{"id":207676,"date":"2026-03-06T18:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T18:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/207676\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T18:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T18:13:07","slug":"date-set-for-alysa-liu-homecoming-celebration-in-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/207676\/","title":{"rendered":"Date Set For Alysa Liu Homecoming Celebration In Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND, CA \u2014 Shoutout Oakland! City officials have announced the date for the <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/california\/alameda\/alysa-liu-gifts-jimmy-fallon-halo-ring-wig-during-surprise-tonight-show\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alysa Liu<\/a> homecoming celebration, two weeks after the <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/california\/alameda\/alysa-liu-wins-gold-womens-figure-skating-winter-olympics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area native made history<\/a> at the 2026 Winter Olympics. <\/p>\n<p>Liu became the first U.S. women&#8217;s figure skater in 20 years to win the gold medal at the Olympics on Feb. 19. She skated to Donna Summer&#8217;s &#8220;MacArthur Park,&#8221; capturing the hearts of fans around the world with her free spirit and joy. <\/p>\n<p>Now, Liu, who put Oakland on the world stage any chance she could at the Olympics, will be honored with a special celebration rally on Thursday, March 12, city officials said. <\/p>\n<p>The celebration will take place from noon to 1:30 p.m. at Oakland City Hall&#8217;s Frank Ogawa Plaza. <\/p>\n<p>The event will be free to attend, but city officials say reservations will be required to &#8220;ensure fair access. Each person will be limited to two tickets, city officials said, adding that tickets may not be sold. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let\u2019s come together as a community to honor her incredible achievement on the world stage!&#8221; Oakland city officials said in a post online Thursday. &#8220;Alysa will be there in person.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the event can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitoakland.com\/alysa-liu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, CA \u2014 Shoutout Oakland! City officials have announced the date for the Alysa Liu homecoming celebration, two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-207676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}