The Indian Culture Association hosted the Holi Festival of Color on Saturday in the Campus Mall. ICA provided attendees with an opportunity to celebrate the Hindu festival of Holi, which signifies the victory of good over evil as well as the start of spring. Local small businesses such as Tacolote and Mary’s Paleteria offered free food and dessert for the first 100 students. The festival included traditional music, a water balloon fight, food, a water slide and the throwing of colored powder.
- Students stand in line at the Tacolote Food Truck before the start of Holi. (Photo by Sarah Eunyoung Thompson)
- Students arrive together at the bottom of the waterslide. (Photo by Sarah Eunyoung Thompson)
- Jenna Emmanuel, ICA event coordination officer, and Austin Mondru, exit the bottom of the slide at Holi. (Photo by Sarah Eunyoung Thompson)
- A student runs from a water balloon at Holi. (Photo by Sarah Eunyoung Thompson)
- Alin Anil, president of ICA and sophomore information systems major from Garland, dumps a bucket of water after running out of water balloons. (Photo by Sarah Eunyoung Thompson)
- Students throw water balloons at each other at Holi. (Photo by Sarah Eunyoung Thompson)
- Megan Hewtty, senior art major from San Antonio, spreads color on to other participants. (Photo by Sarah Eunyoung Thompson)
- Students reach into bags of colored chalk. (Photo by Sarah Eunyoung Thompson)
- Student runs through colored chalk at Holi. (Photo by Sarah Eunyoung Thompson)
- Students throw chalk up into the air at Holi. (Photo by Sarah Eunyoung Thompson)