{"id":230891,"date":"2025-07-02T02:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T02:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/230891\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T02:48:10","slug":"murals-films-and-poems-celebrate-wales-womens-euro-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/230891\/","title":{"rendered":"Murals, films and poems celebrate Wales&#8217; Women&#8217;s Euro 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Wales&#8217; debut at the UEFA Women&#8217;s Euro 2025, taking place in Switzerland, is being celebrated through a series of cultural projects supported by the Welsh Government\u2019s \u00a31 million Euro 2025 Partner Support Fund.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Jess Fishlock, Wales\u2019 most capped footballer, is honoured in a full-size pitch mural.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms Fishlock said: &#8220;It&#8217;s a huge honour to represent Cymru and to be part of a first-of-its-kind mural celebrating our history-making appearance at the Euros.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The mural, designed by Welsh artist Regan Gilflin and Cardiff studio UNIFY, is located in Splott Football Park.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Elsewhere, Literature Wales has commissioned poet Sarah McCreadie to accompany the team and produce 14 original poems capturing their Euro journey.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A short film by director Aaliyah MacKay tells the story of Eleeza and Rosheen Khan, Wales\u2019 first female Muslim referees and coaches.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms MacKay said: &#8220;At the heart of this project are questions of equality, diversity and inclusion.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Culture and sport minister Jack Sargeant will travel to Switzerland to support the team.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Sargeant said: &#8220;This weekend marks a watershed moment for Welsh football as our women\u2019s national team takes to the pitch for their first ever European Championship.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales&#8217; debut at the UEFA Women&#8217;s Euro 2025, taking place in Switzerland, is being celebrated through a series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-230891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114781362992441736","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}