Honolulu Museum of Art

AUGUST AT THE HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART

HONOLULU, HAWAI‘I—As summer winds down, the Honolulu Museum of Art is a great place to be inspired by art and events, and to cool off in the galleries and theater. HoMA Nights continues with live performances and DJs—in the museum’s new pergola in the Luce Pavilion area. It’s also the final stretch of the exhibition “Fashioning Aloha,” with two related talks this month.

HoMA NIGHTS
Every Friday, HoMA is open until 9 p.m. With music, special art-related programs, dinner and drinks, the museum is a creative, inspirational option for Friday pau hana or date night. Throughout August, HoMA Nights will have music, films, talks and activities.

Friday, Aug. 2

Music: O'Spliff of Aloha Got Soul. Guests can enjoy the DJ’s signature blend of funkified local music, blending the likes of Kalapana with contemporary beats.
Film: Honolulu Surf Film Festival, “Some Like It Classic,” Doris Duke Theatre; 7 p.m.
Art workshop: Your Life in Sketches; 6-8 p.m.; $35; registration required at https://honolulumuseum.org/adult-classes/19520/. Participants learn classic sketching skills and techniques from popular instructor Mark Norseth.
Café: Dinner and drinks, including a special available only in August.

Friday, Aug. 9

Music: Aaron Ono. Guests can enjoy the versatile acoustic guitar stylings of this talented musician.
Activity: Lawn games such as cornhole and giant Jenga
Design Talk: Twentieth-century Aloha Wear; Doris Duke Theatre; 7 p.m.
See below for more information.
Café: Dinner and drinks, including a special available only in August.

Friday, Aug. 16

Music: Trishnālei. The singer-songwriter performs her brand of reggae with an ‘ukulele twist.
Activity: Social Media Scavenger Hunt; Palm Courtyard; 6-7 p.m.; guests can complete this art hunt that takes them through the galleries for a chance to win a 20 percent discount on a class at the HoMA School.
Activity: Lawn games such as cornhole and giant Jenga
Film: The Right to Read: Film Screening and Discussion; Doris Duke Theatre, 6 p.m., free with registration. Register at honolulumuseum.org/events
This documentary shares the stories of Kareem Weaver, an NAACP activist and a teacher, and two American families who fight to provide younger generations with the ability to read. The screening if followed by a conversation with Hawai‘i State Librarian Stacey Aldrich and Weaver.
Café: Dinner and drinks, including a special available only in August.

Friday, Aug. 23

Music: Five2, Luce Pavilion. Guests can enjoy the local, R ’n’ B-inflected sounds of this talented duo.
Activity: Lawn games such as cornhole and giant Jenga
Film: “Hundreds of Beavers,” Doris Duke Theatre, 7 p.m. The black-and-white indie slapstick comedy that has swept the nation finally comes to Honolulu! The film does feature beavers—which are humans in beaver costumes!
Art Workshop: Sketching in the Galleries: Portrait Art and Figures; 6 p.m.; Registration required at https://honolulumuseum.org/adult-classes/19524/
Café: Dinner and drinks, including a special available only in August.

Friday, Aug. 30

Music: TBA
Activity: Lawn games such as cornhole and giant Jenga
Artmaking Workshop: Gelli Plate Printmaking; 6 p.m. , $35. Registration required at https://honolulumuseum.org/adult-classes/19601/
Design Talk: In Conversation: Designing for Change with Kūha‘o Zane and Cedric Hudson; Doris Duke Theatre; 7 p.m. See below for more information.
HoMA Shop: Radio Hula Pop-up, 4-8 p.m. Visitors can shop a trove of vintage mu‘umu‘u and aloha shirts.
Café: Dinner and drinks, including a special available only in August.

FASHIONING ALOHA
It’s the last month to catch the exhibition “Fashioning Aloha” before it closes on Sept. 1. The popular show traces the evolution of aloha wear from the 1930s to the present, exploring the sources of designs. The exhibition tells the story of the clothing and its island-inspired motifs through the shirts and dresses—holokū, mu‘umu‘u, and holomu‘u—and examines the visual source material for these motifs with examples drawn from works of art in HoMA’s collection. Related to the exhibition are two fascinating upcoming talks.

Design Talk
Twentieth-century Aloha Wear
Friday, Aug. 9 at 7 p.m.; Doris Duke Theatre
Included with museum admission, free for members, registration required at honolulumuseum.org/events
Scholar and author Linda Arthur Bradley, Ph.D., talks about the fascinating evolution of aloha wear. A specialist on 19th- and 20th-century Hawaiian textiles and aloha wear, Bradley has taught at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and at Washington State University and is the author of "Aloha Attire: Hawaiian Dress in the Twentieth Century" and "The Art of the Aloha Shirt " with DeSoto Brown. Bradley will sign books before the talk. "Aloha Attire: Hawaiian Dress in the Twentieth Century" is available for purchase in the HoMA Shop.

Design Talk
In Conversation: Designing for Change with Kūha‘o Zane and Cedric Hudson
Friday, Aug. 30 at 7 p.m.; Doris Duke Theatre
Included with museum admission, free for members, registration required at honolulumuseum.org/events
The exhibitions "Forward Together: African American Prints from the Jean and Robert Steele Collection" and "Fashioning Aloha" share a common thread in how artists and designers use their practices to explore cultural identities and histories as a form of activism. Kūha‘o Zane of Sig Zane Designs, and Cedric Hudson, vice president of men’s design at Fabletics and designer of the symbolic Greensboro chair, discuss how they use their platforms to effect social change.

HoMA FAMILY SUNDAY
Four times a year, the museum holds HoMA Family Sunday, a day filled with activities and performances that is free for Hawai‘i residents. In August, the event focuses on Hawaiian culture and the exhibition "Kapulani Landgraf: ‘Au‘a."

Kū I Ka Mana: Knowledge Transcends
Sunday, Aug. 18, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., admission is free for Hawai‘i residents

Part of programming for "Kapulani Landgraf: ‘Au‘a."

Schedule:

Drop in art-making in Kīna’u Courtyard
10 a.m.-1 p.m. Kū I Ka Mana: “WE ARE NOT AMERICAN”
T-Shirt Silk-Screening Activity
Artist Andre Perez silkscreens T-shirts with images inspired by the installation "ʻAuʻa" by Kapulani Landgraf, along with the phrase “We Are Not American,” which Haunani-Kay Trask proclaimed in 1993. The activity is BYOT (Bring your own T-shirt.)

Storytelling in Palm Courtyard
10 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Casting A Net of Story, Sam Kāʻai
Sam Kāʻai is a respected storyteller, master woodcarver, cultural practitioner, and scholar of Hawaiian traditional cultural practices throughout the Pacific. He carved the two kiʻi that guided Hōkūleʻa, and was a crew member on multiple voyages. In 1988 he studied with Maori artists in Aotearoa New Zealand on a Fulbright Scholarship.

Community Performance in Central Courtyard
10:30–11:15 a.m. Hula performance by Ka Pā Hula Hawaiʻi
Ka Pā Hula Hawaiʻi is a highly regarded halau led by Loea Hula Kahaʻi Topolinski. His style and knowledge represents 51 years of hula excellence bestowed on him by his hula masters. Ka Pā Hula Hawaiʻi is responsible for maintaining a traditional hula style rarely seen in public.

Community Performance in Central Courtyard
12-12:45 p.m.
Musical performance by PROJECT KULEANA, Kīhei Nahale-ā
Project KULEANA was created by three Native Hawaiian men who share the perspective that kuleana is what makes music Hawaiian. This includes a kuleana to the ‘āina by affirming a strong ancestral connection to it. Project KULEANA aspires to increase the innate value of Hawaiian music by inspiring people to reflect on their kuleana through their performances.

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