Event number three...

When the words “Bollywood film festival” were mentioned I pictured a screening of the latest Bollywood film, lots of stalls selling Bollywood style clothing, jewellery, purses, shoes, lots of Indian food, bindis, music, Bollywood dance performances all set amidst swathes of brightly coloured fabrics , hot pinks, vivid oranges, lime greens covering every wall, dripping with sequins and beads of every kind....suffice to say when one has such ambitious expectations one is bound to be disappointed after all I am speaking about Rochdale here...

I was invited to have a stall at a Bollywood film festival, I use this term VERY loosely for two reasons:

A. The event was not a festival it was a showing of a very old Bollywood film with some food. That’s it.
B. I was the only stall there...

Never the less, exposure is exposure and I can’t complain. Didn’t sell a thing, I think that’s mainly because people didn’t come to buy stuff...they came to watch a film and grab some grub (I’m trying to remember whether the food was free or not...I don’t think it was...). So for most of the few hours I was there I spent the time talking with two of the organisers nieces , again for some reason my stall tends to attracts kids...I think it’s all the buttons, they were playing with the buttons for a while using them as eyes and piling them up... they kept me entertained. One of the women even recognised me from the community cohesion event, which must be good. Someone asked me if the buttons were for sale as she needed a few small black buttons for a dress she was sewing for her daughter. I told her they weren’t for sale but if she could find the buttons she wanted she could have them...In exchange she took my contact details for future reference. The organiser also took my details and seemed really interested in the fact that everything was handmade, so that can only be a good thing...

That’s about it really....