Hyndburn Mela 2008
 

Yes, it's here again!

Like it or loathe it, it keeps on popping up.

Hyndburn Mela and Community Festival 2008
Sunday 24th August, 2008
12.30pm - 7pm
Hyndburn Sports Centre


Music, food, fair, arts and craft activities, drumming plus lots more.

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I shall be there for the 3rd year running.........look forward to it everytime.its Brilliant :D

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is this the one that used to be at Oakhill park?

Least its better parking if it is lol

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yea thats the one x

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if they have stuff outside it might be on the car park? maybe not so good parking then

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so does anything go on at oak hill in august anymore?

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sounds like fun.

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I'll try and come along. Its a shame its not in Oak Hill Park, a much better venue I feel.

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We will be back at Oakhill park again, hopefully next year, but we couldn't go there this year for a couple of reasons.

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Not my cup of tea, I wish we just had the music concert at Oakhill and not this Mela crap.

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Well its not my cup of tea either, but I wouldn't call it crap, some people like things like that, others might think its crap watching Liverpool:D

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Mmm I didnt realize that it was only ever going to be a mela - i thought it alternated each year - I am all for intergration not segragation etc but i think a celebration called Mela does segragate a lot of people and discourage them from coming - I just dont know what is wrong wqith a "party in the park" that celebrates many different culturesx
and all this has probably been said before so sorry but a hell of a lot of peopple feel the same.

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What a good idea, one year music (not asian) then one year a mela. We could then gradually phase out the mela bit and go back to having music in the park like it used to be, but of course this would never happen as funding would not be made available would it Gayle.:(

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did anyone actually go from accyweb?

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I wouldnt want for the asian music to be omitted from the celebrations at all i think it is fantastic
but i have a lot of friends from the Asian and non asian community who dont go because it is called a Mela and they expect racist people will go to make trouble just because of its name - so they just dont go .

We have a very diverse community in accrington alone - Polish, Chinese, British, Thai, carribean - just to name a few of these cultures - so if that is what we are celebrating then lets have music and crafts from all of these cultures i think it would be fantastic.

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In that order, he he :rolleyes:, my point is when it was a mainly British white music concert, funding was not easily available but give it a multicultural theme and suddenly funding is no problem.

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I know it's a bit sad really - sorry i never know which way to takes posts on here - wasnt sure if you were being sarcastic lol obviously not
but i know what you are saying - and yeah that order is probably pretty accurate actually :D
( no doubt some smarta**e will post statistics now to prove me wrong)

As it stands at the moment the mela is enjoyable and people obviously enjoy it but i wouldnt say it is a multi cultural celebration.

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It's actually Hyndburn Mela and Community Festival - so it encompasses all of those things - i was just being a bit lazy in the title.

Out of the acts that played there were 3 'Asian' acts, 2 dance acts (1 belly, one modern), 1 drumming band and 4 local bands.

The arts and crafts were - puppet making, banner making, mask making, beaded bracelets - I didn't know you had to be of any particular culture to enjoy making and sticking things.

Food was Curry Cabin and Gerhana Mongolian, plus Truly Scrumptious who make cakes. There was candy floss and pop corn too!

The only people who don't see it as a multi cultural event are usually people who don't come to find out for themselves.

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You might want to visit Sports Photography to see for yourself.

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Agreed, I do see it as a multicultural event that's one reason why I didn't attend, I don't want to be seen encouraging this sort of event.


(I did go once so I knew what it was all about):eek:

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Gayle - I hope you dont think I was having a go - I think you do a great job
Just that it would be great to see things like bagpipes, perhaps a dragon dance/traditional dance, a carribean drumming set, an irish pipe/folk band things that you generally have to go out of Accrington to see.
Also I wasnt suggesting that you had to be a certain culture to enjoy a craft more the other way - that the crafts should be more specialised perhaps trditional crafts that are specific to a culture.
... and as the saying goes "if you think that you can do it better....."
well I dont just a few thoughts thats all x

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Whilst all ideas are welcome the best way to really get what you want is to be a part of the committee - please feel free to come along to the meetings, I'll post details for the next meeting as soon as I know when it will be.

As for dragon dance - yes, done that in Feb earlier this year.
Caribbean drumming - yep at previous Melas
Irish pipe/folk bands - plenty of them at Ossy Civic Theatre throughout the year
Bagpipes - not done that yet, but perhaps one day soon

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i havent been to one of those since i was about 16, at Oak Hill Park

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It's not the same unfortunately.:(

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Have you been lately or are you basing that comment on what you think it's like now?

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I wish i'd gone now and seen what all the fuss was about...... I am all for multicultural gatherings imo it helps you to get a better idea of peoples cultures which reduces racism.

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Come on Gayle there is no way you can say the concerts in Oakhill Park that flashy went to are the same as the event at the Sports Centre.

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Bagpus I have covered this event in Oakhill with SJA and it has varied with problems dependent on the amount of legal (and illegal substances) on sale and consumed and the amount of sunshine and Police presence, when it was "Party in the Park" "Music in the Park" and "Mela in the Park"

I would daresay that with it being a Mela the amount of alcohol sold would be lower than if it was Rock/Pop/Heavy metal etc.

Yes it would be great, in a perfect world, to have the ALL of the community with all of the diverse thing that could be brought together at one meeting and maybe that may happen!!!

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what really brasses me off, yes funding is available fer multi-cultural events, but was there any funding to save "Chaigley Manor" a place fer all kids especially those who didn't get a holiday,was there hell as like. that could have been a great place fer kids to really integrate, two weeks living n playing together,:(

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Must agree cashy, I know we've talked about this and know how strong you feel about it. I never actually never went to Chaigley when I was young, but a ot of my mates did, and it was a great place for kids in my youth, I was lucky I went to Blackpool every year with my parents whn I was young, but all kinds weren't so lucky

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Did they not like you?:D

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Who?

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Your parents. Dragging a kid to Blackpool. That's as bad a case of child cruelty I've heard of in a long while.

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There was a time - before stag and hen nights - when Blackpool was an ideal destination for NW families.

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Quite right Margaret, on the first week of the wakes, there were queues for the Blackpool Train right down Station Road in Accy, when you were walking down the prom it was like going shopping on Saturday in Accy. There was no such thing as going to Spain in the 40s and 50s it was Blackpool or bust, but if you wanted a change there was always Fleetwood or Southport:D

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...or if you were really posh..... Scarborough:rolleyes: