The Punjabi Mehfil, a tri-monthly event celebrating Punjabi culture, has recently experienced a steep rise in popularity. The Mehfil started out in 2008 mainly as a poetry event but has since expanded to cover all manner of cultural prose and has recently relocated to the Millennium Centre to account for the extra numbers.
Just some of the many who have recently got involved with the Mehfil.
The group’s organiser Mr Channi Kaler said, “Everybody contributes something to the event, somebody sings, somebody tells a joke, it is a way people can come and carry out their own skill.” Attendances were low in the first two years but it was when Mr Kaler first started encouraging those from the Pakistani as well as the Indian Punjabi community to get involved that the group began to grow so rapidly.
