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03-22 flyer silebra i kutturata-ta yan i hinanao-ta
03-29 program silebra i kutturata-ta yan i hinanao-ta

Hafa Adai!

We invite you to the Guam Museum!

Experience the opportunities available for local small businesses, arts, crafts, and food vendors while commencing Mes CHamoru Month “Silebra I Kuttura-ta yan I Hinanao-ta (Celebrate our Culture and our Journey)”

brought to you by the Department of CHamoru Affairs, Guam Museum, Guam Museum Foundation Inc., Valley of the Latte, Para i Probechu’n i Taotao-Ta, and Pacific Daily News. 

The community will partake in a daylong celebration filled with family-friendly activities at the Guam Museum on Thursday, March 31, 2022.  With your help, the Friends of the Guam Museum Foundation, Inc. can continue to bring everyone together to enrich the quality of our island community with a range of local entertainment, product, and food at the Guam Museum (Skinner) Park Plaza.

Programs

9:00 AM to 2:00 PM The Guam Museum is providing tours of the “Hinanao-ta” exhibit, featuring seven galleries and one rotating gallery:
  • Gallery 1: I Tinituhon (Fo’na Creation Story, The Beginning) 
  • Gallery 2: I Tasi Yan I Tano (The Sea and the Land)
  • Gallery 3: Ginen I Manain-ta (Our Ancient Heritage)
  • Gallery 4: Fanatahguiyan I Ha’ane (A Time of Change)
  • Gallery 5: Ti Geran Mami (A War Not Of Our Making)
  • Gallery 6: Humuyong-na I Gera (The Cost of War)
  • Gallery 7: I Finaloffan Yan I Ma’mai’la (Our Past and Our Future)
  • Rotating Gallery: Fanohge CHamoru Put I Tano’-ta Charting Our Collective Future

(Opening ceremony for this exhibit is 10:30 am, March 28, 2022).

The Guam Museum will be strictly adhering to social distancing and capacity restrictions that are currently applied to indoor activities. Face masks must be worn in all museum areas, and visitors undergo a temperature check upon arrival. Visitors with temperatures above 100.3 will not be permitted to enter.  To become a Friend of the Museum visit guammuseumfoundation.org. 

2:00 PM to 4:00 PM: Cultural Workshops brought to you by the Valley of the Latte

Learn to make Mwarmwars (flower crowns) or learn to make coconut oil and coconut candy during cultural demonstrations at Skinner Plaza, brought to you by Valley of the Latte. The cost is $10, with a portion of the proceeds donated to the Guam Museum. 

Continue Exploring:

In her first solo show, Julia Birn presents Chewing on Static. She regards this body of work as an exploration of what it means to live in a life that no longer feels entirely familiar. Ms. Birn uses her work as a way to consider what happens when something changes the way one moves through the world, the relationship with oneself, and understanding of the future, as a result of chronic illness. Her paintings emerge from this unresolved experience, giving shape to the feeling of living with something that cannot always be explained or communicated. Through abstraction, fragmentation, and restricted palettes, the works hold onto that tension, allowing forms to shift and remain ambiguous. What emerges is a reflection of what it is like to live with a reality that has become difficult to recognise. The title of the exhibit, Chewing on Static speaks to the mental noise that comes from searching for clarity, questioning one's own experience, and trying to communicate something that refuses to become simple or certain. It is about what happens when one is forced to construct a new understanding of oneself and continue living within something that is unchosen. Through her work, Birn asks the viewer to enter a space where certainty is difficult to find, and to sit with what cannot be resolved. Julia Birn is an accomplished artist, graphic designer, and entrepreneur, who has participated in multiple large and small group shows in Guam since 2022. She has recently earned her BFA in graphic design from the Savannah College of Art and Design, Summa Cum Laude. Follow her on Instagram @deafeningsilenceco or contact via email at deafeningsilenceco@gmail.com

Chewing on Static

Chewing on Static https://www.guammuseumfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Chewing-on-Static-INSTAGRAM_4K_H265.mov The next exhibit opening October 24, 2026 at the Guam Museum Cafe Gallery. In her first solo show, Julia Birn presents

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