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Wild Scenes at Cardiff

The ‘Cardiff race riots’: one of those moments in a city’s history that lingers – in family stories, in popular myths – but for which there is no complete official record.

National Theatre Wales and The Heritage & Cultural Exchange
12-13 June 2019, 7-9pm
Butetown Community Centre

Created and performed by Mike Pearson and Ali Goolyad

‘Wild Scenes at Cardiff’ declared the South Wales Echo.
‘Blacks Hunted By a Furious Mob’ proclaimed the South Wales News.

National Theatre Wales and The Heritage & Cultural Exchange present an evening to mark the centenary of the Cardiff Riots of June 1919.

In mid-June 1919, our city was plunged into four days and nights of violent mayhem that left three dead, many in hospital, and buildings wrecked and burnt.

Its causes were a complex knot of post-war frustrations following demobilization – lack of housing, lack of jobs, lack of opportunity. But most shocking was the racial aspect, as local troublemakers, ex-servicemen and Colonial soldiers clashed with Yemeni, Somali and Caribbean seamen, in front of vast crowds of on-lookers.

The ‘Cardiff race riots’: one of those moments in a city’s history that lingers – in family stories, in popular myths – but for which there is no complete official record.

Tiger Bay and the War at Sea during the First World War

Community day and talk.
Come and tell your stories

17 July 2018
Drop in 10:00 - 16:00
FREE
Butetown Community Centre

Tiger Bay, First World War, BAME Seamen and their Community

A free public lecture by Helen Rowe and colleagues from Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales who will give an overview of the project to survey First World War wrecks and the involvement of coastal communities around Wales to tell stories of the ships and men and women onboard. This lecture will include material that relates especially to BAME seaman and the Tiger Bay community.

This lecture is linked the the Vision for Cardiff Bay & Heritage conference on 30 -31 May which is one of the events linked to the Volvo Ocean Race stopover in Cardiff (full conference programme for the 2 days www.vision2018.co.uk)

The lecture will provide an introduction to our own local project which will

research individual local First World War BAME seafarers
at a later public workshop collect and record memories and scan photos and documents
display at an exhibition the results of the research locally and around Wales

May 30 17:30
The Exchange Hotel

Pop-Up Museum at Wales Millennium Centre

We have collaborated with Ongl for WMC to add some of our image collection to this pop-up museum and coal carts.

Help create the pop-up museum exhibit, inspired by the theme of Growing up in Tiger Bay.
Whether you are from the docks or beyond, bring an object or image to share about your very own childhood playground and learn about the adventures of growing up in the wondrous and infamous Tiger Bay.

Make a copy of your object or image for the museum display; write a label and share your stories; watch a collective history of Tiger Bay grow!