Diwali Glow

6-9pm • Saturday 18 November 2023

OVADA Warehouse bustling with visitors at our Diwali Glow event. Photo by Bharat Patel

Diwali Glow visitors enjoy delicious Indian food. Photo by Bharat Patel

Director of OVADA, Mita Vaghela, addresses Diwali Glow visitors. Photo by Bharat Patel

Garba workshop in Westgate before the procession to OVADA. Photo by Bharat Patel

Garba workshop in Westgate before the procession to OVADA. by Bharat Patel

Dancing in Westgate. Photo by Adrian Pawley

Dhol performance in Westgate before procession to OVADA. Photo by Bharat Patel

Visitor holds a diya. Photo by Bharat Patel

Artist Kashmira Patel and OVADA director/ artist Mita Vaghela pose in the sari installation. Photo by Bharat Patel

Diwali decorations. Photo by Bharat Patel

Celebrating in Westgate. Photo by Bharat Patel

OVADA is decorated for visitors. Photo by Bharat Patel

Sari and rangoli installations before Diwali Glow event. Photo by Bharat Patel

OVADA bustling with visitors to Diwali Glow

Harmanpreet Randhawa leads a Rangoli making session

Harmanpreet Randhawa's rangoli installation

Handmade diyas from Kashmira Patel's workshops beneath our sari tent

Rangoli design by Harmanpreet Randhawa. Photo by Bharat Patel

Harmanpreet Randhawa and volunteers from The Ruskin School of Art install the large Rangoli design

Diwali Glow film

a film by Sarah Catterall

We warmly invite you to celebrate Diwali this year as part of
Oxford's Christmas Lights Festival

Sharing time with loved ones and the community is the most important feature of Diwali

We are starting at 6pm in Westgate Shopping Centre on the lower ground floor near Leiden Square (in the unit next to Seasalt) with a dhol (drums) and Garba (dance) performance There will be an opportunity to join in too! We will then form a diya (lantern) procession led by a traditional dhol player to OVADA

At the warehouse, see what artists Harmanpreet Randhawa, Sarah Catterall, Kashmira Patel and Mita Vaghela and members of the South Asian Community have been working on to co-produce rangoli designs and a sari and light installation

There will be chai and snacks at OVADA, Indian food vendors, a live DJ and activities for all the family

Warehouse will be open from 6-9pm

Admission: Free

Location: OVADA Warehouse