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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 75 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 have been going into the community to record each resident’s stories about growing up in the area and stories of activism. These oral histories will be put in the exhibition alongside songs selected by participants. We’ve purchased an original jukebox for the exhibition so people can listen to these stories on headphones.

Over the past few months, the volunteers have also been learning the basics of curation with each other and have been visiting local galleries and museums.

Additionally, we have received support from the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre to explore archiving practices and techniques.

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

(This project has been funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund).