Bole Festival is an annual festival that kicked off in 2016, it started when some group of young individuals cooked up the idea together and thought of a medium to project the heritage of their food and culture of the South-South region to the rest of the world. Bole Festival features food( especially roasted plantain and fish), fun and culture to make the festival more attractive and to provide a an opportunity for the sales of goods and services. So far, the cultural festival has attracted individuals from a walks of life that cuts across vast ages, demographics and is always patronised by communities, individuals, families from all over the country and beyond.

So far, in the past years, the festival has continue to grow and has even become one of the largest food festivals in the South South region of Nigeria, it is exclusively held in Port Harcourt, Rivers State in the month of August each year. One unique feature of the Bole Festival is that, it is a well anticipated sought-after event that always keeps its audience expectant to the next event.

MOTTO OF THE FESTIVAL

The Motto of the festival is is Eat, Play & Connect . The bole festival creates unique experiences and trends which are shared and most times discussed on different social media platforms and with has made the festival to build an interactive social community and also become top of the most discussed topics on social media platforms annually in the southern region of Nigeria.

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EAT

The Bole festival can be described as a platform where the food lovers from the southern part of Nigeria converge to eat the roasted plantain (“Bole”) which is one of the beloved and most popular street food in the Southern region. It's atmosphere of fun and a place different food vendors can be found selling varieties of bole and fish.

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You can see people eating and smiling, some eating just in the street too😊

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PLAY

The festival also provide an avenue to have different varieties fun games and competitions. The Festival also features local upcoming artists to perform alongside international artists from various genres of Musics. Other Entertainers such as Comedians, magicians, dancers, DJs, MCs etc are all present to entertain the audience. The Entertainment is simply a top notch.

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CONNECT

Bole Festival is also an assortment for families, Individuals, which includes both the young and elders to meet old friends, and connect with new people. Each year, it becomes a rendezvous for businesses, entrepreneurs, Institutions, bodies and families also come to Bole Festival to network with their audience and participants.

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CONCLUSION

The bole festival has to restrictions to who wants to participate and experience the fun and activities and welcomes audience from all over the world. It'd be my pleasure seeing Steemians also participating in this year's Eve. I'm sure you would want to participate and experience the next bole festival😊, don't worry you ain't too late and can start preparing for it because the one for this year will take place on 6th to 7th August 2022 so you can safe the date. Participants are welcomed all over Nigeria and the world in General.

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