Baishakhi Mela
May 2010
The Baishakhi Mela comes to London's buzzing East End to celebrate the Bengali New Year. Food stalls, parades and rickshaw rides invite visitors to make themselves at home in Banglatown and join in the festivities.
Taking over one of London's most vibrant quarters, the event has been consistently growing, attracting bigger and bigger crowds since its inception. East meets West as the streets fill with Bangladeshi sounds, with everything from traditional folk, Baul and Bollywood to Bengali rock and Bhangra.
The Baishakhi Mela was launched in Brick Lane, and celebrations of the Bengali New Year have been celebrated by the Bangladeshi community in England, since 1997. The original event based in Bangladesh and West Bengal is called the Pohela Baishakh. This festival was created for the purpose of the Bangladeshi diaspora living in the UK. It was organized by the local people, and is now managed by the Baishakhi Mela Trust Ltd, a non-profit organization.
The Baishakhi Mela is a unique festival, which has been created by a generation of Bangladeshi people who want to celebrate the Bangla New Year. It inspires the British Bangladeshi community to be more creative during the arrival of the event, through the production and the presentation skills of excellent and innovative ideas through participation in the Baishakhi Mela, including the stage planning, music and dancing.
Other than creating the event for the purposes of celebrations for the community, it is also aims to gain recognition of the Bengali people in the London, by providing different cultures to some British people, and by encouraging them to participate in the event as well, as well as recognizing the Bangladeshi presence in London. Also providing the people the skills and opportunities for the young aspirations as well as professional artists to perform their music or dances.
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