{"id":176281,"date":"2026-04-26T04:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T04:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176281\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T04:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T04:13:15","slug":"philadelphia-zoo-hosts-a-festival-of-colors-to-celebrate-holi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176281\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Zoo hosts a Festival of Colors to celebrate Holi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/indiacouncil.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Council of Indian Organizations in Greater Philadelphia;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Council of Indian Organizations in Greater Philadelphia<\/a> held a Festival of Colors today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They hosted dozens at the Philadelphia Zoo to celebrate &#8220;Holi.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">To go along with the traditions of Holi, colors flew in the air throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For more information, check out the video above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Also, check out their <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" 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\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:website;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Council of Indian Organizations in Greater Philadelphia held a Festival of Colors today. They hosted dozens at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[78893,78894,24178,78896,69,71,70,2357,78895],"class_list":["post-176281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-council-of-indian-organizations","tag-festival-of-colors","tag-greater-philadelphia","tag-neil-batiancila","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-zoo","tag-welcome-spring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176281","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=176281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}