{"id":31909,"date":"2018-04-10T13:55:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T18:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=31909"},"modified":"2018-04-16T13:08:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T18:08:33","slug":"international-student-organizations-49th-annual-festival-of-nations-set-for-april-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2018\/04\/10\/international-student-organizations-49th-annual-festival-of-nations-set-for-april-13\/","title":{"rendered":"International Student Organization&#8217;s 49th Annual Festival of Nations Set for April 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\" alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Festival-of-Nations-POSTER.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-31911 size-full img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/festival-of-nations-poster-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"383\" data-bp=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/festival-of-nations-poster-thumb.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/festival-of-nations-poster-thumb.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/festival-of-nations-poster-thumb-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/festival-of-nations-poster-thumb-226x346.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/go\/strategicplan\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30796 size-full img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/01\/StratPlanIcons3.jpg\" alt=\"Badge: 2018-23 Strategic Plan: Priority 3\" width=\"250\" height=\"100\" data-bp=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/01\/StratPlanIcons3.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/01\/StratPlanIcons3.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/01\/StratPlanIcons3-226x90.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/go\/strategicplan\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30798 size-full img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/01\/StratPlanIcons5.jpg\" alt=\"Badge: 2018-23 Strategic Plan: Priority 5\" width=\"250\" height=\"100\" data-bp=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/01\/StratPlanIcons5.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/01\/StratPlanIcons5.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/01\/StratPlanIcons5-226x90.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Bemidji State University&rsquo;s international students will celebrate the traditions and cultures of their home countries April 13 at the 49th Annual Festival of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>The festival, with its theme of &ldquo;One Festival, Many Cultures&rdquo; begins at 4 p.m. in the Beaux Arts Ballroom of BSU&rsquo;s upper Hobson Memorial Union. Admission is free for everyone.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Festival-of-Nations-POSTER.pdf\">Downloadable PDF poster<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Festival of Nations is Bemidji State University&rsquo;s longest-running multicultural festival. The event celebrates the cultural heritage of the university&rsquo;s diverse student body and gives students, employees and community members with a platform to express their stories through multicultural performances, ethnic foods and personal connections.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a flag processional and welcome followed by various song, dance, arts and crafts and spoken word performances and presentations throughout the evening.<\/p>\n<p>The Festival of Nations is sponsored by BSU&rsquo;s International Student Organization, Students United, the Center for Diversity, Equity &amp; Inclusion and the International Program Center.<\/p>\n<h5>Contact<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Brian Xiong, coordinator, Center for Diversity, Equity &amp; Inclusion; <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">(218) 755-3773<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">bxiong@bemidjistate.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/MN-State-logo-100x175.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24884 alignright img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/MN-State-logo-100x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"175\" data-bp=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/MN-State-logo-100x175-e1539967051802.jpg\"><\/a>Bemidji State University<\/b>, located amid the lakes and forests of northern Minnesota, occupies a wooded campus along the shore of Lake Bemidji. Enrolling more than 5,100 students, Bemidji State offers more than 80 undergraduate majors and eight graduate degrees encompassing arts, sciences and select professional programs. BSU is a member of the Minnesota State system of colleges and universities and has a faculty and staff of more than 550. The university&rsquo;s Shared Fundamental Values include environmental stewardship, civic engagement and international and multicultural understanding.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p class=\"smaller\" style=\"text-align: right;\">2018-B-L-096<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bemidji State University\u2019s international students will celebrate the traditions and cultures of their home countries April 13 at the 49th Annual Festival of Nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[953,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mybsu","category-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31909","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=31909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32495,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31909\/revisions\/32495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}