What's on?
Cardiff Mardi Gras
The Cardiff Mardi Gras, staged in Coopers Field behind Cardiff Castle, is the biggest annual gay and lesbian party in Wales. Around 40,000 people head into the Welsh capital to enjoy a day of celebration.
Welsh National Opera at home
Welsh National Opera's music director Lothar Koenigs conducts two of the company's three operas this autumn at its Donald Gordon Theatre home in Cardiff's Wales Millennium Centre. Mozart's ever-popular
Magic Flute joins Beethoven's
Fidelio and Richard Strauss'
Ariadne auf Naxos.
Great British Cheese Festival
Sniff and nibble more than 450 different cheeses of all flavours, shapes and sizes at Britain's biggest cheese market. The Great British Cheese Festival takes place each year at Cardiff Castle and heralds the British Cheese Awards.
Sparks in the Park
Sparks in the Park is an enormous fireworks display held at Coopers Field in Bute Park, with Cardiff Castle as a backdrop. Children's rides entertain the little ones before the bonfire is lit and the fireworks take over.
Peter Kay
Peter Kay's
Tour that Doesn't Tour sees Bolton's funniest man return to stand-up comedy for the first time in seven years. These dates at the Cardiff International Arena are part of a mammoth series across the country.