{"id":20204,"date":"2015-04-30T22:37:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T05:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=20204"},"modified":"2015-04-30T22:58:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T05:58:57","slug":"cinco-de-mayo-not-your-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/cinco-de-mayo-not-your-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinco de Mayo Not Your Thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/russcel.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/west-hollywood-russian-festival.html\">West Hollywood Russian Arts &amp; Culture Festival<\/a>\u00a0takes place at Plummer Park on\u00a0May 3, 2015.\u00a0The free festival includes Russian crafts and jewelry, Puppet Theater on Wheels at 11 a.m; a Grand Opening Ceremony at 11:30 a.m.; the Annual Children&#8217;s Concert from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.; and an Annual Gala Concert from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t care about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-cinco-de-mayo.html\">Cinco de Mayo<\/a> parties and festivals this weekend there are\u00a0other\u00a0cultural options out there if you look around. Among those we have found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>POLYNESIAN: Foster City Polynesian Festival Saturday, May 2, 2015, 10am-5pm.\u00a0See Hawaiian hula dancers, Samoan sivas, Tongan kailao and the rhythmic Tahitian and Cook Islands drum dances, plus food, arts\u00a0&amp;\u00a0crafts booths and outrigger canoe rides. Admission is free.\u00a0fostercity.org<\/li>\n<li>NATIVE AMERICAN:\u00a0UCLA Powwow May 2 &amp; 3, 2015; San Juan Bautista Indian Arts Marketplace May 2 &amp; 3; Sacramento&#8217;s California Indian Museum features Native American Basket Weaving\u00a0Demonstration and\u00a0Native American flute workshops for beginners, both on May 2.<\/li>\n<li>RUSSIAN: West Hollywood Russian Festival May 3<\/li>\n<li>EUROPEAN: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-renaissance-festivals.html\">Renaissance Festivals<\/a> in Escondido, Visalia and Irwindale<\/li>\n<li>INTERNATIONAL: Soka University International Festival May 2 in Aliso Viejo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Hollywood Russian Arts &amp; Culture Festival\u00a0takes place at Plummer Park on\u00a0May 3, 2015.\u00a0The free festival includes Russian crafts and jewelry, Puppet Theater on Wheels at 11 a.m; a Grand Opening Ceremony at 11:30 a.m.; the Annual Children&#8217;s Concert from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.; and an Annual Gala Concert from 4 p.m. to 6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20204"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}