Festival of India spectator participation from other cultural and religious groups. The Holi festival or ‘festival of colours’ originates from India. The festival involves people spraying others with water or dousing each other in colour. All are welcomed to enjoy the festivities. The festivals roots and reasoning’s are contested, but ISKCON believes the festival was created in homage of the God Krishna. Krishna (the eighth avatar of Vishnu) as myth had it, would playfully spray coloured water over his friends and visa-versa. The festival takes place in February or March and acts as a new year’s, each beginning free or past grievances. Holi
Colour Day Festival end of the night, everyone is being covered with colour. According to news.gr, more than 100.000 bags of colour were used at the first Colour Day Festival. In 2015 the inaugural Colour Day Festival gathered more than 32.000 attendees. The second Colour Day Festival was held in June 18, 2016 at OAKA, with more than 40.000 attendees. Colour Day Festival 2017 was held in Athens on June 17, 2017. The festival begins at 12 noon. The first guests arrive and some local warm-up DJs are performing. Each of the acts plays for about 20–30 minutes. –2 hours. At 5 pm