City Speaks

  When I was a young girl, I knew Clare street in Riverside well. This was where my uncle had his corner shop there which I visited often with my dad. As much as I felt happy going to my uncles’ shop, I also made sure to turn my back to the creepy "Scream House" that loomed in front of the shop.   A house that was boarded up with all sorts of slogans displayed  on wooden boards covering its windows and doors. It was the painted picture of the famous "Edvard Munsch" scream that terrified me the most. The gaping mouth widely screaming in despair gave me the chills.    It was obvious to me even as a child that the person living there must have been really angry and upset, but I never knew why? Twenty years later an opportunity arrived that allowed me to meet the man behind "Scream House" and  find out what led him to live in permanent lock down.  The man who had curated the house was Riverside resident Gerald Aiden Tobin. An individual who had b

    Hideout café partnered with Cardiff University’s Community Gateway project has started a ten-week breakfast club for low income families and those affected by COVID. Moseem Suleman who helps to run Hideout café at the Grangetown Pavilion said: “We are always looking for opportunities in which we can benefit people and get people to come into this building, to come into this coffee shop which is inclusive for everyone.” When asked how many have been attending Moseem said “On average 60-90 individuals during the week” from a variety of different backgrounds, from Asylum seekers to Eastern European migrants. The food provided by the breakfast club is made fresh for each customer, hot and ready to go as they choose from its menu. So far, the feedback Moseem had received has been positive. “People have said that it is so useful to have breakfast in the morning, the kids are happy to go to school.” He said. “Everytime I start these things I think people are not going to come,