Northern Ireland’s largest multi-cultural event to celebrate diversityBy Rebecca Black, PANorthern Ireland’s largest multi-cultural event is set to celebrate diversity with events across nine days. The 17th Belfast Mela Festival is expected to attract tens of thousands of visitors to enjoy displays of music, dance, arts, theatre, wellbeing and food later this month. This year a vivid coloured powder-throwing event Mela Colours will be added to the offering on Saturday, August 26th ahead of the main day of festivities on Sunday, August 27th. Dr Nisha Tandon, founder of Belfast Mela and Director of ArtsEkta said the event has come a long way from its first year in 2007 which was attended by 300 people. “It’s now an incredible nine-day festival which now attracting more than 60,000 people and representatives from more than 20 nationalities who have made Belfast home,” she said.

Source: Irish Independent August 01, 2023 14:59 UTC