{"id":117889,"date":"2015-02-23T13:48:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T18:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umweagleeye.wpengine.com\/?p=117889"},"modified":"2015-02-23T13:50:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T18:50:58","slug":"25th-anniversary-of-the-multicultural-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2015\/02\/23\/25th-anniversary-of-the-multicultural-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"25th Anniversary of the Multicultural Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/students.umw.edu\/multicultural\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Farmer Multicultural Center<\/a> is gearing up for its 25th Annual Multicultural Fair on Saturday, April 11, 2015 from 10 a.m. &#8211; 5 p.m. at UMW&#8217;s Fredericksburg Campus.<\/p>\n<p>The Multicultural Fair is one of the University of Mary Washington\u2019s long-standing, community-wide events and the James Farmer Multicultural Center\u2019s signature cultural event. The Multicultural Fair celebrates cultural diversity by featuring craft and food vendors and performers who represent a broad range of cultural groups and cultural traditions. The Multicultural Fair also features children&#8217;s performances, activities, and attractions. Annually, the Multicultural Fair attracts thousands (between 5,000 and 6,000) of UMW student and staff members and community members from surrounding counties and regions.<\/p>\n<p>This year will commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Multicultural Fair, which began in 1990. There will be an excellent line-up of over 40 multicultural performances and over 50 vendors selling a wide range of cultural items including jewelry, accessories, t-shirts, tapestries, art, personal care items and more.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the 25th Annual Multicultural Fair, go to the James Farmer Multicultural Center\u2019s website at <a href=\"http:\/\/students.umw.edu\/multicultural\/\" target=\"_blank\">students.umw.edu\/multicultural<\/a>, or call the Multicultural Center at 540-654-1044. Follow the Multicultural Fair on social media at #UMWMultiFair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The James Farmer Multicultural Center is gearing up for its 25th Annual Multicultural Fair on Saturday, April 11, 2015 from 10 a.m. &#8211; 5 p.m. at UMW&#8217;s Fredericksburg Campus. The Multicultural Fair is one of the University of Mary Washington\u2019s long-standing, community-wide events and the James Farmer Multicultural Center\u2019s signature cultural event. The Multicultural Fair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5871,"featured_media":117893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[2481],"class_list":{"0":"post-117889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-whats-new-umw","8":"tag-alemapol","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}