India Cultural Center and Temple is proud to present the 5th Annual ICCT Holi (2023) celebrations - The Festival of Colors is to welcome the spring season in the mid-south. We are excited to host this event again after 3 years gap due to covid pandemic restrictions. True to the nature of the event, each and every community adds color to this event and we are proud to partner with all of you to bring the communities together.

Please join us with your family and friends to experience a fun-filled and colorful event.

Holi is a Hindu spring festival, originating from the Indian subcontinent, celebrated predominantly in India, but has also spread to other areas of Asia and parts of the Western world through the diaspora from the Indian subcontinent, also known as the "festival of colors" or the "festival of love”. The festival signifies the victory of good over evil, the arrival of spring, end of winter, and for many a festive day to meet others, play and laugh, forget and forgive, and repair broken relationships. It is also celebrated as a thanksgiving for a good harvest.

Holi is an ancient Hindu religious festival which has become popular with non-Hindus in many parts of South Asia, as well as people of other communities outside Asia. In addition to India, the festival is celebrated by Indian subcontinent diaspora in countries such as Jamaica, Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, South Africa, Malaysia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Mauritius, and Fiji. In recent years the festival has spread to parts of Europe and North America as a spring celebration of love, frolic, and colors.