Posts Categorized: Events & Action

I Karera I Palabran Mami (The Journey of Our Words): Chamoru poetry reading in Honolulu

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I Karera I Palabran Mami (The Journey of Our Words) POETS: Angela T. Hoppe-Cruz (MSW/MA Pacific Isl. Studies Candidate) Kisha Borja-Ki`cho`cho (MA Pacific Island Studies Candidate). Both women are Chamoru and were born and raised on the island of Guam. WHERE: Halau o Haumea, Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2645… Read more »

Youth Speaks Hawai`i Fall 2009 Interscholastic Poetry Slam

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Upcoming Poetry Slam: Support Youth Voices! Youth Speaks Hawai`i Fall 2009 Interscholastic Poetry Slam Farrington High Community Auditorium; 1564 North King Street • Honolulu, HI 96817 Friday, November 20, 2009 7 – 10pm, doors open at 6pm For ticket information, please call 753-4661 or Travis@YouthSpeaksHawaii.org (Get max. discount! $3; otherwise, $5 w/ ANY school i.d., $10 w/o reservation… Read more »

Healing from the Center: Decolonizing the Self and Our Communities

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Healing from the Center: Decolonizing the Self and Our Communities Saturday, November 14, 2009 8:30 am – 4:00 pm. University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Hemenway Courtyard (“Manoa Gardens”) LINK TO WEBSITE AND REGISTRATION Healing is a process of taking back control for our selves, our communities and the land. This conference is a way for… Read more »

Call to Drum for Sacred Cultural Sites

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MESSAGE FROM ANN MARIE KIRK Drum for our Sacred Cultural Sites throughout Hawai’i Nei Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 6pm Aloha, The kahea, the call, from Hawea Heiau complex to drum for the proper protection, respect and care for all our sacred cultural sites in Hawai’i nei and the call to drum to honor our… Read more »

Events featuring Hawai’i-Okinawan playwright Jon Shirota

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One of the most important writers to come out of the Asian American community, Jon Shirota will be in Hawai‘i for four events in November 2009: “An Okinawan Sense of Place,” a talk and discussion, Thursday, Nov. 5, 3–4:30 p.m., room 410, Kuykendall Hall (English department), UH Manoa campus. Opening of his play Voices from… Read more »

“Voices from Okinawa” at Kumu Kahua Theater, plus events honoring the author

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Voices from Okinawa by Jon Shirota http://www.kumukahua.org/0910okinawa.html Kumu Kahua Theatre 46 Merchant Street, Honolulu, Hawai`i 96813 Box Office Phone: (808) 536-4441 Email: kumukahuatheatre@hawaiiantel.net • URL: www.kumukahua.org Thursday, Friday & Saturday 8pm: November 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 27, 28; December 3, 4, 5, 2009 Sundays 2pm: November 8, 15, 22, 29;… Read more »

Kehaulani Kauanui to speak and launch book: Hawaiian Blood

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JOIN US FOR AN EVENING WITH THE AUTHOR OF HAWAIIAN BLOOD: COLONIALISM AND THE POLITICS OF SOVEREIGNTY AND INDIGENEITY In the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1921, the U.S. Congress defined “native Hawaiians” as those people “with at least one-half blood quantum of individuals inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands prior to 1778.” This “blood logic” has… Read more »

Premier documentary: Blue Tarp City – houseless in Wai’anae

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Premier of Blue Tarp City, a documentary film about the houseless in Wai’anae.  Blue Tarp City takes a look at how the Wai’anae native Hawaiian houseless community faces disempowerment and serves to recognize their struggle to exist on the edges of society juxtaposed against post-card beaches and palm trees. Friday, October 16th, 2009 at 5:45… Read more »

‘Ike: Historical Transformations: Reading Hawai’i’s Past to Probe Its Future

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‘Ike: Historical Transformations: Reading Hawai’i’s Past to Probe Its Future Download the event flyer DATE:  Saturday, October 24th, 2009, 10am-5pm FEATURED PRESENTERS: Kamana Beamer Lorenz Gonschor Kūhiō Vogeler moderated by Lynette Cruz Kekuni Blaisdell Ikaika Hussey Terri Kekoolani Jon Osorio J. Kehaulani Kauanui Maivân Clech Lâm Keanu Sai moderated by Jon Osorio and others yet… Read more »

Celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day – Burning of the Papal Bulls

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This week, 350 Hawai’i religious pilgrims visited the grave of Father Damien in Belgium, before flying to Rome for the canonization of Damien on Sunday.   Father Damien is beloved because of his selfless devotion to serve the Hansen’s Disease patients, many of whom were Native Hawaiian, exiled in Kalaupapa, Moloka’i.  How ironic it is that… Read more »