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On Behalf of NCCS - Nepalese Canadian Community Services, we would like to OFFICIALLY invite you ALL to come out on Sunday August 22nd 2010 for an eventful day as we are hosting our 5th Annual Himalayan Mela at Nathan Philips Square (100 Queen Street, West. Downtown Toronto!) .
This event will be taking place from 2:00pm to 8:00pm. It will be a FREE event so please mark your calendars and bring ALL your family and friends to join us in our festivities!
This year is our fifth year we have been together celebrating our culture, dancing to the tunes of our music, singing songs together while enjoying the delicious momos, achar, masu and sekuwa! We will have amazing performers from all over Ontario to polish the stage with their performances, along side restaurants offering cultural foods making your mouth water, Henna Art, Photo Exhibitions, Music Workshops, Arts and Crafts and SO MUCH MORE!
The best part of the event is, it is FREE and OUTDOORS!
So please mark your calendar for:
Date: SUNDAY AUGUST 22nd, 2010
Time: 2:00pm to 8:00pm
Venue:
Nathan Philips Square
100 Queens Street West.
ON M5H 2N1
Toronto Ontario.
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LETS MAKE THIS EVENT COLORFUL !
Hope to see you all there alongside all of your family and friends!
Thank You !
Coordinator Himalayan Mela 2010
Mrs. Bina Berma
NCCS
(416) 439 8040
** Preview: Link to 2009 Himalayan Mela Highlights **
ABOUT
Nepali Mela 2010, The Himalayan Festival is an annual one day outdoor public event to be held at Nathan Philips Square of the Toronto City Center on 22 August 2010. The festival showcases various facets of Nepalese culture such as folk dances, ethnic costumes, and varieties of Nepalese cuisine, arts and songs. The event aims to bring together people in Toronto and provide a platform for all of us to experience and celebrate the rich cultural heritage of Nepal. It also creates a space to build inter- cultural linkages and add to Toronto's multicultural spirit.
Since the inception of this annual event in 2006, it has been attended by over a thousand people every year. The "Mela" will once again rekindle the traditional Nepali practice of a 'market day'. The stage will entertain the crowd with cultural dance and songs from upcoming Nepali artist living in Toronto. Well known Nepali restaurants will serve delicious Nepali food and popular Nepali retail stores will showcase their collection of exclusive Nepali handicraft. A plethora of resource booths will offer insights into the different facets of Nepal and various organizations working for Nepali people in Nepal and Canada will provide a deeper understanding of their worthy projects. Photos and painting exhibition, and interactive music workshop, face and "mehndi" painting will add to the variety. This event significantly promotes the youth in the Nepalese community like our local musicians, photographers or entrepreneurs. The Tourism Board of Nepal expresses its support for this event by providing promotional, cultural materials. Above all, the City of Toronto provides us an open public space as significant as the Nathan Philips Square to express, celebrate and represent our culture and our community.
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