{"id":311054,"date":"2026-07-31T20:10:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311054\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T20:10:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:10:45","slug":"igbofest-returns-to-brooklyn-park-aug-8-celebrating-nigerian-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311054\/","title":{"rendered":"IgboFest Returns To Brooklyn Park Aug. 8 Celebrating Nigerian Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2:12 PM | Friday, July 31, 2026<\/p>\n<p>IgboFest celebrates its 31st year highlighting Nigerian culture on Saturday, Aug. 8, on the campus of North Hennepin Community College.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the Umunne Cultural Association, attendees can experience traditional Igbo clothing, cuisine, music and cultural performances at this year\u2019s festival, which runs from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur culture is very dear to us that we like to preserve, we don\u2019t want our culture to vanish. That\u2019s why it is very important to us,\u201d said Ikwuagwu Omeoga, chair of the Umunne Cultural Association.<\/p>\n<p>The Igbo people are a major ethnic group native to southeastern Nigeria. Organizers of the celebration say it\u2019s perfect way to learn about this unique and distinctive culture.<\/p>\n<p>Among them is Gladys Eta, who owns <a href=\"https:\/\/ccxmedia.org\/news\/glamaur-african-kitchen-celebrates-grand-opening-in-brooklyn-park\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener follow noreferrer nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Glamaur African Kitchen in Brooklyn Park<\/a>. Eta will be serving up some of her specialty dishes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCulture is everything, and food is part of culture, so I\u2019m always excited to be in IgboFest to showcase our Nigerian dishes,\u201d said Eta.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-205722\" class=\"wp-image-205722 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IgboFest-Returns-To-Brooklyn-Park-Aug.-8-Celebrating-Nigerian-Culture--1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"IgboFest features dishes from Glamaur African Kitchen.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-205722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dish prepared by Glamaur African Kitchen in Brooklyn Park<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.minneapolisnorthwest.com\/events\/annual-events-and-festivals\/igbofest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">IgboFest is free to attend<\/a> and runs from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 8, at North Hennepin Community College.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Corey Bork contributed to this report<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ccxmedia.org\/city\/brooklyn-center\/\" rel=\"tag follow noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_self\">Brooklyn Center<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/ccxmedia.org\/city\/brooklyn-park\/\" rel=\"tag follow noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_self\">Brooklyn Park<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2:12 PM | Friday, July 31, 2026 IgboFest celebrates its 31st year highlighting Nigerian culture on Saturday, Aug.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-311054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}