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Activities lined up for Cultural Heritage Month
The Northern Marianas Humanities Council, in collaboration with the Carolinian Affairs Office, will be launching its activities for this year’s Cultural Heritage Month. These include the launching of a photo exhibit and identification project.
Historical photos of Carolinian people during the German, Japanese, and U.S administrations will be on display during “Uumw Night,” which is every Friday of this month. It will begin Sept. 12 from 5pm to 9pm at the Carolinian Utt on Beach Road, Garapan and is open to the public.
The council and CAO seeks the community’s help in identifying people in the photographs and the significance of their traditional cultural attire.
The council will also have a special presentation on the Chamorro language on Sept. 18. The event is from 6pm to 8pm and is free of charge.
Cultural Heritage Month coordinator Gordon Marciano also wants to remind the public of CAO’s activities as well.
On Sept. 23, there will be a ceremony to honor the 13 Fishermen who lost their lives at sea and are memorialized by the 13 Fishermen’s Monument along Beach Road. This will be followed by Chief Aghurubw Day on Sept. 27, to honor the Carolinian navigator who resettled his people in the Northern Marianas in 1815 after a major typhoon destroyed their islands in Satawal, which is now part of the Federated States of Micronesia.
For more information on the council’s events, contact 235-4785. For more information on the Carolinian Affairs Office events, contact 234-6385.
