A presentation about a new gallery at Leeds City Museum. Presented at part of Heritage Show + Tell http://heritageshowtell.wordpress.com/

1. VOICES of ASIA
Developing a new World View gallery for
Leeds City Museum
Opening Spring 2014
Linking museum collections with Leeds communities

2. 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.

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

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

5. Sim Kee
supermarket
Leeds
In 2008 we worked with Leeds Chinese communities on Chinese
Treasures for ‘China in Yorkshire’

6. New Year
banner,
China, c.
1900

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

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

9. 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.

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

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

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

15. Durga killing the Krishna dancing with the
demon, small butterball, small bronze,
bronze, 1880-1910 1880-1910

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

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

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

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

20. GNNSJ Sikh Gurdwara,
78 Lady Pit Lane, Beeston,
South Leeds
The Sikh Temple,Brandon way, off Chapeltown Road, Leeds
Model of Golden Temple at Amritsar, 2000

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

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

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

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

25. 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

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

27. Get involved with
VOICES of ASIA
the 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