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Weʼve raised £115 to help fund the development of 'Old Chinatown Museum in a Shipping Container' project Liverpool UK. The oldest Chinese community in Europe.
- Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Funded on Sunday, 5th February 2017
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Old Chinatown is disappearing, to keep the heritage alive we aim to collect stories and objects and develop the Old Chinatown Museum in a Shipping Container We aim to prove that a permanent site specific Museum/Community Space is needed and should be in an underused premises or within a new development.
We are Artists John Campbell and Moira Kenny, The Sound Agents, we have been developing a Museum for Chinatown for a long time. The idea came from members of the Chinese community who have wanted and needed a Chinatown Heritage Center in Liverpool for over forty years. We want to use our skills to help realise this ambition and make it happen.
We will create dynamic exhibitions and invite international photographers to work with us creating a year long programme.
Liverpool Chinatown is the oldest Chinese community in Europe yet little is known about the heritage and histories of the Blue Funnel Chinese sailors, merchant seamen, laundries, chip shops and restaurants and other industries that were set up by Chinese people who settled in Liverpool. We have recorded first and second generation seamen and their families, we want to share the recordings with the world and create traditional activities for people to learn skills and reconnect families and friends.
The project aims to re-energise a once thriving Chinatown and protect the heritage of stories and original buildings in Nelson Street.
You can help Chinatown by supporting us to develop the Old Chinatown Museum and give us time to apply for funding for the year long project.
Kensite Services Ltd have generously sponsored us with a Shipping Container. This is an important step to the project happening.
With the support of Liverpool City Councillors we have the space for the Container to be sited.
'Growing up in Chinatown' is a project we are leading next to the Museum, a growing space for Chinese vegetables.
This fund will pay for planning permission and time to write bids.
Updates
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- 7 years ago
Moira Kenny
7 years agoDear Friends Thank you for your support, along with the Mayor's Fund donation we are now applying for planning permission and designing a dedicated website for the Chinatown Oral Histories. You will be credited for your support on the new website. http://soundagents.blogspot.co.uk/
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- 7 years ago
Moira Kenny
7 years agoThanks for your support Sophie Colligan! Moira and John
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- 7 years ago
Moira Kenny
7 years agoCllr. Hetty Wood has been in touch with us, Joe Anderson the Mayor has agreed to support the project by £2,500! Thanks Hetty Wood and Liverpool City Council
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- 7 years ago
Moira Kenny
7 years agoThank you for donating to our crowdfund! We really appreciate it Best wishes Moira & John http://soundagents.blogspot.co.uk/
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Supporters
7
Sophie Colligan
Jan 23, 2017
A great idea, I hope the project gets more recognition and the fundraising takes off!
£10.00
Anonymous
Jan 19, 2017
£5.00
John Hollingsworth
Jan 9, 2017
See you this week..
£10.00
Walter Fung
Jan 8, 2017
Keep at it! It is a worthwhile cause! Best of luck!
£30.00
DEBREA LEWIS
Jan 7, 2017
Hi , Moira excellent! Your art continues along its trajectory ... So happy to see this happen, it is a vital part of the City's history. Best of luck xx
£20.00
joan mason
Jan 7, 2017
Hope you raise what you need Moira good luck
£30.00
Graham Smillie
Jan 6, 2017
Good luck!
£10.00
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Moira Kenny
Liverpool, United Kingdom
The Sound Agents John Campbell and Moira Kenny are based in Liverpool UK. The Arts/Cultural/Heritage Organisation design & deliver innovative projects using audio/visual methods including oral history and film to record British hidden social history documenting time and place.