![]() ![]() Set up by skaters, for skaters, with the community in mind, they worked with the skate scene to create a park which would be suitable for all. The business has been open now for just over a month and seems to be doing well.Īnd the project was not a short one, the skate park and creative community space was 2 years in the making and was helped by a grant from Sport Wales. There was live music, an ice cream vodka bar, food, skating, scootering, biking, flying skateboarders, flying skaters, a sound space, a minidrome (world’s smallest veldrome) and a good crowd of people. We headed down to the skate park (behind Greggs on Newport Road) for their official ‘Warehouse Warming Party’ on 31st of May. Cardiff locals Christian and Nia decided to not only provide a space for the skaters, but also create an art and exhibition space, a skate shop and a cafe. Cardiff Council has responded to this by putting up bars along statue plinths and other grindable areas in the city centre in an effort to deter the skaters, who they say damage the benches and architecture.īut, luckily for the skaters, in-liners, skateboarders, scooter riders and BMXers of Cardiff, a cunning idea was in the process of fruition. ![]() Skateboarding, along with many other extreme sports, has undergone a boom in the last few years and now seems to be more popular than ever. Spit and Sawdust opening party – Cardiff skate park, cafe, shop and art space And now we have one! Writer Jodie Ashdown headed along to see Spit and Sawdust at their opening party. Modern Alchemists are a pretty interesting group as well – they’re a voluntary, not-for-profit social enterprise, so plenty more interesting projects coming up from them in the near future….Ĭardiff’s been long overdue a reasonable indoor skate park for a while. The exhibition is open for another few weeks so get yourself down there to check out some local talent (the creative type, rather than those queuing up outside O’Neill’s) and experience some originality. The exhibition also included work by We Are Cardiff’s very own Helia which took roots in the sad demise of Cardiff’s Coal Exchange. Kola kubes vodka full#Make sure you close the door after yourself, to get the full effect. There’s also visual instalments, including a piece in a little room under the stairs which I can only describe as a David Lynch-esque-Vulcan-mind-meld. The artists hadn’t read any of the written work before the exhibition, so it was interesting to see their reactions as they engaged with the words, and as there were over 30 artists and 50 writers, there was a lot going on.Īs well as the artwork and written pieces, there were live poetry readings by some of the writers, a play, music, a DJ, beers and a contraption which smushes your newly painted face onto a piece of blank paper. The experience was a unusual yet creatively stimulating one, and I really enjoyed it. I found it a challenge to produce a piece of writing which did the piece justice, but also represented me as a writer but was happy with how it came out. I myself was sent an amazing comic which included a minotaur, a women on a flying lion, cookies and a vomiting eagle by the very talented Borja Perez Mielgo. The idea was simple, selected writers would be sent a piece of submitted art anonymously and were asked to come up with a poem, play, rap, composition or story inspired by it. Being the old bus ticket office, it looked pretty grim when they first got it (believe me, I helped rip up the carpets) but they’ve made the place their own and turned it into a perfect exhibition space.īut this isn’t just any old art show, the guys at the Modern Alchemists decided to put a call out for writers to create a piece of ekphrastic writing (this is a fancy word I learnt at uni, it just means to be inspired by art) based on artwork created by local artists. The place is now called The Abacus, and is currently hosting the Modern Alchemists’ exhibition, Solve et Coagula.įriday 20 June 2014 was the opening night of the latest Modern Alchemists exhibition in their new space named The Abacus, which is just over the road from Cardiff Central Bus Station. On Friday night, we sent Jodie Ashdown along to the opening of a new gallery in the old Cardiff Bus ticket office. ![]()
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