SCHEDULE

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09:30 | 9:30am

Art Summit doors open

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10:00–10:30 | 10am–10:30am

OPENING Protocol by Halena Kapuni-Reynolds
Welina mai | welcome by Hawai‘i Contemporary

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10:30–12:00 | 10:30am–12pm

ALOHA NŌ, A CALL TO ACTION
A curatorial introduction by Hawai‘i Triennial 2025 (HT25) curators Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Binna Choi, and Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu, followed by a group conversation with Honolulu Biennial 2019 curator Nina Tonga. The curators discuss the intentions and process behind the theme for HT25 — ALOHA NŌ — and their propositions for Art Summit 2024.

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12:00–13:00 | 12pm–1PM

LUNCH BREAK

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13:00–14:00 | 1pm–2PM

ALOHA NŌ: HAWAI‘I’S ROLE IN A WORLDWIDE AWAKENING 
A keynote by Kanaka ‘Ōiwi educator and philosopher Dr. Manulani Aluli Meyer. A guiding thinker whose work informed the HT25 theme, ALOHA NŌ, Aunty Manu speaks on notions of aloha as a practice that encompasses the realms of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement, truth-telling and healing, and spirituality in time of radical transformation on a global scale.

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14:00–14:30 | 2pm–2:30pm

GUIDED REFLECTIONS
An opportunity to reflect, discuss, and constellate the ideas posed. Led by Binna Choi.

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14:30–14:50 | 2:30pm–2:50pm

ART INSIGHT: Edith Amituanai
HT25 artist Edith Amituanai, visiting from Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), talks about her art practice and recent work.

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14:50–15:20 | 2:50pm–3:20PM

REFRESHMENT BREAK

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15:20–16:45 | 3:20pm–4:45PM

PEWA: HEALING AND TRUTH SPEAKING
A roundtable discussion with HT25 artists Megan Cope, Carl F.K. Pao, Meleanna Meyer, and Taro Patch Creative and moderated by curator Mina Elison. Artists engage in a conversation around loss and grief in a colonial and capitalist context, as well as different modalities of healing and connectivity through artistic practice and art as pewa.

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16:45–17:00 | 4:45pm–5PM

REFRESHMENT BREAK

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17:00–19:15 | 5pm–7:15PM
LILI‘U THEATRE RM 310

i nā kiʻi ma mua, nā kiʻi ma hope
A film presentation and discussion by kekahi wahi (HT25 artist Sancia Miala Shiba Nash and HB17 artist and HT22 curator Drew K. Broderick). Presenting diverse arrangements of moving-image works from an intergenerational group of creatives connected to Hawaiʻi, program 7: drift and program 8: aloha move affectionately across time and place — the lessons of island living providing direction along the way. Collaborators include HT22 film collective Nā Maka o ka ʻĀina, Vincent Bercasio, HB17 artist Sean Connelly, Melina Kiyomi Coumas, Duncan Dempster, Vilsoni Hereniko, Christopher Kahunahana, Victoria Keith, HT22 and HT25 artists Sung Hwan Kim and David Michael DiGregorio, Leilehua Lanzilotti, Laura Margulies, HB17 artist Jane Chang Mi, and Nicole Naone. A conversation between participating filmmakers in attendance will follow the programs.