Sunday 9 August 2015

Sunday Snap – Wales Millennium Centre


A street art parody of a famous painting was the subject of last week's Sunday Snap. The piece by Banksy was an homage to Johannes Vermeer's



Girl with a Pearl Earring



Our budding art critics this week with the correct answer are Cheryl, Susan, Steve, Jen and Lisa.



For this week we're off to Wales and to be more precise Cardiff. After visiting the Doctor Who Experience we walked round to the other side of Cardiff Bay. There's an impressive range of buildings in this area with the standout one being the Wales Millennium Centre (which has featured in various episodes of Doctor Who and the spin off series Torchwood). Originally the site was designated for the Cardiff Bay Opera House but funding for the project was difficult to obtain and it was scrapped. The new plans incorporated a wider range of cultural interests. Today the Wales Millennium Centre is home to writing, Welsh language, opera, acting, dance, music and educational organisations. The unusual design, nicknamed The Armadillo, is made from a variety of Welsh sourced materials – Welsh slate, stainless steel made near Pontypool, wood from managed Welsh forests and glass made in Swansea. On the front is two lines of verse but not the same one in Welsh and English. Both were written by Gwyneth Lewis and the Welsh line is Creu Gwir fel gwydr o ffwrnais awen which translates as Creating truth like glass from the furnace of inspiration. The English line is In These Stones Horizons Sing. My teaser for this week is



What year was the Wales Millennium Centre opened?



I will warn you that 'Millennium' doesn't mean it was opened in the year 2000 and anyone who states that will have Daleks from the Doctor Who Experience unleashed upon them!



We were joined last week by Cheryl and the rare sight of a twinned rainbow. Sophie was at a kite contest on the beach. There was lots of bedtime smiles over at Susan's. On Kirsty's stroll the dogs and the children were walking two by two. Finally, Kelly was shining not one but two lights with her double wick candle.



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27 comments:

  1. I keep meaning to go to Cardiff to explore as I've never been closer than the M4 passing through.

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  2. After many delays I think it was 2004. I've never been to Wales before, I must soft that. Beautiful building x

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  3. OOh I know this it was 2004, I stayed for a weekend for a concert last year and it was the 10th anniversary coming up, well I hope I am right.

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  4. Durr I nearly said 2000! I have a good excuse though, I wasn't living in the UK at that time, I didn't come home until 2005. Lovely picture x

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  5. I would love to visit Cardiff with the kids and visit places like this. The last time I was there was in my student days visiting friends so we saw lots of the nightlife! x

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  6. This is one of the places on my must visit list .. it looks really striking :-)

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  7. It's been a very long time since I've been to Cardff, I can't imagine I'd recognise it now. Mich x

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  8. I really would love to visit Cardiff. Bit of a journey from Scotland but will be worth it

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  9. We went to Cardiff a few weeks ago for the weekend, we fell in love with Cardiff Bay and will visit often :)

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  10. Cardiff is a great place to visit and having being to the Millenium Stadium not long after it opened, I think was 2004 x

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  11. I've never been to Cardiff before, but it's definitely on my list of places to visit!

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  12. I like Cardiff...... and I love the accent too. We haven't been for a while, might have to plan a trip there soon.

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  13. Such an iconic building - we are heading there and to the Dr Who experience next weekl

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  14. I don't think I have ever been to Cardiff nd I should really visit!

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  15. Was it 2004? I haven't been to Cardiff although my hubby goes for the rugby!

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  16. I want to say 2000, but that would be wong!

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  17. i would have no idea at all ll, im terrible woth this sort of thing

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  18. I'd like to explore that area of Cardiff. I was in the city recently at a Uni open day with my daughter but we didn't have time to go to Cardiff Bay.

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  19. I would go in there with 2000, but since you said that's not right, I'm plumping for 2004, like others have said :p

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  20. I've never been to Cardiff but I'd love to go

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  21. My brother lived in Cardiff for 10 years and I only went there twice! Ekk!

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  22. 2001, that would have been the start of the new millennium, anyway?xx

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  23. Another place to add to my bucket list

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  24. I've never been to Cardiff, I'd like to go and visit the Norwegian Church that is there.

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  25. There's a coincidence, I was just watching the Doctor Who episode that starts with that very picture!

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  26. It's been years since I've been to Wales. I'd love to take the kids to the Dr Who experience. I'm adding it to our list of places to go :) No idea on the date though!

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