{"id":101766,"date":"2025-05-22T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=101766"},"modified":"2025-05-22T18:33:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T22:33:19","slug":"annual-community-basketball-game-welcomes-local-newcomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2025\/05\/annual-community-basketball-game-welcomes-local-newcomers\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual community basketball game welcomes local newcomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Niagara community members and newly arrived immigrants recently gathered at Brock University to celebrate the region&#8217;s diversity through sport.<\/p>\n<p>The annual Newcomer and Community Basketball Game, held May 14 in the University\u2019s Bob Davis Gymnasium, brought together newcomers, student-athletes, staff, faculty and community leaders for an afternoon of friendly competition and connection.<\/p>\n<p>The event was hosted by Brock and long-standing community partner Bridges Niagara, formerly known as the Niagara Folk Arts Multicultural Centre. The two organizations signed a Memorandum of Understanding in 2019 as part of a shared commitment to improve the well-being of newcomers to Canada.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Brock\u2019s community partnerships, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brocku.ca\/community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brocku.ca\/community<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_101778\" style=\"width: 1060px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101778\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-101778\" src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_6921-copy-1050x787.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people play basketball in a gymnasium.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-101778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The annual Newcomer and Community Basketball Game took place May 14 in Brock University\u2019s Bob Davis Gymnasium.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niagara community members and newly arrived immigrants recently gathered at Brock University to celebrate the region&#8217;s diversity through sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,9794],"tags":[10209,11740,9498,998,7652,13557,6065],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101766"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101791,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101766\/revisions\/101791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}