THE SOUND AGENTS Liverpool Heritage Organisation

Liverpool England

Wednesday, 27 February 2013

The Sound Agents have been awarded funding by Heritage Lottery Fund to Explore the heritage of Chinatown in Liverpool, the oldest Chinese community in Europe. To capture memories through oral history interviews and to create a digital archive, a performance and exhibitions

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The Sound Agents

John Campbell & Moira Kenny - Campbell Pic: Sam Batley

Memory Catchers

Contemporary artists using the language and issues of the neighbourhood to co-create work

CHINATOWN ORAL HISTORY
THE SOUND AGENTS LTD

Liverpool Chinatown Oral History

Chinatown Voices

Welcome

The Sound Agents Artist led - Community driven Arts, Cultural and Heritage organisation is led by practising artists using contemporary methods to design and deliver innovative projects using audio/visual methods to document a sense of time and place adding to the field of international research.

THE SOUND AGENTS EXIST TO GIVE SELDOM HEARD VOICES OPPORTUNITIES TO SHARE THEIR STORIES THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH THE ARTS

The Sound Agents promote public understanding and access to communities by recording the personal and everyday experience of Liverpool life.

The purpose of the organisation is to work inclusively with people from under-represented communities to provide opportunities to share stories using the Arts as a tool for communication.

Working outside the structure to bring together older people to pass their skills on to the younger generation by working creatively to share talents, experience and enthusiasm to bring people together to improve health and well-being and create opportunities for young people to get involved in Socially Engaged practice.

The Artists have worked with Liverpool residents and Dockers and people from Arab, Chinese, Jewish and Irish communities.

Commissioned in 2020 and 2021 by The Liverpool Irish Festival to celebrate the feast day of Saint Brigid and their Irish heritage, using the creative community funding awarded by the Irish Government's Emigrant Support Programme.

Funded by

SPECIALISTS IN LARGE FORMAT PUBLIC ART WORK

CONSULTANCY AND CONCEPT DESIGN

The Sound Agents are an established, professional company using art as a tool for communication to beautify buildings and interiors.

Choosing the right artists to help you improve your business image is important to engage with the public and your clients in the right way to enhance your brand.

Free 30 minute consultation

CONTACT:

Email: Thesoundagents@gmx.co.uk

Mobile 07923925379 Tweet @RadioChinatown

ORAL HISTORY WORKSHOPS

Are you working on a local history or heritage project?

The Sound Agents provide oral history workshops to train organisations and communities how to record stories, memories and reminiscences to improve your project.

Contact John and Moira for a chat Thesoundagents@gmx.co.uk

Tel: 07923925379

MEMBERS OF THE ROPEWALKS CIC

Radio Chinatown

The Sound Agents are storytellers capturing reflections, observations memories and dreams lost and found.

If you have an interesting Chinatown story or memorabilia, photographs or moving image we would love to hear from you. Contact us Thesoundagents@gmx.co.uk

'Everyone is hungry for stories' STUDS TERKEL

The Agents are keen to provide opportunities and experience to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men and promote the proverb "Women hold up half the sky"