{"id":261803,"date":"2017-10-06T06:06:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T20:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=261803"},"modified":"2017-10-06T06:06:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T20:06:29","slug":"parade-fashion-show-close-intl-festival-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/parade-fashion-show-close-intl-festival-cultures\/","title":{"rendered":"Parade, fashion show close Int\u2019l Festival of Cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-261803 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/parade-fashion-show-close-intl-festival-cultures\/mva-pix-1-jpg-20\/'>MVA-pix-1.jpg<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-261837'>\n\t\t\t\tVarious ethnic communities in The Marianas joined together for the Parade of Cultures and the final night of the 3rd International Festival of Cultures at Garapan Fishing Base in Saipan on Sept. 30, 2017.  The annual event is organized by the Marianas Visitors Authority. (Photos by MVA)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/parade-fashion-show-close-intl-festival-cultures\/mva-pix-2-jpg-19\/'>MVA-pix-2.jpg<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/parade-fashion-show-close-intl-festival-cultures\/mva-pix-3-jpg-16\/'>MVA-pix-3.jpg<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-261839'>\n\t\t\t\tMembers of the Chamorro community display their traditional attire during the 3rd International Festival of Cultures at Garapan Fishing Base in Saipan on Sept. 30, 2017.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/parade-fashion-show-close-intl-festival-cultures\/mva-pix-4-jpg-9\/'>MVA-pix-4.jpg<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-261840'>\n\t\t\t\tMembers of the Bangladeshi community display their traditional attire including sharees and panjabis during the 3rdInternational Festival of Cultures at Garapan Fishing Base in Saipan on Sept. 30, 2017.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/parade-fashion-show-close-intl-festival-cultures\/mva-pix-5-jpg-6\/'>MVA-pix-5.jpg<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-261841'>\n\t\t\t\tMembers of the Yapese, Pohnpeian, and Chuukese communities display their traditional attire during the 3rd International Festival of Cultures at Garapan Fishing Base in Saipan on Sept. 30, 2017.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/parade-fashion-show-close-intl-festival-cultures\/mva-pix-6-jpg-2\/'>MVA-pix-6.jpg<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-261842'>\n\t\t\t\tMembers of the Tongan, Samoan, and Fijian communities display their traditional attire during the 3rd International Festival of Cultures at Garapan Fishing Base in Saipan on Sept. 30, 2017.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/parade-fashion-show-close-intl-festival-cultures\/mva-pix-7-jpg-2\/'>MVA-pix-7.jpg<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-261843'>\n\t\t\t\tMembers of the Korean community display their traditional attire, casual at left and regal at right, during the 3rd International Festival of Cultures at Garapan Fishing Base in Saipan on Sept. 30, 2017.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/parade-fashion-show-close-intl-festival-cultures\/mva-pix-8-jpg-2\/'>MVA-pix-8.jpg<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-261844'>\n\t\t\t\tMembers of the Chamorro community perform during the 3rd International Festival of Cultures at Garapan Fishing Base in Saipan on Sept. 30, 2017.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/parade-fashion-show-close-intl-festival-cultures\/mva-pix-9-jpg-2\/'>MVA-pix-9.jpg<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-261845'>\n\t\t\t\tMembers of the Filipino community perform the \u201ctinikling\u201d bamboo dance during the 3rd International Festival of Cultures at Garapan Fishing Base in Saipan on Sept. 30, 2017.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The Parade of Cultures and fashion show of ethnic attire closed the 3rd Annual International Festival of Cultures on Saipan on its final night last Saturday, Sept. 30.<\/p>\n<p>A few delegations successfully braved the on-again, off-again rain in the Parade of Cultures at 4:30pm from American Memorial Park to the festival grounds at the Garapan Fishing Base. Walking delegations were the Chamorro community, Japanese community, Filipino community, Bangladeshi community, and Yapese community, while the Marianas Visitors Authority\u2019s float carried representatives of various other cultures.  The parade was followed by a fashion show on-stage and a full night of entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>The evening also provided the opportunity to see dumpling-making at the Chinese booth, to try on traditional Korean king and queen costumes, to learn origami or play \u201ckadema\u201d at the Japanese booth, and to commemorate the evening at a photo booth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA big Si Yu\u2019use Ma\u2019ase, Ghilisou, and thank you to all the cultural groups that came together to help the Marianas Visitors Authority plan and execute this year\u2019s International Festival of Cultures,\u201d said MVA Community Projects specialist Lynn Sablan, lead organizer for the event. \u201cDespite the rain on a few nights, everyone came together to show their support and their pride. The festival was a good example of how the people of our island come together, help each other, and enjoy being together. We look forward to next year\u2019s celebration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The festival, organized by the MVA, was held over Saturdays during September and is scheduled from 5pm to 9pm at Garapan Fishing Base and featured ethnic food, hands-on cultural demonstrations, games, ethnic attire, arts and crafts, and more. Other participating communities were Carolinian, Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, Hawaii, Marshall Islands, Palau, Chuuk, and the Philippines. Additional supporters are Office of the Governor, Indigenous Affairs Office, Carolinian Affairs Office, IT&amp;E, Imperial Pacific Int\u2019l CNMI LLC, Skywalker, PDM Promoters, Power 99, KKMP, and PDI. <em>(MVA)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Parade of Cultures and fashion show of ethnic attire closed the 3rd Annual International&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":261837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[281,36,43,4526],"class_list":["post-261803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biba-marianas","tag-garapan-fishing-base","tag-indigenous-affairs-office","tag-marianas-visitors-authority","tag-pdi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261803","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}