{"id":176184,"date":"2026-04-26T01:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176184\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T01:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:01:14","slug":"philadelphia-zoo-hosts-a-festival-of-colors-to-celebrate-holi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176184\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Zoo hosts a Festival of Colors to celebrate Holi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; The <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/indiacouncil.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Council of Indian Organizations in Greater Philadelphia<\/a> held a Festival of Colors today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They hosted dozens at the Philadelphia Zoo to celebrate &#8220;Holi.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;This is what Philadelphia Zoo is about, transformational memories being made. You see families, you see people of all ages, all backgrounds&#8230; When you welcome Spring, you associate that with all sorts of different colors. And that comes to life today,&#8221; said Neil Batiancila, Chief Development Officer of the Philadelphia Zoo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">To go along with the traditions of Holi, colors flew in the air throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;There are many non-Indian friends who have come here with their children, and it&#8217;s a very binding thing to make new friends, to get to know a different culture, to try to understand a different people. So when I see&#8230;friends coming and celebrating Holi, I&#8230; feel very, very nice,&#8221; said Consul General of India, New York, Binaya Pradhan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">For more information, check out the video above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Also, check out their <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.philadelphiazoo.org\/visit\/?utm_medium=paid-search&amp;utm_source=google&amp;utm_campaign=philadelphia-zoo-2026-brand&amp;utm_content=general&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=23657327464&amp;gbraid=0AAAAApFDePB4gvhYGov6dlgAP1hMgXGxo&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwzLHPBhBTEiwABaLsSttAsH3wxPORUfrrqAHO_Vx7zNR8ppzXfBvYTUm2pDcCbaDdUHBAiRoCOm0QAvD_BwE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; The Council of Indian Organizations in Greater Philadelphia held a Festival of Colors today.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[78852,1137,61306,20963,69,71,70,2357],"class_list":["post-176184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-78852","tag-festival","tag-holi","tag-indian-americans","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-zoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}