{"id":49715,"date":"2018-03-07T13:31:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T18:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=49715"},"modified":"2018-03-07T15:25:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T20:25:46","slug":"event-to-celebrate-ghanas-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/03\/event-to-celebrate-ghanas-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"Event to celebrate Ghana&#8217;s independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Brock community is invited to attend a celebration in honour of Ghana\u2019s 61 years of independence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hosted by the Brock University Ghana Association, the show, titled Mama Ghana, takes place Saturday, March 10 at the Honest Lawyer in St. Catharines. The west African nation&#8217;s independence day was March 6.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The student-led celebration will feature modelling, traditional dancing, cultural information and a performance from Kwame Vista. A red carpet will begin at 6 p.m., followed by the show at 7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A limited number of bird tickets are available in advance for $20 through <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/amamere-mama-ghana-tickets-43459976961\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eventbrite<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. After they are sold out, online ticket prices will increase to $25. Tickets will also be available at the door for $30.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information or to purchase tickets, visit the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/amamere-mama-ghana-tickets-43459976961#tickets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Mama Ghana Eventbrite page.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock community is invited to attend a celebration in honour of Ghana\u2019s 61 years of independence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[6384,6385,1580],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49715"}],"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=49715"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49722,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49715\/revisions\/49722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}