OGDEN — Get ready for a kaleidoscope of colors.

Holi, a Hindu tradition characterized by flying colorful powder that’s widely celebrated across India and elsewhere in the United States and world, is returning to Ogden on Saturday. The “Festival of Colors” will be held at West Stadium Park, west of Pioneer stadium, from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m.

“Essentially it’s to celebrate the return of spring,” said Britta Stump, who’s taken part in Holi activities since the mid-1990s and will serve as a volunteer at Saturday’s event.

Expect music, dancing and Indian food on one stage and yoga instruction on another. But perhaps the most distinctive aspect is the colorful powder, periodically thrown by revelers during Holi events, making for rainbow-like cloudbursts. Stump said it’s non-toxic, but be prepared to be doused in the stuff.

If you wear light-colored garb “you might end with a tie-dyed shirt,” she said.

Cost to enter, if tickets are purchased online ahead of time, is $7 for adults while kids aged 12 and under are free. On tap, according to an online blurb about the event, will be “interactive dance, live mantra bands, DJs, yoga teachers, cuisine, free hugs, lotsa love.”

Only powder purchased at the event, available in violet, green, yellow, pink and orange, may be used on festival grounds.

“Ingredients are corn starch, permissible food grade dyes and fragrance. They are environmentally friendly, beautiful colors and nicely scented,” reads the event website. The colors are less likely to stain clothing if the powder is shaken from clothing before washing.

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