{"id":216434,"date":"2021-10-14T13:53:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T17:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/?p=216434"},"modified":"2022-01-19T15:55:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T20:55:28","slug":"celebrating-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/2021\/10\/14\/celebrating-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cultural pride was on display Wednesday, October 13 as students, faculty and staff celebrated Hispanic\/Latinx Heritage Month with food, dancing, dominoes and much more. The block party at the Student Center quad also marked a five-year milestone of Montclair\u2019s State as a Hispanic-Serving Institution. The event, which also featured poetry readings and a student Latin jazz band, was sponsored by the Office for Hispanic Initiatives. Hispanic\/Latinx Heritage Month runs from September 15 to October 15, a period that coincides with independence day festivities of many Latin American countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Photo Gallery<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/10\/101321_7323_Hispanic-Hertage-Block-Party-scaled.jpeg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/10\/101321_7323_Hispanic-Hertage-Block-Party-scaled.jpeg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Group of students swaying to music\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Feeling the music.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/10\/101321_7562_Hispanic-Hertage-Block-Party-scaled.jpeg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/10\/101321_7562_Hispanic-Hertage-Block-Party-scaled.jpeg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Students lined up at the pink empanada truck\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The empanada truck was a big hit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/10\/101321_7592_Hispanic-Hertage-Block-Party-scaled.jpeg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/10\/101321_7592_Hispanic-Hertage-Block-Party-scaled.jpeg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Direct Latin Influence band members with instruments under tent\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Direct Latin Influence brought the salsa beats.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/10\/101321_8194_Hispanic-Hertage-Block-Party-scaled.jpeg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/10\/101321_8194_Hispanic-Hertage-Block-Party-scaled.jpeg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Overhead view of table with dominios and player hands\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For those who were game, there were traditional Puerto Rican double 6 dominoes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/10\/101321_6949_Hispanic-Hertage-Block-Party-scaled.jpeg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/10\/101321_6949_Hispanic-Hertage-Block-Party-scaled.jpeg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Katia Paz Goldfarb speaks at a podium in front of a clothesline strung with flags\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katia Paz Goldfarb, associate provost for Hispanic Initiatives and International Programs, speaks to the crowd in front of the flags of many Latin American and Caribbean countries.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/10\/101321_7432_Hispanic-Hertage-Block-Party-scaled.jpeg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/10\/101321_7432_Hispanic-Hertage-Block-Party-scaled.jpeg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the Latin American Student Organization seated around a painted posterboard with the club&apos;s name\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Organizations such as the Latin American Student Organization (LASO) tabled at the block party.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/10\/101321_8015_Hispanic-Hertage-Block-Party-scaled.jpeg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/10\/101321_8015_Hispanic-Hertage-Block-Party-scaled.jpeg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"4 students facing instructor in dance studio\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students got in their salsa and merengue steps via Zumba\u00ae.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>The Office for Hispanic Initiatives extends its thanks to Campus Sponsors and Partners!  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sponsors:<\/strong> Student Development &#038; Campus Life, Center for Student Involvement, Campus Recreation &#038; Intramural Sports, Residence Life, University Facilities, Cali School of Music and 90.3 WMSC-FM.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Partners:<\/strong> Latin American Student Organization, Montclair State Dining, Student Government Association and the Latino\/a\/x Caucus. <\/p>\n<p>Photos by University Photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/profilepages\/view_profile.php?username=petersm\">Mike Peters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/\/ Output tags as a list for Google Analytics custom dimension\nwindow.MSU_TagList = [];\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Hispanic\/Latinx Heritage Month Block Party was a huge success<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":216436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[348,123,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hispanic-initiatives","category-homepage-news","category-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216434"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216454,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216434\/revisions\/216454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}