Tuesday, December 15 at 3pm HST join us for a special concert with leo kiʻekiʻe phenom Kamakakēhau Fernandez, live and streaming from Hawaiʻi Theatre.
Our final virtual community gathering to discuss Resmaa Menakem’s now New York Times bestselling book My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies will feature special guest Hope Azeda.
Based in Kigali, Rwanda, Hope Azeda is the founder and artistic director of Mashirika Performing Arts and Media Company, a leading theatre company operating in Rwanda since 1997. Using theatre arts, the Mashirika Company has used movement and performance to heal community trauma and bring about social transformation. Hope Azeda will join our Hawaiʻi community in this final hui to share her insights and to talk about how her experience connects with the practices Resmaa Menakem lays out in his book.
Tuesdays in Black August and beyond, we invite you to read along with us as we tackle and discuss Remaa Menakem’s now New York Times bestselling book My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies.
Throughout Black August, we honor revolutionary moments from our history, while building our community, promoting well-being and renewing our connections to the land. Every year we celebrate the end of this month with a Peopleʻs Feast on August 31st, sharing food and connecting to each other while uplifting the unbroken generations of Black resilience
Black August Monday morning yoga series to strengthen the body and still the mind at the beginning of the week.
Historian Quito Swan tells a story of Black internationalism that traverses the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans in the extraordinary life story of Dr. Pauulu Kamarakafego, a Caribbean pan-African liberation leader, environmental scientist, and activist whose vision of true Black liberation purposefully included the Pacific.
We invite our Local Black community to join us to gather virtually, to check in with each other, and to talk through recent events, including ongoing issues of anti-Blackness in Hawaiʻi and the uprisings defending Black lives happening across the US and around the world.
Tuesdays in Black August and beyond, we invite you to read along with us as we tackle and discuss Remaa Menakem’s now New York Times bestselling book My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies.
Black August Monday morning yoga series to strengthen the body and still the mind at the beginning of the week.
This talk will examine texts by Prince Alexander Liholiho, Samuel Kamakau, King Kalākaua, and Queen Lili‘uokalani to trace a strand of nineteenth-century Kanaka Maoli literary nationalism which embraced figurative blackness as a means to combat settler colonial notions of physical, racial blackness as a trait that made Kānaka Maoli unfit for sovereignty.
Join dancer, movement artist, and cultural practitioner Jerome MT as he guides us through three sessions exploring the spiritual power of moving our physical bodies. Inspired by ancestral practices of movement and stillness from Africa and the African diaspora, these sessions will delve into the fundamental human experiences of Body, Mind, and Soul to find resilience, strengthen our resistance, and cultivate our joy.
We invite our Local Black community to join us to gather virtually, to check in with each other, and to talk through recent events, including ongoing issues of anti-Blackness in Hawaiʻi and the uprisings defending Black lives happening across the US and around the world.
Tuesdays in Black August and beyond, we invite you to read along with us as we tackle and discuss Remaa Menakem’s now New York Times bestselling book My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies.
Black August Monday morning yoga series to strengthen the body and still the mind at the beginning of the week.
What does it mean to be raising and educating Black youth in Hawaiʻi? What opportunities, challenges, and responsibilities do we have as parents, educators, and community members?
Join us for an engaging conversation led by educators and thinkers in our community as we consider what we all need to learn to get free.
Join dancer, movement artist, and cultural practitioner Jerome MT as he guides us through three sessions exploring the spiritual power of moving our physical bodies. Inspired by ancestral practices of movement and stillness from Africa and the African diaspora, these sessions will delve into the fundamental human experiences of Body, Mind, and Soul to find resilience, strengthen our resistance, and cultivate our joy.
We invite our Local Black community to join us to gather virtually, to check in with each other, and to talk through recent events, including ongoing issues of anti-Blackness in Hawaiʻi and the uprisings defending Black lives happening across the US and around the world.
Three Hawai’i-based poets join to honor Dr. Teresia Teaiwa on her birthday. Featuring Z, Temple Divine, and Mpho Ernst.
Tuesdays in Black August and beyond, we invite you to read along with us as we tackle and discuss Remaa Menakem’s now New York Times bestselling book My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies.
Black August Monday morning yoga series to strengthen the body and still the mind at the beginning of the week.
Join us in conversation with prolific historian Gerald Horne as we explore how the current moment is linked to the history of US politics, imperialism, and race. Dr. Horne will discuss why he finds the history race, internationalism, and labor in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific important for understanding global movements for liberation.
Join dancer, movement artist, and cultural practitioner Jerome MT as he guides us through three sessions exploring the spiritual power of moving our physical bodies. Inspired by ancestral practices of movement and stillness from Africa and the African diaspora, these sessions will delve into the fundamental human experiences of Body, Mind, and Soul to find resilience, strengthen our resistance, and cultivate our joy.
We invite our Local Black community to join us to gather virtually, to check in with each other, and to talk through recent events, including ongoing issues of anti-Blackness in Hawaiʻi and the uprisings defending Black lives happening across the US and around the world.
Hawaiʻi joins many other places in making the ʻX’ designation available on identification cards, providing one more option beyond ‘male’ and ‘female.’
Join us for an engaging conversation led by activists and advocates who defy the gender binary in their work and lives as we explore how White supremacist notions and structures of gender must be dismantled for us all to get free.
Tuesdays in Black August and beyond, we invite you to read along with us as we tackle and discuss Resmaa Menakem’s now New York Times bestselling book My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies.
Black August Monday morning yoga series to strengthen the body and still the mind at the beginning of the week.
A groundbreaking online performance for families that explains what racism is, how to know it when you see and experience it, and ideas for what you can do about it. This work by all Black artists features HTY company actor, Moses Goods. His participation was funded by a generous donation from Denise and Ace Ellinwood. The 30 minute performance will be followed by a talkback for kids and families moderated by Moses Goods and Dr. Akiemi Glenn, Executive Director of the Pōpolo Project.
Join us for a sunset ceremony celebrating Juneteenth by gathering at Mākālei Park near Lēʻahi to create a community altar to honor our ancestors, our continuing quest for liberation, and the building we are doing for a future where we are all truly free.
he Ball Method (2020) tells the little-known story of Alice Ball, a 23 year-old African American chemist living in 1915 Hawaiʻi who fights against racial and gender barriers to find an effective treatment for leprosy before Kalani, a 10-year-old patient, is exiled to Kalaupapa on Molokai.
Join us for this exclusive online screening and post-film talk story with filmmaker Dagmawi Abebe and special guest experts in public health, historians, and scholars of Alice Ball.
Femi, a British boy of Nigerian descent who, after a happy childhood in rural Lincolnshire with his white foster mother, moves to inner London to live with his Nigerian mum. Struggling with the unfamiliar culture and values of his new environment, teenage Femi has to figure out which path to adulthood he wants to take, and what it means to be a young black man in London. Going back home to Nigeria with his mum to find his Nigerian roots will help adolescent Femi find grounding and hope for a better future.
