{"id":304378,"date":"2026-10-11T11:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T11:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304378\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T11:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T11:08:07","slug":"community-celebrates-hispanic-heritage-month-at-youth-art-contest-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304378\/","title":{"rendered":"Community celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month at youth art contest in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The event was hosted by the non-profit &#8216;Giving Back to the Community and featured cultural performances, music, food, and more.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 On Saturday, Giving Back to the Community hosted its first Hispanic Heritage Art Youth Contest at the ANZ Hotel in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Scranton<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With cultural performances, food, music, and activities for children, the celebration is dedicated to showcasing the creativity and cultural pride of Latino high school students in the Scranton School District.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a grandmother. A great-grandmother. I want the next generation to remember their roots, to remember that they live in Scranton which is so diverse. Understand all of the latino cultures that are here,&#8221; said Giving Back to The Community Co-Founder Elizabeth Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers of the Hispanic Heritage Art Youth Contest say they&#8217;re already looking forward to making next year&#8217;s celebration even bigger.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The event was hosted by the non-profit &#8216;Giving Back to the Community and featured cultural performances, music, food,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-304378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}