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Pohela Boishak: Bengali New Year celebrations kicked off Saturday

Summary by Chek News
Victoria’s downtown core filled with celebrations Saturday as the Victoria Bengali Cultural Society hosted an outdoor New Year celebration known as Pohela Boishakh. Hosted by the Victoria Bengali Cultural Society (VBCS), the free, family event filled Centennial Square with vibrant masked dancers, drumming for the city’s first Mongol Shobhajatra, or the Procession of Well-being. “This “Procession of Well-being” is recognized by UNESCO as intangib…
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Chek news broke the news in Victoria, Canada on Sunday, April 12, 2026.
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