During the Hindu festival of love, color and spring, people smear colored powders on each other and drench one another in water. There’s also singing, dancing, and of course, food.

Holi is an ancient Indian celebration that marks the beginning of spring after a long winter and is symbolic of the triumph of good over evil. The festival will include live performances by local ...

More than 2,000 UNC students celebrated Holi, the Indian festival of colors, at Hooker Fields in Chapel Hill, N.C. on Friday, April 11, 2014. Al Drago newsobserver.com Holi is known as the ...

Holi is largely known as the Festival of Color, but also has a reputation as the Festival of Spring and the Festival of Love. The celebration, lasting one night and one day, occurs on a full moon ...

Holi is also rooted in religious legends, some of which celebrate the triumph of good over evil. In India, the festival begins with a blessing from an elder, said attendee Avinash Singh, 37, of ...

Instead of starting in Jersey City and ending in Hoboken, Surati for Performing Arts is reversing their annual Holi Hai celebration this Sunday, May 21, 2023, with the Color Walk beginning at Pier ...

What to know about Holi, the Hindu festival of color and love. Millions of people in India and around the world celebrating Holi this week. Posted 7:18 p.m. Mar 7, 2023 — Updated 4:16 p.m. Mar 8 ...

Why Hinduism's Holi is more than an explosion of color for the Indo-Caribbean diaspora (RNS) — The festival unites the descendants of people brought to the New World as indentured servants.

Holi Fest 2025: A Celebration of Color, Music, and Culture Saturday, March 15th from 11AM-5PM By Claire Southgate • Published February 19, 2025 • Updated on February 19, 2025 at 12:06 pm ...

Prior to the Navy Pier event, there wasn’t a large Holi celebration in the city, said Dylan Hankey, director of programming and production at Navy Pier. “When we started doing it, I had no ...

The Color Run is a different story, though. I feel quietly ripped apart - as if I were dissected for the things that the American kids would find cool, and then they were taken from me. I don't mind ...