Wednesday 4th October was Diversity Day and the Women in Neighbourhoods (WiN) and Community Film, Arts and Media (CFAM) groups teamed up with the Octagon Theatre for the Magic of Mehndi. A form of body art form ancient India, Mehndi involves the use of henna to make elaborate decorative designs on the limbs and body....
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Bolton Film Festival – Community Shorts
The first Bolton Film Festival included a number of British and International ‘Community’ films. Entries in this category included productions made in an around Bolton by local groups and indeed the winner, ‘Anxiety – Ellis’s Story’, a powerful and thought-provoking piece about the effects of addiction, was created and produced by Mr One Million, a...
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Riz Ahmed and Aziz Ansari win big at the Emmy Awards 2017
Actor Riz Ahmed and actor and writer Aziz Ansari both won awards at the 69th Emmy® Awards held on Sunday 17th September 2017 in Los Angeles, USA. The Television Academy awards recognized excellence in primetime programming and individual achievement for the 2016 – 2017 television season. Riz Ahmed was recognised with the ‘Outstanding Lead Actor...
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One Day at a Time – Premiere Review
On 12th September a short film, One Day at a Time, was premiered at the Light Cinema in Bolton’s Market Place. The film was written by, and stars, members of the community theatre group Act Out, who meet weekly at the Octagon Theatre, supported by Bolton at Home, the Octagon Theatre and later Stone Soup....
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‘Being the Other’ – Book Review by Rita Payne
Rita Payne on a lament for a vanishing secular culture in India, one in which Muslims could feel comfortable There are three key messages one is left with after reading Saeed Naqvi’s perceptive and moving book on what it is like to be a Muslim in India today. First, at a time when Muslims are...
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POSTER BOYS’ SET TO BE WORLDWIDE PIN UPS IN NEW DRAMEDY, 8TH SEPTEMBER 2017
Acclaimed Indian cinema heavyweights Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol and Shreyas Talpade seen in a new avatar in and as the “POSTER BOYS”- a comedy-drama inspired by a real-life incident of three ordinary people who, to their surprise, find their picture on a poster promoting vasectomy. Presented by Dharmendra and Sony Pictures Networks Productions and produced...
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Big Local Festival / International Youth Day
On Saturday 19th August, Tonge with The Haulgh Big Local and Bolton Council’s Play and Youth Services jointly hosted the Big Local Festival at Castle Hill Young People’s Centre. The event, which included a colourful parade, was a celebration of the local area and of International Youth Day. Among the guests at the event was...
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‘The Black Prince’, the life story of Duleep Singh, out 26th May 2017
Acclaimed singer-poet Satinder Sartaaj makes his acting debut in the the role of Maharajah Duleep Singh in ‘The Black Prince’, set for release on 26th May 2017. Known as the last King of Punjab – Maharajah Duleep Singh – the film examines the life and legacy of the Maharajah in exile in the UK. Produced...
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Book review of ‘The Enemy Within: A Tale of Muslim Britain’
British ‘values’ or Muslim phobia? There’s a photograph from May 2010 of a beaming Sayeeda Warsi dressed in a salwaar-kameez and posing for photographers on the steps of 10, Downing Street after being appointed Britain’s first-ever Muslim woman Cabinet minister. It was hailed as a defining image of British multiculturalism, and David Cameron’s Tory “modernisation”...
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SING BOLTON SING, WINNERS ANNOUNCED!
The competition’s been fierce, the talent has been incredible… and this weekend Sing, Bolton Sing enjoyed its grand finale. From 10am on Saturday, Market Place was filled with back to back vocal talent as the finals of Bolton’s biggest talent show came to a head. With a £10,000 main prize up for grabs, it’s no...