MELA + Date 19 - 27 August 2024 TIME Place Extend your festival experience with MELA+, featuring a week long programme of cultural events across the city. Book Tickets
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Event Listings Previous Events Family Outdoors Sunday 25th August 12pm, Botanic Gardens Mela Day Join us at Botanic Gardens for the festival finale as it’s transformed into a global wonderland of music, dance, food and art Family Outdoors Spectacle Saturday 17th August 12pm, City Hall Mela Carnival This year the city centre will be awash with a kaleidoscope of colour and creativity as Mela Carnival returns for its 3rd year. Family Outdoors Saturday 17th August 12pm, Writers Square Colour Procession Be part of our colour procession across the city centre throwing colourful powders in a party atmosphere among friends! Dance Family Wednesday 21st August 10am, Grand Opera House Baba Bollywood Experience the vibrant sounds and colours of India as we transform the Grand Opera House Studio into all things Bollywood. Music Thursday 22nd August 7pm, The MAC Citadels of the Sun Citadels of the Sun is a coming together of diverse but connected voices from Ireland and Rajasthan in India. Food Tuesday 20th August 7pm, Academy Restaurant Silk Road Supper Club Soul satisfying flavors of the Caribbean at the Silk Road Supper Club Wellbeing Tuesday 20th August 11am, Innovation Factory Sound Bath – Innovation Factory Join Tessa Ann to experience sound healing, an ancient wellness practice for healing, relaxation, and self-care Wellbeing Thursday 22nd August 11am, Templemore Baths Sound Bath – Templemore Baths Join Tessa Ann to experience sound healing, an ancient wellness practice for healing, relaxation, and self-care Wellbeing Monday 19th August 11am, Girdwood Community Hub Sound Bath – Girdwood Hub Join Tessa Ann to experience sound healing, an ancient wellness practice for healing, relaxation, and self-care Exhibition Friday 14th June - Friday 30th August, Belfast Central Library Many Memories, Many Voices Reflecting on colonialism, the British Empire and identity in Northern Ireland and Ireland