Hi, I'm Lesley, a creative project manager and translator in Manchester.
I'm a project manager developing a practice that engages with social history and builds collective knowledge through creative expression, and an interdisciplinary problem solver with commercial awareness from a diverse background in PR, service innovation, law and tech. For 10+ years I've been supporting cultural and educational projects in the UK and Asia. I've lived, studied and worked in Hong Kong, The Netherlands, Germany and Malaysia.
Proficient in English, Cantonese and Traditional Chinese, I've edited and translated communications for major museums, public institutions, universities and community organisations. My work of certified translation is accepted by Arts Council England.
I'm now reading museum studies at the University of Manchester, with research interests in meaning making, co-production and discursivity in art institutions and practices. I document my research and work in Cura Studies.
hello@lesleycheung.net
๐ก Curatorial Practice
Doctors, Devices and Discovery, Medicine Unboxed โ Lifting the Lid on Medical Innovation, Manchester, 2023
Rituals of Passage - A Graduation Show of the Plague Year, Hong Kong, 2022
๐๏ธ Selected Communications
Copywriting - Sustainability network for the creative sector in Liverpool / Discover Picton / Northern Powerhouse
Chinese to English translation - Manchester Museum / M+ Museum / Hong Kong Arts Development Council / Hong Kong Repertory Theatre / Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation / Chinese University of Hong Kong / Hong Kong Green Building Council
English to Chinese translation - Hong Kong Pavilion of London Design Biennale
Simultaneous interpretation - Accessible Wellbeing Conference / Women's Festival
Podcast production - Startup Stories
๐ Selected Projects
Programmes - Social Justice Research Fellowship / literary festival for schoolchildren / educational talks at Art Central fair
Outreach and engagement - Journal of Intersectional Social Justice / delegation of cultural management faculty and graduate students in Manchester / design research on public spaces / Hong Kong chapter of A City Made By People / Cultural Leadership Summits / Hong Kong Arts Festival / business support for London startups / journalists at international trade exhibitions
Audit and reporting - Multisensory performing arts programme
Mentoring - Help to Grow Management Course / University of Hong Kong / Enactus Social Business Mentorship Programme / PILnet Law for Change Student Competition
Community advisory - Factory International / M+ Museum learning and engagement / University of Hong Kong
Academic research - Trauma museology
๐ Publications
Cultural Practices, University of Manchester, 2024
Via North Point, Volume 6, Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2021
DERIVAS, Dรฉrive Lab, 2018
A City Made By People, Issue 3, 2018
Journal of Undergraduate Humanities, Volume 1, Issue 1, University of Hong Kong, 2014
Young Post, South China Morning Post, 2011
๐ Exhibitions
The Hobby Cave, Hetain Patel and Artangel, London (Forthcoming 2024)
Washroom in the Woods, Hong Kong, 2022
Antipode, Poetic Journeys in Foreign Lands - A Tribute to Yasi, Hong Kong, 2018
Economy of Things, Art-chiving Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, 2017
The World in a Book, Hong Kong, 2016-2017
Elevator, Urban Islands: HKU Campus and Undergraduate Intersections, Hong Kong, 2016
Islanalepsis, Island โ Stories . Life . Landscape, Hong Kong, 2013
๐ค Featured
123 Show, Radio Television Hong Kong, 2022
Summer Leadership Forum, University of Hong Kong, 2020
You and Me and Everyone We Know, Brent Love, 2020
Uitagenda Utrecht, 2015
AFP, 2014
Oriental Daily, 2012
๐ Qualifications
Chartered Linguist, Chartered Institute of Linguists
Member, Arts Marketing Association
Help to Grow Mentor, Association of Business Mentors
Member, British Art Network
Member, Hong Kong Arts Administrators Association
Member, International Council of Museums
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MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies, University of Manchester (in progress)
Managing Creative Projects, Factory Academy, 2023
Foundation in Business Mentoring, ILM, 2023
Essential Guide to Effective Arts Management: Culturepreneurship and Other Practical Arts Management Tools, Hong Kong Arts Administrators Association, 2022
Curatorship Incubation Programme, HART, 2021
BA English Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong, 2016