Cultures and memories

Wales Residents Engaging in Arts, Culture and Heritage (Wales REACH) has empowered communities to explore the heritage that matters to them.

Taking inspiration from an iconic carpet, Crafting Our Homes brought people together to share memories and explore African and Caribbean craft traditions.

Learn how Rekindling Nello James reunited a community, inspired young people and developed an inclusive approach to running an intergenerational heritage project.

This project is bringing the Black women artists who shaped the UK music scene back into the spotlight.

Inspired by the story of a coastal community transformed into a Hollywood filmset, this project is recording local maritime and movie heritage.

Inspired by both the Bayeux Tapestry and African and Caribbean textile traditions, this project celebrates nearly 2,000 years of Black British lives.

A new exhibition is sharing the prison experiences of Loyalist political prisoners at Long Kesh and their contributions to peacebuilding following release.

Sound Waves: Music in Newham is exploring 60 years of rich and diverse music heritage across the borough and introducing it to a new generation.

The project will bring together documents, artefacts and stories of people who have experienced care and their activism to create the UK’s first national archive of its kind.

Traditional celebrations, games, crafts and food are bringing people closer to their Hong Kong heritage and one another.

28 local people from many different walks of life shared what they want from their museums, and how these institutions can better serve local communities.

A community-led project documented and shared never-before-heard experiences of players, their families and fans from the 1970s to the present day.