Antonia Lovelace 'Voices of Asia

VOICES of ASIADeveloping a new World View gallery for

Leeds City Museum

Opening Spring 2014

Linking museum collections with Leeds communities

A Leeds couple, Harry and Amanda Lee, lent us this photo from their wedding at the shrine of the Tenrikyo faith in Japan in 2000, for the Tales from Japan exhibition in 2001. They put us in touch with Mr Kato, of the Tenrikyo Mission in Leeds.

Dining at Little Tokyo, Centre St, Leeds you see kimonos on the walls and carp in a pond

Uchikake wedding robes, Japan, both with crane and hairy turtle symbols, 1930s and 1970s

Sim Kee supermarket Leeds

In 2008 we worked with Leeds Chinese communities on Chinese Treasures for ‘China in Yorkshire’

New Year banner, China, c. 1900

Taste the Orient supermarket, Vicar Lane, Leeds, where the tiger (2010) and dragon (2011) puppets were purchased

Lion dancers arrive at Leeds Town Hall, Chinese New Year 2003

In Chinese Treasures at Lotherton Hall, 2008 a contemporary loan from K P Chan compared well with a Song dynasty

table ornament, helping the audience see the peach is a symbol of long life.

The false beard worn by a Leeds Yuk Ming opera performer in 2007

helped identify a 1900 museum figure as being of an opera singer

In July 2012 Leeds chef and businesswoman, Hansa Dabhi, spoke at the Asian Expulsion from Uganda commemorative event at Leeds City Museum and provided tastings of East African Gujarati flavours, courtesy of her Hansas restaurant, Leeds

Bangara shepherd costume with mirror work, mid 20th century and Gujerati folk dance courtesy of Garvi Gujerat Group and SAA UK, 14 July 2012. To left a beaded cushion cover, Gujerat, India, early 20th century

For 2010 the Faith in the City project worked with World Faiths representatives in Leeds, including the Leeds Hindu Mandir, at 36 Alexandra Rd

Model Hindu temple made of sola pith, c. 1900, from West Bengal

Durga killing the demon, small bronze, 1880-1910

Krishna dancing with the butterball, small bronze, 1880-1910

SAA UK (South Asian Arts UK) community display, Leeds gallery, LCM April 2012, and young Leeds musicians performing at the launch

SAA UK (South Asian Arts UK) community display, Leeds gallery, LCM April 2012, photographs showing how a dancer prepares for a performance

Krishna playing the flute, 1900-1930 Painting of Hanuman carrying Ram and Lakshman, 1900-1950

Lamp in the shape of a Hindu temple, India, and temple bell and ladle with shivling, 1880-1910

The Sikh Temple,Brandon way, off Chapeltown Road, Leeds

GNNSJ Sikh Gurdwara, 78 Lady Pit Lane, Beeston, South Leeds

Model of Golden Temple at Amritsar, 2000

Group presentation of the completed banner at Leeds Museum Discovery Centre. It has since been on show at Leeds City Museum

Gold and gilt jewellery, India, 1890-1910. Reviewed and researched by intern Ameena Mughal. Now on show in the Treasured exhibition, Leeds City Museum

LM&G Islamic items on show at the Makkah Masjid mosque in Burley, 2010

Maitreya Buddhist Relic tour at Leeds City Museum during August Bank Holiday 2010, organised by the Jamyang Buddhist Centre

A selection of our Buddhist items in the Introduction case in the World View gallery to welcome the Buddhist Relic Tour event

Maitreya Buddhist Relic tour at Leeds City Museum during August Bank Holiday 2010, organised by the Jamyang Buddhist Centre

Chinese ink painting donated by the artist, 1980s and early Buddhist wall-painting on plaster

Get involved with

VOICES of ASIAthe new World View gallery for Leeds

City Museum

We are putting together an advisory network of individuals and organisations who want to help

with this project:

Launch date 29 November 2012 at Leeds City Museum, 5-7pm

To join in e-mail antonia.lovelace@leeds.gov.uk