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Cardiff International Arena (formerly known as Cardiff International Arena & Convention Centre and Motorpoint Arena Cardiff and currently, for sponsorship reasons, as Utilita Arena Cardiff) is an indoor exhibition centre and events arena located in Cardiff, Wales, and was opened on 9 September 1993 by singer Shirley Bassey. [1]
Cardiff International Arena is the city centre's indoor arena; the purpose-built venue lacks the capacity to host large-scale events. Currently the city lacks a large multi-purpose indoor arena suitable for hosting a number of major sporting and music events, such as Adele concerts, the BBC Sports Personality of the Year and the Gymnastics World Championships, with a capacity of 10–15,000 to ...
The main campus will be the venue for the squash and hockey events at Birmingham 2022, [68] while nearby Vale Village, a parkland site that normally accommodates 2,700 students, will be turned into one of the three separate Athletes’ Villages needed for the Games after plans for a single purpose-built village in Perry Barr were curtailed due ...
The National Exhibition Centre (NEC) is an exhibition centre located in Marston Green, England, near to Birmingham and Solihull. [1] It is near junction 6 of the M42 motorway, and is adjacent to Birmingham Airport and Birmingham International railway station. It was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1976.
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 - art gallery, opened 1998 in the city centre and relocated to a larger space off City Road ...
A number of festivals are also held in Cardiff, the largest being the Cardiff Big Weekend Festival, held annually in the city centre in the summer and playing host to free musical performances (from artists such as Ash, Jimmy Cliff, Cerys Matthews, the Fun Loving Criminals, Soul II Soul and the Magic Numbers), fairground rides and cultural ...
The event took place at 15 venues across Birmingham, West Midlands and London and featured 19 Commonwealth sports. [4] It was also the first major multi-sport event to have more events for women than men and had the largest integrated para-sport programme in the history of the Commonwealth Games with 8 para sports.
Birmingham Interchange is a planned High Speed 2 railway station in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands, England, [2] with construction expected to finish in 2027. [ 3 ] Unlike the city centre based Birmingham Curzon Street railway station , the interchange station will be a parkway , serving the east side of Birmingham and ...