University of Sheffield · Civic Knowledge Exchange
Hong Kong Community Hub@ University of Sheffield
A shared platform connecting the University of Sheffield with Hong Kong communities through culture, storytelling and creative participation.
University of Sheffield · Civic Knowledge Exchange
A shared platform connecting the University of Sheffield with Hong Kong communities through culture, storytelling and creative participation.
About the Hub
HK Community Hub @ UoS is a civic knowledge exchange platform run from the University of Sheffield, built to strengthen social integration, cultural participation and civic belonging among Hong Kong communities in Sheffield and the wider region, however long you've called the city home.
The Hub links the University with Hong Kong community organisations, youth groups, cultural institutions and creative practitioners, drawing on established partnerships across the city. Rather than running isolated events, it builds a coordinated infrastructure: shared programming, an advisory group, and structured evaluation that turns each activity into evidence for what genuinely helps communities settle, connect and contribute.
Funded through the University's Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) for an initial twelve-month pilot, the Hub builds directly on the existing Project Sifu and a track record of Hong Kong community cultural programming in Sheffield.
The Hub's mark is drawn from the haitang blossom, the Chinese flowering crabapple that recurs across Chinese decorative art. Among the meanings it carries is reunion, the gathering back together of people who have been apart, which felt like the right place to begin for a project about communities finding each other in a new city.
The mark is built from radiating lines. They travel inward to meet at a single centre, and the points where they converge are marked as small nodes, before the same lines open outward again into the space around them. That double movement is the whole idea. A community is made by drawing together, and it stays alive by reaching past itself, and neither motion works without the other.
At the centre sit the letters HK, held within the blossom rather than placed on top of it. Hong Kong is not an emblem the Hub displays but a starting point it grows from, one that keeps its shape while extending into the civic life of Sheffield.
What we do
Each strand feeds the next: partnership groundwork shapes the programme, and the programme generates the evidence that helps the Hub grow.
A quarterly advisory group brings together Hong Kong community organisations to guide delivery and keep programming grounded in real community need.
Participatory filmmaking workshops, youth storytelling, community screenings with discussion, and oral history work documenting community stories and lived experience, often embedded within Lunar New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival events.
Surveys, interviews and partner feedback build a clear picture of what works, reviewed together with partners and shared at a closing civic roundtable with community leaders and policymakers.
From the Hub
A look at the workshops, screenings and community moments the Hub grows from. Click any photo to view it full size.
Get involved
Whether you are a community member or an organisation, there is a clear way to take part.
Join a filmmaking workshop, a storytelling session, or one of our screenings and discussions. No experience needed, just an interest in sharing or hearing Hong Kong community stories.
See upcoming eventsIf your organisation works with Hong Kong or wider East and Southeast Asian communities in the North of England, we would welcome a conversation about joining the advisory group.
Get in touchUpcoming events
Our first confirmed events are below, with more from the programme to follow throughout the year.
A serving British Army officer with Hong Kong heritage discusses the military history of Hong Kong, wartime commemorations including Liberation Day, and the Act of Remembrance. 2–4pm, Lecture Theatre 02, The Diamond. Free, registration required. Register
Re-imagining Hong Kong and Sheffield through cinema: a showcase of photography and mixed media art by project collaborators Ming, Sony, Shan Cheng, Nam Huh, Ayesha Iqbal, John Lau, Claire Li, Johnathan Liu, Ernie Tay and AY Tung. Opening reception 20 August, 6pm. C&G Artpartment, 71 Holme Lane. Wed–Sat, 1–5.30pm, or by appointment.
A hands-on session for Hong Kong community youth, building on the Project Sifu approach to filmmaking.
A public screening of Hong Kong cinema, followed by an open conversation.
Contact
For event queries, partnership conversations, or press enquiries, reach out directly and we'll get back to you.
Project Lead
Dr Wayne Wong
Lecturer, East Asian Studies
School of Languages, Arts and Societies
Impact Associate
Clara Cheung
PhD Candidate, History of Art
University of York
Address
University of Sheffield
Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN