True Form Projects present ‘East in West’ Vinyl Pop Up Museum
Friday 26th April 2024, 5pm-9pm + Saturday 27th April 2024, 12pm-6pm
As part of CIRIN’s ‘Festival of the Creative Industries’ True Form Project will be showing a pop-up record exhibition at OVADA, exhibiting some of their work and collection
True Form Project will be playing some of the records and archive from the collection and inviting people to come from the local community, they’re interested in hearing from the South Asian community who have made Oxford their home for generations. True Form Project will ask to collect the oral histories and memories of music and living in the area from a South Asian perspective.
True Form Projects is currently involved in a 3-year project which is archiving over 3000 records which were part of one of the oldest south Asian record stores in the UK based in Balsall Heath, Birmingham. In this exciting event, you are invited to immerse yourself in part of this collection and listen to some of the vinyl archive. There will also be a screening of their film ‘Request Line’ which was exhibited in Manchester Museum last year. We will be joined by local artists and DJs playing music on the Friday evening and the Saturday a bit less loud with refreshments and the collection of oral histories.
Everyone is invited to listen to the archive of music and look at the cover art!
About True Form Projects
True Form Projects CIC was set up in 2012 to provide a variety of benefits to communities by collecting oral histories, artefacts, and personal stories. True Form Projects work locally, nationally, and internationally with artists, archivists, and academics. They specialise in, but are not specific to, the diaspora communities from South Asia in Britain.
Their film, ‘Request Line’, has been shown in the new South Asia Gallery in Manchester Museum and was shortlisted for an Asian Media Award. Recent archival work has also been shown at Birmingham Museum and the Elizabeth Hall South Bank Centre. Their work has been covered by BBC Radio, BBC local Midlands, Northeast, The Guardian, Eastern Eye, and numerous writings online including The Vinyl Factory, DJ magazine and others.
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TRUE FORM PROJECTS:
https://www.trueformprojects.com/project/true-form-vinyl-project/
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