{"id":6987,"date":"2014-04-14T22:05:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T14:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=6987"},"modified":"2014-04-14T22:05:19","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T14:05:19","slug":"ph-joins-cultural-diversity-celebration-in-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/04\/14\/ph-joins-cultural-diversity-celebration-in-ottawa\/","title":{"rendered":"PH joins cultural diversity celebration in Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6988\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6988\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ottawa-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6988\" alt=\"The Philippine Booth at Algonquin College\u2019s Celebration of Cultures.\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ottawa-1.png\" width=\"510\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ottawa-1.png 510w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ottawa-1-300x205.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The Philippine Booth at Algonquin College\u2019s Celebration of Cultures.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the fourth year running, the Philippines made its presence felt at the Celebration of Cultures organized by Algonquin College in Ottawa on April 4.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines was among 20 countries that participated in the international festival showcasing Canada\u2019s rich cultural diversity, including the Netherlands, U.S. Turkey, Poland, China, Japan, Indonesia, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Kuwait, Iraq, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Zambia, Honduras, UAE, Ecuador and Guatemala.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippine Embassy exhibit, made colorful by an \u201cIt\u2019s More Fun in the Philippines\u201d (IMFIT PH) theme and enhanced by shell craft and baskets from Iloilo as well as snacks from the Philippines, was a popular draw for the students who flocked to the festival.<\/p>\n<p>The Algonquin Times, known as the best campus newspaper in Ontario, interviewed Minister and Consul Flerida Ann Camille P. Mayo who seized the opportunity to create awareness not only of Philippine tourist destinations but also popular Philippine export products to Canada such as home d\u00e9cor and ethnic food.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor this market segment, Filipino food is key to engaging passive onlookers in an active conversation on the Philippines,\u201d Philippine Ambassador to Canada Leslie Gatan stated.\u00a0 \u201cThe Embassy takes part in Algonquin\u2019s Celebration of Cultures every year, cognizant of the openness of the Canadian youth to experience exotic cultures and explore foreign countries, especially the Philippines because of our extensive people-to-people links,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><em>Press release and photos courtesy of the Department of Foreign Affairs, 08 April 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; For the fourth year running, the Philippines made its presence felt at the Celebration of Cultures organized by Algonquin &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":6988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1481],"tags":[398,2123,240],"class_list":["post-6987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-comm","tag-canada","tag-cultural-diversity","tag-ottawa","mauthors-department-of-foreign-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}