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This is home. This is where you’ll find all the information you need about the Swansea Creative Hub as well as stories and links from the creative community in the area.

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Post readers demand High Street cleanup

by admin November 2, 2010

The Evening Post reports that its readers have added their voices to those of local traders, who are sick and tired of the alcoholics, drug addicts and beggars in Swansea High Street, which has been labelled “The worst entrance to a city centre in the UK”. Rebecca, from Swansea said: “There are plenty of available [...]

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Volcano Theatre’s 1977 opens in Swansea High Street

by Huw October 19, 2010

Swansea based Volcano Theatre opens a new production, 1977 in one of the Hub’s properties in the High Street, tomorrow. Here’s how Volcano describe their new prodution: It’s 1977. The four men who made this show are six, twelve, eighteen and twenty-nine. A thriving year for plane hijackings, and a busy period for the terrorists [...]

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Submarine… a new film set in Swansea, adapted from Swansea writer’s book

by Huw October 18, 2010

Submarine is the first film by Director Richard Ayoade, of IT Crowd and Mighty Boosh fame. Set in Swansea, and based on the book of the same name by Swansea writer Joe Dunthorne (Joe on Twitter), it follows Oliver Tate’s coming of age during his 15th Year. Here’s a video of the Director talking about [...]

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Bid to twin Swansea with Guernica… also terrorised by Luftwaffe bombs

by Huw October 14, 2010

Robin Turner of the Western Mail reports that a new campaign has started to twin Swansea with the Spanish town of Guernica. Guernica, like Swansea, is a seaside community and was bombed in 1937 by the German-led Condor Legion which backed Francisco Franco’s attempt to overturn the Basque and Spanish republican governments during the country’s [...]

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Velvet Underground’s Legend John Cale brings Venice installation to Swansea

by Huw October 8, 2010

From Venice to Australia to Germany and now to Swansea… John Cale’s internationally acclaimed exhibition Dyddiau Du/Dark Days will on Friday 8 October arrive at Swansea’s National Waterfront Museum following its debut at the Venice Biennale of Art 2009 – the world’s pre-eminent showcase for contemporary art. For more, visit the National Museum of Wales’ [...]

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Building schedule for Swansea Creative Hub

by Huw October 7, 2010

We now have an idea of how long the work building the Swansea Creative Hub will take: Phases 1, 2 and 3 High Street Streetscape (numbers 212 – 222) – shell and core of commercial/office space/residential. Started March 2010 and will be completed May 2011. Fit out will then begin which will take another year [...]

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Creative Hub? In Swansea? Yes please!

by Huw August 9, 2010

Five years ago Brad Neuberg, the man behind coining the phrase ‘coworking’, publicly blogged about his coworking idea.  Since his post those five years ago, coworking has really taken off, developing and evolving into ideas of communal business spaces, shops, studios and a whole host of ideas centering around clusters of people benefiting from a [...]

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Swansea born and bred. Or why Creative Industries are good for Urban Regeneration

by Huw June 3, 2010

The benefits of the Swansea Creative Hub is already a list as long as your arm. Whether it be helping to put South Wales on the creative and global marketplace map, bringing new visitors and businesses to the area, or creating new job opportunities, the benefits are in abundance. But what about the surrounding areas, [...]

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Swansea Creative Hub gets planning go ahead: Press Release

by Huw February 15, 2010

Here is our press release welcoming the planning permission. Multi-million pound plans to transform a rundown area of Swansea have taken a major step forward with planning permission being approved for Coastal Housing’s £25million Urban Village on the High Street, The Strand and Kings Lane. Designed by Holder Mathias Architects on behalf of Coastal Housing [...]

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