Saturday, June 18th take a Myths & Legends Bus Tour of Honolulu with Nanette Napoleon and then travel to Kaua‘i with her July 16-17 and hear the tales of that island.
Saturday, June 25th is a Barnes and Noble book sale day NATIONWIDE and on-line.
Sunday, July 3rd we celebrate Independence Day as they did in the mid-1800s; with family pricing and an old-fashioned picnic (optional, but who would NOT want to eat?), don’t miss this fun!
Following the trip to Kaua’i, Storyteller Jeff Gere brings his storytelling camp to MHM and hosts Pau Hana Stories on July 20th.
Saturday, August 6th, costumed historic figures tell their stories at O‘ahu Cemetery Pupu Theatre.
AND Save the date for Huaka‘i: A Musical Journey, Saturday, September 17th, when Hawaiian music, then and now, will fill the air at Mission Houses Museum as we raise money to take care of Hawaii’s two oldest houses and the world’s largest collection of Hawaiian language books. Funding for programs and the operating budget depends upon this annual fundraiser. Be there!
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It’s not too late to join Nanette Napoleon on Saturday, June 18th to take a Myths & Legends Bus Tour. Tour through Nu‘uanu Valley, Mānoa Valley, Makiki, Waikīkī, and other locations. You will hear of wizard stones, menehune, a magic spring, a waterfall made of tears, the maiden princess of Mānoa, and many other colorful tales. $45 General Admission ($35 Museum members, seniors & children under 18) This tour, brought to you by the Mission Houses Museum, is funded in part by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts through appropriations from the Legislature of the State of Hawai`i. Paid reservations required; call Mike Smola 447-3914 or visit the museum web site to register on-line. Hear Nanette describe the day on Public Radio starting at minute 16 of this clip.
Also on Saturday, performer Carolyn Hilton will walk along the paths and new garden as part of Speaking in Silence, a performance scattered across the city of Honolulu. Performers, alone and in pairs, alternate as orators and monastics, to be experienced for one day throughout 12 historic and culturally relevant sites. 7:30 a.m. to closing. See the end of this e-mail for a full description.
May through August, the Myth and Legend Performance Series on the 2nd Wednesday of the month moves to a new time and place at 5:30 p.m. at Kahua Ho’okipa, if weather permits, or in the Chamberlain House kitchen, site of the 1st Tuesday lunch Historic Bites series.
Buy books on June 25th at Barnes & Noble NATIONWIDE. Wherever you are, buy your books and give them the Bookfair ID Number 10469203 so MHM gets a percentage – the more you buy, the more we get. Visit our costumed folks at Ala Moana Center that day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. On-line, purchase books all weekend and add the ID number to give us a boost!
On Sunday, July 3rd MHM will host a July 4th Weekend Pā‘ina, a day full of activities celebrating as they did in the 1800’s. Don’t miss the keiki “horse” races and making your own bonnet before the noontime procession to the Kahua Ho‘okipa for the reading of the Declaration of Independence and patriotic songs. Slo Food is helping to plan the historically themed picnic – including butter and ice cream you help make earlier in the day! Purchase your tickets by calling Mike Smola at 447-3914. (The on-line system should be up shortly, too.) Admission for the day is $15 per family of 5 or $5 per individual (age 6 or over) and the picnic costs $5, purchased in advance, or $10 that day. If you don’t have a family to bring, join ours – we need lots of volunteers that day to help with all these activities and more! 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. with activities continuing throughout the day.
Kaua‘i Bus Tour, Saturday to Sunday, July 16-17: Hear stories of people who turn to stone, a hairy giant robber, a rainbow princess, and a shark disguised as a man. These will be just a few of the colorful characters that will be talked about during this special two-day bus tour of the island of Kaua‘i. Tour includes round trip airfare and overnight room. Visit the sites of Hawaiian myth and legend with researcher and writer Nanette Napoleon who has been developing and presenting Hawaiian cultural and historical programs for more than 20 years. Paid reservations required; call Mike Smola 447-3914 or visit www.missionhouses.org <http://www.missionhouses.org> to register on-line. $750 per person includes airfare, hotel, two lunches and one breakfast. Live on Kaua‘i? Call or e-mail for pricing and come join us!
If you enjoyed Victorian Horrors, you will love the O‘ahu Cemetery Pupu Theatre, Saturday, August 6, as costumed historic figures tell their stories in the cemetery under the guidance of Nanette Napoleon. Reserve your spot on-line for this not-to-be-missed adventure from 5:00 -10:00 p.m.
Save the date for Huaka‘i: A Musical Journey, Saturday, September 17th, when Hawaiian music, then and now, will fill the air at Mission Houses Museum. Funding for programs and the operating budget depends upon this annual fundraiser.
Sponsored tables cost $15,000, $10,000, and $5,000 with individual tickets available as well. You will also find updated information including the list of musicians on the website. Got a silent auction item to donate? Want to be sure someone you know gets an invitation? Willing to pitch in on that day? Contact Development Director Mary Ann Lentz at 447-3922 or mlentz@missionhouses.org <mailto:mlentz@missionhouses.org> to buy your table or contribute to the evening.
SPEAKING IN SILENCE
performance at the Mission Houses Museum and throughout Honolulu
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Another ancient art was that of the diviners who revealed hidden things about the land, called Pointers-out-of-sandhills (Kuhikuhi pu’uone)…. They were able to find things hidden away from the eyes of men…. …there were few such persons in the old days [but] there are none today. …orators too have passed away.
From Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, by Samuel Manaiakalani Kamakau
Speaking in Silence is a new performance commissioned by The Contemporary Museum, in collaboration with the Honolulu Academy of Arts and the University of Hawai‘i, by site-specific performance artist and social choreographer Ernesto Pujol, in collaboration with local and Hawaiian artists and citizens.
Pujol was born in the island of Cuba and was raised in the island of Puerto Rico. He currently teaches at Parsons in New York. His public performance practice is about the sacredness of peoples and places, about pilgrimage and presence.
Speaking in Silence consists of 19 performers scattered across the city of Honolulu, alone and in pairs, alternating as orators and monastics, to be experienced for one day throughout 12 historic and culturally relevant sites, such as ‘Iolani Palace, the Hawai‘i State Capitol, the Hawai‘i State Library, the Mission Houses Museum, and Tamarind Park at Bishop Square, among others.
Pedestrians will receive free map handouts at each of the participating sites in order to find the rest across the city.
The performers will dress in red, appear silently and humbly in the morning, and disappear silently and humbly at sunset. It will be a non-spectacle, nevertheless, a non-profit, very public, free event.
Language is sacred to all peoples. It is both their nuanced vessel of heritage, and the medium for ongoing cultural battles. The performers will sometimes randomly read from a litany of word definitions, in Hawaiian and English, out of a common text, drawing meaning, weaving the poetic. Their subtle gestures will invite viewers to become silent and listen, to revisit this place.
Speaking in Silence addresses the cultural diversity of consciousness across the Pacific, in terms of its native indigenous, Christian, Buddhist, and secular components.
Human silence is defined not as the absence of sound, but as the absence of distractions. Can we carve out time and space in an island’s dense fabric for this silence? We seek a fully conscious silence in which words enrich and deepen silence, reopening old sites to our contemporary eyes.
The performance will begin at the Museum at 7:30 AM, with performer Carolyn Hilton walking along the paths and new garden. The performance will last until closing time.
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