KUPUNA ROUND TABLE ON HAWAI‘I STATEHOOD:
PERSPECTIVE FROM CALIFORNIA KANAKA MAOLI

When: Saturday, March 7, 2009, 10am-3pm

Where: Banning's Landing
100 East Water St, Wilmington, CA 90744 (map)

For more information: info@statehoodhawaii.org

Los Angeles, CA-- Kaleponi Advocates for Hawaiian Affairs (KA HĀ), Visual Communications (VC), and Statehood Hawaii are sponsoring a public panel discussion with leaders from California Native Hawaiian Civic Groups and Clubs around the issue of Hawai‘i's 50th Anniversary of Statehood.

This will be an oral-history taping (example) as well as a documented round-table discussion. VC will be documenting the event and we will be airing it on ‘Ōlelo (the cable station in Hawai‘i), in March/April. Excerpts will also be streamed on the Statehood Hawaii website, and archived with KA HĀ, Visual Communications, as well as with the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa library, Hawaiian Collection.

When: Saturday, March 7, 2009, 10am-3pm
10am-12:30pm: oral history tapings of kupuna with Puni Patrick.
1pm-3pm: round-table discussion moderated by Joel Jacinto.

Where: Banning's Landing--100 East Water St, Wilmington, CA 90744

Info: Attendance is free.

This will be a documented round-table presentation, moderated by Joel Jacinto, Exec. Dir. of Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA). VC will be documenting the event and will be broadcast on ‘Ōlelo (in Hawai‘i) in March and April. Excerpts will also be streamed on the Statehood Hawaii website, and archived with KA HĀ, VC, as well as with the University of Hawaii at Manoa library, Hawaiian Collection.

Two questions we would like you to consider:

1) What do your remember about Hawai‘i becoming a state?
2) How do you feel about statehood now?




We will set up appointments between 10:00am and 12:30pm for oral history video interviews.

Schedule:
10:00-12:30 One-on-one oral history taping with Puni Patrick. (please prepare no more than 10-15 minutes)
1:00-3:00 Round table presentation moderated by Joel Jacinto. Open to public.

 

Kaleponi Advocates for Hawaiian Affairs (KA HĀ) is a non-profit Native Hawaiian coalition of community leaders whose mission is to be a voice for all California Native Hawaiian communities working to protect Native Hawaiian entitlements through education, policy-making, training and service.

The mission of Visual Communications is to promote intercultural understanding through the creation, presentation, preservation and support of media works by and about Asian Pacific Americans. Visual Communications was created with the understanding that media and the arts are important vehicles to organize and empower communities, build connections between generations, challenge perspectives, and create an environment for critical thinking, necessary to build a more just and humane society.

Statehood Hawaii presents panel discussions and forums as part of a public engagement and dialogue series. At the 50th anniversary of Hawai‘i statehood, multiple perspectives about the past half century emerge, mixing the controversial with the nostalgic. Statehood Hawaii seeks to present all views giving the public an opportunity to share their perspectives through cross-media web/tv resources or through live public forum.

http://statehoodhawaii.org.

Contact: Arnie Saiki, Project Director
StatehoodHawaii
(808) 218-4367

 
     
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