DHAKA, Jan 30, 2024 (BSS) - Bangladeshi expats will celebrate Bengali New Year in New York City from April 13 to 14.

The programme will include Sotokonthe Borsho Boron (welcoming of Bengali New Year with chorus song by 100 people), Mangal Shobhajatra, puppet show, bioscope, theatre, folk songs and so on, said a press release received here today.

NRB World, an organization of non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs), will arrange the programme with the cooperation of progressive social and cultural organizations.

The announcement was made recently in presence of hundreds of literary and cultural personalities at a restaurant in Jackson Heights in New York.

Rehearsals of inaugural ceremony, Mangal Shobhajatra and welcoming of New Year in 100-voice were held on the day.

Accomplished musician impresario Mohitosh Talukder Taposh conducted the rehearsal while NRB World president Biswajit Saha presided over the announcement function.

NRB World general secretary Tofazzal Liton moderated the function while Chittagong University Professor Hossain Kabir, actress Lutfun Nahar Lata, 100-voice rehearsal director Mahitosh Talukder, president of Prajanma 71 United States Shibli Sadek and Deputy General Secretary of the organizing committee Tanveer Kaiser spoke on the occasion.

NRB World president said Pohela Baishakh, the first day of Bengali New Year, will be celebrated at the dawn in New York as like as Bangladesh leading cultural organization Chhayanaut's celebration at Ramna Batamul in Dhaka.

Mangal Shobhajatra will also be brought out while two-day traditional Baishakhi Mela will also be arranged, he said.