About

In Cardiff, Common Wealth’s office is in Llanrumney Hall, an old pub which has been reclaimed and redeveloped as a much-needed resource in East Cardiff, an area with little community space & resources. 

East Cardiff is our home because it’s where we come from. We feel like we have an infinity with local residents and want to offer artistic opportunities to the community we know and care for. We love putting on events like our Everyone Is An Artist workshops, offering local residents the chance to create with amazing artists, and encouraging people from other parts of the city to travel to East Cardiff. Projects like Reclaim The Space allowed us to fire imaginations and spark joy in St Mellons with a powerful mural depicting over 50 real, local people reclaiming their space. 

Our activity in East Cardiff is developed and supported by our local Sounding Board who meet with us regularly to plan and deliver activities for all ages. We know that people with lived experience know best what they might need. We also know that theatre, the arts and getting creative have many benefits which are transferrable – for us it’s about exchange, agency and making things happen.

We love learning and exploring; our curiosity-led approach allowed us to produce our film We No Longer Talk, about the Welsh language and class. This led to the creation of our Welsh language book club, giving people in East Cardiff the opportunity to practice using Welsh and strengthen their connection to the language. 

Our shows can happen anywhere, in any building, with anybody and in any place. In Wales we have created work in Port Talbot with a group of steelworkers, in Merthyr with women over 50 and in Blackwood with young people.

We love collaborating, and we’re proud to have been part of the Moving Roots Touring Network, which allowed us to create relationships with critically acclaimed artists and to take our show Payday Party to Edinburgh.