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This Sunday at 8pm is the World Cup final! Who will win and where will you be watching? The next World Cup is 2030 in Portugal, Spain and Morocco!

It’s International Rock Day 🧗 Find a fossil in the Vale

Monday 13th July

  • 🚶 Hwb Walk and Talk Group for fresh air and a chat
    Meet at Health Hwb on High Street · 3.45pm · Free

  • 🧘 Slow Flow Yoga
    Balance Medspa on Broad Street · 6pm-7pm · £10 · Book here

  • 🍿 Welsh Language Film: Effi O Blaenau
    Penarth Pier Pavillion · 2pm and 7pm · £6 Tickets

  • 🤠 Learn to Line Dance

    Kynance Hall in Dinas · 6.30pm-7.30pm · Contact Mel on 07891607778

  • 🎤 Open ‘Mike’ Night with Open Mike 72
    The Gallery on Broad Street · 7pm · Free drink for performers

Pukka Productions Presents
PUKKAFEST | St Cyres High School

Golden (Kpop Demon Hunters)
Tuesday 21st July
6pm-7.30pm
£5 Tickets
😈

The Bee Musical
Wednesday 22nd July
2pm & 6pm
£12 Tickets
🐝

Princess Show
Thursday 23rd July
11pm-12pm
£5 Tickets
👸

Beauty and the Beast
Friday 24th July, 6pm
Saturday 25th July, 2pm & 6pm
£12-£15 Tickets
🌹

It’s National Tape Measure Day | Do with it what you will…

Tuesday 14th July

  • 🎣 Rig Making Workshop by Reel Minds (with coffee and cake)
    Bridge Between Community Centre (by Waterfront Medical Centre) · 12pm-2pm

  • 🎣 Fishing Meet Up by Reel Minds
    Barry Dock · 2.30pm-6pm · Book here

  • 🤝 It’s Good to Talk
    Cadog’s Corner Victoria Park Community Centre · Between 9am and 7pm · Free sessions to have a good chat!

  • 🙏 Tai Chi for 50+
    Barry YMCA · 11.30am-12.30am · £5 · Email [email protected] to book

  • 🧶 Stitch & Sea
    Knitting and Crochet Social / Not a class / Bring your own supplies · Penarth Pier Pavillion · 6pm · Free

  • 💃 Salsa Beginner’s Class
    View 62 · Every Tuesday · 7.30pm-8.30pm · £10 · Email [email protected]

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The Cwtch

The Cwtch is the weekly pet feature. Meet these cuties who call Barry their home and what they love about our town.

Meet Oakley
🐶

Oakley is 4, with a tiny body but massive personality. He’s a dachshund with the spirt of a doberman as his bark sounds like a huge guard dog on duty!

“I love a cuddle and making new friends especially big dogs so I skip the introductions and become best friends straight away”

- Oakley
It’s St Swithin’s Day | Where the weather predicts the next 40 days!

Wednesday 15th July

  • 🔮 Mediums Mark and Phil
    Cadoxton Spiritual Church · 7pm · £4

  • 🥦 Good 2 Shop

  • Fill a bag for · £5 · Cadogs Corner in Victoria Park · 2pm-6pm

  • 🥦 Vale Food Bank
    The Pod, Golau Caredig (Barry Cinema) · 4pm-6pm

  • 🥾 Aberthaw and Fonmon History Walk
    With The Glamorgan History Walks · Meeting at The Blue Anchor · 6pm-8.30pm

  • 🎵 Dance for Health (seated neuro focused class)
    Barry YMCA · 2pm-3pm · £5 · Email [email protected] to book

  • 🍷 Meet the Wine Maker: Chateau Picoron
    Try 7 wines, meet the maker and hear their story! · Mor by Barry Island Spirits on High Street · 6.30pm-9pm · £30pp · Book here

  • Men’s Corner
    Cadog’s Corner · Victoria Park Community Centre · 7pm-9pm

  • 📝 Quiz night with Tom
    Goodsheds · 7pm · Free Winners get a sweet treat

  • 📝 Charity Pub Quiz
    Craft Republic · 7pm · £5

  • 🧘 Les Mills Pilates

    Snap Fitness Gym · 7.30pm-8.30pm

  • 🔉 Sound Bath with Sacred Instruments
    Colcot Community Centre · 8pm-9pm · £15

🍿 In Penarth Pier Cinema This Week:

  • Effi O Blaenau

  • Tuner

  • Savage House

  • Toy Story 5

  • Blue Heron

Excited Movie Theater GIF by CBS

Gif by cbs on Giphy

It’s World Snake Day | Find Adders in Porthkerry

Thursday 16th July

  • 💬 New to the area? Want to meet new people? Learning English? Friends and Neighbours (FAN) · For an hour of a friendly chat · St Mary’s Church · 11am · Email [email protected] to find out more!

  • Wellbeing in the Community: Soundbath and Reiki
    Colcot Community Centre · 10am-12pm (Last session until September)

  • 📝 Quiz Night
    Academy Coffee · 7pm · £1 entry

What a Lush Community!

Here’s some lush stories and reminders around the town:

  • 🧵 Calling Young Makers and Creators! Junior Craft Fair are looking for young people to showcase their handmade crafts on 12th September in Highlight Park Community Centre. £12 per stall. Contact [email protected]

  • 🧶 Looking for a knit and crochet social? Flock is open to new members who meet every Wednesday in Academy Barry, 6pm-8pm. Email [email protected] for more info

  • 🍻 A new website Vale Pub is dedicated to all the pubs in the Vale - currently listing 168 pubs if your local is missing, submit them here 

  • 🥪 Lunch at Mine have a loyalty scheme: every 10th coffee is free and 50% off the 10th meal - go in to sign up

  • 🏖 Outdoor seating picks: The Gallery on Broad Street, Coastal Coffee on the Island and Truth above 1988 in Sully.

  • 👏 Shout Out to Porthkerry Cleaners who were complimented on the immaculate toilets and had over 150 likes on Facebook!

It’s National Lottery Day | Are you feeling lucky?

Friday 17th July

  • 🤠 Morning Line Dance Class

    The Old School in Sully · 9.30am-10.30am · Contact Mel on 07891607778

  • 🔮 Psychic Supper
    Includes individual reading, fish and chips and refreshments. Plus raffle on the night · Cadoxton Spiritual Church · 7pm-9.30pm · £20pp

  • 🕺 Retro Disco with DJ Ralphie T
    Penarth Pier Pavillion · 7.30pm · £9 B· ook here

  • 🎸 Session Band | Live Music

    241 Cocktails and Street Food Menu for Summer Festival at The Sully Inn · 8pm

It’s International Snowdon Race Day | 50 years of racing the highest peak in Wales

Saturday 18th July

  • 💗 Move For Her
    Women from across South Wales are doing all sorts of dance, movement and fitness classes from 9am-9pm. All classes booked will raise money for Vale Domestic Abuse Services. Full schedule here if you want to participate.

  • 🎾 Barry Athletic Tennis Club Open Day
    BATC on Paget Road · 10am-1pm

  • 🌊 Ocean Princess Party
    Princess meet and greet/dancing/games/bubbles · Goodsheds 10am-11.30am · £15 per child

  • 🥾 Dunraven History Walk
    With The Glamorgan History Walks · Meeting at Cymlau Clifftop P&D Car Park · 10am-2pm

  • 🧶 Crochet a Phone Holder

    Knitty Knutty in Goodsheds · 2pm · £20pp Here

  • 🌿 Vale Nature Festival
    Celebration of nature! Cosmeston Lakes Country Park · 11am-4pm · Free

  • 🎸 Summer Festival

    241 Cocktails and Street Food Menu at The Sully Inn · From 1pm

  • 🍖 BBQ Pop Up by Ash & Ember
    Craft Republic · From 5pm ‘til Sell Out

  • 🎸 Jodanna | Live Music

    Cozy Vibes at Finnegans Inn · 8pm · Free entry

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It’s National Ice Cream Day 🍦 The Vale has lots of parlours!

Sunday 19th July

  • 🧽 The Big Barry Litter Pick

    No equipment needed · Meet at Castleland Community Centre · 10am · Book place here

  • 🎸 Summer Festival

    241 Cocktails and Street Food Menu at The Sully Inn · From 2pm

  • 🌿 Summer Reset For Women
    Integrative Therapist Ruth for an evening of therapuetic practices, sound therapy and optional sauna/ice baths · Reset Wellbeing in Barry · 5pm-8pm · £55

  • The Big Summer Concert with Barry Community Choir
    St John’s Methodist Church on Barry Island · From 3pm · £10 includes entry to raffle

  • 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Yn Gymraeg: Learn about Victorian Barry
    A guided walk by Victorian Barry Experience in the Welsh language · 2pm-3pm · Meet at Barry Civic Offices

  • 🔨 Charity Auction
    Raising money for Velindre · Taylor’s Bar · 6pm

  • 🤘 School’s Out Kids Party
    Academy Barry · 6pm-7.30pm · £10 per child · Book here

  • 🎤Sticky Bingo and Karaoke
    DJ Matt at Finnegan’s Inn · Eyes Down at 7pm · £5 a game

Right, that’s your lot.

Next week is the last weekend in July aka the best weekend in Barry…

See you next Monday for more details. Thanks for reading :)

  • - The It’s Occurring Team x