{"id":67437,"date":"2016-11-12T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=67437"},"modified":"2016-10-19T17:18:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T21:18:13","slug":"diwali-festival-of-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=67437","title":{"rendered":"Diwali Festival of Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, November 12  1pm to 4pm<br \/>\nFlushing Town Hall<br \/>\n137-35 Northern Blvd, Flushing, New York 11354<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/14581472_10154637495184295_5676465133747904118_n.jpg?oh=e5cd5d05abc5e584f7883bb138312574&amp;oe=58611309\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/14581472_10154637495184295_5676465133747904118_n.jpg?oh=e5cd5d05abc5e584f7883bb138312574&amp;oe=58611309\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Flushing Town Hall will celebrate the Festival of Lights with its second-annual Diwali Festival, featuring internationally renowned dancers and musicians from historic India and the Indian diaspora, with workshops, traditional foods, and family-friendly activities. Master musicians and dancers from India, Bangladesh, Guyana, and Suriname join forces to celebrate Diwali with regional music and dance from each country.<\/p>\n<p>The three-hour celebration features master artists: master Indian dancer Abha Bhatnagar Roy with Sarika Persaud, Zeel Shah, Melisa Bhagwandin from Guyana, master Bangladeshi dancer: Anup K. Das with Antara Saha and Margia Smriti, dholak drummer: Babloe Shankar from Suriname. Join us for henna painting, rangoli (decorative design) workshops, a dance workshop, and installations of traditional South Asian dress. Delicious Indian foods and handmade Indian jewelry for sale.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flushingtownhall.org\/event\/dd3e62b67aea6ebe0ea67442bdc93ad7\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.flushingtownhall.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, November 12 1pm to 4pm Flushing Town Hall 137-35 Northern Blvd, Flushing, New York 11354<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67438,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67437\/revisions\/67438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}