List of cultural venues in Cardiff

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The following cultural venues are located in Cardiff, capital city of Wales.

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Performing arts venues with seating capacity:

City Hall, Cardiff (600)
Chapter Arts Centre (180)
Llanover Hall Arts Centre (100)
New Theatre (Cardiff) (1,144)
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
- Dora Stoutzker Hall (400)
- Richard Burton Theatre (182)
- Bute Theatre (150-200)
- Caird Studio (50)
- Corus Recital Room (50)
- S4C Studio (50)
- Sir Geraint Evans Recital Room (60)
- Weston Gallery (80)
Sherman Theatre
- Main theatre (631)
- Venue 2 (163)
- Venue 3
St David's Hall
- Main auditorium (up to 1,956)
- Level 3 Day Stage (or "Level 3 Bar") (350 including standing)
Wales Millennium Centre (Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru)
- Dance Space (100)
- Donald Gordon Theatre (1,897)
- Urdd Hall (153)
- Weston Studio (250)
- BBC Hoddinott Hall (350)
Roald Dahl Plass (Outdoor Arena)

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Barfly (200) - opened in 2001, closed in September 2010 ^[1]
Clwb Ifor Bach
Coal Exchange (1,000) - Venue closed in 2007, reopened in 2009 and closed again in 2013 because of safety concerns.^[2]
Fuel Rock Club, Cardiff- (160) opened 2013^[3]
The Globe (350) - opened on Albany Road, Roath, in November 2008.^[4]
Inkspot Venue Cardiff - conference rooms, live music events^[5]
The Moon Club, Womanby Street^[6]
The Point (500) - closed in January 2009, following a single complaint from a neighbour about noise.^[4]
Tiny Rebel, Cardiff- (80-100) opened 2013, function room upstairs is often used for live music
Tramshed (1000) - opened in October 2015 in a converted Grade II listed tram depot in Grangetown.^[7]
Y Plas - in the Cardiff University Students' Union building in Cathays^[8]

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Cardiff has number of gay venues in the city, particularly in the area around Charles Street and Churchill Way. Gay-friendly venues include:

Golden Cross - a pub featuring regular drag acts
Kings Cross, The Hayes - gay-friendly pub for over 35 years,^[9] converted to a gastropub in 2011 ^[10]

This is a list of historic and architectural places and their use as a cultural venue:

Cardiff Bay and Cardiff Barrage (has hosted open-air concerts)
Bute Park (used for open-air concerts and festivals)
Cardiff Castle (has hosted open-air concerts, a professional boxing match and small exhibitions)
Castell Coch (has hosted a celebrity renewal of wedding vows)

Albany Gallery, Roath - established 1965 ^[11]
Blackwater Gallery, Prospect Place, Cardiff ^[12]
Butetown History and Arts Centre (closed 2016), Cardiff Bay
Oriel Canfas, Canton - run by artists who were formerly based at the Old Library in Cardiff city centre until the late 1990s^[13]^[14]
Cardiff MADE, Roath ^[15]^[16]
Gallery Celf, Bangor Street, Roath^[17]
Norwegian Church Arts Centre, Cardiff Bay
g39 - artist run gallery, opened 1998 in the city centre and relocated to a larger space off City Road, Roath in 2011.^[18]
tactileBOSCH, Llandaff
Third Floor Gallery (2010-2016), Cardiff Bay

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