Jila: Three of us found a delay unit; a big orange speaker and Reason loops - we just pissed about for a few months getting

damp in a dingy Leeds base-ment - Harry (manager) then came along and pulled a band together bringing a selection of Leeds college of music's rinkiest Dub/Reggae fans.

JD: It's looking like a hectic tour. Are you nervous or ex-cited?

J: Absolutely ecstatic - fortu-nately we've all landed on our feet with this band - everyone is best mates and the thought of spending six weeks crammed into various forms of accom-modation and travel doesn't daunt me. Of course, with so many gigs in such a short time the reality will, I’m sure be very different.... as long as we don't burn out after the first week and avoid a few key subjects on the tour bus we'll be fine...

JD: Is it going to be a two-month-long party or are you re-ally quite well behaved?

J: Even with the best will in the world i don't think we'll be able to control ourselves one bit! we finish on the 18th December and I’ve booked in a two week recov-ery session at my mums house!

JD: Looking back to Summer, it's probably fair to say, you smashed the festivals pretty hard! Do you have a favourite festy?

J: Thats a difficult question to answer, our best sets don't nec-essarily line up with the festival we had the most fun at..... As festivals - Lattitude, Glaston-bury and Bestival were wicked. The highlights for the band have to be: Secret Garden; Outlook; Seasplash; Bestival; and Sham-

bala - but it's difficult to say. Last summer was a really fucking good year for us and every event seemed to eclipse the last.

JD: Your seemed to be pretty at home in the Chai Wallahs' tent. Was that your favourite stomping ground?

J: We've played the Chai Wal-lah tent for two summers now at various festivals and it's an amazing tent with brilliant staff. When we played there at Bes-tival the day after playing one of the bigger stages it was like going home and that rings true whenever we step back into that sweet smelling stretchy tent.

JD: I saw you got a gig at V Festival. Must have been a pretty different crowd to usual, how did it go down?

J: Yeah that was brilliant. There has been a few situations in the last year where we've played to very different crowds, where all other artist on the bill are playing Indie or pop rock - it's an abso-lute dream for us. We know our tunes get anyone stomping and if they haven't heard it before or are used to nodding their head rather than getting a sweat on, then the energy is amazing as it was a VFestival.

JD: Looks like you've been busy bees, the album hits the shops in the new year, is it go-ing to be all the tunes we've skanked to over the Summer, or lots of new material?

J: A mix of both really; the al-bum is made up of: Dub/Reg-gae/Ska/Dustep + Grime - there are tunes to make you laugh, dance and cry. We don't play the ones that bring the tears at gig, it's a terrible look! As a whole it is everything we are and have been working towards so you may be surprised at a few tunes but that’s the whole GDC pack-age and we're really excited about it.

JD: So what's the future for GDC? Any big ambitions?

J: If we are able to continue playing to welcome crowds and do some travelling then it's job done for me. The only hope can be that our music connects with people, if it does then brilliant we'll be doing this well into our 40's. I really don't think music can be defined or quantified. It is what it is and if you've got a smile on your face, an itch in your feet or a tear in your eye then - bang! That’s what it's all about.

Thursday 9th December

Astroid Boys

Christmas mashUp 9pm-2am//£4

Friday 17th December

Traffic

Gentleman’s Dub Club

9pm-4am//£5adv

Gentleman’s Dub Club is a nine-piece band that formed in Leeds in early 2006. With a style based in dub, ska and roots reggae, GDC have burst onto the UK circuit, rocking gigs and festivals up and down the country with their super high energy show.

Gentlemen Prefer Dub

Interview: Jack Doran

I loved watching the rise of Grime and Dubstep, it felt like the perfect soundtrack to the rising recession mood of frus-tration. It served as a backlash against bland manufactured in-die and pop that dominated for so long. The generation coming up took to the raw, aggressive sound of Grime and the filthier edge of Dubstep like Alliga-tors to Swamps but eventually even that required a backlash. Although still going strong at a street level, many of the big-ger Grime acts got fed up with the negativity surrounding the scene and opted for saccharine pop stardom, losing their edge to become another cog in the machine.

Benji and Traxx also got fed up of a lifestyle that was not only negative but could often turn violent, a fact that both have experience of. So - taking their cues from Hip-hop groups they grew up with, groups like Jurassic 5 and their old skool party approach, they set about developing a far more positive lifestyle and sound, all without having to sacrifice their creative energy. As Benji puts it:

“The passion to make music in front of people is the same but now I feel that they want to embrace my happy thoughts instead of the angry negativity that people stuck to with Grime.”

Not that this is conscious, po-litical, change the world materi-al, think new Beastie Boys rather than new Public Enemy. With an agenda of parties and girls still very much high priority. This is exactly what I mean about their relevance to the times. As with the late 80s, times of doom and gloom eventually need a release and these boys are penning a silver lining round the clouds with a big phat magic marker.

Well versed in entertaining crowds since school, Traxx was touring the country with Hard-core Punk Bands at 14, whilst Benji was tearing down Grime shows and making a name for himself on the South Wales scene, winning various clashes in Cardiff and Newport. Traxx eventually moved into Grime, rolling with a couple of crews, quickly gaining recognition for his quick-fire wit and delivery.

After they both converted from the dark side, they hooked up and subsequently met DJ Comfort, resident DJ at two of Cardiff’s most respected club nights, CYNT and Neuropol, through a mutual love of Bas-ketball, Food and Trainers. Fi-nally they discovered the young-est member of the crew, their producer Dell, of whom Traxx enthuses:

“Dell’s like our secret weapon, I can’t preach enough about this guy, he’s just 15 and he’s one of the baddest producers around. He’s a hard worker, on point, switched on and knows a lot about a lot.”

Altogether they make a great family unit and if their recent shows are anything to go by they’ve definitely managed to attract a like minded audience. “The crowd that we have now is fantastic!” says Benji, “In the grime days none of the people around were your friends, they just had to stay involved in the scene so that they could know what the latest Beef was about!! These days I’m greeted by crowds of smiles & people that actually want to have as much fun as i do.”

As much Dirty Sanchez as Dirty Goodz, the boys are well known for their crazy antics and no show is complete without at least a touch of crowd surfing. This year they’ve performed at Bestival, Newport Festival, vari-ous club nights and been one of the few live acts to perform at Bedlam. They also managed to pack out Cardiff Arts Institute for the launch of their first single Jungle Booku. They shall be ac-companying GLC for a number of dates on their UK tour and will be returning to the CAI to host their very own Christmas Party on Dec 9th. This will be their first show incorporating a live drum-mer and the night will also fea-ture DJs such as Magenta and Curtamos and two of the coun-try’s finest Beatboxers - Beat-box Fozzy and Beatbox Major (who is also a regular feature in the Astroid Boys live show). It’s been a great year so far for the boys it seems and I can’t help feel that this is just the begin-ning for them.

Words: Kaptin Photos: Droneboy Laundry

The best music always manages to capture the spirit of the age, and for me the Astroid Boys are no exception.

Astroid Boys

The Astroid Boys (from top): Benji, Traxx, DJ Comfort

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After 9 very different shows in unique spaces and places the company touches down in Bute-town. Forget any misconcep-tions and stereotypes of what you may think theatre is and be blown away by a new genera-tion of theatre makers who are creating refreshing new work for the street, fusing: music; per-formance; food; and art, into an exciting narrative journey that celebrates what theatre can be.

The Soul Exchange is a site-specific theatrical journey. You’ll take the taxi ride of your life through hidden corners of Car-diff. Hear stories of sailors, mil-lionaires, lovers and survivors and when you arrive at your destination (The Coal Exchange) you’ll be part of a new piece of history.

Past and present collide on the streets of Butetown - join a young man in search of his fa-ther and unearth the secrets of these well loved streets. Meet royalty and rouges, and explore the myths and truths that have made ‘Tiger Bay’ roar. Celebrate a place where those from across the ocean (and close by) have

lived, loved and made their mark.

The Soul Exchange has been created by a team of Butetown artists working alongside es-tablished International Artists who are pioneering new forms of theatre.

27th/28th January

National Theatre Wales

The Soul exchangeStarting at the Wales Millen-

nium Centre and ending at the Coal Exchange.

Directed by Kully Thiarai// Designed by Jane Linz Roberts// Lighting by Ceri JamesArtists by Ali Gadema Borhan//Mohammadi// Gavin Porter// Yusra Warsama// Anthony Britto

For more information: nationaltheatrewales.org

Box Office: 029 2963 6464

7:30pm

National Theatre Wales is changing the face of theatre in Wales, presenting twelve shows in twelve months. We find out about the tenth installment - The Soul Exchange.

Designer Violence is a sub-mission based group who seek out work from creative people for exhibitions, events and de-sign driven projects.

The Designer Violence Zine is an outlet for anyone with work they wish to showcase. It encompasses design, art, pho-tography, whatever. If it's good, ambitious and doesn't belong anywhere else, they'll take it. De-signer Violence is not for profit and aims to promote interaction and collaboration within com-munities of creative people.

The Theme for their next show is Black Xmas. The show will take place in the apartment above Milgi on City Road and Opening on the Thursday the 16th of December running until the Sunday the 19th. The show will comprise of a main gallery room given over to artists to set up as a xmas grotto shop with affordable art for people to buy. There will be a room for short films and Welsh made horror. The remaining rooms will be given to individual artists for in-stallations.

Thursday 16th December

Designer Violence

Black XmasMilgi, 213 City Road CF24 3JD

Tel. 02920 473 150

Until Sunday 19th

FREE

Designer Violence

Creative Profile

Cardiff based Designer Violence bring their collaborative ethos to Milgi in December in typical idiosyncratic style.

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DecemberWednesday 1st

No Sweat:

Brian Humphreys mr Duke Ben SteerWelsh singer/songwriter Brian

Humphreys writes thoughtful, Americana-tinged songs that conjour up images of Stein-beck’s 1930’s America, Ker-ouac‘s long, soul-searching road trips and the melancholic wistfulness of Nick Drake. Com-pleting this local line-up are solo sets from Mr Duke and Ben Steer, proving that Cardiff really is the schizzle.

7.30pm//FREE

Friday 3rd

SnowSports Society:

Rave in a CaveCardiff Snowsports have

teamed up with Traffic to bring you yet another social happen-ing. One renowned throughout the generations, Rave In A Cave! Expect a sick snowsports party, with the usual debauchery and banging house/electro tunes guaranteed,… all tinted with a touch of UV!! We are gonna have it large, caveman style!

9pm-4am//£2 before 11pm

Saturday 4th

In Full Swing

The Correspondents Fred Snow DJ moneyshot The only place in the City to

discover the craze that’s on everyone’s lips and hips. Tak-ing original Swing samples and totally re-inventing them for the modern dancefloor. Expect more than just the music as we bring you the full re-mixed vintage experience from our live lindy-hop futuristic break-dance crew to secret burlesque performance in our Speakeasy Boudoir.

9pm-4am/£5

Sunday 5th

Carbootique

Christmas CarbootiqueIt’s Christmas, so we’re all

about Reduce, Reuse, Recycle at the CarBootique. Reduce your credit card bill by selling your unwanted items (or picking up a bargain). CarBootique is just one part of Market Day - so if you’re still in the mood to shop after the last boot is closed - pop over to

Northcote Lane for the best be-spoke and bejewelled.

To secure a pitch email: [email protected]

From 3pm//FREE

The Institute

The Big Sunday Recovery ProjectOur regulars social gather-

ing to end the week. Enjoy a late Sunday Roast or just laze around with friends on the So-fas. Leftfield DJs, our interactive ‘cut & paste’ Sunday Newspaper Collage and make & do craft box. As ever, we are joined later in the day by:

The Squeaky Hill Pub QuizA Sunday institution. The only

quiz that provides you with a general all round work out, uti-lising the physical, mental and creative parts of your brain that other pub quizzes just can’t reach! Free to play and fabulous prizes to be Won!

4pm-6pm// FREE

The Canadian Songbook

The songs of Neil Young, leonard Cohen & Joni mitchellAfter the highly acclaimed

evening ‘Songs of Nick Drake’, we are pleased to welcome a night of personal interpretations of the music of Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Leonard Cohen.’ Per-formed by Keith James.

7.30pm//£4

Monday 6th

Cardiff Creative Writing Society

Tessa HadleyTessa Hadley lives in Cardiff

and teaches Literature and Cre-ative Writing at Bath Spa Univer-sity as well as regularly writing reviews for the London Review of Books. She has written a study of Henry James; Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure (2002) and is the au-thor of three novels.

7.30pm//FREE

Tuesday 7th

The Institute

Come DancingWhether you’re single, on a

date or friends out for a laugh. Come Dancing is the place to learn some amazing dance moves - from the Lindy Hop and Swing to Hip-Hop and even Tan-go. Plus we will be holding spe-cial ‘Come Dancing’ weekend events where you’ll get a chance to show off your new moves with some special themed nights just

look for the ‘Come Dancing’ Star on the events list.

8pm-10pm/£4

Cardiff Life Model Collective

life Drawing TuesdaysA life drawing class open to

all abilities held every Tuesday in our common room. Due to overwhelming demand for this event, we now run two sessions. Art materials are available and a regular rotation of models week on week. Each session has two models, one male and one female in individual and joint poses.

5.30pm-7pm and 7pm-8.30pm// £5 donation

Wednesday 8th

No Sweat

Port erin Draw me Stories Alex ComanaNot strictly an acoustic night

this week, but a chilled-out, ambient vibe nonetheless. Port Erin arrive in Cardiff as part of their UK tour. No Sweat also welcomes to the CAI stage lo-cal gents Draw Me Stories and Among Brothers front-man Alex Comana. Has Christmas come early? We think so...

9pm//FREE

Thursday 9th

Astroid Boys

Christmas mash upWith their party blend of Hip-

hop and Dubstep, Astroid Boys are the hottest young crew in the city. As well as showcasing their own skills they present a selection of Producer//DJ bat-tles between some of the big-gest names in Welsh Dubstep: Curtamos, Magenta and young up-and-comers Dell and Com-fort. Plus a much anticipated battle between Beatbox Fozzy and Beatbox Major.

9pm//£4

Friday 10th

Chrome Kids + Higher Learning

Gangsta Christmas Pt2Whether you come as a Comp-

ton Gangbanger, a Mafia Don or even a Grime Lord. Make sure you enter the festive season with all guns blazing as the Hip-hop stalwarts meet the bastard sons of bass to bring you some fancydress fun with attitude. Ex-pect 90s G Funk, classic Grime and Christmas tunes with a dif-ference! We also launch Juvenile Scum filth monger Exotope's

EP and a Future Garage spe-cial from City Bass and special guests upstairs.


Saturday 11th

The Institute

DeR CollectiveWith a selection of some of

the city’s finest musicians on board, this group have managed to cement a solid reputation as a new band to watch. Mixing up a strong Hip-hop influence with touches of classic Jazz, Funk and Reggae.

9pm-4am/ £2 before 11pm

Sunday 12th

The Institute

The Big Sunday Recovery Project

4pm-6pm//FREE

All that Malarkey

Christmas PartyAfter November’s rammed

packed showcase, Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama’s homegrown musicians present another evening of entertain-ment and music, seldom seen outside the college confines.This is a musical treat for all.

7.30pm//FREE

Dirtbox

An evening of ComedyHappy slapping your frontal

lobes and squirting original-ity into your medulla oblongata from a hose pipe of absurdity. A cherished comedy secret, all held tightly in a cosy small room.

8pm//£3

Monday 13th

TSTL:Cardiff

True Stories Told liveOnce a month, five people tell

others a true story about their lives. Each story is around ten minutes long and delivered without notes. Funny, sad, pro-found, bewildering, angry, all we ask is that the story is yours and that it’s true. Entrance is free by invitation.

[email protected]

7.30pm//FREE

Tuesday 14th

The Institute

Come Dancing8pm-10pm//£4


life Drawing Tuesdays


Wednesday 15th

No sweat

Festive No SweatIn the words of the legendary

Noddy Holder... It's Christmas! Well, almost. So to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year, No Sweat offer a selection box of No Sweat elves who've played throughout 2010. Get your paper hats on this is go-ing to be a cracker (insert more Christmas related puns as you please).

9pm//FREE

Thursday 16th

The MMP

Christmas PartyJoin The Miniature Music

Press as they celebrate their second christmas with a mojo filled Christmas party the like of which man has only dreamt of.

8pm//£TBC

Friday 17th

Traffic

Gentleman’s Dub ClubThe right honourable Gentle-

man's Dub Club are coming to Cardiff for what is guaranteed to be one of the biggest shows of the year. They've smashed all the decent festivals and now their touring their highly antici-pated debut album. The date is the last day of term, so one last rinse-out before hoofing it off home.

9pm-4am//£5adv

Saturday 18th

The Institute - Big Christmas Party

Klezmer Kollectiv Barry Holes Hitlist The HatsEssentially, our ‘Christmas

Office party’ but with no pervy bosses, no snogging the 75 year old cleaner in their cupboard, no Abba medleys, no photocopies of your bum posted all over the walls and no actual office! There will however be drunkeness, dancing, guilty pleasures and some of our favourite ‘alterna-tive’ party bands.


Sunday 19th

The Institute

Sunday Recovery Project

4pm-6pm//FREE

Monday 20th

The Institute

Alternative Christmas Carol ServiceDon your Christmas apparel

and join us for some Yuletide carols! Indulge your love of all things festive: warm songs, fuzzy beards, mince pies, mulled wine and rocking around the Christmas tree. This is a sing-a-long event and we need your vo-cal cords! So come dance, drink and be merry with us for the fin-est Christmas party of the year!

7.30pm//FREE

Tuesday 21st

The Institute

Come Dancing8pm-10pm//£4




Wednesday 22nd

No Sweat

No Stocking FillerGetting tooooo excited about

Xmas? Well why not chill your snowboots and flop on a bean-bag with some lovely acoustic tunes. The perfect respite from sweaty last-minute shopping. We've got mulled wine and cider at the bar. Ho ho ho!

9pm//FREE

Friday 31st

The Institute

In Full SwingInstead of "out with the old

and in with the new", we’re hav-ing it all with our ‘In Full Swing’ residents playing a selection of Electro Swing and Party classics. Brush off your finest vintage garments, wax your moustach-es, funk up your flapper dresses and get involved with a night that has truly brought the fun back into dance music. Expect plenty of extra surprises too as we start the new year as lively as we intend for it to continue.

10pm-4am//£6adv

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market ForcesWhen the foundations of post-industrial capitalism start to shake and your share options are no option at all, it's reassuring to know that there are islands in the storm. Yes Barry Island is one option, but I also refer to the venerable shopping markets of Cardiff displayed so warmly on this page. Economic life here is simpler, more friendly, and the things you buy, you can take away to use, eat or just cherish. Traditional, local and creative.

The folks CAI photographer Ffion Matthews meets on a typical Sunday are: Cardiff’s Market Forces.

Words: Tim Fisher Pictures: Ffion Matthews

Bessemer Road:

Phillip Stainforth (46) and family; Julie Lawson, Rebecca (9) and Nicole (10) Barry

Phillip has been working in the market for 2-3 years, and at-tends every week with his fam-ily (if the girls wake up in time!). He’s always worked at markets, but notices lately that less and less people are coming along to them. He thinks that it’s mainly because of the recession and people have less money/time to come and spend at markets.

He also has a market in Barry every Tuesday. He mainly sells pet food, but his partner sells ac-cessories and jewellery so that there are a variety of things for people to buy.

Greg Evans (25) Pontypridd.

Greg comes along to the mar-ket/car boot sale to mainly sell collected junk and what he finds around the house. He attends the market twice a month, and thinks that it’s the best around.

He’s been coming to the market for about a year now, and thinks it’s unbelievable what some people will buy!

In his spare time he is an En-durance rider and participates in many championships (such as European, British, and Welsh) and likes to work on his bikes.

Darryl Needham (32) and Rob Jones Whitchurch

They only come to the car boot sale once in a while, probably about twice a year, so it gives them time to collect things to sell. They sell anything and eve-rything – from books to buggies. They also think that the market is getting less and less busy, especially as the winter comes around. They are both interested in Art, football and cycling.

Mike Pleace (60) Grangetown

Mike grew up in the Cardiff docks, and then moved to Grangetown. He has been work-ing at the market since it opened 40 years ago! He makes his liv-

ing from his stall and also goes to Newport to sell his fancy goods. He attends every week and has the same spot. He finds that he has regular custom-ers and that people are always friendly. He has noticed over the years how trading has changed e.g. Sunday openings, and the different kinds of people who at-tend the market days, and how economics have changed.

Riverside Market:

Rebecca O’Dwyer (34) Bonvilston

Rebecca and her husband John, 35, own an organic farm (Oaklands Organic) just outside of Cardiff. “Humanly-rearing meat in a sustainable farming system ensuring ethics remain intact. They have been coming to the market for around 3 years now and find that they have reg-ular, loyal customers and that their Sunday becomes almost a social occasion to catch up with their customers, who in time be-come friends. She believes that

Phillip Stainforth (46) and family; Julie Lawson, Rebecca (9) and Nicole (10)

Tucked in a back lane behind Milgi on City Road, the market has grown over the years and sometimes takes over a studio warehouse and in the colder months happens above the bar. Voted number 5 in the Guardian readers top 10 Vintage shops guide nestling amongst Berlin and London.

Northcote lane Boutique marketThe daddy of the pop-up boutique markets and vintage scene. Northcote Lane Market has been running since the Summer of 2006 and was the first of it’s kind in Cardiff...

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people like to come visit and buy local produce, and that custom-ers have a much more pleasant shopping experience rather than going to Tesco or other ma-jor chains.

They also run open days: see www.oaklandsorganic.com

Huw Evans (25) Riverside

Huw comes for the coffee - “The best coffee in Cardiff!” He comes every Sunday for his caf-feine fix, and will usually take out £20 and might treat himself to a cheeky duck burger (how posh!). He feels that the market has a good sense of communi-ty, and from living so close feels that he is a part of that. He thinks that the market is very middle class, and that he can fit eas-ily into that category, and enjoy the produce and stalls it has. He thinks that people enjoy coming here, because they think that they’re putting something back into the community because it’s all mainly local produce etc. Oh, and also, Chris has the best chillies!

Geraint Thomas (39) Maesteg

Geraint has been coming to the market for 7 years now. He thinks there is great food here and that the market itself is very pleasant. He comes every week to sell his olives, garlic cloves and other delicious food (includ-ing some homemade good-ies). He thinks that markets in genereal have a great sense of community and that nice people come along and have chats, and even ask how the family are do-ing!

Geraint does several other markets in places such as Mum-bles, Aberystwyth and Glamor-gan.

Gareth & Helen Cooksley, both 50+ Roath

They have been attending for 3 years, mainly because it’s the closest to them. They also have a shop just off Albany Road sell-ing spices. They have been run-ning the shop for 30 years (anni-versary 19th of November 2010!) They think that the market has a lovely sense of community and enjoy coming along and talking

to their customers and being social.

Car Bootique:

Nia Metcalfe (28) Sarah Defriends (28)

This is their first time to sell their stuff at the C.A.I, they were inspired after coming along to a few of the past carbootiques and decided to get involved! They sell their own clothes, and home made things too as their interested in arts and crafts and they both have degrees in the creative industry. When they previously attended the car-bootique, they bought a cactus, chess set, clothes and jewellery. And they both seem to be hav-ing a lovely time!

Hannah Loy (28) Moved to Splott in January originally from Lincoln

Its her second time to have a stall in the carbootique, and she often comes for a drink and some food too! She decided to

come along as she had loads of clothes and skint! So thought she’d give it a try, and enjoys it. That may be because of the friendly people, relaxed, fun atmosphere, and also enjoys looking at other peoples stuff (she also admitted that most of the money she makes she spends on other peoples stalls!) In her spare time she does pot-tery, and is currently working on making some terracotta good-ies/decorations for next months Christmas stall!

Shelly Wilkins (26) Rhiwbina

This is Shelly’s 3rd time. She likes to come along and get rid of her “crap”, and thinks it’s a re-ally great way to spend her Sun-days! “Theres always a great mix of people here, very social and friendly atmosphere”. She also goes along to Northcote Lane once in a while!

In her spare time she makes fantastic handbags, and has set up her own business called KinKin. www.kinkin.co.uk. She also likes to bring some of her bags along to her stalls.

Gareth & Helen Cooksley Nia Metcalfe, Sarah Defriends

UP mARKeTS!Bessemer Road Market Bessemer Road, Cardiff CF11 8BB Every Saturday & Sunday from 10am

Riverside Market Fitzhamon Embankment, Cardiff CF11 6AN Every Sunday from 10am-2pm

Car Bootique Cardiff Arts Institute, 29 Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3BA First Sunday of every month from 12pm

Northcote Lane Boutique MarketMilgi, 213 City Road, Roath, CF24 3JD First Sunday of the month, 6pm-1Opm

THe BeST oF THe ReSTSplott Market Titan Rd CF24 5JB Every Thurs/Sat / 9am-3pm

Roath Farmers Market Mackintosh Sports Club, Keppoch Street CF24 3JW Every Saturday, 10am-1pm

Sundown Market Gwdihw, CF10 2HJ 2nd and 4th Sun/Month, 4pm till late

Make it PrettyChapter, Canton, CF5 1QE Monthly Saturday, 11am-4pm

Buffalo Boutique Windsor Place, CF10 3BY Monthly Tuesday, 7pm-11pm

Jacobs Antiques West Canal Wharf CF10 5DB Wed-Sat, 9am-5pm

The Pumping Station Penarth Road / CF11 8TT Daily, 9:30am-5:30pm

It's a bit of a hotchpotch of jumble, young designers, mu-sic, DJs, the odd random per-formance artist with great hot food, Chai and Homemade Pizza . It's really great for hand-printed T-shirts and pumps, jewellery, second-hand books, vinyl, vintage-rummaging, peo-ple-watching, cake-eating and cocktail-drinking.

With a strong community ethos and a passion for fashion the market is inspirational and has inspired many to go forth and create. It remains at the heart of the cultural scene and as one of the best for creatives.

To book a free stall at Northcotelane or CarBootique:

[email protected]

Why not join our Boutique Markets e-list and get news about all of the boutique markets across the City: [email protected]

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JanuaryTuesday 11th

The Institute

Come DancingWhether you’re single, on a

date or friends out for a laugh. Come Dancing is the place to learn some amazing dance moves - from the Lindy Hop and Swing to Hip-Hop and even Tan-go. Plus we will be holding spe-cial ‘Come Dancing’ weekend events where you’ll get a chance to show off your new moves with some special themed nights just look for the ‘Come Dancing’ Star on the events list.

8pm-10pm/£4


life Drawing TuesdaysA life drawing class open to

all abilities held every Tuesday in our common room. Due to overwhelming demand for this event, we now run two sessions. Art materials are available and a regular rotation of models week on week. Each session has two models, one male and one female in individual and joint poses.


Wednesday 12th

No Sweat

No SweatFREE

Friday 14th

All Time Top 100

All Time Top 100 Wu Tang with Ben Potter

A familiar face to many on the Cardiff music scene. This respectable musician//promot-er//DJ, is also a self confessed Wu Tang fanatic. We let him run wild with his top selection from The RZA, the GZA, Ol Dirty Bas-tard, Inspectah Deck, Raekwon the Chef, U-God, Ghost Face Killer and the Method Man (and associates).


Saturday 15th

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Reggae Winter WarmerWhilst the world and its cat,

shiver in the sub-zero climes holding thoughts of one austere looking 2011, here at 29 Park Place, we are more inclined to kick back in Caribbean style and bring the sunshine indoors with our 'sub-tropical' central heating turned up; Calypso Cocktails; and DJs spinning the best in Dub, Reggae and Dancehall.


Sunday 16th

The Institute

The Big Sunday Recovery ProjectOur regulars social gather-

ing to end the week. Enjoy a late Sunday Roast or just laze around with friends on the So-fas. Leftfield DJs, our interactive ‘cut & paste’ Sunday Newspaper Collage and make & do craft box. As ever we are joined later in the day by:

The Squeaky Hill Pub QuizA Sunday institution. The only

quiz that provides you with a general all round work out, uti-lising the physical, mental and creative parts of your brain that other pub quizzes just can’t reach! Free to play and fabulous prizes to be Won!

4pm-6pm// FREE

Tuesday 18th

The Institute

Come Dancing8pm-10pm/£4




Wednesday 19th

No Sweat

No SweatFREE

Friday 21st

Future Fridays:

Zeitgeist: moving ForwardsThe Cardiff chapter of the Zeit-

geist Movement shall be show-ing the latest film in the Zeitgeist series before it’s general re-lease. The documentary follows on from Addendum, presenting the case for a move to a new sustainable Resource Based Economy. The night will also include a mixture of forwards thinking live musicians, DJs and dancers, including Kaptin and Ruffstylz.


Saturday 22nd

Ba Ba Boom

Funk Supreme Social Dance Spectacular & The Sweet Spots (live Funk)Serious, Social Funk is land-

ing. Back in the day dances like the Funky Chicken, the Water-gate and the Jerk flooded the dancefloors as funk was in-vented. People knew the moves – the moves were easy – and they danced them dances with soul. Tonight we're teaming up with dance troupe leaders Funk Supreme to give those in the club at 11 the basics, an infor-mal dance class to keep you all in step with the earliest move-ments of funk. Then by 12 we've got amazing live funk and soul (from The Sweet Spots), proper good vibes. Then Ba-Ba-Boom! DJs return with the funk, soul and disco, letting the crowd drop the steps they've learnt anew, al-ways trusted, or invented in the moment.


Sunday 23rd

The Institute

The Big Sunday Recovery Project & The Squeaky Hill Pub Quiz

Midday-6pm//FREE

Tuesday 25th

The Institute

Come Dancing8pm-10pm/£4




Wednesday 26th

No Sweat

No SweatFREE

Friday 28th

Traffic

Gypsy Riot!Following a stream of sell-out

shows, the TRAFFIC crew take direct action and occupying the CAI building. Expect party games, giveaways, face paint-ing and general mayhem.New boys Dakhla, will be bringing the live gypsy-balkan sounds, heav-ily infused with funky beats. In support, the TRAFFIC DJs will be bringing a range of worldly tunes and rinsing bass lines.Good to be back for 2011.

9pm-4am//£TBC

Saturday 29th

The Funktastic Four:

DJ Jaffa Dregz marky De Sade Kaptin Essentially a meeting of DJ

legends as Wales’ longest serv-ing Hip-hop DJ and crate digger extraordinaire - DJ Jaffa, (who loves playing music so much he once DJed for 70 hours) drops in to spin alongside: the long serving Toucan funkster and former BBC Wales presenter - Dregz; Big Chill resident Marky De Sade; and our very own party starter himself - Kaptin.


Sunday 30th

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The Big Sunday Recovery Project & The Squeaky Hill Pub Quiz

Midday-6pm//FREE

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Visit cardiffartsinstitute.org for full listings, music, videos, photos, blogs and more...

We love having you over, and to make you feel even more wel-come we've laid on a few treats for our regular card holders. We've got 7 days of offers with a little bit of something for everyone.

If you haven't got your regulars card - just ask be-hind the bar the next time you're in.

See you soon.

All Week

Post-work Pizzas£3.50 for a classic or £6.50 with as many toppings as you like from 5pm - 9pm Monday - Friday

Monday

Back 2 Work Bevvies2 for one champagne cocktails all night. Vodka and Coke - £2.20. Skittles Vodka & Lemonade - £2.20. Gin and Juice - £2.20

Tuesday

ladies love...2-4-1 champagne cocktails all night. Cheerful & Cheap Wine (Red White & Rosé) Small - £2.20, Large - £3.10, Bottle - £8.95

Wednesday

Boys own...Curry and a Pint: £5.75. Bitter and Fosters - £2.20

Thursday

Keep it RealAle and Fosters - £2.20 a Pint

Friday

Working 9 to 5?You deserve a treat after the week you've had, so from 5pm till 9pm we're offering all regulars card holders: 2 for one champagne cock-tails, Bitter for £2.20, Wine for £2.20 and free popcorn on the bar.

Saturday

Celebrate the Weekend2-4-1 Champagne Cocktails till Midday - 9pm

Sunday

Sunday BestWe've saved the best till last with a mammoth offering to end the week: 2-4-1 Champagne Cocktails. Free Bloody Mary or Screwdriver with your Sunday Lunch. Free Virgin Cocktail with your Tramp Stamp* Pint of Coke or Lemon-ade £2.20. Free Popcorn with the Squeaky Hill Pub Quiz.

*Tramp Stamp = Hand Stamp from Fri/Sat

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Jessie Nicol

Originally from Cardiff, Jessie is a 2010 BA fashion graduate from Manchester University. The influence for her final collec-tion stemmed from 'spirit pho-tography' of the 19th century.

"I became interested in work-ing with transparencies, trap-ping ghostly suggestions be-neath them, or creating some indication of ghostly silhouettes. Clothes stayed light and barely there with subtle hints to indi-cate another presence."

Catching the imprint of 'the flu-id atmosphere' vibrating around the edges of a person like the outward signs of his inner, per-sonal force. Their embodiment only visible on transparent sheets or smoke.

Jessie’s ambition is to one-day work for a couture house.

Check out her stall at the next Northcote Lane Boutique Mar-ket (see p9)

We love Jessie, and we know you will too.She can often be found working as our ‘door host’ on special events. Bubbling away with clipboard in hand and a sparkle in her eye.

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Instead of saying out with the old and in with the new, we’re having it all as we see in the year with

“In Full Swing” playing a selection of Electro Swing and Party Classics. As always we encourage you

to brush off your finest vintage garments, wax your moustache, funk up your flapper dress and get

involved with a night that has truly brought the fun back into dance music.

In Full Swing Dance Crew// Carnival Dancers// Secret Burlesque Boudoir// 1920’s Cinema Visuals//

Champagne Cocktails// Marvellous Parlour Games// Vintage Dressing Up Box

Dress Code: Nu-Rave Flapper Girls// Brogues and Hi-Tops// Dandies and Moustaches// Vintage -

Vintage - Vintage

Friday 31st December 2010

10pm-4am//Advance Tickets £6 (More on the Door)

Advance Tickets Outlets:

Cardiff Arts Institute// Milgi, 213 City Road // wegottickets.org

NeXT ‘IN FUll SWING’ FeBRUARY 5TH 2011

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DJs can pretty much dip into any genre from any time period if they want to and many pro-ducers love getting all Weird Sci-ence with the best bits and cre-ating sonic collage equivalents of Kelly Brook. This can get con-fusing. There’s been a couple of points whilst organising for Future Fridays when somebody has asked the ‘what music do they play?’ question for certain DJs. A lot of it hasn’t even got an agreed moniker, which can be rather confusing but ultimately exciting and refreshing.

We have also become far more comfortable with ma-chines. Producers and DJs es-pecially are like cyborgs, able to make real emotion come out of computers and whilst vinyl purists scoff at DJ ‘packages’, the people using them are com-ing up with ever more creative and inventive uses for them. It is this excitement and innova-tion that we like to push with the Future Fridays but without for-getting the most important part of Dance music, making people dance. Every DJ has they’re own definition of what it means to do that job but for me it’s about making people feel comfortable to express themselves on the

floor whilst pushing the bound-aries out and educating as well as entertaining.

Thankfully this has been the vibe of nearly every act that has played at Future Fridays and we’ve had some great times. It’s amazing to have the space to book people as diverse as Pan-gaea, Ed Cox, Stagga and Dels, all under the same banner. Eve-ry great scene comes from fu-sion and progression and for me Cardiff’s got a great scene right now. We’ve always had a repu-tation for behind a bit behind but I’d say we’re pushing things for-wards better than most. To the future, Iechyd da!

For information & bookings: [email protected]

Hear Kaptin on Radio Cardiff 98.7FM every Monday 9-10pm

radiocardiff.org.uk

Every Friday


Future Fridays 10pm - 4am//£2 before 11pm

Future FridaysEverybody’s nostalgic for different eras of Dance Music and with good reason, but I think right now is probably the most exciting time for any kind of Electronic Music. I’m sure 90% of people, even the younger ones will disagree with me on this but think about it...

Words: Kaptin Pictures: Mei Lewis - Mission Photography

One 2 Watch 2011

Download Free Future Fridays DJ mixes at:

cardiffartsinstitute.org

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The Institute manifesto»oFFeR A PlATFoRm To eNCoURAGe

CollABoRATIoN, PARTICIPATIoN AND ACTIVITY.

»STImUlATe AND INNoVATe IN oUR CITY.»FoReVeR eVolVe.»HelP mAKe IT HAPPeN.»DISCoVeR NeW WAYS oF THINKING

THRoUGH INTeRACTIoN, CommUNICATIoN AND UNIoN.

»NURTURe AND CeleBRATe NeW TAleNT.»USe No ARTIFICIAl ColoURS oR

PReSeRVATIVeS.»STAY UP lATe AND BReAK THe RUleS.»lISTeN To YoU:

[email protected]

New Year//New StartCardiff Arts Institute are recruiting in all areas of our house. We're looking for enthusiastic, passionate individuals who love life, aren’t afraid of anything and love music, art, drink,

cocktails, food and getting things just right.

» VeNUe mANAGemeNT» BAR memBeRS (PART & FUll TIme)» HeAD CHeF» KITCHeN STAFF

Send your CV and 50 words on why you think you want to work with us to: [email protected]

Creative? Interested in music & Art ?We are looking for local Writers, Bloggers, Photographers, Bands, Artists, Designers, DJs & Video Makers.

Send your portfolio examples of work to: [email protected]


Winter Ale & Cider Festival 5th - 12th December

Enjoy a selection of some of the best real Ales and Hot Ciders on offer ranging from dark to light, smoked to unsmoked. We have something for all tastes.


Future//Cardiff 24th - 30th January

We will host a number of talks, events, exhibitions, gigs that profile the ones to watch in 2011. Watch out for the full schedule of events to be released 1st week of January.

Cardiff Arts Institute, 29 Park Place, CF10 3BA

Cardiff Arts Institute Christmas 2010

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