Today was our first day day hanging the show in the Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery in Rawtenstall. Things went slowly, with a number of unexpected hitches slowing our progress. Still, Phil got the fountain basin in situ, and I erected the listening booth structure, where visitors will be able to listen to extracts from…
Category: the Whitaker
It’s just a week now before we move into the Whitaker to set up the Different Moons exhibition. So it’s a busy period as you can imagine…here at the Boo we’re finishing the fountain (above), the lanterns, the audio tracks and the animated films. Elsewhere Maryam has Shamshad’s poems and is creating the ‘moon-book’ which…
We are hoping to organise a Different Moons exhibition in November 2014 at the Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery in Rawtenstall – a celebration of the local South Asian heritage community. Our friends at the Whitaker are enthusiastic about the idea, and we now need to raise the funding for the exhibition itself, as well as the…
We’re beginning the serious business of fundraising for Different Moons. There’s now a programme of 80 workshops being planned with local organisations and groups, and involving both local and national artists working with all ages across the Asian heritage community in Rossendale. These workshops will focus on people’s stories – stories of families, memories of…
Planning for Different Moons has now started in earnest after meeting with Shamshad Khan (above) and confirmation from the Whitaker (below) that they would be delighted to host an exhibition starting in October 2014. With a substantial programme of community workshops in the run up to the exhibition and with a good number of related…
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