Three screenshots from Jessica Royle‘s animation ‘The Women’s Forum’. The subject is taken from an interview with Samina Raffat Hussain, in which Samina reminisces on her early days in Haslingden.  This is the fifth animation in the Different Moons series that are based and inspired by interviews with some of the early South Asian immigrants to Rossendale….

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I’ve been extremely impressed by the process of preparing to include a poem in a paper-cut  art work being created by Maryam Golubeva for the Different Moons exhibition.  We’ve taken part of a poem written by Samina Raffat Hussain. Six couplets from a poem called ‘Moon and Glass Bangle’. As Shamshad Khan describes it “it…

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