{"id":959038,"date":"2026-05-14T10:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T10:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/959038\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T10:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T10:12:16","slug":"south-west-festival-celebrating-diversity-more-vital-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/959038\/","title":{"rendered":"South West festival celebrating diversity &#8216;more vital than ever&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For Emma Allen, who curated the Voices of the Diaspora art exhibition at the Island,  it was all about witnessing different cultures sitting together and sharing stories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Featuring 18 Bristol-based artists with roots from around the world, the event explored themes of identity, home and folk stories. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This year more than ever with the divisive political landscape, people are feeling separated,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re an amassment of cultures and there&#8217;s so much beauty in that &#8211; it needs celebrating,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Emma Allen, who curated the Voices of the Diaspora art exhibition at the Island, it was all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":959039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-959038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116572399049659006","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/959039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}