Harcourt Road is a project co-led by Bloc Projects and artist-organisers C&G Artpartment (Clara Cheung and Gum Cheng), who have been local to Crookes and Broomhill since 2021. It looks at the histories of community organising on Harcourt Road, a street that exists both in Sheffield and Hong Kong.
Together with residents in Sheffield, they hope to co-build a collection of stories and objects about Harcourt Road and the surrounding area to be shared on their e-bike mobile museum.
The e-bike will be stationed at various locations across the Weston Park and Harcourt Road area, collecting oral histories and artefacts from Sheffield’s diverse communities: local residents of the Harcourt Road and Crookes / Broomhill neighbourhoods and the city’s Hong-Kong and wider diasporic communities.
The Mobile Museum will host drop-in creative activities, oral history interviews, an artefact amnesty and a changing Mobile-Museum display.
C&G Artpartment will also produce a series of Harcourt Road family portraits alongside photographer and resident Laure Divisia.
They will then show the mobile museum, share the stories and present everything learned in a 6-week long exhibition at Bloc Projects in September 2024, which coincides with ESEA (East and Southeast Asian) Heritage Month in the UK as well as the 10-year anniversary of the Umbrella Movement, Hong Kong’s democracy struggle.
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