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Diwali
India’s Festival of Light • Celebrating the Art of Yoga
Hands-on Activities
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All activities are 12–5 pm unless noted otherwise.
Galleries are open until 7:30 pm.
Programs are subject to change.
Many events are first come, first served.
Tours
Performances and Ceremonies
Woodblock prints
Color a print of Lakshmi Puja,
the Goddess of Wealth
ImaginAsia classroom
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Origami lotuses
Create a lotus flower, a symbol of purity
and good fortune
Freer gallery 5
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Yoga of Sound: K. Sridhar, sarod
Freer conference room
1 and 3 pm
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Storytelling
Sacred Rivers: Tales told by Louise
Omoto Kessel
Freer gallery 2
2 and 4 pm
Yoga class
Mats provided; all levels welcome
International Gallery, Ripley Center
12:15, 1:15, 2:15, 3:15, 4:15, 5:15 pm
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NM Rangoli demonstration
Try Indian rice powder art with
Gayatri Mohan-Iyengar
Freer north entrance (National Mall)
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Photo studio
Strike a yoga pose
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Asian board games
Play Bagh Chal and Pachisi-Chaupat
Freer south corridor
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Opening ceremony
With Ambassador Nirupama Rao
Freer courtyard
12 pm
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Spotlight on Yoga:
The Art of Transformation
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Perspectives: Rina Banerjee
3:30 pm
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Arts of South Asia and
the Himalayas
Pre-concert tour
Freer galleries 1 and 2
6:45–7:15 pm
Food for sale
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Lamp-lighting ceremony
Celebrate the holiday of Diwali
Freer courtyard
6 pm
Tea and cupcakes
Fraîche Cupcakery
Freer courtyard
NM Indian food
North Indian classical music concert
K. Sridhar, sarod; Krishna Ramdas, tabla
Free tickets distributed at 6:30 pm
Freer Meyer Auditorium
7:30 pm
Food trucks
Freer north entrance (National Mall)
Festival photos will be posted on
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Freer Gallery of Art
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Diwali
India’s Festival of Light • Celebrating the Art of Yoga
Welcome to a festival of Indian art
and culture! Join in the celebration of
Diwali, the festival of lights that offers
blessings and hopes for prosperity in
the year ahead. The three exhibitions of
contemporary and historical art on view
in the Sackler Gallery further illuminate
India at home and in the world.
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Yogini
India, Tamil Nadu,
Kanchipuram, ca. 900–975
Stone
Gift of Arthur M. Sackler,
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The stories and rituals of Diwali focus on the
triumph of light over darkness, compassion
over hatred, and knowledge over ignorance.
Around the world Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, and some
Buddhists observe the five-day festival of Diwali
by lighting hundreds of lamps, playing games of
luck, and eating sweets. Enjoy this afternoon by
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Shiva as a sadhu
Chromolithograph on coated
paper (playing card wrapper)
Probably from the manufacturer
Antoine van Genechten in
Turnhout, Belgium, ca. 1900.
Robert J. Del Bontà collection,
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learning about Indian art, playing traditional
games, coloring a print of the goddess Lakshmi,
listening to stories and music, joining a yoga class,
and participating in a beautiful lamp-lighting
ceremony in the Freer courtyard.
Thank you for being part of this celebration!
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Detail; A World Lost: after the original
island, single land mass fractured,
after populations migrated, after
pollution revealed itself and as cultural
locations once separated merged,
after the splitting of Adam and Eve,
Shiva and Shakti, of race black and
white, of culture East and West, after
animals diminished, after the seas’
corals did exterminate, after this and
at last imagine all water evaporated...
this after Columbus found it we lost it
imagine this
Rina Banerjee (b. 1963)
2013
Mixed media
Gain enlightenment in Yoga: The Art of Transformation, the first major exhibition to explore the art
of yoga. Assembled from collections around the
world, these works date from the second to the
early twentieth century and reveal yoga’s profound meanings, hidden histories, and evolution
into a global phenomenon.
In Strange and Wondrous: Prints of India from the
Robert J. Del Bontà Collection, images and folios
from books reveal how information and prejudices
about ascetics, yogis, and Hindu practices circulated throughout the West from the sixteenth to
the early twentieth century.
Artist Rina Banerjee used objects ranging from
ostrich eggs to plastic cups to create this sitespecific work. A World Lost . . . , featured in
Perspectives: Rina Banerjee, refers to alchemy,
commerce, the transience of life, and our place
and purpose in the universe.
Upcoming Events
Art in Context: Yoga in the Galleries
Wednesdays and Sundays,
November 6–January 22
Yoga mats provided; registration and
$15 fee required
Yoga and Visual Culture
Thursday–Saturday, November 21–23
Free symposium; pre-registration required
Exhibition Tours of Yoga
Most days at 12:15 pm
November 1–January 26
Go to asia.si.edu/yoga for more information