The Arts
- The 2011 film Submarine, although set in Swansea was mostly filmed in Barry.
- Barry hosted the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 1920 and 1968.
- The Doctor Who serial Delta and the Bannermen was set and filmed in Barry.
- Several scenes of the Doctor Who episodes "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances" were filmed at the Vale of Glamorgan Railway sites at Plymouth Road and Barry Island in January 2005,
- Gavin & Stacey is partly set and filmed in and around Barry.
- There is a Community Arts Centre being developed Named 'Canolfan Porthceri Centre', this is being developed within the building and grounds of Porthkerry Road Methodist Church, due to the Methodist Church Moving to new premises within the Waterfront Development.
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