Organisers of Edinburgh’s Diwali Festival have confirmed the 2018 event will take place on 3 November 2018.
This will be the city’s biggest celebration yet for Diwali, a free festival of live music and dancing and it will take place at the Ross Bandstand in West Princes Street Gardens after a parade through the city centre.
The dazzling set will include seven bands and seven groups of dancers, culminating in a 20-minute display of fireworks, with thousands of sparklers for people who attend and 300 handcrafted lanterns lighting up the night sky.
The colourful and vibrant Festival of Lights – which symbolises victory of light over darkness and good over evil – is celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and Jains all over the world. For the first time, Edinburgh’s event will feature a stage play and exhibition, detailing the origins of the Festival.
Beforehand, a Diwali parade will perform through the streets of the city centre, featuring hundreds of lanterns and traditional decorated floats of Gods, from Ganesh (the Elephant God) and Hanuman (the Monkey God) to Shiva.
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