Earth Day Celebration!
Community building through moʻolelo (~stories) is essential to sustainability. How does dance tell your moʻolelo? The moʻolelo of your family and community? Join us at the Science and Sustainability Festival for 3 moveMEANT sessions.
Facilitated by master instrument-maker Uncle Calvin Hoe and our company dancers, the sessions explore rhythm-making and community-building with kaʻekeʻeke and movement exploration. Inspired by the movement session, create compostable paper “planters” and do a plant-a-seed art activity with local artists — family fun for all ages!
Master implement maker Calvin Hoe is one of Hawaiʻi’s premier native artisans, making authentic pre-contact Hawaiian instruments since 1961. He is the co-founder of Hakipuʻu Learning Center, a Hawaiian-based public charter school and is committed to teaching Hawaiʻi’s children. A long-time community activist, Calvin worked to successfully preserve water rights and keep development out of neighboring Waiāhole and Waikāne Valleys, because valuable water, like the streams of Hakipuʻu, was being diverted for use in Central and Leeward Oahu agricultural fields.
Bishop Museumʻs Science & Sustainability Festival brings together scientists, educators, cultural practitioners, and more than 25 community partners to highlight the ongoing work needed to protect our precious biodiversity, and build a sustainable future for Hawaiʻi.
Admission: $5.00 for kamaʻāina and military with ID.
