{"id":19507,"date":"2023-05-02T03:12:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T03:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=19507"},"modified":"2023-05-02T03:12:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T03:12:15","slug":"fledgling-san-francisco-neighborhood-turns-out-for-colorful-holi-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2023\/05\/02\/fledgling-san-francisco-neighborhood-turns-out-for-colorful-holi-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Fledgling San Francisco Neighborhood Turns Out for Colorful Holi Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, April 29, 2023 (San Francisco Chronicle): Clear skies, sunny weather and barrels of colored powder drew hundreds of people Saturday afternoon to downtown San Francisco\u2019s fledgling East Cut neighborhood to celebrate the beginning of spring. The Holi festival, organized by neighborhood groups Ideate SF and Together SF, commemorated one of the most significant festivals in Hindu culture. Saturday\u2019s event marked the second year in a row that organizers in the East Cut banded together to put on the festival at the Crossing, a three-acre outdoor space between Howard and Folsom streets that temporarily served as the city\u2019s Transbay bus terminal.<br><br>This year\u2019s festival doubled in size compared with last year\u2019s inaugural event, and \u201creally reflects the diversity of San Francisco,\u201d said Kanishka Karunaratne Cheng, one of the festival\u2019s organizers. A team of 40 or so volunteers put together the festival to try to create a sense of community among neighbors in the East Cut, the area between Mission and Harrison streets east of Second Street that was renamed in 2020. Organizers said they planned to host a third festival next year with hopes of making the event an annual tradition. San Francisco, in some ways, is late to the party. Many cities across the Bay Area have celebrated the \u201cfestival of colors\u201d for years. Stanford\u2019s annual celebration draws thousands of students and attendees who use 5,500 pounds of colored powder.<br><br>More at source.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/holi-color-festival-san-francisco-17924143.php#photo-23736404\n\">https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/holi-color-festival-san-francisco-17924143.php#photo-23736404<br><\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, April 29, 2023 (San Francisco Chronicle): Clear skies, sunny weather and barrels of colored powder drew hundreds,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19512,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19507\/revisions\/19512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}