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OAHU PROGRAMS ARCHIVE
All events were free and open to the public |
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How is climate change affecting communities across the Pacific?
What stories and histories impact our ability to respond? How do we build community alliance, resilience, and action? |
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OPENING ARTIST TALKS:
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Sunday Jan. 19, 2020 ART Auditorium + Gallery 1:30 PM | Artist talks 3:00 PM | Poetry by Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner 
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persistent floods besiege us from all sides even here, in this meeting, we cross and crisscross an ocean of documents meant to charter an unfiltered future. destruction takes the form of bolded words: Decides Urges Requests Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner, excerpt from Beached 2020 |
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WATER TALKS I: climate justice in the pacific |
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Tuesday Jan. 21, 2020 HO’OKUPU Center, 1125 Ala Moana Blvd This special evening talk-story series brought together artists, scientists, policy-makers, historians and more to discuss how to move forward in this era of radical social and ecological transformation. |
4:00 - 5:30 PM | Moving Stories Charles Lim, Artist, Singapore Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner Joy Lehuanani Enomoto, Artists Julian Agoun, Blue Ocean Law, Guam facilitated by James Viernes, Outreach Director, Center for Pacific Islands Studies 6:00 - 7:30 PM | Healing Communities and Environments Kaili Chun, Artist Kealoha Fox, Native Hawaiian Liaison at AlohaCare and Advisory Committee, Institute for Climate and Peace Natalie Kurashima, Integrated Resources Manager, Kamehameha Schools facilitated by Mary Babcock, Artist |
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WATER TALKS II: climate justice in the pacific
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Thursday Jan. 23 , 2020 UHM Art Gallery This special evening talk-story series brought together artists, scientists, policy-makers, historians and more to discuss how to move forward in this era of radical social and ecological transformation. |
4:00 - 5:30 PM | Tales of the Okinawan Sea James Jack, Artist Kenneth Kaneshiro, Director of the Center for Conservation Research and Training, Pacific Biosciences Research Center, SOEST Norman Kaneshiro, musician, UHM lecturer facilitated by Jaimey Hamilton Faris 6:00 - 7:30 PM | Moving Stories II Martha and Jake Atienza, Artists Manuel Mejia, Polynesian Voyaging Society + Community Program Manager, The Nature Conservancy Keith Bettinger, Climate Adaptation Specialist, United Nations Development Program, USAID Climate Ready Project facilitated by Tara Kabutaulaka, Director, Center for Pacific Island Studies |
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HighWaterLine: Honolulu: experience the historical flow of water in the Kaka‘ako area, once a wetlands area with many fresh water springs, and learn about current and future flooding, watershed management and future development in the area.
CLICK HERE to go to the SELF-GUIDED TOUR and ARCHIVES
CLICK HERE to go to the SELF-GUIDED TOUR and ARCHIVES
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Sensing Policy
Feb. 18 @ 1:30-3:00pm UHM ART Gallery A conversation with Sarah Wiebe, Assistant Professor of Political Science; Laurien (Lala) Nuss, City and County of Honolulu Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resiliency; Jake Atienza, part of DAKOgamay, and Jaimey Hamilton Faris, curator. "What is the importance of including the life experiences of community members in policy-making processes that emphasize co-creation and co-design of sustainable futures?" |
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Interference Patterns
Feb. 27 @ 6:00-8:30pm UHM ART Auditorium a multi-media collaboration between Koa Gallery, KCC and the Art Gallery, UHM Expanding on the concerns of Inundation, and a concurrent exhibition, Between Words, at Koa Gallery, Kapioʻolani Community College, this evening of constructive interference takes up art, media and climate change in the Pacific by bringing together two images by Monte Costa and Janetta Napp, the feature-length documentary Moananuiākea: One Ocean, One People, One Canoe (2018), a visualization of global weather conditions via https://earth.nullschool.net/, and sounds gathered at dusk on the Waikīkī shoreline. more about Between Words: Monte Costa and Janetta Napp Koa Gallery, Kapiʻolani Community College January 24 - February 29, 2020 Opening Reception: Friday, January 24 | 5 - 8PM Monte Costa’s black and white photographs and Janetta Napp’s charcoal drawings accentuate their overlapping fascination for depicting movement—fleeting forces are rendered as enduring moments. An outcome of a longtime friendship, Between Words is the first occasion that Costa and Napp have exhibited together. |
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Jaimey Hamilton Faris giving a tour of Inundation to Patricia Amaral Buskirk's Video classes. Footage by Patricia Amaral Buskirk.
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