Cymru Can be a Nation of Peace: Llangollen 2025 Peace Lecture

Written by and reposted (with thanks) from The Office of the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales. Event organised between Academi Heddwch and Llangollen International Eisteddfod. View ‘Cymru Can’ campaign here. “”Wales has a role to champion true peace. But to fully embrace the role of a Nation of Peace, however, […]

WCIA Branding & Identity Survey: Help shape our Future!

WCIA are in the middle of a rebrand, and we’d love your input. Over the last few months, we’ve been working hard to make it easier for people to understand what we do and why it matters. That’s meant refining how we talk about ourselves by sharpening our messages and […]

AMOCA Artistic Museum of Contemporary Art launch ‘Pop-Up Exhibition’ at Cardiff’s historic Temple of Peace

Join us for a celebration of contemporary Black art featuring 34 artists from Africa and its diaspora. This pop-up exhibition offers a preview of AMOCA’s curatorial vision ahead of the museum’s permanent opening in 2026. AMOCA, the Artistic Museum of Contemporary Art, proudly announces its prelaunch on June 4, 2025 […]

Marking #FutureGens10 – a Decade of Welsh Action for Future Generations

Ten years after Wales’ Future Generations Act launched in 2015, it has increased prominence but is not yet driving the system-wide change that was intended, according to recent assessment by Audit Wales. This report is about how Welsh public bodies are thinking and acting for the long term. Specifically, it […]

DEC Myanmar Earthquake Appeal

As a member of the DEC Cymru (Disasters Emergency Committee) network in Wales, from Thursday 3rd April WCIA will be launching an urgent fundraising appeal for people in Myanmar who have been affected by the catastrophic earthquakes.  Context  The earthquakes were the strongest to hit the country in decades, with […]

Dolen Cymru celebrates 40th Anniversary of Wales Lesotho Link, launched #OnThisDay #MoshoeshoeDay 1985.

By Sharon Flint, with heritage materials by Craig Owen and Khai nor Shahmir Dolen Cymru, the Wales Lesotho Link, was founded #OnThisDay over 11th-12th March 1985, with events at the Welsh Office and Temple of Peace attended by then High Commissioner O.T. Sefako. This year has not only marked Dolen’s […]

Plaque unveiled in honour of Welsh people fighting to recognise Armenian genocide

By Dylan Bilyard, Cardiff University School of Journalism WELSH-ARMENIANS have unveiled a plaque for the Welsh people who have fought to recognise the Armenian genocide of 1915.  “They believed that the events of 1915 did constitute a genocide and the truth was something worth fighting for,” said Armenian businessman John […]

Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 – Wales’ National Ceremony at Temple of Peace

This morning in Cardiff, religious and political leaders came together to observe Holocaust Memorial Day. This commemoration of Wales honours the millions who perished in the Holocaust and subsequent genocides worldwide.  The Lord Mayor, The Rt Hon Cllr Helen Lloyd Jones The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day this year is […]

Standing in Solidarity against social media attacks on Welsh Refugee Council & school children

In response to social media attacks directed at Welsh Refugee Council, WCIA extend our solidarity to the WRC. We fully sign up to and support the statement from WCVA, reproduced below. We are deeply concerned and disheartened to witness the recent attacks directed at the Welsh Refugee Council (WRC) on social […]