ItÊs that wonderfully vivid time of the year once again...Holi Festival!
By Kritika Bansal - KBEM THE annual Hindu spring celebration of colour took place on the 6th of March across India while we jumped on the colouring bandwagon this Sunday the 8th of March at the Les Atkinson Park in Brisbane which proved to be one of the best painty parties in town. Although, I would like to point out that the initial response towards this year’s Holi celebration aka Holi Dhamaka 2015 wasn’t that great which is why we at KBEM (Kritika Bansal Event Management) had to work extra hard on organising, managing and especially promoting the event. Our team really had had to wear the creative hats to think of ways on how we could get this event off the hooks and do thing that were never done before. The results are in front of everyone and the reviews on all social media channels are a testimony as to why this could possibly be the best Holi celebration in Brisbane till date. Now one could argue that we are bragging a little but sometimes under promising and over delivering works best. This reminds me of a statement made by one of the event attendees when asked what their thoughts were before attending the event, “It’s like watching the Indian Cricket Team play against the arch rivals South Africa where
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most of us watching in the room had little or no expectations from the Indian team, given their post World-Cup performances in Australia.” You got the point, people came to attend the Holi Festival without expectations. The online storytelling and creative social media promotions helped gauge people’s interest towards attending the event. In recent years, Holi has become a popular festival around the world as a form of music festival which was also seen in this event with one of the best Djs in Brisbane rocking the crowd from start till the end of the event. Apart for this, arrangement were made for delicious Indian food & drinks, Live Shaimak Davar crew’s dance performances which had public participation which was loved by everyone, the Matki Phod challenge, kids games, a whole lot of family fun and an exuberant riot of colour took place with over two thousand people in attendance made this event a huge success and something that might have just raised the bar for next year’s Holi Celebrations. All in all, the Holi festival is about people meeting to play and laugh, forget and forgive and repair relationships which is what we at KBEM aimed to achieve at this Holi Dhamaka 2015.
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