A UNIQUE video project commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Wales’ most famous Great War poet is set to be beamed onto the National Library of Wales building in the week of Armistice Day.

Trawsfynydd shepherd Ellis Humphrey Evans – better known by his bardic name of Hedd Wyn (Welsh for ‘Blessed Peace’) – was killed on the opening day of the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917, days after being sent to the front line as a conscript.

The National Library of Wales and the Snowdonia National Park Authority, which maintains Hedd Wyn’s family farm as a museum, both hold extensive collections and have collaborated in an ambitious and far-reaching year-long education outreach programme throughout 2017 bringing the poet’s story and his work to life for a new generation.

Their work, which is supported by the ScottishPower Foundation, has included delivering 26 workshops to over 800 schoolchildren and adults, and the distribution of 3,000 copies of a specially created booklet on Hedd Wyn’s legacy to primary and secondary schools across Wales.

The initiative will culminate on 9 November – two days before Remembrance Day – when a video installation involving children from Hedd Wyn’s native village will be beamed on to the imposing facade of the National Library of Wales.

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