Eid on Tour event comes to Leicester city centre

A free pop-up event aiming to celebrate Eid and share the festival to wider audiences is to be held in Leicester.

Eid on Tour will take place at St Peter's Square in the Highcross Shopping Centre on Saturday and Sunday.

Organiser Bilal Khan, who is also behind the Halal Food Festival which tours the country, said the event is about taking Eid "across various cities, bringing that energy and showcasing it to other cultures as to how exciting it is for us".

The event will feature 14 street food stalls, performances from a Nigerian drummer and Middle Eastern Dabke dancers, as well as artisan stalls.

Eid on Tour runs from 09:00 BST to 20:00 on Saturday and 11:00 to 17:00 on Sunday.

Mr Khan, who was born and raised in Leicester, told the BBC: "The Halal Food Festival has been running for four years.

"This is the first year that we actually introduced Eid on Tour, because we were doing the food festivals and people were asking for more events, free entry events.

"And we were like, 'right, how can we give something back to the community?'"

He said the event was "not specifically for Muslims, to be quite honest, it's for all the other cultures to come and get involved to come and see and get a get a flavour of what we're about on weekends".

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