The Baishakhi (or Banglatown) Mela is Europe’s largest open air Asian festival, with up to 100,000 people descending on the area surrounding London’s Brick Lane to celebrate the Bengali New Year. Now in its 18th year, the mix of parades, stalls, funfairs and two live music festival sites is a highly complex event to steward, so for 2009 the organisers brought in the unrivalled expertise and experi …[more]