Saturday, November 2, 1pm – 3pm
Center Court

Bridgewater Commons, in partnership with Renascent Media, celebrates the South Asian festival of lights with a spectacular live show in Center Court filled with music, dance, crafts, giveaways and more. Diwali is the Hindu festival of lights, with variations celebrated in other Indian religions symbolizing the spiritual "victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance." Guests are encouraged to dress up traditionally.

To celebrate this festive holiday, guests will experience the following:

• Special Guest Emcees Radio Guru Kulraaj Anand and Anchor and Producer at ITV Gold Piya Jyoti Kachroo.
• Bollywood Dance performance by the Satrangi School of Fusion, a premier Bollywood dance studio by decorated choreographer Rohheet Baxi. The group will feature adult and child dancers as young as 8 performing traditional and contemporary fusion Bollywood dances.
• Epic Ramlila theatrical presentation by the Navrang Dance Academy. Guests will experience the breathtaking moment when Lord Rama, alongside Sita and Lakshmana, returns to his kingdom after 14 years of exile and the heroic defeat of Ravana. This epic journey is a powerful tale of love, loyalty and the ultimate victory of good over evil.
• Arts and crafts tables for families include Henna art application, decorative tea light and Indian sweets giveaways.
• Shopping prize giveaways and a selfie photo booth to share your Diwali experience.
• Arti, a Hindu prayer ritual employed in worship in which light from a flame is ritually waved to venerate deities, will be performed with guests holding electric candle lights.

Bridgewater Commons began its South Asian cultural celebrations in 2022 with Bollywood dance spectaculars in Center Court that featured over forty performers drawing hundreds of guests. The annual program has evolved and grown into this year’s Diwali celebration. Other cultural celebrations throughout the year at the shopping center have included Lunar New Year and Chinese Mid-Autumn Lantern Festivals, celebrating the unique diversity in Somerset County.