Mela Day returns to Botanic Gardens

An array of colours will fill Belfast’s Botanic Garden for the Mela Festival's grand finale.

Mela day will bring Northern Ireland's largest cultural diversity festival to a close after it returned for the first time since the Covid pandemic.

Thousands of visitors are expected to visit Botanic Gardens from 12 noon to 6pm for the grand event.

The annual celebration is set to transforms the park into a magical global garden filled with the sights, sounds and aromas of nations right around the world.

Music, dance, arts, and culture come together to create a heady, good, humoured atmosphere which invites the world into the heart of the city.

Hundreds of artists and thousands of participants are estimated to have taken part in the eight-day event which was kick-started by the Mela Carnival Parade.

Ms Tandon, OBE, founder of Belfast Mela and director of ArtsEkta said: "We are delighted to be back with our first full festival since the pandemic and our most ambitious programme to date including the long-awaited return to Botanic Gardens for our festival finale.

"From outdoor spectacles, late night music, pop up food events and walking tours, to exhibitions, wellbeing days, film screenings and theatre there is really something for everyone in what is now the biggest celebration of cultural diversity on the island of Ireland.”

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