{"id":305187,"date":"2019-08-02T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T20:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=305187"},"modified":"2019-08-02T06:00:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T20:00:47","slug":"intl-festival-of-cultures-on-sept-20-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/intl-festival-of-cultures-on-sept-20-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Int\u2019l Festival of Cultures on Sept. 20-21"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_305188\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-305188\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Intl-pix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-305188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This file photo shows a dance group portraying a Chamorro dance at the Annual International Festival of Cultures in the Marianas on Sept. 13, 2014. (MVA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 5th Annual International Festival of Cultures will be held on Sept. 20-21, 2019, in celebration of the cultural diversity of the Marianas, with special emphasis on the indigenous cultures of Micronesia.<\/p>\n<p>The festival returns to Paseo de Marianas in the main tourist district on Saipan. A soft opening will be held on Sept. 20, from 5pm to 10pm with an ethnic parade, food sales, and demonstration and sales of arts and crafts.  <\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 21, from 5pm to 10pm, the festival will also feature live ethnic performances on-stage. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn partnership with our various ethnic communities in the Marianas, we are looking forward to another great international Festival of Cultures in September,\u201d said Marianas Visitors Authority managing director Priscilla Iakopo. \u201cThe weekend of Sept. 20-21 is not only the mid-autumn festival travel holiday in China but also a weekend when summer charter flights will be arriving from Japan, and we are looking forward to sharing our multicultural celebration with all our visitors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The MVA invites interested cultural groups to participate in the upcoming festival meeting scheduled forAug.9, 2019, at 2pm at the MVA conference room. Participation forms are available at the MVA office in San Jose, Saipan, or interested participants may contact MVA community projects coordinator Jack Aranda at jaranda@mymarianas.com or (670) 664-3219 for more information. <strong>(MVA)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 5th Annual International Festival of Cultures will be held on Sept. 20-21, 2019, in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":305188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305187","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=305187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}