In Summer 2024, we applied for a HYPHA residency and we were successful. This means we got an empty shop to create in, in the heart of our community. We re-imagined this public shop space on Queen Street from September 2024 - September 2025.
This space was collaboratively curated and shared by PWSH and other creatives involved in Neurospicy Play Dates - creative wellbeing sessions for neurodivergent adults.
At the heart of bringing these two projects together in one space was meaningful inclusion, widening access to the arts and creative wellness for marginalised people. We always wanted to expand re-imagining public spaces beyond murals, and we did that within an empty shop, on one of Cardiff’s main shopping streets.
The space closed in September 2025, almost one year after we opened, we had a year of making, Creative Wellness and bringing people together, to explore some of the events we created, scroll through this page.
Our events
Its all love babes
20th September 2025, 1pm-11pm
🚨The PWSH popup is leaving 111 Queen Street 💔
After an amazing (almost) year of neuro-inclusive community building, creating wellness, exhibitions, parties, Neurospicy Playdates + countless collabs, it’s time to say goodbye to our pop-up home.
🎉 Join us for our final all-dayer:
🎶 DJs: Kai Galles + Fez
🎨 Protest window from Queer Futures QUNX + Dyddiau Du) + SPAF Collective + Transient Rat
✔️Bar, merch, prints and artwork for sale.
Any money made will go to Medical Aid for Palestine and help us fund our next project. We’ll let you know how much we raise 🍉
Thank you to everyone who’s been part of this ride 🖤💜🧡💛💙❤️🩷
Queer Futures: Opening Night
Friday 1st August 2025, 5-10pm
Please join us for the opening night of the Queer Futures Exhibition, a collaboration between PWSH, Qunx and Dyddiau Du
We sent out an open call for anyone to submit pieces which portray the future they envisage would work best for them as an individual and/or society at large. We also opened it up to thinking about the word queer in its other sense (strange, bizarre, curious), allowing people to let their imaginations run wild. It's a difficult time for the queer community and we wanted to give people the space to depict the kind of reality they wish to construct and be a part of.
We look forward to unveiling the artwork and celebrating the abundant creativity within the queer community.
Queer Futures: Mural Making Evening
Thursday 14th August 2025, 6-8pm
Join us for an evening where we’ll make a mural in the windows of PWSH Cardiff for the Queer Futures exhibition!
We want to give the community the chance to come together to create a collaborative art piece where we can explore what we want to see in our futures. Art materials will be supplied.
Monthly Lates: June
Friday 13th June 2025, 4pm-late
This PWSH IT LATE will be a relaxed one to celebrate The Red Ribbon Exhibtion by Darren Varnam and Goncalo Fernandes, creative session, community weave and wall, drinks, good people, a Queer Joy Is Resistence Playlist.
We’re open all day with the Red Ribbon Project.
❤️ 4pm the music will be switched on and the bar will open. Join us for a drink after work.
6-10pm @kaigalles will be DJing.
Blue Prints
Sunday 1st June 2025, 11am-1pm
Grace Springer
Join Grace in exploring and experimenting with Blue Prints: Cyanotype Workshop
Cyanotype offers an accessible and affordable workshop, exploring one of the many photographic practices and create a print using local foraged flowers and plants.
There will be free teas, coffees, soft drinks and light snacks.
Open to anyone wanting to explore a new photographic practice and have fun with creating prints.
Tickets: £10
Craft and Collaborate
Saturday 22nd March 2025, 12-4pm
Join us for a free community social and drop in session to collaborate, vent frustration, and create materials to protest the UK goverment’s abhorent decision to slash welfare benefits.
ℹ️ Book a free ticket or drop in throughout the session.
⛔️ Access Info
☕️ Free warm drinks and tap water.
🚽 All gender and disabled loos.
🤫 Quiet space.
🧠 A neurodivergent and inclusion-led space.
🌶️ Fidget toys and earbuds (bring your own if you want!)
Bloc Party
Sunday 15th December 2024, 2-10pm
Come on Through!
Print and Art Stalls
Launch of (Un)Tidy desk sessions
Art Exhibition
Donations Bar
Community Weave + Creative Play Space
Quiet Space
2-6pm - Open Studios and Pay as you go Workshops
6-8pm: Sister Sesh DJ Set
Gwaith
Thursday 28th November 2024, 6-8pm
Join us for the next Gwaith social co-hosted with Hypha X PWSH X neurospicyplaydates
The space is collaboratively curated by Rachel Kinchin and shared with two projects / residencies, PWSH, a public art project that celebrates difference and reimagines public spaces and neurospicyplaydates, that has emerged from weekly creative wellness sessions for people going through adult diagnosis (they are neurodivergent-led but aim to create neuro-inclusive events).
This space is possible through an application to Hypha - the collectives are trying to activate the space as much as they have capacity for with regular events - in an inclusive way for them. with the full understanding that this is currently all done on a voluntary basis.
Come along to find out more.
BSL Creative Play
Every Thursday, 1-3pm (Ended)
Join Heather for a Deaf-led and BSL-supported adult arts for wellbeing session. Each week you can bring your own creative project or you can tuft, weave, sew and explore different materials alongside others in an inclusive space.
Everyone is welcome.
Heather Williams is an access consultant, project manager, and emerging arts practitioner. She is a member of neurodspicyplaydates who are currently in residency at Hypha and a member of Our Visual World, supporting a group of Deaf emerging artists in Wales.
Queer Futures: Poetry Open Mic
Tuesday 26th August 2025, 7-10pm
As part of the Queer Futures Exhibition we’ll be hosting a poetry open mic!
Giving people the space to respond to the theme of ‘Queer Futures’ in words, with the artwork as their backdrop. Hosted by Qunx and Dyddiau Du.
Red Ribbon Project
9th - 14th June 2025
Darren Varnam and Goncalo Fernandes
A visual exhibition and performance honouring lives, raising awareness, and breaking the silence around HIV today.
Through Music, visual art, and live storytelling, we give voice to personal journeys — past and present — and invite you to witness, reflect, and engage.
Bottle Terrarium Workshop
Saturday 17th May 2025, 2-4pm
Tony’s Terrariums
This accessible workshop will guide you through making your own Bottle Terrarium to take home with you on the day.
Zine Workshop
Monday 10th February 2025
The NeuroNetwork
Join us to for a creative wellness sessions, to meet new people and make a zine
Neurospooky Boogie Bash
Friday 1st November 2024, 6-7:30 - Family Friendly / 7:30-Late
🔥👻Join us for a spooky spicy celebration of the Samhain season! 🎃🍁🍂
💃🏽Dress up welcomed but not needed.
DJ Kai Galles will be bringing the beats (loose hip-hop, soul, afrbeat, synth-pop and an hour of spooky kooks) for a low-key hangout at Hypha 111.
🎁 Bring an offering for our community art alter. Bring something, leave it on the alter and at the end of the night - take something home that someone else created / brought as an offering, and someone else will take your offering home 🏡
Opening Night
Friday 27th September 2024, 5pm-late
Hypha x PWSH x neurospicyplaydate - Hypha Studios, 111 Queen Street, Cardiff
Ren Wolfe will be hosting a masking-making pop-up creative wellness session.
🤫 5-7pm - Quiet visiting time which will also be scent and alcohol-free, family-friendly.
🎶 7pm-late - Alcohol will be served, music will be playing.
DJ / Exhibition / Shop / Mask Making with Ren Wolfe / Neurospicy Margaritas / Permission to play wall / Quiet Space / BSL creative wellness session with Heather in her studio.
We are launching an inclusive arts and wellness space and we’d love for you to join us for a welcome party! 🎉
🌶️ 🧠 Hypha x PWSH x neurospicyplaydate is a safe space for a smorgasboard of residencies, socials, creative wellness sessions, workshops, takeovers, exhibitions and body doubling sessions.
🖼️ We’ll be selling artwork and prints to help our collectives sustain themselves and create future work. Donations are very welcome to support us - this is currently an unfunded project, led by emerging neurodiverse artists.
Puppet Clwb
Every other Tuesday, 6-8pm (Ended)
A bi-monthly art club where we create puppets, masks, and other objects that can be inhabited for performance.
We had an access statement that people told us they loved, and it made them feel included. People often said they came because of this statement rather than down to the event itself.
Access Info
All gender and disabled loos.
Quiet / calm space 🤫
A neurodivergent and inclusion-led space.
Fidget toys and earbuds (bring your own if you want!)
Please contact us if you feel anxious visiting our space for the first time - we can show you around before when we are closed, or we can body double with you.
Open Playdate + Social
Every Thursday 6-9pm (ended September 2025)
Join us for a creative wellness session and social
Every week, we will host a creative wellness session, materials will be provided or please do bring your own project along! The sessions will be different every week, and as a group we may decide if there is a theme or what activity to do.
This is a drop in (and out) session.