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Nearly there

The full size bronze statue of the Greenham Marcher has been moved from Transport House Cathedral Road Cardiff and is now at her permanent site in the Foyer of City Hall Cardiff.

The City Council are providing a low plinth in portland stone to match the civic buildings and a bilingual plaque.

For information try www.uk.indymedia.org

The plaque could have a Greenham song

"You can't Kill the Spirit
She is like a mountain
old and strong
she goes on and on and on"

or a poem in welsh written specially for the unveiling. (At a date to be decided)

Merch Greenham

Ar ein daear niwclar ni - ei henaid
A daniodd ddaioni,
Nid yw perth ei haberth hi
Na' i ffydd byth yn diffoddi.

Vernon Jones

(Her soul ignited goodness on our nuclear land;
The burning bush of her sacrifice and faith will never be extinguished.)

If you have want to influence the choice of poem for the plaque in the foyer contact Mark Munnery at PR and Tourism Cardiff City Council or greenhamsculpture@hotmail.com

A film is being made about the greenham march and the making of the sculpture in Malta and Wales. It will show the dramatic and historic lost wax process and have the voices of the original marchers, a womans voice from inside the base and use the posters, badges, letters and photos of the time. If you have appropriate skills and time we need more help.

www.undercurrents.org

Spetember 5th 1981

Other commemorations

There is a plaque in the garden of the Temple of Peace and Health in Cardiff and another in the Methodist Church Hall. Newport where we spent our first night on the march. There is also a commemorative garden at Greenham Common in Berkshire.

Schedule

Unveiling in the spring 2003 date to be decided
Plinth and bi lingual plaque to be organised
Sculpture installed in the Foyer of City Hall Cadiff. Autumn 2002
The decision is to be taken at their next meeting on the 13th of February.
Planning committe meetting on Jan 16th - decision was deferred
Unveiling ceremony (20th Anniversary of First Greenham Peace March) Aug 27th 2001
Casting In Narbeth, May 2001
Shipped from Malta to UK Foundry, April 2001
Full sized Plaster Original Used for casting, Jan 2001
Video of the artists work and the making of the sculpture in Malta and Wales, from Jan 2001
UK tour and Exhibiting of Maquettes Museums, Galleries and conferences, March 2000 onwards
Cast 4 22inch high Maquettes 1/4 scale models for
fundraising, March 2000
Choice of sculptor Anton Agius. Malta, Dec 1999
Final design, Nov 1999
T&G Peace prize First funding of the project, 1991
Idea for the project At the 10th birthday, 1990
First Greenham Peace March Cardiff to Greenham Common, Aug 27th 1981

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