PCM 2024

Here are some of the memories from last years festival.

A huge thank you to our funders

a great time was had by all

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Thanks so much to Sonia, Amnesh, Charlotte and Iain & members of Preston Photographic Society for this years fantastic photographs.

Making mela moments

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“In this time of crisis, joy has never been more important!”
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“Mela. People seem to live it!”
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“My Mum loved seeing lots of different cultures coming together to celebrate at her Mela!”

At this years Mela we  introduced some new elementsIncluding a fantastic BAZAAR where people could buy clothes, food, perfumes etc.

We also looked at how South Asian creative practitioners are doing in the city. Producing a document that traces the creative journey of some of them and we enabled them to display there work in a breakout space at the festival called THE VILLAGE. We are hoping that this will be the beginning of development work to support people that take the plunge into a creative career.

There was also more of an emphasis on our green credentials to align with our new policy document. We also wanted to show global effects so we created a site map that also explained how the impact of our environmental choices here in Preston impacts on our friends & family in South Asia.

This years flyer is above and here below we have outreach activities that we did prior to the festival.