{"id":47694,"date":"2017-11-03T17:03:03","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T21:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=47694"},"modified":"2017-11-03T17:03:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T21:03:03","slug":"brock-to-celebrate-international-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/11\/brock-to-celebrate-international-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock to celebrate International Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Experience the world without ever leaving campus during Brock\u2019s annual International Week celebration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock International will host a series of events and activities from Monday, Nov. 6 to Friday, Nov. 10 to highlight the role internationalization plays in Canada\u2019s culture and economic and social well-being. The celebratory week is also an opportunity to showcase Brock\u2019s diverse and globally-minded community with more than 90 countries represented.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cooking demonstrations, henna body art sessions, steel drum lessons and mixed martial arts classes are just a taste of the internationally-themed events set to take place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A series of information sessions will be held on working and studying abroad, with options highlighted during the Exchange and Study Abroad Fair on Wednesday, Nov. 8 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Market Hall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Brock University Film Society (BUFS) will host a screening of the internationally acclaimed <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Thtm0jOZM54&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tulip Fever<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on Wednesday, Nov. 8 at 7 p.m. at Landmark Cinemas in St. Catharines.\u00a0Tickets are $10 and are available for purchase from the BUFS table in the cinema lobby.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The University community will also have the opportunity to choose the winner of Brock International\u2019s This is My Home photo contest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photos from the five finalists will be featured in an exhibition in Isaac\u2019s Skybar Lounge throughout the week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dozens of entries were received from students displaying unique aspects of the place they consider home. Finalists were selected by a panel of Brock staff based on content, technique and colour of submitted photos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People can <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/international\/photo-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vote for the winning entry online<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or in person at lounge. The winner will be announced at the end of International Week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For a full list of International Week events and activities, visit <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/international\/events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">brocku.ca\/international\/events\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experience the world without ever leaving campus during Brock\u2019s annual International Week celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":47695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4],"tags":[159,2392],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47694"}],"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\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47696,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47694\/revisions\/47696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}