{"id":23145,"date":"2022-10-20T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=23145"},"modified":"2022-10-24T12:18:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T19:18:37","slug":"ccss-brings-diwali-back-to-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2022\/10\/20\/ccss-brings-diwali-back-to-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"CCSS brings Diwali back to campus"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) is bringing its Diwali festival celebration back to campus this year. On Monday, October 24 from 6 pm to 9 pm, the Lansdowne campus will be set alight with colours, dancing, music, and culture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Also called the Festival of Lights, Diwali is heavily celebrated in India. This festival is observed by Hindus, Sikhs, and Jains, and it usually lasts up to five days. Diwali is celebrated through various traditions and rituals, like food, special candles and diyas (oil lamps), fireworks, and family gatherings.<\/p>\n

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A scene from last year\u2019s Camosun College Student Society Diwali event (photo by Michael Glover).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

CCSS advocacy and outreach coordinator Michael Glover says events like this are important for Camosun\u2019s international students. (Attendees must be current Camosun students with student ID, and can bring a guest.)<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s really important to make the international community feel supported here,\u201d says Glover. \u201cThe international students are spending a lot of money to be here, and they can come to campus and feel lost… Wherever we can put the students together and have that interaction enhances the experience and makes Camosun the place you\u2019re going to remember when you\u2019re older.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glover says the issue with hosting events on campus at night is the potential for low attendance. But so far, that hasn\u2019t been the case for this festival.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt gets a lot of pickup. It\u2019s one that we know will be successful,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to find people that want to come back to campus at night, just because they\u2019re spread out, but there\u2019s a real motivation for this one. It\u2019s been a good one for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glover says that students should expect music and lots of dancing at the festival, along with food boxes made by local caterers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really is a big dance party,\u201d he says. \u201cThere are a few little ceremonial pieces that\u2019ll come together, but, it\u2019s kind of just a freeform dance party. And, we will be getting boxes of food made off campus by one of the local restaurants, and they\u2019ll be a snack and two sweets… And then DJ, light show, that kind of thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glover says that he\u2019s most excited about the opportunity that events like these can bring to the student experience at Camosun.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m always excited whenever we can create campus life,\u201d he says. \u201cWhere students get to experience each other and have fun and have that college experience. It\u2019s always been a challenge to create that. So, my mission is to look for opportunities to do that. It\u2019s a party. People are excited about it, it\u2019s really important to people. So, whenever you can satisfy that need, that\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) is bringing its Diwali festival celebration back to campus this year. On Monday, October 24 from 6 pm to 9 pm, the Lansdowne campus will be set alight with colours, dancing, music, and culture.\u00a0 Also called the Festival of Lights, Diwali is heavily celebrated in India. This festival is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,238,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-life-sports","category-campus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23147,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23145\/revisions\/23147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}