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REACH OUT – WiN Launches Empowering Women Art Exhibition at the Octagon

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REACH OUT – WiN Launches Empowering Women Art Exhibition at the Octagon

We are very pleased to announce the launch of 'Reach Out' project at the Octagan by Emmerdale fame star Rokhsaneh Gwaham-Shahidi. She launched the Exhibition alongside the Book and gave out certificates to participating women groups and individuals. The winner of the best mosaic will be chosen by our three judges -Maura Jackson, Sajida Hussain and Emma Gregson. REACH OUT is a Women in Neighbourhood (WiN) lottery funded project which seeks to engage women from a variety of cultural backgrounds & empower them through the medium of art. Launched at Great Lever Connected, the project is co ordinated by Gulnaz Brennan who is also the Founder & Chair of WiN, and was delivered with the support of Anna Kinley, Jenny Vining and Wendy Ann, Shafina and Urvashi Tulsidas. Women groups...

Reach Out Exhibition – Empowering Women Through Art

REACH OUT is a Women in Neighbourhood (WiN) lottery funded project which seeks to engage women from a variety of cultural backgrounds & empower them through the medium of art. Launched at Great Lever Connected, the project is co ordinated by Gulnaz Brennan who is also the Founder & Chair of WiN, and was delivered with the support of Anna Kinley, Jenny Vining and Wendy Ann. Women groups from across Bolton created some very inspiring mosaic with ‘Women’ as the central theme. Art has a universal language and is a great medium to connect, engage and empower people. The exhibition is a culmination of ‘ Building Bridges’ NLDC art course by Bolton College. The theme of ‘Women’ was chosen because women are often the unsung heroes of day to day life in our cities, towns and villages. Wom...

A Journey Into the World of Mosaics

For thousands of years, mosaics have been part of interior spaces. Their start can be traced back to primitive man’s simple arrangements of pebbles into patterns, describing a direction or message. The techniques gradually developed through history — from decorative floor and wall surfaces in villas and cathedrals to the modern expression of mosaics as art. Mosaics can be described as the art of decorating a surface with designs made up of small, closely placed pieces of hard material, or tesserae. Tesserae glass material, known by the Italian name smalti, is opaque and brilliant in color and can be manufactured in hundreds of hues. An Ancient Artform Scholars have traced mosaics back as far as the fourth millennium B.C. to the Temple of Uruk in Mesopotamia. Other examples equally as anci...