{"id":173919,"date":"2026-03-01T14:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T14:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/173919\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T14:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T14:51:10","slug":"world-of-nations-celebration-returns-to-jacksonville-with-food-culture-and-music-104-5-wokv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/173919\/","title":{"rendered":"World of Nations Celebration returns to Jacksonville with food, culture and music \u2013 104.5 WOKV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla.  \u2014 About 25,000 people are expected to pour into Jacksonville this weekend for the World of Nations Celebration. From Cambodia to Spain to even Trinidad and Turkey, the DR included. You can access about 30 nations at the celebration. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\">Anubhav Dahiya from the India booth showed off everything from hair accessories to handcrafted items from the Asian subcontinent, even Apu the elephant mascot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\">\u201cI think this gives us a two-pronged benefit. First thing is let us show Indian culture,\u201d Dahiya said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" target=\"_blank\">&gt;&gt;&gt; STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE &lt;&lt;&lt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\">\u201cWe are a not-for-profit organization. It helps us generate some funds that we can use for other community activities,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\">Flying past the Perfumes of Palestine and the fruits and spices of Trinidad and Tobago, you can stop at South Sudan. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\">\u201cOur country is going through a lot of things, war, etc. And we want to be able to bring positivity into the world, and we want to be able to show them that South Sudan is here, Sudan is here!\u201d Randa Abdelhameed of the South Sudan booth said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\">Their nation formed relatively recently in 2011, the Sudanese showed Action News Jax everything from the country\u2019s native garments and wedding styles to Henna tattoos at the booth. They\u2019ll even give you a crash course in Arabic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\">The World of Nations Celebration runs Saturday from 10 AM to 7 PM and Sunday from 10 AM to 6 PM. For more information on the celebration, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitjacksonville.com\/events\/annual\/world-of-nations-celebration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.visitjacksonville.com\/events\/annual\/world-of-nations-celebration\/\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.actionnewsjax.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 dbPNdY body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/video\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 About 25,000 people are expected to pour into Jacksonville this weekend for the World of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[982,82532,82533,82530,82529,24468,9598,969,116,118,117,9226,634,985,82536,13318,37212,82537,82535,82531,82534,15665,82528,66799,66805],"class_list":{"0":"post-173919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-action_news","9":"tag-anubav_dehia","10":"tag-apu","11":"tag-cambodia","12":"tag-dakota","13":"tag-downtown_jacksonville","14":"tag-india","15":"tag-jack","16":"tag-jacksonville","17":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","18":"tag-jacksonville-news","19":"tag-king","20":"tag-local","21":"tag-palestine","22":"tag-south_sudan","23":"tag-spain","24":"tag-sudan","25":"tag-sudanese","26":"tag-tobago","27":"tag-trinidad","28":"tag-trinidad_and","29":"tag-turkey","30":"tag-world_of_nations","31":"tag-zion","32":"tag-zion_dekoto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}