{"id":14982,"date":"2011-10-11T00:31:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T00:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=14982"},"modified":"2011-10-11T00:31:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T00:31:25","slug":"arts-council-seeks-venue-for-christmas-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/arts-council-seeks-venue-for-christmas-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"Arts council seeks venue for Christmas exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Clarissa V. David<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>The Commonwealth Council for Arts and Culture is now preparing for its Christmas exhibit after the successful run of its Cultural Heritage &amp; Arts Pacifica Exhibit last month.<\/p>\n<p>At this time, the council is looking for a venue for the Island Artist and Christmas Craft Exhibit, which is organized in time for the holiday season, according to Parker Yobei, Arts in Education and festival coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe encourage business establishments to sponsor this exhibit by providing a venue where our talented artists can display their skills and craftsmanship for the public to appreciate,\u201d Yobei told Saipan Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>Yobei noted that some of the artworks at the exhibit will also be for sale.<\/p>\n<p>According to Yobei, there are many businesses on island that have rooms or spaces to spare where they can set up the exhibit.<\/p>\n<p>Previous Christmas exhibits were held at the council&#8217;s gallery on Capital Hill, which does not really encourage many community members to view the displayed artworks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are optimistic that the business community on island will step up to the plate and help support arts and culture by offering us a place where we can hold the exhibit,\u201d said Yobei.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call 322-9981 or 82 or email artscouncil.ccac@gmail.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Clarissa V. David Reporter The Commonwealth Council for Arts and Culture is now preparing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}