{"id":24059,"date":"2016-04-13T09:15:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T14:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=24059"},"modified":"2016-05-13T09:20:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T14:20:06","slug":"international-students-host-47th-festival-of-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2016\/04\/13\/international-students-host-47th-festival-of-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"International Students Host 47th Festival of Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bemidji State University celebrated campus multiculturalism at its&nbsp;47th Annual Festival of Nations on Apr. 13 in the Beaux Arts Ballroom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sponsored by the International Student Organization;&nbsp;BSU&rsquo;s Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee;&nbsp;Aramark; Dr. Thomas Beech,&nbsp;professor of political science; Nei Bottling and Housing and Residence Life, the free event&nbsp;c<\/span><span class=\"s1\">ontinued its legacy as the longest running multicultural festival at BSU.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The festival featured&nbsp;more than 90 ethnic cultures and 30 different countries representing&nbsp;international students on campus and immigrants in the community. Celebrating cultural heritage, the event offered a platform to share stories, world-class performances, exhibits, ethnic cuisine and intercultural connections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Expressing this year&rsquo;s theme &ldquo;One World, One Sound&rdquo; which hopes to promote cultures through food and music, students from Nepal, India, Pakistan, Ethiopia, South Korea, Mexico and the Native American Society shared&nbsp;their cultures&rsquo; food with people at the festival. Other events at the festival included&nbsp;cultural dances, songs and a fashion show, as well as displays of student art and cultural traditions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bemidji State University celebrated campus multiculturalism at its\u00a047th Annual Festival of Nations on Apr. 13 in the Beaux Arts Ballroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-galleries","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24068,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24059\/revisions\/24068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}