The Encyclopedia of Us (EofUs) has developed out of a long-term collaboration between the HU3/ Docklands communities of West Hull, artist Kate Genever and arts company Three Ways East.
EofUs makes visible and holds safe HU3’s many stories, while working alongside its communities to imagine and shape the future.
EofUs is an ongoing coproduction with HU3’s many brilliant residents, groups, businesses and organisations. Outcomes include the You Can’s we develop; portrait project We believe in love not luck with with Tony Ward; a food project alongide W.A.N.T; Flower Club with Tommy the florist at Rayners pub or the newspaper Encyclopedia of Us
Our approach is purposefully a patient. We recognise that HU3 has been neglected and overlooked and that when it has had attention it has been ‘done to’. We also know that community-led is a complex idea, with no one size fits all answer. When first invited to HU3, in 2018, we were told by residents that this is a place with little self-esteem and little confidence, yet we could see remarkable people, doing remarkable things. However they were largely invisible, overlooked from both inside and outside the area. Our work is curious and collaborative. We uncover strengths and build on them where we can.
EofUs is supported by:
JF Brignall Charitable Trust
Arts Council England
Hull City Council
Hull Martime Project
National Lottery Community Fund.
CHCP Hull