{"id":989,"date":"2026-04-09T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/amanda-farias\/?p=989"},"modified":"2026-04-13T17:15:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:15:39","slug":"%f0%9f%93%b8-garifuna-celebration-in-nyc-council-chambers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/amanda-farias\/2026\/04\/09\/%f0%9f%93%b8-garifuna-celebration-in-nyc-council-chambers\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf8 Garifuna Celebration in NYC Council Chambers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Council Member Amanda Far\u00edas sponsored and hosted the 2026 Garifuna Celebration with performances from Wabafu Garifuna Dance Company Theater<\/a> and Cumbe: Center for African and Diaspora Dance<\/a>. Blanca Arzu, Arturo Martinez, and\u00a0<\/strong>Barbara Neil Bennett were each honored with a New York City Council Proclamation. <\/p>\n

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Council Member Amanda Far\u00edas sponsored and hosted the 2026 Garifuna Celebration with performances from Wabafu Garifuna Dance Company Theater<\/a> and Cumbe: Center for African and Diaspora Dance<\/a>. Blanca Arzu, Arturo Martinez, and\u00a0<\/strong>Barbara Neil Bennett were each honored with a New York City Council Proclamation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":338,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[90,211,212,94,128],"class_list":["post-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albums","tag-amanda-farias","tag-garifuna","tag-garifuna-2026","tag-nyc-council","tag-nycc"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 07:23:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/amanda-farias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/amanda-farias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/amanda-farias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/amanda-farias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/amanda-farias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/amanda-farias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/amanda-farias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/amanda-farias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/amanda-farias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}