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Glasgow Mela in Glasgow
Glasgow's free, park-based Mela brings South Asian classical and popular music, dance, food and craft stalls together with performers from the city's African, Caribbean and other diaspora communities each summer. Run largely by local community organisations rather than a commercial promoter, it draws a genuinely mixed Glasgow crowd, families with cultural ties to the performers and curious residents alike, sharing one open public space.
Glasgow's Mela brings South Asian and wider multicultural performance, food and craft into one of the city's public parks each summer, using a festival format, mela meaning gathering or fair in several South Asian languages, that has been adapted by cities across Britain with significant South Asian communities.