{"id":17001,"date":"2012-06-14T14:16:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=17001"},"modified":"2012-06-14T14:26:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T19:26:14","slug":"hold-that-date-this-years-soiree-will-be-thursday-oct-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/06\/hold-that-date-this-years-soiree-will-be-thursday-oct-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Hold that date &#8211; this year&#8217;s Soir\u00e9e will be Thursday Oct. 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17004\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17004\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-17004\" title=\"soiree-2011-01\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/soiree-2011-01-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"   \" width=\"504\" height=\"283\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">   <\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of Niagara&#8217;s hottest gala events will do double duty this autumn.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the popular <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/soiree\">General Brock&#8217;s October Soir\u00e9e<\/a> moves to a Thursday evening &#8211; Oct. 11 &#8211; so it can kick off a weekend of Niagara-wide events commemorating the 200th anniversary of the death of war hero Sir Isaac Brock.<\/p>\n<p>Soir\u00e9e will again be held in Brock University&#8217;s Market Hall, an evening of fine dining where guests are serenaded and regaled by period-costumed performers from the <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/humanities\/departments-and-centres\/fine-and-performing-arts\">Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now in its fifth year, the Soir\u00e9e is the University&#8217;s most significant fundraising event. Proceeds go solely to fund\u00a0student initiatives and scholarships at Brock, and in its first four years the gala generated more than $250,000 for student financial supports.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For information about attending or sponsoring this year&#8217;s event, please contact Christine Jones, 688-5550 x4320;   christine.jones@brocku.ca<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17006\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><strong><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17006\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-17006\" title=\"soiree-2011-03\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/soiree-2011-03-1024x688.jpg\" alt=\"Guests in attendace at the 2011 General Brock's October Soiree\" width=\"504\" height=\"338\" \/><\/strong><p id=\"caption-attachment-17006\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests in attendace at the 2011 General Brock&#39;s October Soiree<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Niagara&#8217;s hottest gala events will do double duty this autumn. This year, the popular General Brock&#8217;s October Soir\u00e9e moves to a Thursday evening &#8211; Oct. 11 &#8211; so it can kick off a weekend of Niagara-wide events commemorating the 200th anniversary of the death of war hero Sir Isaac Brock. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[16,181,333],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17001"}],"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=17001"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17010,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17001\/revisions\/17010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}