{"id":247899,"date":"2017-03-08T06:06:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T20:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=247899"},"modified":"2017-03-08T06:06:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T20:06:51","slug":"mariana-islands-display-chamorro-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mariana-islands-display-chamorro-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariana Islands on display at Chamorro Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_247907\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-247907\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Mariana-pix.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-247907\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Mariana-pix-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"8th Annual Chamorro Cultural Festival dancers. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-247907\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-247907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">8th Annual Chamorro Cultural Festival dancers. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SAN DIEGO, California\u2014The San Diego-based non-profit group CHE\u2019LU, or Chamorro Hands in Education Links Unity, will be celebrating its 8th Annual Chamorro Cultural Festival on March 25, 2017, at the California State University-San Marcos.<\/p>\n<p>The festival is a free event with free parking.<\/p>\n<p>The annual Chamorro cultural festival is a highly anticipated family-fun event, celebrating the arts, culture, customs and people of the Mariana Islands, which include Guam, Saipan, Rota, Tinian, and islands in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. <\/p>\n<p>CCF is a unique day of celebration for Chamorros, uniting the indigenous people of the Marianas from around the world with music and cultural dance performances, educational workshops, cultural foods and a diverse array of products to accentuate the Chamorro in everyone. <\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s theme is \u201cTa Na\u2019 La\u2019la\u2019 Gi Halom i Famagu\u2019onta\u2026i Lengguahita yan Kutturata\u201d which translates to \u201cLet it Live from Within Our Children\u2026Our Language and Our Culture.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chamorro Cultural Festival helps many of us Chamorros celebrate our unique culture and heritage with a vast array of workshops, arts and crafts and entertainment,\u201d said Danny Blas, chairman of the CHE\u2019LU board of directors. \u201cEvery year this event grows and grows. The CCF has become the premier Chamorro event in the mainland away from the Marianas, and our team is very proud to be able to continue the work to preserve our culture, language and the Chamorro ways of life.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The CSU-San Marcos festival site allows CHE\u2019LU to continually improve the festival-goer experience by providing a spacious ground, protected parking, more seating areas and enhanced facilities, including free Wi-Fi and family-friendly restrooms. <\/p>\n<p>CHE\u2019LU is a nonprofit organization, created and sustained by volunteers in San Diego. It was established in 2005 to highlight the unique Chamorro culture and its indigenous people. Its mission statement says: \u201cCHE\u2019LU is dedicated to the Chamorro community by strengthening our native language, culture and health through education.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Some of the ways CHE\u2019LU preserves the culture are through the programs we support. In particular we reach out to the greater community through our Sakman Chamorro project, an outrigger canoe project that returned pride to our community by reigniting our ancient seafaring traditions and our youth cultural music and dance programs. <\/p>\n<p>Our entire board hopes you are able to celebrate with us in San Marcos on March 25, 2017. 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