Cultural Performances and Workshops

Since 2009, HG has presented cultural workshops and performances as an important part of our programming to not only educate but entertain, and engage with issues relevant to the arts, culture, literature, storytelling and history in Guåhan and wider Micronesia. The program also fosters critical thinking about the intersection of the creative arts and humanities while celebrating diversity within creative/artistic forms of expression and interpretation. The cultural workshops and performances HG present take a variety of forms–food democracy tours, immersive and experiential workshops and theatrical performances–and always include humanities-based discussions around timely topics and ideas.

HG’s “Art+Ideas” workshops, initially launched in 2020, are a successful part of our Cultural Workshops and Performances program, and explores the intersection of creative arts—including filmmaking, visual and performance arts, traditional art making, poetry, creative nonfiction, and culinary arts—and the humanities. Through a series of immersive and experiential workshops, readings, conversations, and presentations with students, teachers, scholars, writers, artists, chefs, and the larger public, Humanities Guåhan engages our community around timely topics and ideas relevant to Guåhan and the Asia-Pacific region through creative and artistic forms of expression and interpretation.

As part of HG’s expansion of “Art + Ideas” under the NEH initiative, “United We Stand: Connecting through Culture,” HG launched an expansion of our program, “Art + Ideas,” on December 2, 2023, with a workshop facilitated by feminist scholar, PhD candidate, mama, and creative Helen Yeung where participants reimagined women's voices and storytelling through the art of zine-making. This workshop invited reflection on relationships with women’s storytelling, gender, and feminism and the creative ways participants could authentically represent themselves and the untold stories of women in their lives.

Our most recent workshop, held on March 2, 2024, with fiber artist, poet and entrepreneur Lia Terlaje Barcinas who facilitated an innovative weaving workshop in which participants learned how to weave a coconut frond basket while also engaging in reflection and discussion on topics such as cultural heritage and resilience, environmental sustainability and community building. 

For more information on how to participate, please contact our Program and Communications Manager, Nedine Songeni, at nfsongeni@humanitiesguahan.org.