{"id":56213,"date":"2019-10-12T10:29:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T05:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=56213"},"modified":"2019-10-11T16:34:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T11:34:44","slug":"lok-mela-start-from-nov-15-islamabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/lok-mela-start-from-nov-15-islamabad.html","title":{"rendered":"Lok Mela to start from Nov 15 in Islamabad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage (Lok Virsa) has announced that their famous annual 10-day mega event \u2018Lok Mela\u2019 will commence from November 15 at Lok Virsa Complex in Shakarparian, according to news sources.<\/p>\n<p>The inaugural ceremony of the event will be attended by Minister for Federal Education, Professional Training, National History and Literary Heritage<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/governor-house-to-host-corporate-events.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Shafqat Mahmood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kalat-festival-commence-oct-12.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kalat Festival set to commence from Oct 12<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The event will showcase artisans at work, provincial heritage pavilions, folk music, folk dances, a crafts\u2019 bazaar, and other cultural activities. Following the tradition of the past four decades, the festival will start with a formal Chadarposhi and Dastarbandi ceremony. It is Lok Virsa\u2019s way of highlighting the skill of craftspeople, folk artists and other local talents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/broghil-festival-begins-today.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Broghil Festival begins today<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cultural departments from all the provinces of the country (including AJK and Gilgit-Baltistan) have been called upon to set up pavilions at the event. This is to create a veritable display of traditional customs, artists, handicrafts and cuisines. Live concerts, featuring traditional artists, will offer music and dance performances. The event itinerary is designed to promote all colours of Pakistan\u2019s hereditary culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage (Lok Virsa) has announced that their famous annual 10-day mega event \u2018Lok Mela\u2019 will commence from November 15 at Lok Virsa Complex in Shakarparian, according to news sources. The inaugural ceremony of the event will be attended by Minister for Federal Education, Professional Training, National History and Literary Heritage Shafqat Mahmood. Read:\u00a0Kalat Festival set to commence from Oct 12 The event will showcase artisans at work, provincial heritage pavilions, folk music, folk dances, a crafts\u2019 bazaar, and other cultural activities. Following the tradition of the past four decades, the festival will start with a formal Chadarposhi and Dastarbandi ceremony. It is Lok Virsa\u2019s way of highlighting the skill of craftspeople, folk artists and other local talents. Read:\u00a0Broghil Festival begins today The cultural departments from all the provinces of the country (including AJK and Gilgit-Baltistan) have been called upon to set up pavilions at the event. This is to create a veritable display of traditional customs, artists, handicrafts and cuisines. Live concerts, featuring traditional artists, will offer music and dance performances. The event itinerary is designed to promote all colours of Pakistan\u2019s hereditary culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":49732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13394],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-56213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-details-on-lok-mela-to-start-from-nov-15-in-islamabad"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lok Mela to start from Nov 15 in Islamabad - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage (Lok Virsa) has announced that their famous annual 10-day mega event \u2018Lok Mela\u2019 will\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/lok-mela-start-from-nov-15-islamabad.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lok Mela to start from Nov 15 in Islamabad - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage (Lok Virsa) has announced that their famous annual 10-day mega event \u2018Lok Mela\u2019 will\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/lok-mela-start-from-nov-15-islamabad.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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