Harcourt Road: Community Workshops
Saturdays 9, 16 & 23 March
11 am - 1:30 pm
Email to book: info@blocprojects.co.uk
Include date and name of the workshop in the subject
Are you a resident local to Harcourt Road, Crookes and/or part of a diaspora community?
Looking for something fun and meaningful to do for free on weekends?
Join us for a chat and creative workshops on Saturdays in March 2024! Lunch and refreshments will be provided free of charge.
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 since 2021. It looks at the histories of community organising on Harcourt Road, a street that exists both in Sheffield and Hong Kong. We want to get to know the people and histories of this street as well as in the wider Crookes area, about their experiences of living here and belonging.
Together with residents, we hope to co-build a collection of stories and objects about Harcourt Road and the surrounding area in the summer of 2024 – look out for us on the streets and at Weston Park! We’ll keep building the stories into a mobile museum, which we will share on an e-bike across the weekends.
The workshops and e-bike mobile museum engagement work will inform an exhibition at Bloc Projects, coinciding with ESEA (East & South East Asian) History Month as well as Hong Kong’s 10-year anniversary of the Umbrella Movement in September 2024.
Saturday 9 March, 11am - 1:30pm
Workshop 1: LISTENING
**Bring your own phone with internet & headphones**
Meet on time at The Wave main entrance (2 Whitham Rd, Sheffield S10 2AH)
Tune into an audio walking tour of Harcourt Road
Lunch, conversation & collective drawing at Weston Park Museum’s function room
Saturday 16 March, 11am - 1:30pm
Workshop 2: LOOKING
Meet on time in the lobby of Sheffield Central Library (Surrey St, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 1XZ)
Explore personal & public archives, maps & materials about Sheffield / Hong Kong Harcourt Roads & Crookes
Lunch & conversation at Clara & Gum’s studio (5 min walk from the library & 1 floor walk-up)
Saturday 23 March, 11am - 1:30pm
Workshop 3: FLYING
Meet on time in the lobby of Weston Park Museum (Mushroom Ln, Sheffield S10 2TP)
Create flying objects (kite making, paper structures), conversation & lunch
Have a go at flying them at Weston Park (if weather permits!)
All workshops are free, with workshop materials and a light lunch provided.
You are welcome to join any one or all of the workshops.
Email us: info@blocprojects.co.uk with the subject ‘Travel with Harcourt’ & name of workshop(s) to book a place.
Documentation images credit: Charles Lo.
C & G Artpartment (Clara Cheung & Gum Cheng) are community organisers, activists and artists based in Sheffield. With a strong concern for ecologies of art, C & G Artpartment’s socially oriented practices respond to social and cultural issues. Between 2007 - 2021, C & G Artpartment curated more than 100 art exhibitions that included more than 100 Hong Kong artists. Their work has been included as part of Peer to Peer, the Shanghai Biennale and the Singapore Biennale.