{"id":13268,"date":"2019-05-09T02:20:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T02:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/?p=13268"},"modified":"2019-05-09T02:20:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T02:20:07","slug":"gfdd-organiza-encuentro-con-artesanos-dominicanos-en-washington-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/gfdd-organiza-encuentro-con-artesanos-dominicanos-en-washington-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"GFDD Hosts Meet &#038; Greet with Dominican Artisans in Washington, D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Washington, DC. &#8211;<\/strong> <\/em>Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) hosted a meet and greet with a group of Dominican artisans visiting Washington, D.C. The group, which includes members of the\u00a0<i>Federaci\u00f3n Dominicana de Artesanos,\u00a0<\/i>came to the U.S. capital to participate in the \u201cAround the World Embassy Tour\u201d (PassportDC) and an Arts &amp; Crafts Bazaar also organized by GFDD with the\u00a0\u00a0Dominican Embassy in D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Pedro Castro, Santiago Espinal, Juli\u00e1n Rodr\u00edguez, Ram\u00f3n de la Rosa, Wandy Valdez, Maribel Ram\u00edrez, Elizabeth Linares, Jos\u00e9 Antonio Carmona, Abel Castillo, Pedro Sena and Jos\u00e9 Torres were among those present. They work on precious woods, larimar and amber, and natural materials to make handmade arts and crafts.<\/p>\n<p>Gretchen Pockels, Cultural Attach\u00e9 of the Dominican Embassy, as well as Semiramis de Miranda, GFDD\u2019s ICT and Projects Director, and Maria Victoria Abreu, GFDD\u2019s International Affairs and Socioeconomic Development Program Manager, guided the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Following a presentation of GFDD\u2019s DominicanaOnline portal and a discussion on the opportunity to expand the relationship with the artisans through that platform, De Miranda gave a copy of GFDD\u2019s publication \u201cAll Things Dominican\u201d to each visitor as a gift.<\/p>\n<p>The event was an initiative of GFDD with the Embassy of the Dominican Republic in Washington, D.C.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC. &#8211; Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) hosted a meet and greet with a group of Dominican artisans visiting Washington, D.C. The group, which includes members of the\u00a0Federaci\u00f3n Dominicana de Artesanos,\u00a0came to the U.S. capital to participate in the \u201cAround the World Embassy Tour\u201d (PassportDC) and an Arts &amp; Crafts Bazaar also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/gfdd-organiza-encuentro-con-artesanos-dominicanos-en-washington-d-c\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GFDD Hosts Meet &#038; Greet with Dominican Artisans in Washington, D.C.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13278,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13268\/revisions\/13278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}