{"id":11974,"date":"2011-09-14T16:36:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T21:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=11974"},"modified":"2011-09-15T09:54:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T14:54:03","slug":"brock-days-celebration-kicks-off-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/09\/brock-days-celebration-kicks-off-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Days celebration kicks off this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11979\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11979\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979 \" title=\"Dennis Hull\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/dennishull.jpg\" alt=\"Dennis Hull, shown at his Roseneath, Ont. farm, will be a guest speaker on Alumni Weekend.\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11979\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dennis Hull, shown at his Roseneath, Ont. farm, will be a keynote speaker on Alumni Weekend.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brock\u2019s annual homecoming and community celebration kicks off this week with its first weekend of events for alumni, faculty, staff and students.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-days\" target=\"_blank\">Brock Days<\/a>, which is now in its 11th year, is a 10-day celebration that takes place over the course of two weekends, from Friday, Sept. 16 to Sunday, Sept. 25.<\/p>\n<p>More than 500 participants will visit campus to take part in this weekend\u2019s Alumni Weekend festivities.<\/p>\n<p>Events include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> a <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-days\/alumni-weekend-events\/tribute\" target=\"_blank\">Tribute! to Ian Brindle<\/a> on Friday night;<\/li>\n<li> a <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-days\/alumni-weekend-events\/keynote\" target=\"_blank\">keynote address<\/a> by NHL veteran and Brock grad Dennis Hull on Saturday morning;<\/li>\n<li> the 10th anniversary of <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-days\/alumni-weekend-events\/fine-food\" target=\"_blank\">Fine Food, Fine Wine, Fine Art<\/a> on Saturday evening;<\/li>\n<li> alumni reunions;<\/li>\n<li> a mini-conference featuring Brock alumni;<\/li>\n<li> campus tours;<\/li>\n<li>Niagara Wine Festival <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-days\/alumni-weekend-events\/wine-seminars-in-the-park\" target=\"_blank\">wine and cheese tastings<\/a> featuring Brock graduates;<\/li>\n<li> Badger athletic events throughout the weekend.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Brock Days <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-days\/student-events\/grape-stomp\" target=\"_blank\">annual grape stomp, barbecue and concert<\/a> will be in Jubilee Court on Friday, Sept. 23. <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/student-community-outreach\/grape-stomp\/grape-stomp-registration\" target=\"_blank\">Register your team here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock\u2019s annual homecoming and community celebration starts this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,3,1],"tags":[3333,237,283,176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11974"}],"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=11974"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11995,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11974\/revisions\/11995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}