Dudhope Multicultural Centre, Bharatiya Ashram

Our gardening project volunteers in our sunny Spring Garden!! 🌞

All classes are closed until the new year.

Adults class is resuming on Thursday 11th January at 1930
Kids classes are resuming on Sunday 14th January at 1030 (5+) and 11:30 (9+).

We wish you all a nice holiday break and keep an eye on these page for our next show in march 2024!

Wonderful lights and colours for next week show. Don't miss it and book your ticket here

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What a fabulous and sunny weekend! Here is our smiley Shamim, one of our Garden Project volunteers, in our Community Garden, proudly showing off our home-grown onions!

Our Garden Project volunteers are very involved, working hard to grow organic produce. This is then sold to cater for tools or seeds required for the garden, or the produce is used in our lunch club meals!

Huge thanks to who gave us loads of blackberries from Arbuckle's Fruit Farm! We used them in our Lunch Club today for pudding and tarts! People loved them! 😍

Our garden at present!

Come along to sit in the garden with your lunch or just to have a relaxing time in nature. 🌼

We have two new classes for Children on Sunday.
Early Steps (3-8 yo) 10:30-11:20
Young Dancers (8-16 YO) 11:30-12:45
Suitable for beginners, Children will learn bollywood, folk and semi-classical dance and have a chance to perfom at various events. Please contact us for more information

We have adults class (>16 yo) on Thursday 19:30-21:00.
Suitable for beginners, students will learn bollywood, semi-classical and Kathak dance. All regular students have a chance to perform as various events. Contact us for more information.

Our dancers were at Dundee West fest today.

Get set for Flamenco!

Tu Flamenco is bringing the elaborate dance to our Centre for a special show on the 20th of May! Get your tickets now! Come along for a truly unique experience.

A quick throwback to the delicious food from last Saturday's Eid Lunch Club!

Craving some more? Come along to our Lunch Club tomorrow for some delicious food!

Coming up this Saturday!!

Poila Boisakh, Vaisakhi, Vishu, and Puthandu, among many other New Year festivals, are celebrated around South Asia in the spring.

Join us for a New Year feast at the lunch club this Saturday!

If you're not already a member, please let us know you're coming so we can have an idea of numbers, please.

Also, if you aren't a member, why haven't you signed up yet? It's only £15 a year and gives you discounted meals at the lunch club as well as special access and discounts for our classes and events. You'll also be helping to keep the Centre open!

See you all on Saturday!

Note for Saturday lunch clubs: Lunch Club will resume on the 4th of Feb!

Please note that Tuesday Lunch clubs are still on as usual.

Come and meet our dancers on 15th October for this free dance workshop. Registration on the day from 2pm.

Come to our workshop on 15th October and have a taste of Indian Dance. This is free and we will be running two classes
- Kids (age group 5-15)
-Adults (>15)
The workshop is suitable for beginners - please wear comfortable clothes - registration opens on the day from 2pm.

The Golden Agers book project had a contest for children and we are happy to announce the winners today!



Category: 5-7 years
First place: Pooja Sri Muthu Ramakrishnan and Laranya Dinesh

Category: 8-11 years
First place: Ahaana Nath
Second place: Alya Nath
Third place: Kiyansh Chowdhury and Mugunth Muthu Ramakrishnan

Pranayama (prana - life energy, yama - control) is the practice of breath regulation. It's a main component of yoga, an exercise for physical and mental wellness. 🧘‍♀️🧘‍♂️ Pranayama is a wonderful way to manage stress and improve health.

Interested in finding out more? Check out our beginners class starting on 14th of June 2022!

Free class but donations are always welcome! 😊

Fancy trying something new? We are pleased to announce that our dance classes are now open. Come and join our dance group on Thursday at 19:30.

We are sad to announce that our founder member and director, Mr Jyoti Prakash Hazra, MBE, Videsh Samman, passed away on the 17th of December 2021.

He was an integral part of the community and without him our Centre would never have existed. Along with a few friends, he started the Bharatiya Ashram with a small lunch club for ethnic minority elderly people. He pictured a vision where elderly people from various communities could meet, have lunch, and speak to each other in their own languages without being judged or secluded. He then wanted to build on this and create an educational and cultural centre where everyone could learn something new and practice arts from their culture. He finally achieved his dream by applying and receiving several grants and he built the Dudhope Multicultural Centre. We are fortunate to have such a beautiful place where people from a variety of backgrounds meet, laugh, learn and eat together without feeling judged. He worked tirelessly with passion for as long as he could, until his illness, very recently.

His passing is a huge loss for the community and we miss him immensely. 🙏

Our dance group are thrilled to be dancing on stage again on Sunday at the Dussehra event in Edinburgh!

Check out their feature in the Courier today and if you're in Edinburgh on Sunday, head over to watch them perform. They are looking forward to your support. :)

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/dundee/2660916/dundee-dance-troupe-delighted-to-be-performing-again-after-two-year-break/

Dundee dance troupe delighted to be performing again after two-year break A Dundee dance troupe are thrilled to be allowed to perform again after a two-year break. The Dudhope Multicultural Centre group will perform at the

Just spotted these two leftovers from harvest time in our community garden. Huge thanks to the Garden team who are working hard to maintain the garden tirelessly throughout🧤

Our organic produce is sold (proceeds put back into seeds or items for the garden!) or put into the food for the lunch club!

REOPENING!!

We are reopening the lunch club on Saturday, 21st August 2021 at 12pm! If you would like to book a place, please let us know by messaging us on Facebook.

Looking forward to seeing everyone back!! :)

It's Tuesday so it's ZUMBA DAY!! Join us on the link below from 11.30 for a chance to get a little bit active and get stretching. Don't forget you can join us from your chair or up on your feet!

All abilities welcome and the class is completely free!

Just click on the link below...

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/76082268106?pwd=N1J6czBIbkMwakxreGtIMVY1L3NMdz09

Last fun day with the local kids before going back to school. Breakfast, fun team games and an amazing bag painting workshop. Thank you Dundee Bairns for making it possible and for providing their lunch.

Morning everyone!! 🌞

Don't forget to start your day off with a wee bit of Zumba at 11.30am!

Here is the link. Don't forget this class is free and you can do it sitting or standing! It's for people of all abilities so there's no excuse not to join in. See you all in a bit! 🕺

Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/73477567652?pwd=NVA0U2ZjS0IxSkMzYnBoS1dsZmhBUT09

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Passcode: EFK98W

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