by Krystal Paco

Guam - Island residents will have the opportunity to view "Between Fences", an exhibition from The Smithsonian Institution Museum on Main Street program. The showing includes a Guam-focused display entitled "I Kelat" or "The Fence: Historical Perspectives on Guam's Changing Landscape".

Carol Harsh is the director of the Museum on Main Street Program and told KUAM News, "Fences include and they exclude. Fences build unity or they can be a tool that is used for intolerance. Fences draw people together and sometimes can keep people apart. The concept about fences - the exhibit on the surface is about the history of fences. The materials that are used and how they were changed over time, but really in a deeper way it allows the community to come together to think about what are the things that divide us. What are the barriers? The boundaries the keep people apart."

The traveling exhibition's first stop is tomorrow at 6:00pm at the T. Stell Newman Visitor Center in Sumay and will run through May 10. The tour will then continue at the Agana Shopping Center followed by Palm Village and close out at the Isla Center for the Arts as part of the University of Guam's 60th anniversary.

For more information, call the council at 472-4461 or visit GuamHumanitiesCouncil.org.