Hawai'i Council for the Humanities

Join us for our final workshop in our Why It Matters Poetry Workshop series Thursday, April 15, 4-6pm (HST)! The Merwin Conservancy with M.G. Martin and Sara Tekula are bringing us home with Finding Family Poems: Shared Histories of Civic Engagement. In this two-hour workshop, participants will explore the power of their family connections to civic engagement, and use their personal heritages as sources from which to create new works that weave a new voice and presence into t...heir lineages. Before we gather, participants will research their heritage and family history, locating primary source documents from their ancestors’ written histories, including: journals or diaries, newspaper articles (example: an article covering an issue that might have impacted your family), court documents, yearbook quotes or letters. These documents can also be fairly recent, like an email from ten years ago. Then, participants will be instructed in the art of making a blackout poem or found poem using these documents. The poet W.S. Merwin’s personal archive and documented history as an environmental activist will serve as an example. Each participant will leave the workshop with an original poem sourced from their personal heritage of civic engagement. Register with this link: https://zoom.us//regi/tJwtceqsqjsrHdXLV8zBXCI4k8E5QRE2sX8n

Khuli Leo Lea continues to bring these beautiful videos featuring powerful conversation with some of our wonderful community musicians, like the fabulous Holeka Goro Inaba. Watch the premiere TODAY at 5:30!

This Saturday, April 10, 2-4pm Join us for poetry writing magic with Carol Ann Carl and Mary Therese Perez Hattori! In this workshop, we will be exploring ekphrastic poetrypoetry in response to visual image. We will be virtual witnesses to images of different spaces and acts of civic engagement. From our act of witnessing, we home to articulate our own poetic narratives seeded from the emotions or inspirations that are elicited from the images.... Carol Ann (Karalahn) Carl is a daughter of the island of Pohnpei. Birthed by the waters of dahusokole and raised by the kousapw’s of Lehdau and Areu, she currently resides in Kalihilihiolaumiha where she works as the Grants & Development Assistant at Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services. She is a storyteller, activist and artivist whose collective work KEWERIWER is the canoe that carries echoes of ancestors past and future, rooting her to the home she voyages from. A daughter of Guåhan (Guam), Mary Therese Perez Hattori is one of nine children of Paul Mitsuo Hattori who was originally of Kalihi, and Fermina Leon Guerrero Perez (familian Titang) of Chalan Pago. Dr. Hattori is Acting Director of the Pacific Islands Development Program at the East-West Center and affiliate faculty of the University of Hawaii. She is a community organizer and advocate for Pacific islanders in Hawaii, author, poet, public speaker, and philanthropist. Registration Link: https://zoom.us//regi/tJIof-qorDktGta_s_yRnJBffCerHyb_5xee

Wednesday, April 14, 6:00-7:30pm HST. Join us as we continue our Try Think: Hulihia conversation series. -----... Ancient is Modern: Transforming Public Education for HawaiiansRic Ornellas, Facilitator How can we identify learning that is eternally useful or eternally transient and when do we use the eternal or the transient? A conversation exploring models of education outside of the DOE that are grounded in culture, family, and community to help students excel. To read this essay: https://bit.ly/3fQ6oIC To register: https://bit.ly/3wBmhsy Activist Genealogy: Visions and Enactments of Solidarity Across Black and Kanaka Maoli MovementsRyan Mandado, Facilitator How is genealogy tied to our collective liberation? A conversation inspired by Black Lives Matter and Protect Mauna Kea Movements, about learning to love one another across different struggles. To read this essay: https://bit.ly/3rUH46F To register: https://bit.ly/3wBfnDr If People Aren’t Locking Rocks Together, We Ain’t Got a Story: Phaku by Phaku, Connecting Stories of Community BuildingSerena Ngaio Simmons, Facilitator What places do we bring with us into this work that we do with each other? How does bringing places we feel kinship to into spaces we aren’t from help us to carry out this work? A conversation about the power of community-led storytelling and media-making, inspired by new technology and the Protect Mauna Kea media campaigns. To read this essay: https://bit.ly/3fQFxMB To register: https://bit.ly/31UIu6L ----- Try Think: Hulihia events are opportunities for small groups of diverse voices to speak and be heard. Each conversation is led by a thoughtful facilitator, to help to create a space where we feel valued as full people. We need many voices to do this right, and all are welcome to attend. Each conversation topic is inspired by a Value of Hawai'i: Hulihia essay. This innovative Try Think: Hulihia conversation series is co-sponsored by the following organizations: Ceeds of Peace, Center for Biographical Research, Hawaii Alliance for Community-Based Economic Development, Hawaii Community Foundation, Institute for Climate and Peace, Matsunaga Institute for Peace, N Mea Hawaii / Native Books, Pacific Islands Development Program, The Ppolo Project and Waiwai Collective.

Are you a Live venue operator, promoter, theatrical producer, live performing arts organization, relevant museum operator, zoo and aquariumswho meet specific criteria, motion picture theater operator, or talent representative? You may be eligible for the shuttered Venue Operators Grant through the U.S. Small Business Administration. These grants provide emergency assistance for arts and culture venues affected by the COVID pandemic. Please visit the SBA's website for infor...mation. https://www.sba.gov//covid/shuttered-venue-operators-grant

We believe that genuine conversation builds community, and in light of recent events that have topped our newscasts and populated our social media feeds, space and opportunity for genuine community building seems vitally important. Join us as we continue our community conversation series, Try Think: Hulihia, TOMORROW - Wednesday April 14 from 6:00-7:30pmm HST. -----... Ancient is Modern: Transforming Public Education for HawaiiansRic Ornellas, Facilitator How can we identify learning that is eternally useful or eternally transient and when do we use the eternal or the transient? A conversation exploring models of education outside of the DOE that are grounded in culture, family, and community to help students excel. To read this essay: https://bit.ly/3fQ6oIC To register: https://bit.ly/3wBmhsy Activist Genealogy: Visions and Enactments of Solidarity Across Black and Kanaka Maoli MovementsRyan Mandado, Facilitator How is genealogy tied to our collective liberation? A conversation inspired by Black Lives Matter and Protect Mauna Kea Movements, about learning to love one another across different struggles. To read this essay: https://bit.ly/3rUH46F To register: https://bit.ly/3wBfnDr If People Aren’t Locking Rocks Together, We Ain’t Got a Story: Phaku by Phaku, Connecting Stories of Community BuildingSerena Ngaio Simmons, Facilitator What places do we bring with us into this work that we do with each other? How does bringing places we feel kinship to into spaces we aren’t from help us to carry out this work? A conversation about the power of community-led storytelling and media-making, inspired by new technology and the Protect Mauna Kea media campaigns. To read this essay: https://bit.ly/3fQFxMB To register: https://bit.ly/31UIu6L ----- This innovative Try Think: Hulihia conversation series is co-sponsored by the following organizations: Ceeds of Peace, Center for Biographical Research, Hawaii Alliance for Community-Based Economic Development, Hawaii Community Foundation, Institute for Climate and Peace, Matsunaga Institute for Peace, N Mea Hawaii / Native Books, Pacific Islands Development Program, The Ppolo Project and Waiwai Collective.