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Carrying Culture 2022: E Ola i ka Wai Carrying Culture 2022: E Ola i ka Wai
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Carrying Culture 2022: E Ola i ka Wai

In partnership with the Honolulu Museum of Art and the Center for Pacific Island Studies, we welcome you back as the Doris Duke Theatre reopens for in-person events! Join us on October 7, 7:00pm, HST, for Carrying Culture 2022: E Ola i ka Wai, the second of a three-part series of events highlighting poets and poetry as carriers of culture with a focus on Oceania. Each program is dedicated to uplifting and celebrating the life experience, wisdom, and leadership of our community through storytelling, spoken word, and community conversation.

Featured artists:
Dr. Mary Hattori, Interim Director, Pacific Islands Development Program
Ulamila Monica Cagivanua, an iTaukei (Indigenous Fijian); intern, Pacific Islands Development Program and graduate student, Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Jay-J, from Fiji; graduate student, Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
‘Ihilani Lasconia, a Kānaka Maoli poet from Waimānalo, Oʻahu

Moderated by:
Dr. Tammy Tabe, from the Solomon Islands; Oceania Research Fellow at the East-West Center

Admission is free!

Doris Duke Theatre
900 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, Hawai'i

Carrying Culture 2022: E Ola i ka Wai

In partnership with the Honolulu Museum of Art and the Center for Pacific Island Studies, we welcome you back as the Doris Duke Theatre reopens for in-person events! Join us on October 7, 7:00pm, HST, for Carrying Culture 2022: E Ola i ka Wai, the second of a three-part series of events highlighting poets and poetry as carriers of culture with a focus on Oceania. Each program is dedicated to uplifting and celebrating the life experience, wisdom, and leadership of our community through storytelling, spoken word, and community conversation.

Featured artists:
Dr. Mary Hattori, Interim Director, Pacific Islands Development Program
Ulamila Monica Cagivanua, an iTaukei (Indigenous Fijian); intern, Pacific Islands Development Program and graduate student, Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Jay-J, from Fiji; graduate student, Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
‘Ihilani Lasconia, a Kānaka Maoli poet from Waimānalo, Oʻahu

Moderated by:
Dr. Tammy Tabe, from the Solomon Islands; Oceania Research Fellow at the East-West Center

Admission is free!

Doris Duke Theatre
900 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, Hawai'i