{"id":24486,"date":"2025-08-11T11:32:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/honors-college-students-participate-in-albanys-caribbean-festival\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T11:32:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:32:37","slug":"honors-college-students-participate-in-albanys-caribbean-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/honors-college-students-participate-in-albanys-caribbean-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Honors College Students Participate in Albany&#8217;s Caribbean Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, August 9, 2025, the Columbia County Sanctuary Movement hosted their 2nd annual Caribbean Festival at Jennings Landing in Albany. People from across the region came together to celebrate the rich Caribbean culture with food, art, and music. The festival highlighted the diversity and traditions of the Caribbean community. Students from the HVCC Honors College were delighted to be a part of the celebration by helping with set up, directing parking and serving as event greeters.<\/p>\n<p>The Columbia County Sanctuary Movement (CCSM) organizes with immigrants and allies to collectively support, empower and defend diverse communities. They are a multilingual non-profit organization dedicated to providing holistic services, education and engaging members in campaigns for systemic change.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about CCSM, please\u00a0visit their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanctuarycolumbiacounty.org\/\">website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information about the HVCC Honors College, please\u00a0visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hvcc.edu\/programs\/honors\/index.html\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_180057\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180057\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-180057 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6867--300x225.jpg\" alt=\"students pose for photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-180057\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honors College volunteers at the 2025 Caribbean Festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_180058\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180058\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-180058 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6856--225x300.jpg\" alt=\"students pose for photo\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-180058\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(left to right) Sean Moore, Ariana Wolfe, Aubrey Adamo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_180059\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180059\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-180059 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6859--225x300.jpg\" alt=\"students pose for photo\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-180059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(left to right) Angelo Polito, Madison Fosmire, Joseph Takyi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_180060\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180060\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-180060 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6874--300x225.jpg\" alt=\"students volunteering\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-180060\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">all work&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_180061\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180061\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-180061 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6880--300x225.jpg\" alt=\"students volunteering\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-180061\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">and some play!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 11 Aug 2025 11:32:37 +0000 by\u00a0l.hassib<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; On Saturday, August 9, 2025, the Columbia County Sanctuary Movement hosted their 2nd annual Caribbean Festival at Jennings Landing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcement-college-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}