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STRATEGY
Weaving The Legacy of the African Caribbean Community In Sheffield
forms of which our initial proposals are detailed in the following proposals section.
This general strategy seeks to build upon the existing work done by the BAP and it revolves around weaving, expanding and exposing the archive. We believe that the archive can serve to make ‘noise’ and make the SADACCA building and the community it represents ‘louder’ within Sheffield.
Building Level What are the possibilities of ‘expansion’ and ‘documenting’ by weaving? The SADACCA building currently hosts a number of activities that contribute to the living heritage of the community. The sewing club, boxing gym, and day care centre are examples of such activities. Expanding and documenting these and other activities and events can feed into the existing research and documentation in the Bantu Archive as a way to increase it but can also weave different voices and interests within the community, contributing to s t ro n g e r s o c i a l
This strategy has the objective of weaving the ‘way’ to and from the SADACCA building as it comes to represent the living archive of the community. In this way, the presence of the African-Caribbean community will permeate the city, and through different tools, visualise its on-going legacy at different scales throughout Sheffield. This increased visibility could then serve to root the community in tangible and intangible ways, allowing the community to grow within an evolving city. This strategy is multifaceted and multiscalar, working at the building, neighbourhood and city levels. The tools within each of these facets can take a number of
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