{"id":4184,"date":"2009-10-20T17:19:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T17:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/10\/20\/call-to-join-open-air-indian-folk-dance\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:46:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:46:05","slug":"call-to-join-open-air-indian-folk-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/20\/call-to-join-open-air-indian-folk-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Call to join open air Indian folk dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Birmingham gears up for Diwali extravaganza<\/h3>\n<div><strong>ORGANISERS of this year\u2019s Birmingham Diwali celebrations are inviting people from all religions and ethnicity to join in on a mass open air Indian folk dance this weekend.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Thousands are expected to descend on Millennium Point this Saturday for the city\u2019s Diwali extravaganza. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Organisers, the Hindu Council of Birmingham are hoping to get the city dancing and are calling on visitors to take part in a Garba Raas \u2013 a popular Indian folk dance. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The Garba Raas, which originated in the Gujarat region of India, is usually performed during Navratri, the nine-day Hindu festival. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>But as the dance encompasses simple steps and clapping it is ideal for even the inexperienced dancer.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>It is hoped the dance will be the biggest Garba Raas in the Midlands.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Mahendra Dabhi, President of the Hindu Council of Birmingham, said: \u201cGarbas are generally very colourful, noisy and fun. They are very popular especially with the young in the Hindu community. It\u2019s also a very inclusive dance so I like to call on people from throughout Birmingham to join us on the day.\u201d <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Visitors to the Diwali spectacular will be treated to an afternoon of entertainment with music coming from the likes of Raghav and Navin Kundra. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The evening will end with a spectacular fireworks display, organisers said. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>For more information on the event log onto <a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.1.3\/asiantodaycms\/FCKeditor\/editor\/www.birmingham.gov.uk\/diwali\">www.birmingham.gov.uk\/diwali<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham gears up for Diwali extravaganza ORGANISERS of this year\u2019s Birmingham Diwali celebrations are inviting people from all religions and ethnicity to join in on a mass open air Indian folk dance this weekend. &#13; Thousands are expected to descend on Millennium Point this Saturday for the city\u2019s Diwali extravaganza. &#13; Organisers, the Hindu Council [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}