Another busy week including Tuesday spent at the South Asian Arts Forum at MMU in Manchester, where I was reminded that 2014 will be the third Asia Triennial Manchester (ATM14), the only Asian Arts festival outside of Asia! So what better year to choose for our first year of Different Moons! Then today was the…

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While Shamshad and Habiba continue to work at the Rossendale Valley Islamic Supplementary School on Sundays, I spent the weekend writing up the project plan for a major funding bid. A bid that, if successful, will enable us to run the Different Moons project over the next two years.  Last Friday Shamshad, Esther, and I had…

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I joined in with the third session of Shamshad and Habiba’s classes at Rossendale Islamic Supplementary School this afternoon. The subject used the recordings we made a few weeks ago of Mr Muzzar Hussain, covering a range of subjects but here concentrating on his memories of travelling to and arriving in England in 1958.  The…

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