

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Pongal Sangamam: Multicultural Tamil Harvest Festival
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 17 Jan, 2026 at 11:00 am – Sat, 17 Jan, 2026 at 01:00 pm
- **Event Description**: We invite you to join us on Saturday, January 17th for a family-friendly, multicultural Pongal celebration! Registration for this program is appreciated but not required.

Click here to RSVP for this event: https://acfree.librarycalendar.com/event/pongal-tamil-harvest-festival-6348


What is Pongal?

Pongal is an indigenous Tamil harvest festival celebrated by Tamils throughout southern India, Sri Lanka, and the worldwide Tamil diaspora. Celebrated over four days, it is a time for communities to come together to honor both nature and agriculture’s bountiful harvests and share in traditional foods, rituals, and art.

How will we celebrate at this event?

Read about Pongal with Persis Naumann, Fulbright scholar and founder of multicultural, bilingual Tamil book publisher Kelir Books
• Learn the steps to a traditional dance, as well as a bilingual song in English and Tamil
• Enjoy traditional foods
• Make Pongal-inspired art such as your very own clay Pongal pot, a sugar scrub, and DIY Pongal stamp art
• And much more!
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/carnegie/pongal-sangamam-multicultural-tamil-harvest-festival/200029509506646
- **Event Categories**: festivals, harvest-festival, art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 4

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029509506646?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=carnegie-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Carnegie
- **state**: PA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 300 Beechwood Ave, Carnegie, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 15106
- **lat**: 40.40699
- **long**: -80.08581
- **full address**: 300 Beechwood Ave, Carnegie, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 15106

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall (https://allevents.in/org/andrew-carnegie-free-library-and-music-hall/25980024)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 17 Jan, 2026 at 11:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 300 Beechwood Ave, Carnegie, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 15106
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** festivals, harvest-festival, art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Pongal Sangamam: Multicultural Tamil Harvest Festival ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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