BiFest Wales

BiFest Wales

Saturday 24^th April 2010, 12 noon till 6pm

Registration from 11:30am

Cardiff University Students Union, Aneurin Bevan room, 4^th floor

Entry: 10 pounds waged, 5 pounds unwaged

A one-day event for bisexual people, their friends, allies and anyone interested in bisexuality or bi supportive with workshops, craft zone, social space and community stalls.

Evening Social: 7:30pm-2am, FREE entry at the Funky Buddha Lounge on Charles Street. All welcome, even if you're not attending BiFest during the day. Full details below.

No need to register, just turn up on the day!

To find out more Email: bicymru@yahoo.co.uk or

Text: 07982 308812

 

If you can help us promote BiFest Wales please let your friends, organisation, college or anyone else know about the event any way you can. Posters and leaflets to put up or email out can be downloaded and printed from the bottom of this page or if you drop us an email we'll send some through the post to you.

 

If you are a community organisation, of any kind, not just LGBT, or offer services or groups that might be of interest to Bi people and friends, we are having a community stalls space at BiFest Wales. If you're interested in having a small pile of your leaflets available please email: bicymru@yahoo.co.uk for details of where to send your leaflets. If you're attending and want to promote your group please bring leaflets with you.

As space is extremely limited we are asking people to bring only 1 or 2 types of leaflets, so we can ensure there is information on a wide variety of community organisations.

Workshops

 

All workshops are open to everyone attending BiFest Wales. There are no age restricted sessions at BiFest Wales this year.

 

For information on what each workshop is about download the BiFest Wales programme at the bottom of this page.

 

(Please note that all workshops are subject to change up to the day of the event)

 

Time	Workshop Room 1 (Rona Griffiths)	Workshop Room 2 (Gareth Edwards)
12 noon -1pm	All about bisexuality	Community interaction
1:15pm-2:15pm	Finding the Bi community in Wales and the UK	Bisexuality and relationship styles
2:30pm-3:30pm	Living as Bi in a gay and straight world	Bi issues in the workplace
3:45pm-4:45pm	Representations of bisexuality in the media	Getting involved in the bi community
5pm-6pm	The Gender fluidity project	Biphobic hate crime

 

 

Main Room (Aneurin Bevan) All Day

 

Registration starts at 11:30 am

 

Craft space - Build your own ideal bisexual, get together and knit or bring your own craft ideas.

 

Bisexual information zone - If it's bi related in the UK and we can get our hands on it then find out about it here.

 

Community stalls - A wide range of information from equalities groups, LGB groups, public services and more.

 

Meet and Mingle table - A space to meet and chat to people you've never met before as well as some friendly faces

 

Chill out and social space

 

Evening meal break 6pm-7:30pm.

 

Evening Social (details below): 7:30pm-2am at The Funky Buddha Lounge

Evening social event

We will be having a FREE evening DIY disco from 7:30pm until 2am at the Funky Buddha Lounge, Charles Street, Cardiff, CF10 2GE.

Bring your own CDs and Ipods to plug into the PA and we'll design our own music night and dance the night away. Nibbles available.

This is an open social so please bring your friends, whether or not they've come to BiFest Wales itself.

Organisers will be helping guide people to food venues and pubs at 6pm and will meet anyone who wants to stay in the Union for food at 7:15pm in the Taff Bar on the first floor of the Students' Union building.

http://www.thefunkybuddhalounge.com/

 

We have been assured there is wheelchair access via the back of the building.

 

Accessibility

Physical access: There is a lift from the entrance to Cardiff University Students' Union from the Park Place entrance.

 

This takes you to the first floor, where there is another lift to take you to the fourth floor.

 

All doors in the venue are wide enough for wheelchair users.

 

There are accessible toilets in the venue.

 

There is no parking. On street parking is by voucher system or nearby.

 

Most Cardiff busses have low floors and spaces for wheelchairs, but check with Cardiff Bus company.

 

Cardiff Central train station has attendants, lifts, ramps on the platforms and an accessibile toilet with access by key only.

 

Accessible taxis are available from outside central train station.

 

There is no hearing loop available and signs are not in Braille or very easy to read.

 

We have been told that the Funky Buddha Lounge is accessible via a back entrance.

 

Documents and information: All downloads on our website are in Word format and there is no protection, so you can copy and format text to your needs.

 

If you would like a copy of information on the day or in advance by email or post, in large print and/or on different coloured paper please let us know by email: bicymru@yahoo.co.uk or text or voicemail: 07982 308812.

 

Questions: If you have any questions on accessibility please email us at bicymru@yahoo.co.uk or text or leave an answerphone message on 07982 308812.

 

Getting to BiFest Wales

Information about travel by:

• Car

• Train

• Taxi, Walking and Bus from Cardiff Central train station
  
  

Chris, from the Bi Cymru/Wales committee will be meeting people at Cardiff Central Train station from 10:30am until 12noon to help group people into taxis and with directions to the venue. He will be holding a BiFest sign and be in the main area of the station.

All travel information and maps are all available to download in the document called 'directions and maps to BiFest Wales' at the bottom of this page.

Accommodation

 

There are many places to stay in Cardiff, for all budgets from backpacker hostels to 5* hotels like the Marriott.

 

If you search in google or go to one of the many hotel finder and holiday websites you'll find many to choose from. To help you out a bit, we've uploaded a list of some of the official tourism websites and some of the chain hotels in Cardiff in a document to download at the bottom of this page.

 

The official tourist information site for Wales is www.visitwales.co.uk and for Cardiff is www.visitcardiff.co.uk, just to get you started.

 

We hope this simple list of just some of the range out there will help you find your way to BiFest Wales

 

Eating out in Cardiff

 

There are many restaurants, bars, cafes, fast food outlets and other places to eat in Cardiff City Centre. The evening social will be in Cardiff City Centre where the largest amount of eating venues are.

 

There's everything from Welsh tradition cooking to Italian, American, Indian, Thai, pancakes, bar food, Irish, Chinese, Mexican, vegetarian, fish and chips and more.

 

If you want to have a look at places to eat before coming to BiFest Wales there is a full listing at:
www.visitcardiff.com/site/eat-and-drink.

 

On the day we will be arranging bookings and groups of people to eat together during the evening food break 6-7:30pm, before moving on to the social at The Funky Buddha Lounge.

 

The Taf Bar on the first floor of Cardiff University Students' Union will be serving bar food and drinks from 12 noon until 8pm.