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Students celebrate EIU's unofficial Holi in the Library Quad. Holi is a festival celebrated in India. It is celebrated as the festival of colors, love and spring.

EIU celebrates Holi festival of colors

Aidan Cusack, Reporter April 21, 2024

Ribbons of dyed water zipped through the springtime air, while clouds of colorful powder enveloped EIU's Library Quad.    Vibrant music painted the air with lively tunes, as celebrators clad...

Eastern celebrates Holi Festival in rain

Logan Raschke, News Editor April 28, 2019

The Saturday showers quite literally put a damper on the three-day Celebration Festival, but that did not stop Charleston from having a good time. Food trucks surrounded the Doudna Fine Arts Center;...

People talk to each other while they finish setting up the concert stage for Celebration a Festival of the Arts Thursday afternoon outside of The Doudna Fine Arts Center. Alverson Sound Inc. was contracted to build the stage by Z’s Music & Sound.

Festival of the Arts, Holi to come to campus this weekend

Staff Report April 25, 2019

Celebration: A Festival of the Arts and Holi, also commonly known as the Festival of Colors, will bring all things humanities to Eastern this weekend. Celebration is “a sure sign of the return of spring,”...

Kishore Bandarupalli, graduate student in the school of technology is carried by a group of friends Saturday at the HOLI event in the Library Quad.

Students embrace Holi, the festival of colors

Analicia Haynes, Online Editor April 23, 2017

A cloud of colorful smoke hovered over multiple tie-dyed and smiling faces in the Library Quad Saturday afternoon as the Hindu Festival of Colors, otherwise known as Holi, unfolded. Bright, tinted powders...

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