2018 Holi Festival

  • Students participate at the annual Holi Festival at Georgia Southern Statesboro Campus on March 22, 2018. This is the fourth time this event took place.

  • Students get bags of color dust as they get ready for the Holi Festival on March 22, 2018 at the Statesboro campus.

  • Students throw up bags of chalk color at the fourth annual Holi Festival at the Statesboro campus.

  • Students throw up pigmented powders of color in the air at the fourth annual Holi Festival on March 22.

  • Students participate at the fourth annual Holi Festival at the Statesboro campus.

  • Students dance at the fourth annual Holi Festival at the Statesboro campus.

  • Students dance at the fourth annual Holi Festival at the Statesboro campus. 

  • A man carries a child at the annual Holi Festival at the Statesboro campus.

  • Students participate at the fourth annual Holi Festival at the Statesboro campus.

  • Students take pictures at the fourth annual Holi Festival at the Statesboro campus.

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March 23, 2018

The annual Holi Festival took place at the Statesboro campus. Every year at the GS Holi Festival celebration, participants throw pigmented powders in the air, creating a cloud of many colors. The colors carry their own meanings, according to Time Magazine: red for love and fertility, blue for the Hindu god Krishna, green for new beginnings.