{"id":48897,"date":"2018-01-18T16:12:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T21:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=48897"},"modified":"2018-12-20T11:51:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T16:51:27","slug":"representatives-needed-for-celebration-of-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/01\/representatives-needed-for-celebration-of-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Representatives needed for Celebration of Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The many countries and cultures that make up Brock\u2019s growing international community will be at the centre of a popular event taking place next month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock International is looking for enthusiastic faculty, staff and students to participate in<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/international\/current\/international-services\/celebration-of-nations\/#apply?platform=hootsuite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Celebration of Nations<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and represent their home country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s a great opportunity to showcase your heritage and highlight unique aspects of your culture to others,\u201d said Sandra Gruosso, interim Associate Director of Brock International Services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With more than 100 countries represented on campus, the annual event highlights Brock University\u2019s multicultural diversity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The celebration, held Thursday, Feb. 1 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., will see<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Market Hall transformed as members of Brock\u2019s international community come together to share various foods, traditions and artifacts with faculty, staff and students interested in learning more about their cultural mosaic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event provides the Brock community with an opportunity to deepen its understanding of the world outside Canada, and provides a chance to learn more about cultural traditions and values without leaving campus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faculty, staff and students interested in sharing their global experience with the Brock community are invited to host their home nation and participate in the event by completing the sign-up form on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/international\/current\/international-services\/celebration-of-nations\/#apply\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock International website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Friday, Jan. 26.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The many countries and cultures that make up Brock\u2019s growing international community will be at the centre of a popular event taking place next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":48898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4],"tags":[159,846,573],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48897"}],"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=48897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48899,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48897\/revisions\/48899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}