{"id":382894,"date":"2023-01-06T06:06:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T20:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=382894"},"modified":"2023-01-06T06:06:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T20:06:59","slug":"christmas-in-the-marianas-finale-on-jan-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/christmas-in-the-marianas-finale-on-jan-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in the Marianas finale on Jan. 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_382895\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-382895\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Christmas-in-the-Marianas-pix1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-382895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Christmas-in-the-Marianas-pix1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-382895\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chow Time serves patrons at the 18th Annual Christmas in the Marianas celebration on Dec. 3, 2022, at Garapan Fishing Base. (Photos by MVA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Capping a monthlong celebration, the 18th Annual Christmas in the Marianas will conclude with a final night of live entertainment, food and drinks tomorrow, Jan. 7, from 5pm to 9pm at the Garapan Fishing Base on Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>Entertainment for the evening is scheduled to include holiday music (5pm), Laly 4 Christmas Choir (5:30pm), Saipan Awaodori (6pm), Saipan Music &amp; Dance Studio -SMADS (6:30pm), Petlas Marianas (7pm), Simiyan Marianas (7:30pm), Flores Sinser (8pm), awards for the booth decorating competition and Christmas Mini Village general public entries (8:30pm), and Cab Dancers (8:45pm).<\/p>\n<p>The event is organized by the Marianas Visitors Authority, in partnership with PDM Promoters and Pacific Development Inc.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChristmas in the Marianas has been annual signature of the MVA for nearly two decades, providing a festive holiday celebration on Saturdays for both our visitors and our residents,\u201d said MVA acting managing director Judy C. Torres. \u201cThis year, due to Christmas Eve and New Year\u2019s Eve both falling on a Saturday, we are extending our celebration one more night into January, which fits in nicely with the end of the Christmas season on Three Kings Day celebrated by many in our community this Sunday. We invite everyone to come out and enjoy Saturday\u2019s festivities.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_382896\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-382896\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Christmas-in-the-Marianas-pix2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-382896\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Christmas-in-the-Marianas-pix2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-382896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbecue and more are served up by 10 food and drink vendors at the 18th Annual Christmas in the Marianas celebration at Garapan Fishing Base, Saipan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_382897\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-382897\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Christmas-in-the-Marianas-pix3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-382897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Christmas-in-the-Marianas-pix3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-382897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 18th Annual Christmas in the Marianas celebration returns for its final night and New Year\u2019s celebration tomorrow, Jan. 7, 2023, Garapan Fishing Base, from 5pm to 9pm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In celebration of Lunar New Year on Jan. 23, the illumination display at Garapan Fishing Base will remain up until Jan. 23.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact MVA community projects specialist Jack Aranda at jaranda@mymarianas.com or 664-3200\/1 or visit www.mymarianas.com. <em>(MVA)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capping a monthlong celebration, the 18th Annual Christmas in the Marianas will conclude with a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":382898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23772],"class_list":["post-382894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-marianas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382894","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=382894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}