Ganesh Chaturthi, also known as Vinayaka Chaturthi is the Hindu festival that reveres god Ganesha. A ten-day festival, it starts on the fourth day of Hindu luni-solar calendar month Bhadrapada, which typically falls in Gregorian months of August or September. The festival is marked with installation of Ganesha clay idols privately in homes, or publicly on elaborate pandals. Observations include chanting of Vedic hymns and Hindu texts such as Ganapati Upanishad, prayers and vrata (fasting). Offerings and prasada from the daily prayers, that is distributed from the pandal to the community, include sweets such as modaka believed to be a favorite of the elephant-headed deity. The festival ends on the tenth day after start, wherein the idol is carried in a public procession with music and group chanting, then immersed in nearby water body such as a river or ocean, thereafter the clay idol dissolves and Ganesha is believed to return to Mount Kailasha to Parvati and Shiva.

Arkansas Telangana Association (ARTA)  is celebrating Ganesha Chaturthi along with Vedanta Society of Arkansas (VSA).

Here is the Ganesha Chathurthi schedule

Friday, August 25th, 2017
6pm - 9pm

• Ganesha Procession, Sthapana, Story, Pooja
• Aarthi
• Prasadam

Saturday, August 26th, 2017

• 10am - Aarthi and Bhajan
• 7pm - Aarthi and Bhajan

Sunday, August 27th, 2017
10am - Noon

• Ganesha pooja, Visarjanam pooja and Visarjanam (immersion)
• Maha Prasadam