Belonging through
cultural pride.
Red Lotus Events creates open, welcoming spaces where South Asian arts, culture and heritage are experienced, protected and passed forward — year‑round, not just once a year.
OUR IMPACT SO FAR
What started with one person's need
has grown into a home people return to.
Fifteen years of building cultural home in London. Over a million lives connected with purpose. And a community where four in five people keep coming back.
Every programme, one purpose.
Rooted in Gujarati and wider South Asian heritage. Built for everyone who wants to belong — from flagship festivals to quiet, low‑barrier gatherings.
An event by Red Lotus Events
Rangeelu Gujarat
Music, dance, art, craft and food — British Gujarati culture on a stage it deserves.
Navrangi Navratri
Traditional garba kept true to its roots, plus a children's takeover programme that hands the mic to the next generation.
Sur Dhara
Bhajans, stillness and surrender. Sur Dhara honours the people and stories that shaped us. From January 2027 we're moving to a new home: Watford Colosseum.
Sip & Paint / Meditate & Create
Cross‑cultural, low‑barrier gatherings for people who want connection without ceremony.
An event by Red Lotus Events
Anhad — The Unstruck Sound
An evening of bhajans, Vedic chanting and shared devotion for Shravan maas. It sold out and moved everyone in the room — so we're planning to make it an annual gathering.
One person's need.
Now a shared home.
Pritee Varsani trained as a Gujarati folk singer in India. When she came home to the UK, she couldn't find a space where that music, sung the way it was meant to be sung, truly belonged. So she built one: RLE's own Navratri, rooted and unapologetically authentic.
Mira Salat joined soon after, and together they built something young people had been missing — a place to learn the stories behind the traditions, feel proud of who they are, and know they're not alone.
RLE exists so people can come together to learn about their heritage, celebrate rooted culture, and grow from the past into the future.
Pritee Varsani & Mira Salat, Directors, Red Lotus Events
This only works if you're part of it.
Everyone is welcome — you don't need to know the songs to join in. That's the whole point.