{"id":56078,"date":"2019-02-07T10:44:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T15:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=56078"},"modified":"2019-02-07T10:44:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T15:44:14","slug":"deadline-nearing-for-sustainability-poetry-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/02\/deadline-nearing-for-sustainability-poetry-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadline nearing for Sustainability Poetry Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s still time to enter the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/11\/poetry-contest-celebrates-international-year-of-indigenous-languages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2019 Sustainability Poetry Contest<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, presented by Brock University\u2019s UNESCO Chair in Community Sustainability, Liette Vasseur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poets are encouraged to submit their English and French poems that relate to this year\u2019s theme, International Year of Indigenous Languages, until Friday, Feb. 15 at 5 p.m. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The contest is open to all residents of Niagara (inclusive of members of First Nations, M\u00e9tis and Inuit communities and Six Nations), and will operate in co-operation with Indigenous groups and stakeholders across the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poems can be submitted online by visiting the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/unesco-chair\/sustainability-poetry-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UNESCO Chair\u2019s website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or via email to <\/span><a href=\"mailto:smoore10@brocku.ca\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">smoore10@brocku.ca<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prizes such as books and gift cards will be awarded in each of four categories: elementary student; high school student; college\/university student; and general public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Winners will be announced at the UNESCO World Poetry Day celebration at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, March 21 at Mahtay Caf\u00e9 in downtown St. Catharines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event is free and open to the public, but registration will be required as space is limited. Register on<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/celebrating-the-winners-of-the-brock-sustainabilty-poetry-contest-tickets-52913065403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eventbrite<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s still time to enter the 2019 Sustainability Poetry Contest, presented by Brock University\u2019s UNESCO Chair in Community Sustainability, Liette Vasseur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,37],"tags":[7247,7249,3231,1154,44,7248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56078"}],"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=56078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56079,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56078\/revisions\/56079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}