Diwali Light Up the Orange Grove

Please join us for the 10th Anniversary of Diwali illuminations on Thursday, October 23, 2025. Come enjoy 3,000 lights, delicious snacks, Rangoli designs made by students in the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) chapter at SU, and a first-ever outdoor Bollywood dance party! The Orange Grove will be illuminated until 8.30PM. All are welcome ~ for more information, please contact Prof Romita Ray.

PROGRAM

5.00 ~ 5.30PM: Light Up The Orange Grove

5.30PM: Samosas and Vadas catered by Dakshin. Sweets from Biscotti Cafe

6.30 ~ 7.00PM: Shake a Leg outdoors to Bollywood music

This event is generously co-sponsored by Art and Music Histories, School of Architecture, Hendricks Chapel, and South Asia Center. Special thanks to the Syracuse University Art Museum.

Photo Credit: Marijke Margaret Stivers Pieters-Kwiers