{"id":138,"date":"2020-03-10T08:09:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T04:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=138"},"modified":"2020-04-23T08:28:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T04:28:25","slug":"pianopalooza-among-upcoming-cancelled-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2020\/03\/10\/pianopalooza-among-upcoming-cancelled-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Pianopalooza among upcoming cancelled events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Sama Al Taie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY \u2013 Safety precaution regarding the coronavirus resulted in canceling the \u201cPianopalooza\u201d concert at the American University of Sharjah, said College of Arts and Sciences Dean Mahmoud Anabtawi in an email on March 1.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Performing Arts Program initially scheduled the show to take place on March 2-3.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The music faculty have been preparing for the concert\u2019s repertoire since Fall 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Anabtawi\u2019s email, ticket holders will receive a full refund for the purchased passes for the performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe do hope this event will be rescheduled at a later date,\u201d wrote Anabtawi.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chief Operating Officer Dr. Jeannette Vinke wrote in a Feb. 29 email that the country\u2019s Ministry of Education requires the cancellation of all public gatherings and activities until further notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She added that the postponement of such events includes \u201con-campus competitions, festivals, conferences, seminars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vinke wrote that the university would remain in touch with the Ministry of Health to communicate any updates regarding the virus.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sama Al Taie UNIVERSITY CITY \u2013 Safety precaution regarding the coronavirus resulted in canceling the \u201cPianopalooza\u201d concert at the American University of Sharjah, said College of Arts and Sciences Dean Mahmoud Anabtawi in an email on March 1.&nbsp; The Performing Arts Program initially scheduled the show to take place on March 2-3.&nbsp; The music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[22,30],"class_list":{"0":"post-138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-cas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}