Art / Culture

At Gef Pa’go, the spirit of Chamorro culture isn’t just found in the women who wear bright colored skirts and white blouses. And it’s not found in the gift shop, where handmade items like necklaces and coconut candy attract the eye of visitors from countries like Japan.It’s in the salt, made from freshly boiled seawater collected near Merizo, and in the woven ropes of wild hibiscus,

EVERY SATURDAY IN JULY – AUGUST 1Our island has many talented artists of both traditional and contemporary artforms. During the month of July, local artists will be displaying and selling their art and giving a 3-hour workshop at Gef Pa’go Chamorro Cultural Village each Saturday. This year, the featured artists are: Judy Flores,

Gef Pa’go Chamorro Cultural Village in historic Inalahan village invites the public to experience a traditional thatching work party onSaturday, April 18, from 9 am to 2 pm. Balanggai is a term used by Chamorro elders to describe a group work effort towards completing the building of a house or the thatching of a roof. It involves not only the work of sewing and replacing thatch,

More than 500 dancers, singers, chanters, drummers, guitar players and other celebrants gathered at Gef Pa’go Park on February 13, 14, and 15, 2009 to share their talents through workshops and performances. Every second weekend in February this annual festival fills the bayside park, thatched huts,

In 2002 Jillette Leon Guerrero, then the executive director of the Guam Humanities Council, Dr. Nicholas Goetzfridt, a UOG reference librarian and member of the GHC board who first headed the Guam online encyclopedia project, and I, the newly hired managing editor, began creating Guampedia by making a list.