Farzana Patel followed up her calligraphy sessions with young people at the Islamic School with two sessions with the Different Moons Women’s Group at Haslingden Community Link. The final session was last week, and now all of the Different Moons workshops are over, with the exception of 4 additional sessions being held with Year 6…

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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…

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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…

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