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….
Month: March 2015
Today we held the second session of 2015 at Rossendale Valley Islamic School – developing the introduction to calligraphy that Farzana was leading last week. Today the group learned to write their own names in Arabic calligraphy, and then write the words DIFFERENT MOONS, again in Arabic, but in the form of a crescent moon: Farzana…
The refurbishment work at the Boo is squeezing us all into smaller and smaller areas of the building, as the workmen spread into the other rooms and theatre spaces. It’s impressive how fast they are working, but it’s having a few repercussions on the Different Moons project. Jessica Royle stayed late on Friday to complete her…
I just had to add this comment and the accompanying image that appeared in Bryan Yorke’s Blog (mentioned in my previous post): “Saw your “My Memories of Haslingden’s Early Asian Settler’s” this morning and was thrilled to see the house on Lower Lane, which I remember well. We lived in the row behind (the part…
photo courtesy Bryan Yorke An interesting development for the Different Moons project has been discovering a blog in which local people are writing about their own memories of the first Asian people to visit and settle in Haslingden. I was pointed towards the Haslingden Old and New blogspot by the author, Bryan Yorke; the blog itself can…