NO REST FOR THE AWAKE - MINAGAHET CHAMORRO

 Maila ya ta fambaila! Independent Guåhan is having an IndepenDaNCE fundraiser this Friday, March 28th from 7-11 pm at Good Company. There will be a Cha Cha Competition with prizes, raffle and silent art and book auction and mångnge music by Ma’lak Mo’na.    Tickets are just $15 and it includes a drink.    We are fundraising to support art and community projects that we have planned for the rest of the year.  Having an IndepenDANCE fundraiser is something Independent Guåhan has been talking, joking and dreaming about since we first started 9 years ago.  This will be a nice way to end Mes Chamoru this year and also hopefully get us primed for some important, creative community collaborations on the horizon. 

If you are looking for articles, essays, poems, and other random things written in Chamoru, about a wide variety of topics, then you should definitely check out "I Sakman i Fino'-ta." It was started in 2022 by Benny Anderson as a means of promoting Chamoru language and writing. Anyone can submit for the website, which is filled at this point with hundreds of short pieces written in Chamoru. The inspiration for the name is that the website is a vessel for the language in the same way the såkman was a vessel for the Chamoru people the past, using it to travel and transport. If we continue to use our language on a daily basis and pass it on to the next generation, it will continue to evolve and grow as we grow. It will stay with us on this journey. The published pieces come from active, current learners of Chamoru, first language speakers of Chamoru and second language learners of Chamoru. They are free to write about whatever they are interested in. You will find plenty of ...