{"id":11081,"date":"2015-04-12T00:12:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T00:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11081"},"modified":"2015-04-10T04:59:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T04:59:00","slug":"free-festival-glasgow-mela-celebrates-silver-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/free-festival-glasgow-mela-celebrates-silver-anniversary","title":{"rendered":"Free festival Glasgow Mela celebrates silver anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-GB\">The Glasgow Mela was started 25 years ago, as a small event attracting a handful of people. Today the Mela, celebrating its 25<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary, has become Scotland&#8217;s largest multi-cultural annual festival. The free event is open to all and will be celebrated this year on 14<sup>th<\/sup> June, Sunday, from 12Noon to 8:00pm, at the Kelvingrove Park in the West End of Glasgow. New events and some events to bring the Mela to local communities will be held. On 19<sup>th<\/sup> April, Sunday. The &#8216;Mela on Your Doorstep&#8217; will be hosted at the Barmulloch community centre and later on 16<sup>th<\/sup> May, Saturday, at Trmway.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">The very first Mela was held in 1990 as an indoor event at the Tramway, then newly opened, and was a part of European City of Culture. Later it moved over to Queens-Park Glasgow Green and more recently held at Kelvingrove Park. There will be dozens of stalls at the free festival, selling a diverse range of food, as part of &#8216;Year of Food and Drink&#8217; of Scotland. All through the day performers will be on stage, as hundreds of them from across the world come here to perform. Derived from the Sanskrit word &#8216;to meet&#8217;, Mela showcases the many cultures of Glasgow, also attracting tens of thousands of visitors to the city.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">This popular <a title=\"Free festival Glasgow Mela celebrates silver anniversary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eveningtimes.co.uk\/news\/silver-anniversary-for-the-mela-202676n.122572465\" target=\"_blank\">free festival<\/a> incorporates new events and celebrates Glasgow&#8217;s continuous evolution as the country&#8217;s most culturally and ethnically diverse city and to offers a platform for it. Festival audiences will enjoy a diverse programme of performances, as well as family activities, film screening, stalls selling a variety of things and world food to taste. The chairwoman of the Mela, councillor Soryia Siddique, said the Glasgow Mela has grown beyond the wildest dreams of everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Glasgow Mela was started 25 years ago, as a small event attracting a handful of people. Today the Mela, celebrating its 25th anniversary, has become Scotland&#8217;s largest multi-cultural annual festival. The free event is open to all and will be celebrated this year on 14th June, Sunday, from 12Noon to 8:00pm, at the Kelvingrove [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freebies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11082,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11081\/revisions\/11082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}