Yesterday we held the 2015 Haslingden Mela at Community Link – with a dozen stalls (arranged by Habiba Shenza) selling food, clothes, shoes, offering crafts and mendhi. We also had some interesting entertainment – Stories from the Arabian Nights told by Shellac Tesab in Urdu, colourful Rajasthani marionette and hand puppets from Diana Baylis’s Black Cat Theatre, and…

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Today we cleared the Apna up; took Hudhaifa’s calligraphy pieces away, and left everything else under a huge dust-cloth. Almost three months to the day that it opened. Those three months of activities at the centre in Haslingden have been an enormous success, with over 1000 people participating in workshops, meetings, events and training sessions. So…

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