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SPRING 2016 £2.00 READING ROCKING YEAR OF YOUR ROLE CULTURE WITH JENNY 2016 GARRETT MARVIN FUTURE BARTLEY’S PLANS RISE OF FOR READING READING REFUGEE SUPPORT GROUP TATTOISTS & BARBERS TELL ALL VISITING LUXURIOUS QATAR Ade Adepitan MBE HARD WORK, DIVERSITY, SUCCESS & CHARITY Todadiversity news Spring 2016 Issue: 12 Contents Publisher: Keith Seville Editor: Shirley Anstis Features Editor: Mehrunissa Khan Graphic Design: Today Magazine Design Consultant: Raj KC Admin Assistant: Alex Gittens Reporter: Shanice Medford 6 Equalities Alliance Conference 38 Travel Media coverage & representation Qatar - Luxury in the desert Marketing: Survat Mahmood 8 Reading 2016 Year of Culture 44 Faded With producer Zsuzsi Lindsay Faded Reading Barbers - Urban Illustrator: Grooming Mark Chandler 12 Book Review The life-changing magic of tidying up 46 Sport Cover Photo: Kelly Hill Marcus Richardson - From footballer to 13 Vox Pop coach Today Magazine MAPP Centre Opinions on Brexit and Boxing... Mount Pleasant 48 Puzzles Reading 14 Reading Refugee Support Group Sudoku and Crossword Berkshire With Nick Harborne RG1 2TD 49 Horoscope 16 Ade Adepitan MBE Check out your star sign Tel: +44 (0) 870 414 5252 The journey so far Fax: +44 (0) 870 414 5353 [email protected] 20 The Rise of Reading www.todaymag.co.uk Marvin Bartley - From pro footballer to Today Magazine is a wholly owned boxing promoter subsidiary of Today Publishing Limited. Views expressed in Today 26 Jeff Hinds Magazine are those of their respective authors and do not Reading’s own boxing referee necessarily reflect those of Today Publishing Limited. The publishers 38 Colour analysis cannot accept legal responsibility Caroline Shaw shares a love for for any errors or omissions, nor can they accept responsibility for the colour standing of advertisers or editorial contributions. All prices and credits 30 Rocking Your Role are accurate at time of going to Jenny Garrett - Stepping forward and press but are subject to change. Reproduction in whole or in part giving back without written permission is strictly prohibited. Today Publishing 32 Vaisakhi Celebration Limited cannot be held responsible Nagar Kirtan for any unsolicited material. ISSN 2054-8206 34 Mental Health Conference © Copyright 2016 Today Publishing Frank Bruno - Speaking on differences Limited. All Rights Reserved. and disparities Printed by: Premier Print Group Bow, London, 020 7987 0604 36 Tattoo Art Perri-Leigh - A passion for drawing Our previous editions covered various social events and community organisations as pictured below. Welcome to Todadiversity news Shirley Anstis, Editor Reading Year of Culture 2016 continues to shine a spotlight on the town. We speak to Year of Culture producer Zsuzsi Lindsay to get a Front cover - Spring/Summer behind the scenes idea of what it’s all about. Review 2015 With the mainstream media coverage, the term refugee is not always used accurately. That is what we find out when we interview Nick Harborne of Reading Refugee Support Group. Our cover star is Paralympics basketball player and television presenter Ade Adepitan MBE. He is well known for his skills and talents but as a survivor of polio he has shown how it is possible to face and work with our challenges and create the life we want. Tedx Reading speaker and coach Jenny Garrett talks about her experience of being mentored and mentoring others. As one of the longest serving boxing referees Jeff Hinds has seen many tough bouts in his time. His refereeing has taken him from The 02 Arena to The Royal Albert Hall and live on American Television. In a completely different aspect of the sport we find boxing promoter Marvin Bartley. He is a professional footballer who grew up in Reading and enjoys putting on boxing events. He is a wonderful mix of humility with ambition. Front cover - Autumn/Winter We provide some wonderful images from the annual Sikh Vaisakhi Nagar Kirtan 2016 event. We also take a look at colour analysis with Caroline Shaw and discuss tattoos Follow Us: with Perri Leigh. Check out our travel piece on luxurious Qatar before you plan your next break. Do let us know what you think of TODAY and engage with our twitter feed http://www.facebook.com/todaymag @Today_Magazine and on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ todaymag Enjoy! http://www.twitter.com/Today_Magazine Shirley Anstis MA, B.Sc, MBACP @shirleyanstis Community Community Equalities Alliance Conference On media narratives and representation The event was opened and chaired by Sulayman Muir from (Muslim orders, statutory requirements around Alliance for Cohesion and Race Equality Engagement and Development) MEND the prevent strategy, new requirements (ACRE) chairman Jerry Cabon. addressed the causes and cures of for ‘authority to fly scheme’ and the Anne Noble and Jean Holmes-Morris Victoria Hunter shared her thoughts Islamophobia. He identified that Extremist Analysis Unit. He points out spoke about Hampshire Wellbeing on how different people are perceived Islamophobic crimes had risen by 70% that whilst there is so much focus on Service and the work they do around in society and through the media. She in London in the last year. There was a Muslims there is virtually no focus the health inequalities of the “hard suggests that: steep increase after the murder of Lee on the far right. He suggests that the to reach”. Their work covers research, • Muslim people are seen as Rigby across all classes and in all areas statutory requirements around Prevent training and diversity issues in health representative of their religion of London. In the Thames Valley where turns teachers, parents, doctors, nurses, inequalities. They also link to a whereas Christian people are seen as Muslims make up just under 3% of the dentists and others into detectives. community wellbeing action group individuals. population hate crimes went up 16%. with participation from Mencap, • Black males are more likely to be Reading police record Muslim hate What are the causes of Islamophobia? Basingstoke Caribbean community victims of crime yet seen differently. crimes separately. Sulayman highlights: and the multicultural forum. It is known • Refugees are labelled and stigmatised • Biased media reporting that health inequalities can be affected and it becomes an “us or them” Sulayman referred to the Counter • Legislation by social class, gender, ethnicity, scenario. terrorism Bill and the powers given to • Lack of Muslim participation income, age, mental health disability • Media narratives do not go below the border control staff so that they can • The perception of the Muslim cleric and environment amongst others. surface to challenge the veracity of confiscate a passenger’s passport for as a radical yet in reality they often Ralph Chananda closed the conference the data. Intolerance values are not up to two years if they suspect them. inhabit the middle ground. with his analysis of dementia outreach British values. He also brought attention to exclusion • The underrepresentation of Muslims in the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) in parliament, estimating that they should communities. BME’s makeup 3% of the be 32 Muslims rather 800,000 people with dementia in the than the UK. Is this underrepresentation current 13. because this group is underdiagnosed or do they age healthier? Part of his How does he see work is to help people recognise that this changing? social isolation, physical health such Awareness as blood pressure and psychological Action health such as depression can all have Change an impact on the development and His organisation MEND progression of dementia. runs a media and politics masterclass and The conference provided an opportunity advise how to bring to look at several labels and stigmas so complaints against that the impact of these can be reduced. media bias. He ended Attendees participated in an exercise with a reminder to the to label themselves and then see how audience that “we are other people would label them. Many not powerless, things people got more positive feedback than can change, our MP’s they gave themselves. represent us.” Today Magazine 6 Today Magazine Today Magazine 7 June 11th 2015 – Do Rivers Dream of Oceans - part of Waterfest – (drifting at Shoreditch) Community Community Year of Culture A place of innovation, imagination and magic Today Magazine spent time with Zsuzsi Lindsay to find out more about her and Reading’s Year of Culture. If you haven’t yet heard 2016 is Reading’s year of culture. The aim is to highlight as many cultural and artistic offerings as possible so that everyone Prior to becoming producer for learning for MBA students. Later we gets to experience something over Reading Year of Culture Zsuzsi directed put on theatre productions for English the year. This could be a great time to Reading Fringe Festival. They are a speaking expatriates in China. I was discover new cultural artists, writers platform for local artists and the 2016 there for 18 months.” and performers. event will be their 4th – July 20-24th. The Year of Culture is sponsored Reading Fringe Festival was nominated What is her role in Reading by The Arts Council, Get Reading, for a Queen’s award for voluntary Year of Culture? Forbury Place, Green Park, Heart services and won the Pride of Reading “My role is to bring together the FM and Cream Design. It is run as a Cultural Contribution in 2014. artists’ program and feed this into Zsuzi Lindsay partnership involving Reading Borough Zsuzsi set up a production the management committee. The Council, Reading University and Reading company when she was at St. Andrews committee can then take these ideas to get through so they shouldn’t give UK CIC plus Alt Reading, The Cultural University. I learn that St. Andrews to local businesses so that they can up if they don’t hear from me quickly Partnership and Reading College.

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