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The City

100 days in Cardiff – The Old Bank in Bute Street

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We Are Cardiff contributor Jeremy Rees is recording his days in and around Cardiff with 100 photographs of local points of interest. We’ll be publishing some of them here on We Are Cardiff – and make sure you tune in to Jeremy as he presents the Saturday Soulful Breakfast on Radio Cardiff!

The Old Bank in Bute Street

The Old Bank by Jeremy Rees

“The grand sandstone building at the centre of today’s picture is The Old Bank in Bute Street, Cardiff. In the heyday of the docks and the coal industry it was a bustling financial centre where the worlds 1st million pound cheque was cashed. These days the building is home to many small organisations including too that I volunteer for myself – REF and ACE Cardiff – so I spend quite a bit of time for one thing or another. I was there today with the VCS Stall at a community event. The grand hall is magnificent – but today, boy was it cold!”

 

Thanks Jeremy! Catch you next time…

The Arts, The City

Two weeks in Cardiff – street photography by Rhian Richards

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For the past two weeks the We Are Cardiff Instagram account has been in the hands of resident, Rhian Richards! Let’s see what she’s been up to, shall we?

Do you recognise where any of the below were taken…?

Did you spot any key locations?

If you fancy taking over our Instagram account for a month, get in touch! wearecardiff@gmail.com

The Arts, The City, Whats on

Happy St David’s Day!

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Don’t forget that today is the first day of our @wearecardiff Instagram Project – where the Instagram account is handed over to a Cardiffian for a month. You can spend March in the company of Rhian Richards – enjoy!

Follow the @wearecardiff Instagram project here!

The People

“I came to Cardiff because of NoFit State Circus and their great community” – George

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I came to Cardiff because of NoFit State Circus and their great community and fantastic training facility. I have lived in Splott and Grangetown in the city. Which is my favorite? I love my Splott friends, but I like the diversity of Grangetown and seeing the Taff every day.

I am a circus performer. The thing I’ve always liked about sport is the single-minded focus on physical agility and dexterity (but not so much the competition). What I’ve always liked about making art is the dissection and analysis of the human condition. Circus is a joyous mash up of these two.

To relax, I enjoy cycling around the city and visiting car boot sales. My perfect day in Cardiff would be spending a Sunday at Bessemer Road market and car boot, and then on to the Riverside Market for lunch.

George Orange is a performance artist, circus performer, outdoor theatre-maker, former mascot, ex-drag performer, co-founder of the Mary Bijou Cabaret and Social Club, but most of all, and without any doubt – he is a clown. Past work includes Parklife and Mundo Paralelo (NoFitState Circus), Facade (Crashmat Collective) and ten seasons with Chicago’s Midnight Circus. Catch Mary Bijou on Facebook or Twitter @themarybijou or on their website. George currently lives in Grangetown.

Mary Bijou’s show Hitch premieres in their purpose-built Spiegeltent in Cardiff Bay outside the Wales Millennium Centre between 31 July and 4 August 2013.

George was photographed at the New York Deli by Ffion Matthews

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The City

We Are Cardiff shortlisted for the Wales Blog Awards 2012

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Wooh! yes, you heard right. We’ve been nominated for the Wales Blog Awards 2012, in two categories: Best Community Blog and Best Multimedia Blog. Woo yeah!

This is our third year of making it to the shortlist for Best Community blog, and this year there are only two finalists – us and the excellent  Cwmbran Life (my favourite part of the site is the Characters section. Who’d have thought you’d find so many different folk over by there, eh?).

We’ve also made it as a finalist into the new Multimedia category, which basically covers everything that isn’t just writing on a blog. Part of what makes We Are Cardiff such a wonderful project is the amazing photography that appears on the site courtesy of great local photographers who volunteer their time to take portraits of the good people of Cardiff. So: a big thank you to all those photographers: Adam Chard, Ffion Matthews, Simon Ayre, Amy Davies, Lann Niziblian, Doug Nicholls, Kayleigh Ancrum, Jon Pountney, Robert Bell and Geraint Griffiths.

In the Multimedia category we’re up against a blog I hadn’t come across before, The Watchers Film Show Blog, as well as being up against the Cardiff Before Cardiff blog run by Jon Pountney (who recently made his debut as a We Are Cardiff photographer with this amazing portrait of James Nee in Roath Recreation Ground).

We’re honoured to have made it through to the final stages of both these categories in the Wales Blog Awards 2012. There are a lot of great Welsh blogs out there, and you should take some time to investigate some of the others.

As well as the above mentioned blogs, we’re also big fans of Matt Appleby’s Easy Teas (read Matt’s We Are Cardiff story here), the ever-reliable Pint of 45, Emily Bater’s Lights, Camera, Cardiff (Emily has been very kindly covering our documentary film project We Are Cardiff: Portrait of a City) and the Cardiff Food Project (we’re looking forward to featuring Cardiff Food Project’s Lauren on We Are Cardiff very soon).

As it’s payday tomorrow, some of you might want to wear your love of the city and your support for our project on your chests, with our lovely We Are Cardiff t shirts! They’re only a tenner, and every penny goes towards making our documentary film about Cardiff in 2012. If you’ve yet more cash burning a hole in your pocket, you can also invest in our film through our Indiegogo campaign. You get great rewards for your cash, including film posters, t-shirts and a free invitation to our launch party next year. Invest in the We Are Cardiff film here.

Oh yeah – we’re also on Facebook and Twitter, if you’re into that sort of thing.

If you or someone you know are interested in being featured on the We Are Cardiff site, please email us on wearecardiff at gmail.com. The only requirement is that you are a Cardiff (or nearby!) resident.

tata for now!

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