{"id":285644,"date":"2018-10-01T06:06:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T20:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=285644"},"modified":"2018-10-01T06:06:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T20:06:53","slug":"october-is-humanities-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/october-is-humanities-month\/","title":{"rendered":"October is Humanities Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_285645\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-285645\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/October-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/October-pix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" class=\"size-full wp-image-285645\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-285645\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Ralph DLG Torres is joined by Cabinet officials and humanities advocates after signing last week\u2019s proclamation at the conference room of the Office of the Governor on Capital Hill declaring October as CNMI Humanities Month. (Jon Perez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Northern Marianas Humanities Council is still accepting nominations for the Governor\u2019s Humanities Awards, which will serve as the highlight of the celebration of the CNMI Humanities Month that starts today.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Ralph DLG Torres signed last week\u2019s proclamation at the conference room of the Office of the Governor on Capital Hill declaring October as CNMI Humanities Month.<\/p>\n<p>The Humanities Awards have become an annual part of the NMHC to honor individuals or groups for the promotion of the humanities in the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n<p>Research and publication, preservation of traditional cultural practices, preservation of CNMI history, and Outstanding Humanities Teacher (both in classroom and non-classroom settings) are the categories for the awards.<\/p>\n<p>NMHC board chair Polly Masga said they are still encouraging everyone to send in their nominations as the deadline is set on Oct. 12 at 4:30pm. Nominations can be dropped off or sent to the NMHC office at Springs Plaza in Gualo Rai on Middle Road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[NMHC has] been around for more than 20 years. We would like to invite you in October and we will have the Governor\u2019s Humanities Award,\u201d said Masga \u201cHumanities are a really broad spectrum. It is of different things. It is not just only about culture but a variety of different things. Whether in poetry, culture, or music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Torres, in his brief remarks, said it also takes skill in learning and expressing one\u2019s culture. \u201cWhether in language, music, the arts, not everybody in this room have that skill. If you have that, please participate in expressing our culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t sing, draw, or paint. I can speak the language and appreciate,\u201d added Torres in jest and said that NMHC will be getting $50,000 from the CNMI 2019 fiscal year budget. \u201cWe would like to do more and our doors are always open.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also thanked former NMHC executive director Scott Russell, who retired last month, for more than 10 years of service on the council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas Humanities Council is still accepting nominations for the Governor\u2019s Humanities Awards, which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":285645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[182,26,18522,1120],"class_list":["post-285644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-capital-hill","tag-cnmi","tag-humanities-month","tag-nmhc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285644","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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}