South Asian Circle Of Hopkinton

Rang-Holi 2025 In spring 2025, the South Asian Circle of Hopkinton (SACH) hosted its annual Holi Festival, bringing together families and community members for a vibrant celebration of colors, music, and togetherness. To ensure accessibility, SACH provided free colors for all participants, encouraging broad community participation. We had attendees from all of MetroWest including Hopkinton, Ashland, Framingham and Holliston.    The event featured a professional dance instructor, who led the crowd in interactive dance sessions that energized attendees across all ages and backgrounds. This created a lively and inclusive atmosphere where both South Asian and non-South Asian residents could actively engage in the cultural experience.  By blending tradition with interactive programming, the Holi Festival fostered joy, cultural exchange, and community connection, reinforcing SACH’s mission of celebrating South Asian heritage while building bridges across Hopkinton’s diverse com...

SACH offers scholarships to 2 students: an aspiring aerospace engineer and a future neurologist.  This year’s scholarship program ‘Young women in STEM’ was awarded to 2 passionate students who graduated from Hopkinton High School this summer and will be heading to study at Duke University and Dartmouth college.  Congratulations to both students!  “I want to discover. I want to push the limits of knowledge. I find the unknown of the universe captivating, and I want to create something that brings us one step closer to understanding. But how to do so? Aerospace engineering. I will continue my education at Dartmouth, studying a dual-degree program of mechanical engineering and physics, then attend a highly ranked aerospace school like UIUC or University of Washington. From this, I would hope to land a job at NASA or Space X and help to explore humanity's final frontier.”   - Student #1, Award Recipient  “I hope to explore my own anthropological neuroscience mystery...

SACH teams up with Hopkinton High School Muslim Student Association to host the inaugural youth-led Interfaith Iftar dinner in celebration of the festival of Ramadan.  Students of HHS Muslim Student Association. On Tuesday March 12th, 2024, the South Asian Circle of Hopkinton (SACH) in partnership with the Muslim students association (MSA) at Hopkinton High school pioneered a new era of partnership between two groups that came together to live their true mission of cultural connections through civic engagements that build inclusion for one and all.  Hopkinton community show support for the youth. The night unfolded with beautiful decorations, a lavish spread of exotic dishes catered by volunteers of the Muslim community with help from SACH to prepare for a night to remember. The Hopkinton High School cafeteria that was beautifully decorated to welcome one and all to MSA’s first Iftar night of what we hope are countless to come. This night brought together the community to pray...

HOP Youth Interns and the Coalition did a great job organizing and hosting this event. This was a fully youth designed, led, and implemented event by youth leaders of HOP. There are three potential ways you can take care of yourself:  #1 Connect with Nature  #2 Body care and  #3 Nourishing your Mind and Soul.  Pick and choose based on how much time you have and your activity of interest at any given time. The list of resources below have links to articles and videos under each of the 3 categories. For ideas and tips on self-care that costs almost nothing, visit: https://www.southasiancircleofhopkinton.org/selfcare #selfcare #mentalhealthmatters  SACH Cares is a philanthropic wing of SACH aimed at supporting initiatives based on a variety of issues we care about. We care about our town and strive to create inclusiveness in supporting all communities within Hopkinton irrespective of race, socio-economic backgrounds, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or gende...

In celebrating Diwali as a large community, SACH brought you Rhythms & Raagas on October 28th, 2023 at Double Tree Hotel in Westborough, MA.  Rhythms and Raagas is a musical theatre that portrays the journey of discovery through the lens of a young Indian-American boy, Aman. Aman is not keen, at first, when it comes to celebrating festivals with his parents. But as the story unfolds, his enthusiasm and outlook changes to a positive outcome. He actually starts enjoying the festivities, the food and the celebrations that come with each festival. This unique event weaved together a rich story, by throwing a spotlight on key traditions and rituals surrounding festivals originating from South Asia, that are celebrated by many immigrant communities across the globe, creating and leaving behind a rich fabric of sub-cultures for future generations to observe.  There were a total of 8 festivals featured in the play, each integrated with a beautiful dance and music performances by t...

SACH Festival of Colors On a gorgeous spring afternoon that was picture perfect, residents of Hopkinton and surrounding towns got together to celebrate Holi, the spring festival of colors. The event called ‘Rang Holi’ was organized by the South Asian Circle of Hopkinton and hosted at Weston nurseries. Spring is a time of the year that we all look forward to as we get to enjoy the warm weather in the beautiful outdoors while catching up with old friends and making new ones. There could not have been a better event than Rang Holi to ring in the warm weather and to bring the community together to connect and celebrate. Folks from Hopkinton and surrounding towns got together to celebrate Holi by throwing around colors, dancing to the catchy Bollywood songs played by DJ Mahesh and by also enjoying yummy Indian food from Mirchi, based in Franklin. As folks were mingling around and playing with colors, there was a dance flash mob that brought a group of dancers together which then in turn pu...

The South Asian Affinity Group (SAAG) from the Hopkinton High School, in partnership with the South Asian Circle of Hopkinton (SACH) launched a 'CHAI & SNACKS' fundraiser to benefit survivors from the aftermath of the earthquake that hit both countries on February 6, 2023. All of the proceeds were donated towards Turkish and Syrian earthquake aid.    A big thank you to all community members who participated and contributed! With this campaign collaboration, we were able to raise around  $500 The 'Chai and Snacks' fundraiser focuses on an integral part of the South Asian culture: Afternoon Chai. These little treats could be enjoyed with an afternoon chai while also supporting the students of Hopkinton High School who wanted to make an impact during times when help is most needed. SACH Cares is a philanthropic wing of SACH aimed at supporting initiatives based on a variety of issues we care about. We care about our town and strive to create inclusiveness in supporting...