Mr Mazhar Hussain, one of the very first people to emigrate to Lancashire from South Asia, shows Lizzie Lempen (of Lempen Puppets) where his family originated on a map from the first of the boards in the explanatory section of Different Moons. The exhibition opened Saturday 15th November at the Whitaker Museum & Art Gallery…
Category: Mr Mazhar Hussain
It’s been an eventful few days for the Different Moons project. Our links with the wider Asian community are having an effect and on Sunday we hosted an event at the Boo in Waterfoot organised by Rizwan Iqbal of the amazing Love & Etiquette Foundation. 25 young people joined us and Mohammed Ali (http://www.aerosolarabic.com/mohammed-ali/) ran…
We’ve put together the first Different Moons short animated film – ‘The Djinn Story’ – which is a story told by Mr Mazhar Hussain during our recording of his memories and reminiscences. It’s an important moment as it also happens to be the final stage of our pilot programme – which has been the trial run for…
Last week we (Shamshad Khan, Habiba Shenza Rahman, and I) started the second phase of Different Moons when we drove to Accrington and interviewed Mr Muzhar Hussain; an interview that I recorded for later use in our project.Mr Hussain (above right, with his daughter-in-law, Hafiza) entertained us with several hours of his memories, thoughts and reflections…