Estorian Sindalu Siha
Date:
March 11, 2014
Contact:
Kimberlee Kihleng, Executive
Director
Monaeka
Flores, Coordinator for Marketing and Programs
Phone:
472-4460/1
Council to host next Smithsonian Institution Exhibit Journey
Stories, public call for photographs and artifacts
The Guam Humanities Council will partner with the
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Museum on Main Street
(MoMS) program to bring a national exhibit to Guam in 2014 entitled, Journey
Stories. Many of us have powerful journey stories in our personal heritage. It
may be a story of a family uprooting itself in order to stay together, or of
sons and daughters moving to another land, or of a distant ancestor, perhaps
unknown. As part of the Guam tour, the Council will highlight Guam’s unique
journey stories in the local companion exhibit and complimentary programs in
order to examine where our own stories lie within the national narratives
presented in Journey Stories.
The Guam-focused exhibit will explore the many significant
and sometimes unrecognized journeys of Chamorro men and women who currently
serve or have served in the U.S. Military. Chamorro servicemen and women, along
with their families, have moved all over the world, some returning home, others
resettling permanently in communities across the country. Their rich and complex history of service,
sacrifice, travel, and a sense of place and identity beginning with World War I
into the present will be told through the exhibition project to engage diverse
Guam audiences, both civilian and military. The Council is working with
Chamorro scholar and historian Dr. Michael Lujan Bevacqua to develop the Guam
exhibit.
The Council is currently conducting a campaign to collect
interviews, photographs, memorabilia, souvenirs, and artifacts to include in
the exhibit and other educational materials. The Council will consider any
photographs or items that might represent Chamorro identity and pride in
service that are of acceptable quality and of interest for a wide public
audience. Photos taken and items collected during wartime, deployments,
relocation, and of interactions depicting Chamorros in service are also needed
for the exhibit. The Council wishes to conduct interviews with:
Chamorro women soldiers
Mothers in service
Veterans of recent wars – Desert Storm, Djibouti
deployments, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, etc.
Veteran activists
Final selections will be based on content and space
available. Release forms will be provided for all content selected for the
exhibit. Interested participants are asked to call the Council for
pre-interviews from March 25 through March 29.
Interviews will be conducted on Mondays and Wednesdays from 4:00 to 7:00
p.m and Saturdays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the Council Office Suite 106 at the
Reflection Center in Hagatna from March 31 to April 12. Photographs and all other inquiries may also
be submitted via email to monaeka_ghc@teleguam.net. To participate or for more information,
please call the Council at 472-4462.
The Guam Humanities Council is a non-profit organization
that provides foundational support and educational programs for the people of
Guam. The mission of the Guam Humanities
Council is to foster community engagement and dialogue, inspire critical
thinking, celebrate diversity and enrich the quality of life of island
residents through the power of the humanities.
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