{"id":163042,"date":"2023-06-23T15:02:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T19:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=163042"},"modified":"2023-07-11T09:03:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T13:03:04","slug":"citizenship-ceremony-will-kick-off-diversity-festival-in-cobourg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/citizenship-ceremony-will-kick-off-diversity-festival-in-cobourg\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizenship ceremony will kick off Diversity Festival in Cobourg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Potential rain in the forecast won\u2019t dampen the Citizenship Ceremony planned for Saturday morning in Cobourg\u2019s Victoria Park as part of the Northumberland Diversity Festival.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the event of inclement weather, the ceremony will move indoors at Victoria Hall, says Northumberland County\u2019s Settlement Services Coordinator Emilio Ojeda. The downtown venue hosted a Citizenship Ceremony in November.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The hope, though, is for this ceremony to be outdoors, which would be the first time since 2019 when it was held in Port Hope\u2019s Memorial Park.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ojeda said the ceremonies are always special no matter where they are held and the newcomers \u201cbreathe freedom.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cYou have to see the proud faces\u2026when the judge says \u2018welcome to Canada, you are now a Canadian. It\u2019s heartwarming,\u201d Ojeda remarked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Northumberland County and the Northumberland Hispanic Cultural Club are celebrating with the Diversity Festival ahead of Canadian Multicultural Day, which is Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From 12 to 9:00 p.m. Saturday, there will be free cultural entertainment and musical performances, and engaging children\u2019s activities. The Gourmet Ethno-Food Truck Fair will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The celebrations will continue on Sunday, with the Diversity Festival FUSION Concert taking place from 2 to 5 p.m. in the Victoria Park bandshell. The concert will blend sounds from various music genres, featuring performances by Nagata Shachu and Luciano Lu and his Brazilian Band.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The full schedule is available at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.northumberland.ca\/default\/Detail\/2023-06-24-0900-Diversity-Festival-and-Gourmet-Ethno-Food-Truck-Fa\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Northumberland.ca\/ DiversityFestival<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potential rain in the forecast won\u2019t dampen the Citizenship Ceremony planned for Saturday morning in Cobourg\u2019s Victoria Park as part of the Northumberland Diversity Festival.\u00a0 In the event of inclement weather, the ceremony will move indoors at Victoria Hall, says Northumberland County\u2019s Settlement Services Coordinator Emilio Ojeda. The downtown venue hosted a Citizenship Ceremony in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":163045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219],"tags":[27554,25834,4354,5298],"radio":[25167],"origine":[267,25406,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163051,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163042\/revisions\/163051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163042"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=163042"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=163042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}