Butetown History and Art Centre
Butetown History and Art Centre (BHAC) is a community centre, historical archive and art gallery located in the Butetown area of Cardiff, Wales.
Background
BHAC has its origins as an oral history class at the heart of Butetown (or Tiger Bay), one of the UK's oldest multi-racial communities.[1] It was the initiative of African-American academic, Glenn Jordan, who arrived in Cardiff during the 1980s and decided to stay, hoping to allow the Tiger Bay residents a chance to describe and represent their own history.[1] The Centre emerged in 1988 with the help of a small handful of local residents, meeting at the Butetown Community Centre where they learnt interview techniques and recording methods.[2] By 2000 the Centre had recorded several hundred hours of oral history, published several books and was running cultural-political and educational activities for local adults. It occupied a 2,500 square feet (230 m2) building in the centre of Butetown,[2] which it moved into in 1996 with the help of European funding.[1]
The Centre was featured in a 2001 report, "Creative Regeneration: Lessons from 10 Community Arts Projects", by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.[1]
By 2005 the project had collected 450 hours of oral history and 3,000 photographs.[3]
BHAC has been funded by the Welsh Assembly, Arts Council for Wales and Cardiff Council.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Alistair Benjamin (14 March 2001). "Mixed metaphor: Alison Benjamin on why it took an American academic to trace Tiger Bay's history of proving that racial harmony isn't just a dream". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 May 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gilroy, Paul; Grossberg, Lawrence; McRobbie, Angela (2000), Without Guarantees: In Honour of Stuart Hall, London: Verso, pp. 167–176, ISBN 1-85984-287-9
- ↑ Littler, Jo; Naidoo, Roshi (2005), The Politics of Heritage: The Legacies of 'race', Routledge, p. 146, ISBN 0-415-32210-3
- ↑ "History centre future secured with payout". WalesOnline. 26 July 2006. Retrieved 2 May 2014.