ONE WHOLE DECADE PARTY !

315,360,000 seconds ago (ish) and a full head of dark locks...a loud mechanical shutter door in an industrial estate opened for the 1st time to a rapturous crowd....of 0 😂. How times have changed, A DECADE IN THE GAME and going strength to strength, we would be honoured to party with you all and celebrate the journey thus far...cos let's face it, it's massively 'cos o' YOU 💛 Accompanied by legends @johnmousemusic @paradisegardencdf @lahmacuncardiff plus much more to be announced, share the love and come and join the vibe 💋🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🤘💛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇱

Under 7's Easter Egg Hunt

On Sun March 31st we will be opening up for the little uns only. By order of the Easter Bunny!! Closed from 12pm.
Start your skate rats Easter morning off the right way. Fuelled with chocolate and high octane bum sliding!!
🐰 🐣 🤟🏼
The Easter bunny has promised she’ll drop some treats around the park!!
BOOKING ESSENTIAL, limited spaces available.

Ben Raemers Foundation - Suicide First Aid Lite Training April 7th

On July 7th 6-9pm @thebenraemersfoundation are holding a Suicide First Aid Lite as part of our at @spitandsawdustskatepark . In 3.5 hours, the SFA lite can teach you invaluable insight into suicide prevention including how to have a conversation with someone who is thinking about suicide.

If you are local and want to attend this as a learner, please sign up HERE

Learn what you can do to support someone if you find yourself in a suicide situation
Course overview:
Teaching the theory and practice of suicide intervention skills that can be applied in any professional or personal setting, this programme is delivered over 3 hours as a suicide prevention awareness session. This is a unique learning experience for anyone who seeks greater understanding and confidence to intervene with people at risk of suicide.

The Suicide First Aid course gives learners the knowledge and tools to understand that suicide is one of the most preventable deaths and some basic skills can help someone with thoughts of suicide stay safe from their thoughts and stay alive.

Course content:
SFA comprises 2 parts, each with a duration of 90 minutes. The programme teaches the skills needed to identify someone who may be thinking about suicide and to pass the person on to a suicide first aider.

Part 1 – 90 minutes
• Introduction to the session; programme, ourselves and suicide prevention
• Stigma and survivors of bereavement by suicide and the Hidden Toll
• Suicide thoughts and suicide behaviour
• The intention of behaviour versus the outcome of behaviour
• Possible causes of suicide thoughts
• Suicide – the ripple effect
Break
Part 2 – 90 minutes
• “I’m really glad you told me” audio-visual
• Suicide Safety Guidance
• Recognising and asking about suicide
• Referring a person onto suicide first aiders

Suicide First Aid  training offers learning outcomes that are knowledge-based and factual. This training can be used as a stand-alone programme or as the first part of a journey to learn suicide prevention skills.

Seeing out the Year!! Its WINTER WONDERJAM TIME

FRIDAY 29th DECEMBER

Dust off your xmas sweaters, dig out your elf hat and get on down to Spit & Sawdust for a final knees up of a very very hectic year!

We’ve got a bunch of prizes for the Jam donated by our lovely sponsors.

As always delicious food and beverages will be in abundance, cant wait to see you all there!

NEW! Go Skate Indoors Day DECEMBER 22nd

The lovely folks at House Skatepark in Sheffield have come up with a super idea to help support local skateparks this winter!

Here’s their concept ……. and with our experience of the stinking weather in Wales, we love it!

“Everyone has heard of go skate day. Set on the longest day of the year so everyone can hit the streets or at least be outdoors as is only natural. Living in the dark rainy north being outdoors isn't always an option so we thought why not go skate indoors day on the shortest day of the year. 

After a chat with out friends and fellow skaters at some of the other parks we thought we'd hold the first annual go skateboarding indoors day”.

Join us at Spit for the usual shenanigans )open session 6-10pm) with a good ole dusting of Christmas magic.

DJ, Xmas Movies playing in the Cafe, Mulled wine & Cider, great food and the best festive Xmas week vibes!

THE SPIT SPOOKTACULAR WEEKEND

A Weekend of horror & Hijinx

This years Halloween offering is here!! Come on down for an old fashioned horror filled knees up.

Saturday

Open session as normal 10-6pm (normal fee)

  • Cardiff Dogs home / Rescue Hotel Meet & Greet 12-4pm

  • Movies & TV Shows in the cafe All day (Free to watch - Line up announced nearer the time)

  • Halloween Party from 6pm til 10.30pm (Free Entry - All ages welcome)

  • BEST COSTUME COMP

  • Karaoke | Murder on the Dance floor Edition 9 - 10.30pm

  • Late night skate 6-10 Fee: £9

THE RESCUE HOTEL ARE BACK

Come and meet the dogs from Cardiff Dogs home - Last time they visited, we had the best afternoon giving friendly pooches treats and supporting the hard work of the team at The Rescue Hotel.

*Merch Stall (they have the best T-shirts!)

*Spooky Doggie Bake Sale

Sunday

Under 7’s Spook Special 10-12pm

Wild Midnight Presents: Cinema in the Bowl - £5 Ticket > More info coming soon

UNDER 7’s SUNDAY SPOOK

Book your little one onto the Under 7 session on the 29th and we will give them a ghostly goody bag to go and fill with treats, hidden in the park.

Like an Easter Egg Hunt without the bunnies.

WILD MIDNIGHT PRESENTS CINEMA IN THE BOWL

TRAIN TO BUSAN

After the big party, join us for a chilled cosy night, cuddle up and watch this awesome South Korean Zombie thriller! This one gets Zombies right ….

You know what to do - Buy Tickets here

Weihnachten Indie Market STALL HOLDER CALL OUT

WEIHNACHTEN INDIE NIGHT MARKET

Our first Night Market went off with a bang this summer .. we never imagined it would be so popular but here we are gearing up for a festive comeback! This December we will be putting on a German inspired Christmas Night Market with double the amount of stalls, giving more people the chance to get involved.

We’re looking for artists, designers, illustrators, makers, and doers. We will be choosing a variety of stallholders to create a celebration of the local talent surrounding us. There will be 40 stalls up for grabs so get in touch with your wares!

If you’d like a stall head HERE & fill in an application form

APPLICATIONS CLOSE AT THE END OF DAY ON THE 1st NOVEMBER.

Closed Tuesday 10th October

The team are all off on a little trip …. no shreducation for the Tuesday, back open Wednesday for the open session at 6pm.

NEXT UP - UK INDEPENDENT VERT SERIES | WALES RAMPAGE

Only a couple of short weeks until the next big event lands! The UK Vert Series is a favourite on our summer calendar. This year is a two dayer with the qualifiers on Saturday 26th and an EPIC day of finals, bands & beers on Sunday 27th.

We’ve got the folks from Detonation Records down to showcase their new DIY Punk Record Label, bringing Manchester based band Pizza Tramp & locals Aerial Salad with them, expect a proper knees up this bank holiday weekend, its gonna be a big one! All ages welcome, Free Entry, just come along.

Here’s the line up:

Saturday

Vert Qualifiers 10 - 6pm

Skatepark open session as normal from 10am

Food 12 - 7pm

Sunday

Vert Finals 10 - 6pm

Skatepark Under 10’s session as normal from 10am

Open session in the Park from 12pm

Food 12 - 7pm

Only Cans Bar & Photo booth in the Yarden

Detonation Records After Party: Aerial Salad & Pizza Tramp from 7pm

VANS SHOP RIOT IS COMING .......

THIS IS GOING TO BE EPIC!!!!!!!! AUGUST 5th … DO NOT MISS IT
Vans Shop Riot is back and will be kicking off at our very own Spit & Sawdust on Saturday August 5th, where we will be seeing 20 different shops from all over UK battle in the indoor skatepark. Some heavy sessions will be going down and the winning shop team will have an all expenses paid trip to the European finals.

Keep your eyes open for a special skate jam happening on Friday August 4th with partners in crime @carvewicked & @forecast_intl. More details to come!

Every year, @vans_europe partners with legendary skate artists on the creative execution. This year @Vans is proud to have American artist @toddfrancisart designing all creatives for the event. 

Save the dates in your calendar, we look forward to seeing you there! #vansshopriot #vanseurope #vansskate #vansshopriot2022 @vansskate #toddfrancisart #spitandsawdust

INDIE NIGHT MARKET

We’ve got our first Night Market planned for Friday July 7th from 6-10pm (bar open til’ 11pm). 20 wonderful artists, makers and designers have been invited to show off their wares in our beautiful yarden! We’ll have delicious food, drinks, including our bargain Spritz! and the best summer garden vibes in the city. Come down, have a mooch, support local artists and chill. Kid and Dog friendly as always.

Cult classic - Dazed & Confused on the big screen!

 

Saturday 27th May @marlboroughwitch is back with Wild Midnight presents Cinema in the Bowl. This time transporting us to the late 70’s with Richard Linklater’s 1993 cult classic DAZED & CONFUSED.

“America, 1976. The last day of school. Bongs blaze, bell-bottoms ring, and rock and roll rocks. Among the best teen films ever made, Dazed and Confused eavesdrops on a group of seniors-to-be and incoming freshmen”. Criterion Collection

Get it in the diary & grab a ticket. here.

SKATE CAR BOOT IS BACK

 

Flick the moths off your Del boy flat cap & raid the penny jar.... Skateboard car boot 2023 incoming! From pre loved to factory seconds, vintage to on trend, our car boot has it all!!!! If you're interested in flogging your gear, twang us over an email and reserve your spot!

The Scorched Earth Trilogy

Coming to Spit & Sawdust this June, Opera in the Garden! Music Theatre Wales are projecting three Operas onto the halls of Spit for your viewing pleasure. Only £3 a ticket, come and support the arts!

Running on June 16th & 17th from 10pm. All welcome.

 

THREE STREET ART OPERAS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD

Created by DUMBWORLD in co-production with IRISH NATIONAL OPERA
Words & direction by John McIlduff | Music by Brian Irvine
Presented in association with Cardiff Singer of the World 2023

Opera as activism, projected on walls as street art. They may make you laugh, but may also make you demand change. We are presenting a new series of three street art operas which reflect on the environmental disaster we are facing, and the lack of serious climate action.

Bydd The Scorched Earth Trilogy yn cynnwys capsiynau integredig (yn Saesneg) ac felly bydd yn hygyrch i gynulleidfaoedd Byddar a thrwm eu clyw; bydd hefyd yn cynnwys isdeitlau Cymraeg.

The Scorched Earth Trilogy will have integrated captioning (in English) so will be accessible for Deaf and hard of hearing audiences and will also have Welsh subtitles.

Head to the Music Theatre Wales website for more details and to book tickets.

SPRINGTIME BIRTHDAY GARDEN PARTY!

It’s our 9th Birthday soon and we’re attempting to bring the sunshine to our little haven with a big ol’knees up.
We’re firing up the pizza oven, slinging out the hotdogs, pouring the spritz and inviting some of our green fingered chums over for a garden party 🍕 🌱🌿🌸🌷🌻
Aaaand we’ve invited @bigbearsocialclub and friends down to entertain us! 🐻 🎸
We’re also handing the stage over to you, fancy getting involved … swipe for next pic for details. Come hangout & jam! 🥁🪘🎻🎤
aaannnndd it’s FREE SKATE DAY Have your skate on us from 12pm (park and vert) 🤜🛼🛹🤘
aaaaannnnddd we will be launching our new billboard artist. 👩‍🎨🎨🖌️🖼️

That’s all folks.
Come on down.
Pray for sun.
Get merry. soon ……