{"id":30280,"date":"2025-11-01T01:13:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/30280\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T01:13:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:13:23","slug":"8-days-to-the-good-stuff-our-city-celebrates-diversity-and-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/30280\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Days to The Good Stuff: Our city celebrates diversity and culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Count down to our The Good Stuff 10th Anniversary Block Party with 10 of &#8220;the good stuff&#8221; about Plano.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>For the next eight days leading up to our <a href=\"https:\/\/planomagazine.com\/10th-anniversary-block-party\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">10th anniversary block party<\/a>, we\u2019re counting down 10 things we love about Plano by celebrating The Good Stuff. What is the good stuff, you ask?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With eight days left, we\u2019re talking about Plano celebrating diversity and culture.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Plano <a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/most-diverse-cities\/12690\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ranked 28th most culturally diverse<\/a> in the nation, with over 1 in 5 residents reporting as Asian and nearly 1 in 3 being foreign-born. The city of Plano celebrates these cultures in many ways, including two annual festivals: AsiaFest and Plano International Festival.<\/p>\n<p>A fantastic example is that one of the city\u2019s top events each year is the <a href=\"xhttps:\/\/planomagazine.com\/plano-international-festival\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Plano International Festival<\/a>. It\u2019s the longest multicultural festival in North Texas, running since 2005.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planointernationalfestival.org\/index.php\/event-program-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">festival<\/a> features children\u2019s activities, a fashion show, on-stage performers, cultural vendor booths, a wellness fair and plenty of food trucks.<\/p>\n<p>Next year\u2019s festival will take place on Oct. 17 at Haggard Park. As always, admission is free.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asianamericanheritage.org\/asiafest.asp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AsiaFest<\/a> is hosted by the Celebrating Asian American Heritage Foundation. The 2024 festival marked the twentieth year of Plano AsiaFest.<\/p>\n<p>The festival gives demonstrations and performances on Asian languages, Asian medicine, music from several cultures, a fashion show, martial arts and food from many countries.<\/p>\n<p>The dates for the next festival have not yet been released, but it generally takes place in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>You can still buy tickets here! <a href=\"https:\/\/go.evvnt.com\/3210336-0?pid=9293\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets<\/a> are $10 and include two cocktails, light bites, entertainment and more. Ages 17 and under are free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Count down to our The Good Stuff 10th Anniversary Block Party with 10 of &#8220;the good stuff&#8221; about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-30280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}