National Lottery Heritage Grants £10,000 to £250,000
Sheffield’s Harcourt Road is a residential street home to families, students and diaspora communities from around the world. In Hong Kong, Harcourt Road is a busy eight-lane thoroughfare which became the centre of the 2014 Umbrella Movement protests. But the streets share more than a name.
With our funding, arts organisations Bloc Projects and C & G Artpartment are exploring the two Harcourt Roads’ connected histories of community organising and migration.
A tale of two streets
Over nine months, the Sheffield-based project will:
- create an e-bike mobile museum to tour the area collecting and showcasing stories and artefacts from both streets
- record oral histories from residents including migrant stories from Hong Kong and the rest of the world
- produce a zine publication
- engage families in a portrait photography project
An exhibition will run in Bloc Projects' city-centre gallery from 28 September to 9 November 2024.
Sunshine Wong, Co-Director at Bloc Projects, said: "With the support of the Heritage Fund, we have been able to realise a thoughtful and engaging project that explores how we nurture a sense of belonging. The two very different Harcourt Roads tell surprisingly similar stories of collectivity: that no matter how large or small the communities, how permanent or temporary, they coalesce whenever there's a common struggle."
