Project:
Stories of changes from the 1920s to the present collected by Sweet Patootee for Hackney Museum and Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives.
Role:
Community Engagement, research, interviews and audio recording of life stories, editing and heritage Interpretation for listening posts and exhibition text panels.
Links:
Hackney Museum‘People’s history’ of East London
Mapping the Change is Hackney Museum’s landmark ‘people’s history’ of East London – and their major contribution to the Cultural Olympiad that marked the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Sweet Patootee delivered 55 diverse oral history life stories, and edited audio compilations and text for panels that featured in 9 exhibitions. Conducted over 2 years with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the oral histories span nearly 100 years – describing events, people and places – evoking communities, workplaces, attitudes, traditions and values past and present.
Dalston Stories for Hackney Museum
Homerton Stories for Hackney Museum
Hackney Wick Stories for Hackney Museum
Fish Island & Old Ford Stories for Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives
Re:Present Stories for Hackney Museum
Re-Present was an innovative project, which set out to gather contributions from people with learning and physical impairments and disabilities to Mapping the Change. Sweet Patootee collaborated with the Trowbridge Centre to record life stories of participants.
Client: Hackney Musuem
Project: Re-present participants responded to soundscapes, created an art piece and recorded life stories, which resulted in an exhibition and the creation of two multi-sensory loan boxes.
Role: Oral History audio recording and edit.
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