Bee - Manchester, UK
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This colourful bee known as Sylvia was created as part of a charity art trail called Bee in the City and is in the concourse of Victoria Rail Station.
Waymark Code: WM120AR
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/22/2020
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"Manchester’s happy hum of creativity has become the biggest buzz around town. A colony of decorative, super-sized worker Bee sculptures brings you nine weeks of fun and fascination. After months of thinking, discussing, creating and perfecting – artists, members of community groups and young people have given flight to creativity for one of the most striking spectacles this city has ever seen. Over 100 individually – designed super-sized Bees and over 130 equally artistic little Bees (created as part of the Bee in the City Learning Programme) will bring you plenty of enjoyment as you follow the trail.
The bees have taken up new habitats across the city’s streets, parks and public spaces. Meanwhile, the little Bees are nesting in ‘creative clusters’ in museums, galleries, libraries and shopping centres. Stop by and spot them all, whilst taking in Manchester’s incredible architectural, industrial and cultural heritage.
You might even make your way to areas you’ve never explored before…
We’re sure you’ll want to Bee in the City this summer!"
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The bees were originally on display between 23 July – 23 September 2018. After that a charity auction was held to auction off a certain number of the bees. This raised over 1 million pounds and the remaining bees were then returned to Manchester to become permanent sculptures.
This sculpture is in the public concourse of Manchester's Victoria Railway Station and the coordinates are for the station entrance. It is named after Sylvia Pankhurst, a female suffragette.
A plaque on the base has the following information.
Sylvia
Created by Sneaky Raccoon
It was at the Manchester Mechanics Institute in 1868 that the first meeting of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) took place. Fifty years later in 1918 the Pankhursts led a victory thatwas meant to mark the beginning of the end of a war for gender equality. Sylvia Pankhurst, a suffragette born in Manchester was imprisoned on numerous occasions. Interestingly she came to see the campaign for women to have the vote as just one strand in a larger struggle for equality. The 70th anniversary of the NHS in 2018 is also celebrated.
This bee has been painted in the Suffragette Movement's colour scheme: In 1908 the co-editor of the WSPU's newspaper, Votes for Women, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, designed the suffragettes' colour scheme of purple for loyalty and dignity, white for purity, and green for hope.