{"id":10609,"date":"2022-09-22T09:16:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T14:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=10609"},"modified":"2022-09-22T09:16:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T14:16:01","slug":"missouri-western-hispanic-heritage-banquet-sept-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/22\/missouri-western-hispanic-heritage-banquet-sept-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Western Hispanic Heritage Banquet Sept. 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10615\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10615\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10615\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/09\/Hispanic-Heritage-Banquet.png\" alt=\"missouri western hispanic heritage banquet guests\" width=\"1200\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/09\/Hispanic-Heritage-Banquet-200x67.png 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/09\/Hispanic-Heritage-Banquet-310x103.png 310w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/09\/Hispanic-Heritage-Banquet-400x133.png 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/09\/Hispanic-Heritage-Banquet-600x200.png 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/09\/Hispanic-Heritage-Banquet-768x256.png 768w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/09\/Hispanic-Heritage-Banquet-800x267.png 800w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/09\/Hispanic-Heritage-Banquet-1024x341.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/09\/Hispanic-Heritage-Banquet.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexis Arai, Dr. Federico Rivas-Gotz and Isaura Garcia will be featured guests at the Hispanic Heritage Banquet.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sept. 22&#8211;Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with food, music and salsa dancing at the annual Missouri Western State University Hispanic Heritage Banquet at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28 in the Fulkerson Center. Admission is free, but pre-registration is required at <a href=\"http:\/\/griff.vn\/HHeritage22\"><span>griff.vn\/HHeritage22<\/span><\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The banquet will feature Latin cuisine and live music with Alexis Arai Y Su Grupo Latino. Alexis Arai\u2019s four-octave range and eclectic style allows her to smoothly transition from the sultriest of jazz to the liveliest of pop. Arai performed on the stages of The Voice and American Idol and made it to the semifinals of Tengo Talento Mucho Talento. She performs bilingually both stateside and internationally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The banquet will also feature remarks from Dr. Federico Rivas-Gotz of Mosaic Life Care and Isaura Garcia, member of the St. Joseph School District Board of Education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Missouri Western Hispanic Heritage Banquet is sponsored by the Center for Diversity and Inclusion and the Association of Latin American Students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Missouri Western State University is a student-centered learning community preparing individuals for lives of excellence through applied learning. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">missouriwestern.edu<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 22&#8211;Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with food, music and salsa dancing at the annual Missouri Western State University Hispanic Heritage Banquet at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28 in the Fulkerson Center. Admission is free, but pre-registration is required at griff.vn\/HHeritage22.\u00a0 The banquet will feature Latin cuisine and live music with Alexis Arai Y Su Grupo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10609"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10618,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10609\/revisions\/10618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}