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Jukebox Journey at Kath Locke

Volunteers with the Kath Locke Heritage Project are helping create an exhibition to tell the history of Hulme and Moss Side.

The project will showcase the activism, love and lasting legacy for the community over the past 50 years.

Over four evenings in October residents from the local area were invited to the Kath Locke Centre to reminisce. Each week had a theme – learning, land, lineage and legacy. Over fantastic meals cooked by our volunteers at the Zion Centre they shared stories about what it was like living and growing up during this time of political activism.

Out of the participants 14 people have come forward to volunteer and participate in the project. Provided with Dictaphones, they go into the community and record each other’s stories about growing up in the area. These oral histories will be put in the exhibition. We’ve purchased an original jukebox for the exhibition so people can listen to these stories on headphones.

Volunteers have also been learning the basics of curation at the Whitworth Art Gallery and finding out more about the rich traditions of activism in Manchester at the John Lyons’ Carnivalesque exhibition, the Amed Iqbal Ullah race archives and the People’s History Museum.

We hope the exhibition to be up and running in the spring of 2025.