{"id":9119,"date":"2025-12-17T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp26.cmswebdeveloper.com\/asian-news\/artist-launches-urgent-call-for-families-to-share-their-stories-of-growing-up-in-the-uk-amid-rise-in-hate-crimes\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:35:00","slug":"artist-launches-urgent-call-for-families-to-share-their-stories-of-growing-up-in-the-uk-amid-rise-in-hate-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp26.cmswebdeveloper.com\/asian-news\/artist-launches-urgent-call-for-families-to-share-their-stories-of-growing-up-in-the-uk-amid-rise-in-hate-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist launches \u201curgent\u201d call for families to share their stories of growing up in the UK amid rise in hate crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asianexpress.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DSC03873_25-1024x682.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53139\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">British South Asian artist Hardish Virk is asking families across the UK to open their photo albums, cassette boxes and memory drawers, issuing what he calls an \u201curgent\u201d appeal for ethnically diverse communities to share their stories of growing up in Britain at a moment when hate crime and divisive rhetoric are again on the rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His call comes alongside the launch of \u2018Stories That Made Us &#8211; Roots, Resilience, Representation\u2019, a major new exhibition at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theherbert.org\/whats-on\/1852\/stories-that-made-us-roots-resilience-representation\">Coventry\u2019s Herbert Art Gallery &amp; Museum<\/a> that traces more than 50 years of South Asian life in Britain through lived experience rather than official record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The timing is deliberate. Government figures released in October show a 6% rise in race hate crimes and a 3% increase in religious hate crimes across England and Wales over the past year, excluding Metropolitan Police data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Virk, those numbers are not abstract trends but a warning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis exhibition has been almost 30 years in the making,\u201d he said. \u201cBut the need to share it now is urgent. Division and fear are rising again, not just in the Midlands but nationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe need spaces where communities come together to share personal stories and family histories. They shape identity, belonging and how we see each other.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the heart of the exhibition is Virk\u2019s own family history and an archive of more than 1,000 South Asian artefacts collected over decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asianexpress.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DSC04751_25-1024x682.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53140\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Combined with his father\u2019s original writings, political papers and photographs now held in Coventry Archives\u2019 Virk Collection, it forms one of the UK\u2019s most significant South Asian cultural collections outside London. Rather than presenting these materials behind glass, the exhibition immerses visitors in four reconstructed environments that echo everyday life across the decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The journey begins with Passport Control (1968), a reconstruction of the Virks\u2019 arrival in Britain, surrounded by first-hand oral histories, archival footage and newspaper headlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The language may be decades old, but the debates feel strikingly current. From there, visitors step into a Living Room (1970s), recreating the Coventry home where Virk\u2019s father, Harbhajan Singh Virk, helped organise anti-racist marches and workers\u2019 rights campaigns. The domestic becomes political, showing how activism was woven into everyday family life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asianexpress.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DSC05188_25-1024x682.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53142\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bedroom (1980s) captures the tension and creativity of teenage British South Asian identity, mixing posters, books and music with a documentary film that blends new interviews and original VHS footage. The final space, Radio Studio (1990s-2010), celebrates the work of Virk\u2019s mother, Jasvir Kang, a poet, author and radio broadcaster whose pioneering programmes gave voice to the rights and struggles of South Asian women at a time when such conversations were often sidelined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wrapping around the gallery walls is a pictorial timeline charting 425 years of shared British and South Asian history, from colonialism and Commonwealth migration to the present day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It underlines a central argument of the exhibition: South Asian communities did not simply adapt to Britain, they helped shape it, driving postwar industry, cultural life and political change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visitors complete their journey by leaving a handwritten memory or reflection. With permission, some of these will inform the next phase of the project after the exhibition closes in May 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asianexpress.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DSC05098_25-1024x682.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53141\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Virk describes this as the seed of a wider ambition: a living museum of South Asian stories rooted in Coventry, where one in five residents identifies as Asian or Asian British, nearly double the national average.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exhibition is supported by a major engagement programme and a South Asian Cultural Ambassadors Scheme, whose oral histories feature throughout. Shaniece Martin, who leads the scheme, said the personal nature of the stories was key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe experiences we\u2019re sharing from the 60s, 70s and 80s feel painfully relevant again today,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen you hear someone\u2019s real story, it becomes much harder to repeat stereotypes. We want people from across the South Asian diaspora, including Kenya, Uganda and beyond, to see themselves here and add their stories for future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marguerite Nugent, cultural director at Culture Coventry Trust, which operates the Herbert Art Gallery &amp; Museum, said the exhibition\u2019s strength lay in its ability to connect across backgrounds. \u201cAll visitors will find unexpected overlaps with their own lives,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt has real potential to encourage connection and togetherness at a crucial time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Made possible with support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Stories That Made Us is both an archive and an invitation. As Virk puts it, \u201cThis is my family\u2019s story, but it\u2019s also a conversation starter. We want communities to celebrate multicultural Britain, while challenging divisive language wherever it appears.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4fc3f8e1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8216;Stories That Made Us&#8217; &#8211; Roots, Resilience &amp; Representation. The project, split across four rooms, is the blueprint for the wider ambition of a living museum of South Asian stories in Coventry, where one in five residents identifies as Asian or Asian British, nearly double the national average. 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