{"id":1045,"date":"2008-04-30T15:08:44","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T15:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/166.62.41.2\/~holaamericanews\/2008\/04\/30\/celebrating-diversity-at-the-bhc-international-festival\/"},"modified":"2008-04-30T15:08:44","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T15:08:44","slug":"celebrating-diversity-at-the-bhc-international-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/celebrating-diversity-at-the-bhc-international-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Diversity at the BHC International Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people came to Black Hawk College to see a mix of cultures and the uniqueness each culture represented. The gym was filled with colors of all the flags, clothing, and ethnic music.<br \/>  <!--more--> <br \/> Coordinator of the festival, Angela Elliott said the festival had a &ldquo;terrific group of folks.&rdquo; She enjoyed most the excitement the performers had from talking about their heritage and sharing part of themselves with others through dance music clothing.<\/p>\n<p> She wanted to thank the festival planning committee and especially Danica McMullen who coordinated the fashion show, which was one of the more popular shows of the evening. &ldquo;Stephen Baldridge did a great job in creating and performing the theater production &lsquo;Sticks&rsquo;,&rdquo; she said.<\/p><div id=\"holaa-202320606\" class=\"holaa-ad-inside-articles-2\" style=\"margin-top: 2px;margin-bottom: 2px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><div class=\"holaa-adlabel\">Advertisements<\/div><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesperformingarts.org\/whats-on\/series\/summerarts\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" aria-label=\"HI-SummerSeries-300&#215;250-SP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HI-SummerSeries-300x250-SP.jpg\" alt=\"\"  width=\"300\" height=\"250\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div><br style=\"clear: both; display: block; float: none;\"\/>\n<p> There were at least 35 nations represented throughout the event. Dances from all over the world including: India, Liberia, Togo, and the Quad City Ballet Folklorico with dances from Mexico. Europe was also represented by a man wearing a Viking costume. The money raised went to the International Student Union Scholarship fund. <\/p>\n<div id=\"holaa-622619299\" class=\"holaa-after-content\" style=\"margin-top: 2px;margin-bottom: 2px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><div class=\"holaa-adlabel\">Advertisements<\/div><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/progressiowa.org\/2023\/08\/take-action-with-progress-iowa\/?utm_source=news&#038;utm_medium=site&#038;utm_campaign=2026&#038;utm_id=News\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Progress Iowa Spanish 300&#215;250\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Progress-Iowa-Spanish-300x250-1.png\" alt=\"\"  width=\"300\" height=\"250\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people came to Black Hawk College to see a mix of cultures and the uniqueness each culture represented. The gym was filled with colors of all the flags, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"es","enabled_languages":["en","es"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}