The North American Bengali Conference (NABC) is an annual Bengali culture conference held in the United States and Canada, typically around the weekend of July 4. It was established in 1981 by the Cultural Association of Bengal in New York, and is hosted by different organizations in USA & Canada every year. The conference includes live performances by top performing artists (singers, dancers and dramatists), full and short length feature films and documentaries, elocution and readings discussion, networking, and class reunions.
Performers are often from the United States, Canada, Bangladesh, and India. Audiences are primarily Bangladeshi American, Indian American, Bangladeshi Canadian and Indian Canadian.
This event has a captive audience size of 6,000 to 11,000 every year. This year too in Toronto, we are expecting 7,000+ audiences coming from various cities of USA & Canada. Naturally this event gives a huge boost to local tourism and economy.
Various Awards, Prizes & Felicitations are conferred to recognize the hard work done by the Directors, Actors and other film and cultural personalities.