'Appeal for peace' Grandmothers' Peace Creative Group
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Grwp Creadigol Heddwch Nain/Mamgu - Grandmothers' Peace Creative Group
Sioned Huws (coordinator), Ness Owen (coordinator/poet)
Poets: Mererid Hopwood, Sian Northey, Menna Elfyn, Anne Philips, Fiona Owen, Sara Wheeler, Karen Owen
Artists: Angharad Tomos, Lee Green, Meri Wells, Wini Jones-Lewis, Jenny Howell, Penni Bestic, Wanda Garner
Apel am heddwch / Appeal for peace
2022
poetry, sculpture, film, soundscape, paintings, illustrations, lino prints, photography
In view of the centenary celebrations of the Welsh Women's Peace Petition 1923 (signed by 390,296 women), 7 poets and 7 artists from across Wales have responded to each other's work. Through words, artwork, film, sound and sculpture the exhibition explores the themes of: women campaigning for peace, future peace, Welsh women's voices and invisible voices.
Welsh Women’s Peace Petition 1923
In 1923 women of Wales organised an unprecedented appeal. 390,296 women (60% of the women in Wales) signed a Memorial petition, through the Welsh League of Nations Union (WLNU), appealing to the women of America ‘from home to home’ and ‘hearth to hearth’, to join them in a call for ‘LAW NOT WAR’. The petition was over 7 miles long and it was a truly remarkable Wales-wide effort involving almost every household, through peace activists going door-to-door, supported through county and community organisers.
Over 2023-24, WCIA and Academi Heddwch – alongside Women’s Archive Wales, Heddwch Nain Mamgu, the National Library and National Museums of Wales, the Senedd and Welsh Government, Universities and other prospective partners – will join ‘peace forces’ on a campaign marking the centenary of Wales’ remarkable Women’s Peace Appeal of 1923-24.
As a part of Bodfa Continuum - the possibilities of time, an exhibition at Plas Bodfa from the 9-24th of April 2022.
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