{"id":1364,"date":"2017-05-08T10:05:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T10:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2017-05-08T10:05:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T10:05:15","slug":"boishakhi-mela-2017-sunday-14-may-2017-midday-7pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/?p=1364","title":{"rendered":"Boishakhi Mela 2017: Sunday 14 May 2017, midday-7pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<strong>Boishakhi Mela<\/strong>\u00a0returns to\u00a0Weavers Fields on Sunday 14 May.<\/p>\n<p>This annual community celebration of music, performance and dance is a key event in Tower Hamlets&#8217; cultural calendar. The free, family-friendly festival\u00a0 is expected to attract\u00a0more than 60,000 revelers.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the best of Bengali inspired traditional and contemporary music and dance from international and UK-based artists, as well as arts and\u00a0crafts and food\u00a0stalls, a funfair and the Family and Arts Zone &#8211;\u00a0a tranquil family area\u00a0and hub for FREE arts workshops, performances and sports.<\/p>\n<p>The event kicks off with a parade, which\u00a0starts in Allen Gardens, Buxton Street, at 11am and\u00a0will progress\u00a0along Brick Land, Old Montague Street and and Vallance Road before ending at Weavers Fields at midday.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about the event, including\u00a0a timetable of acts on the main stage,\u00a0at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towerhamlets.gov.uk\/mela\/index.htm\">Boishakhi Mela 2017 website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This free celebration of music, performance and dance returns to Weavers Fields<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-culture","category-community-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcara.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Mela1.png?fit=723%2C315&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4GT9s-m0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}