This A4 poster has a drawing of two men using poles to dig up the Cardiff Giant with the text “The Great Cardiff Giant, Charles Street Carnival. 4th July, 1987”. It also includes text about the Cardiff Mets American Football Club and their sponsors Faust Lager, who were asked to sponsor the event.

The Cardiff Giant was a well-known hoax. It was a gypsum model over ten foot tall that was buried and then ‘discovered’ at a farm outside of the hamlet of Cardiff in New York State, USA. Even though it was exposed as a hoax, it was displayed in a museum in New York City “in time to capitalise on the Christmas shopping crowds”. Terry Chinn thought it would be fun to recreate the hoax for the Charles Street Festival in Cardiff, Wales. Apparently many people believed that the genuine story of the hoax was itself a hoax!

In June 1977, Cardiff Community Concern started the Charles Street Carnival as a community groups' alternative celebration of the Queen's Silver Jubilee. This became an annual event and grew into a separate organisation, Charles Street Arts Foundation. The Foundation came to employ artists and staff but was founded and run by volunteers. Cardiff Community Concern, also founded and run by volunteers, was an alternative advice and information centre for young people, based at 58 Charles Street. Both organisations were founded by Ian Horsburgh.

Glamorgan Archives, D20/4
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