{"id":9266,"date":"2018-11-01T23:13:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T03:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=9266"},"modified":"2019-12-31T14:15:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T19:15:14","slug":"diwali-malden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2018\/11\/01\/diwali-malden\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Celebrating Diwali, The Hindu Festival Of Lights, In Malden"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gallery on Main Street in Malden hosted a public celebration of the Hindu festival of Diwali<\/a> tonight.<\/p>\n

\u201cDiwali is known as the festival of lights,\u201d Shikha Vyas told the audience, \u201cwhich is a symbol of the coming of Lakshmi, who is known as the goddess of wealth. Diwali is also celebrated to welcome Rama,\u201d who fought a demon army to rescue his kidnapped wife. Traditionally the Hindu holiday honors a victory of light over darkness and good over evil.<\/p>\n

During the evening, Amrutha Ananth danced classical Bharatanatyam to singing of Carnatic music by Aditya Venkatesh. Vivek Sonar played ragas on his flute. Ananth then led the audience in some Bollywood dance moves.<\/p>\n

Wonderland Spectacle Co., led by Kari Percival, created the “Happy Diwali” performance backdrop.<\/p>\n

Where To Celebrate Diwali:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Boston’s Children’s Museum <\/a>celebrates Diwali with activities on Sunday, Nov. 4, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
\n\u2022 Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts<\/a> hosts Diwali events on Wednesday, Nov. 7, from 5 to 10 p.m.
\n\u2022 One of the most delightful big community celebrations of Diwali around these parts is the United India Association of New England<\/a>‘s shindig with music, dancing and food at Brown Middle School in Newton on Sunday, Nov. 11, from 3 to 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

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Help Wonderland keep producing our great coverage of local arts, cultures and activisms (and our great festivals) by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"Amrutha<\/a>
Amrutha Ananth dances classical Bharatanatyam during the Dawali celebration at the Gallery, Malden, Nov. 1, 2018. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Amrutha<\/a>
Amrutha Ananth dances classical Bharatanatyam during the Dawali celebration at the Gallery, Malden, Nov. 1, 2018. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vivek Sonar plays ragas on his flute during the Dawali celebration at the Gallery, Malden, Nov. 1, 2018. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Amrutha<\/a>
Amrutha Ananth dances classical Bharatanatyam during the Dawali celebration at the Gallery, Malden, Nov. 1, 2018. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Amrutha<\/a>
Amrutha Ananth leads the audience in Bollywood dancing during the Dawali celebration at the Gallery, Malden, Nov. 1, 2018. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Gallery on Main Street in Malden hosted a public celebration of the Hindu festival of Diwali tonight. \u201cDiwali is known as the festival of lights,\u201d Shikha Vyas told the audience, \u201cwhich is a symbol of the coming of Lakshmi, who is known as the goddess of wealth. Diwali is also celebrated to welcome Rama,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,108,103],"tags":[477,41,478],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9266"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14827,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266\/revisions\/14827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}