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Lourdes A. Leon Guerrero
Maga’håga

Joshua F. Tenorio
Sigundo Maga’låhi

DIPÅTTAMENTON I KAOHAO GUINAHAN CHAMORU

Department of CHamoru Affairs

Heritage, Ideas, Traditions and Art (HITA)

department of chamoru affairs

Melvin Won Pat-Borja
Mås Ge’hilo

The Guam Museum, a division of the Department of CHamoru Affairs invites you to attend the HITA Lecture Series. The HITA program offers ways to openly discuss and raise awareness about Guam’s “Heritage, Ideas, Traditions and Art” (HITA), but more importantly, Guam’s cultural, socio-political, and environmental work that impact and/or importantly improve our island resources and day-to-day life. This month’s speaker is Ms. Sandra
Selk Flores, Executive Director of the Guam Council on the Arts and Humanities (CAHA).

Interested participants, please see lecture details below.

Title: CAHA: Arts in Action by Sandra Selk Flores
When: 2:00pm, Saturday, February 4, 2023
Where: Guam Museum – Theater 
Sandra (Sandy) Flores guam museum hita program speaker

About the Speaker:

Sandra (Sandy) Flores grew up in the village of Inalahan on Guam, surrounded by her father’s CHamoru culture and her mother’s passion for art. She spent many years in the
continental US including time earning her bachelor’s degree in Anthropology at Northwestern University in Illinois and her Masters in Peace and Justice from the University of San Diego in California.

She enjoyed a career as an entrepreneur and gravitated toward the arts. In San Diego Sandy worked with the CHamoru diaspora as a board member of the CHE’LU organization. She helped to found the Uno Hit CHamoru dance and cultural education program in 2012 and in 2016 she helped establish the House of Chamorros organization that recently completed the House of Chamorros cottage in Balboa Park, San Diego, California.

Sandy was appointed Executive Director of Guam CAHA in June 2021. In this position, she hopes to create more collaborations between Guam and the island’s diaspora community. Her goals are to grow the agency’s capacity to provide public art, expand the visibility of Guam’s performing arts, and establish a non-profit arm of the agency.

We accept walk-ins; however, space is limited. Please help us keep count. To register
call (671) 989-4455, fax (671) 989-7219, email leona.young@dca.guam.gov, or fill out the form below:

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