We – Shamshad Khan, Habiba Shenza, and myself – are working really hard at the moment to get all of the elements of Different Moons in place now we know that we have the funding for the project. This is exacerbated by the fact I’m going off for holiday tomorrow. Shamshad is urgently setting up workshop groups;…

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We can announce that we’ve been awarded a Heritage Lottery Fund grant towards the Different Moons project. A total of almost £70,000 over two years to further the pilot work we’ve been undertaking since Spring 2013. We’re delighted! With the first deadline being the exhibition, opening on November 15th, at the Whitaker Museum & Gallery…

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It’s been an eventful few days for the Different Moons project. Our links with the wider Asian community are having an effect and on Sunday we hosted an event at the Boo in Waterfoot organised by Rizwan Iqbal of the amazing Love & Etiquette Foundation. 25 young people joined us and Mohammed Ali (http://www.aerosolarabic.com/mohammed-ali/) ran…

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Ramadan, and things have slowed down a little, such as in visiting people at their homes and recording interviews, but work on the Different Moons project continues nevertheless. Habiba Shenza has been coming along in the afternoons and is working on her animated film, using Mazhar Hussain‘s story of his voyage by ship to England in…

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