Buenas yan Hafa Adai!

Thanks for hanging out with us on Guamology – a showcase of the people and things on Guam that we think are worth mentioning; the things that we find interesting, encouraging, inspiring and post worthy (like how long it’ll take until the weight of all the cars on the island causes us to sink). Oh – and that includes our daily rants as well.

Contributing Writers:

Don and Kel Muna

Guam boys and independent filmmakers, Don and Kel Muna, have produced content for documentaries/television/radio/print and web for well over a decade. Most recently, the brothers produced, wrote and directed their first full-length feature art-drama entitled, “Shiro’s Head“; Winner of the Silver Ace Award at the Las Vegas International Film Festival as well as Grand Jury Award Finalist at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, Official Selection of the Louis Vuitton 28th Annual Hawaii International Film Festival and more. They are also authors of the film making book for beginners entitled “Why Go To Film School?”. You can read more about them here.

Dr. Michael Lujan Bevacqua

A professor at the University of Guam and weekly columnist for the Marianas Variety, Dr. Bevacqua dreams of an independent Guam where the Chamorro language is more pervasive than yellow-ribbon-car-magnets, watching a Test Cricket series between India and Pakistan in India, and becoming the front-man for a Chamorro language Ska Band.

He is also an established painter, poet and author of the local children’s book series, “The Sumahi Stories“. For more about Dr. Bevacqua, check out No Rest For The Awake – MINAGAHET CHAMORRO and MINAGAHET ZINE.

Jayton Okada

Jayton is the founder of “The Initiative” – organizing live music events for the under 18 youth of Guam and is the host of his own radio talk show. With his finger on the pulse of Guam’s youth, Jayton is currently studying Communications and Sociology at the University of Guam. For more about Jayton, check out his blog HERE.