Pluto and Pajamas – A Stuffed Animal Sleepover at Bishop Museum
October 18, 2019 5-7 PM

General Admission: $10 per adult, $15 per child (all attendees must purchase a ticket)

All children must be accompanied by an adult. The recommended age for this program is 2-8.

Calling parents with tots! Your child may be too young to spend the night, but their stuffed animals are not!

Wear your pj’s, bring a stuffed friend, and experience a fun-filled evening at Bishop Museum! Enjoy two space themed programs before tucking your friend in for the night and going home to sleep in your own bed.

Come back to the Museum on Saturday morning to pick up your friend and hear all about their overnight adventures.

All participants will be sent five digital photos of their Museum experience.

Event Activities Include:

– Kid’s SpaceQuest program
– “In My Backyard” planetarium program
– Self-Explore in NASA Celestial Islands Exhibit
– 5 digital photos of your stuffed friend’s adventures

Living Culture Presentation: Hawaiian Kapa—Making Tree Bark Cloth
With Dalani Tanahy of Kapa Hawaii, LLC
Saturday, October 26; November 2, 9, and 16, 2019
10:30 am–2:30 pm
Hawaiian Hall Atrium
This program is free with paid Museum admission.

The art of making clothing and material goods from the bark of trees has been practiced around the world. Hawaiʻi and the Pacific used the plants such as wauke (paper mulberry) to make kapa (bark cloth). Learn the history and future of kapa in Hawaiʻi, and spend some time using traditional Hawaiian tools and methods to create a piece of kapa yourself.

The Bishop Museum Living Culture series and workshops are supported by Hawai‘i Tourism through the Kūkulu Ola Program.

Pollinators in Paradise Workshop

Monday October 28, 9 am – 4:30 pm

Living Culture Presentation: Hawaiian Kapa—Making Tree Bark Cloth
With Dalani Tanahy of Kapa Hawaii, LLC
Saturday, October 26; November 2, 9, and 16, 2019
10:30 am–2:30 pm
Hawaiian Hall Atrium
This program is free with paid Museum admission.

The art of making clothing and material goods from the bark of trees has been practiced around the world. Hawaiʻi and the Pacific used the plants such as wauke (paper mulberry) to make kapa (bark cloth). Learn the history and future of kapa in Hawaiʻi, and spend some time using traditional Hawaiian tools and methods to create a piece of kapa yourself.

The Bishop Museum Living Culture series and workshops are supported by Hawai‘i Tourism through the Kūkulu Ola Program.

Alice Guild Book Signing
Saturday, November 2, 2019
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Shop Pacifica
This program is free with paid Museum admission

A reading and book signing of Kōlea and the Chief’s Cloak A new children’s book by first-time author, Alice Flanders Guild, with illustrations by Georg James and John Dinsmore.

Kōlea and the Chief’s Cloak is the first in an intended series of children’s books featuring cultural objects on display in Hawai‘i’s museums and historic sites. In each story, Kōlea guides the reader through a history lesson while delivering a clear life lesson based on Hawaiian values.

Alice Flanders Guild comes naturally to her love of Hawaiian history and gift for story telling. Her great grandmother, Ku‘aihelani Campbell, was among the leaders in the movement to restore Queen Lili‘uokalani to the throne. Her grandmother, Kamokila Campbell was known for her dramatic recordings of Hawaiian legends and her mother, Muriel Flanders, was a composer whose songs commemorated Hawai‘i’s people, places and events. Alice’s fifty year volunteer career with the restoration and preservation of ‘Iolani Palace, led to her interest in stories associated with artifacts housed in Hawai‘i’s museums. Her fables are spun around actual objects in these collections. This first published book, Kōlea and The Chiefs Cloak is based on a true story of the famous battle of Moku‘ohai in Kona and the role that the chief’s cloak played in Hawaiian history. The story’s hero, Kōlea, is one of the most beloved of Hawai‘i’s native creatures.

Georg James and John Dinsmore are creative partners and long time friends of the author. Known for their stunning murals and eye-popping trompe l’oeil furniture, this is their first venture into book illustration. The three friends agree that this book was a marriage made in heaven.

Saturday, November 2, 2019

8:00 – 9:30 pm

J. Watumull Planetarium

Tickets $10

Explore the wonders of the Hawaiian night sky! This month is the last chance to see Saturn in the early evening sky until July! We’ll also see how to find the Great Square of Pegasus, the Andromeda Galaxy and more! Weather permitting, stargaze through our observatory telescope and observation deck after the show and find the objects discussed in the presentation.

Living Culture Presentation: ʻŪkēkē, Hawaiʻi’s Indigenous Stringed Instrument
With Lance Genson Mahi La Pierre
Sunday, November 3, 10, 17, and 24, 2019
10:30 am–2:30 pm
Hawaiian Hall Atrium
This program is free with paid Museum admission.

Developed generations before the ʻukulele, the ʻūkēkē, or Hawaiian musical bow, is Hawaiʻi’s only indigenous stringed instrument. Learn about this not widely known yet once-treasured musical instrument primarily used for hoʻoipoipo (courtship and romance)and to accompany hula, mele, and oli. Few people today have seen, heard of, or know how to make and play this instrument. Attend this program to see, touch, and play this unique Hawaiian stringed instrument.

The Bishop Museum Living Culture series and workshops are supported by Hawai‘i Tourism through the Kūkulu Ola Program.

Seeding Authority: Continuing the Conversation on Decolonizing Museums
Thursday, November 7, 2019
6:00–8:00 pm
Atherton Hālau

Join us for an engaging conversation with Amy Lonetree and Ben Garcia as they consider the many ways in which museums are responding to national and global calls to decolonize. What factors are encouraging museums to move from ceding authority to seeding authority? This event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Museum Studies Graduate Certificate Program and the Public Humanities/Native Hawaiian Program of American Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Bishop Museum, and the Hawaiʻi Museums Association.

Speakers:

Dr. Amy Lonetree is an enrolled citizen of the Ho-Chunk Nation and is an associate professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her scholarly work focuses on the representation of Native American history and memory in national and tribal museums. Her publications include  Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums (2012); a co-edited book with Amanda J. Cobb, The National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations (2008); and a co-authored volume, People of the Big Voice: Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879–1942 (2011). She is currently working on a visual history of the Ho-Chunk Nation from 1879–1960.

Ben Garcia is deputy director of the Ohio History Connection. He has worked for seventeen years in various roles as an arts educator, museum educator, exhibit developer, and administrator, including most recently as the deputy director of the San Diego Museum of Man. His museum experience also includes working at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Skirball Cultural Center, and the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. He has presented internationally and published on the museum’s role in learning, public value, and social change. In 2010, Garcia was named Pacific Region Museum Art Educator of the Year by the National Art Education Association.

Moderator:
Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu is an assistant specialist of Public Humanities and Native Hawaiian Programs in the American Studies Department, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. A Native Hawaiian writer, artist, filmmaker, and scholar with twenty years of program and exhibition experience, she remains active in the Native Hawaiian visual arts community as an educator, artist, curator, and arts organizer.
Registration Required.

Living Culture Presentation: Hawaiian Kapa—Making Tree Bark Cloth
With Dalani Tanahy of Kapa Hawaii, LLC
Saturday, October 26; November 2, 9, and 16, 2019
10:30 am–2:30 pm
Hawaiian Hall Atrium
This program is free with paid Museum admission.

The art of making clothing and material goods from the bark of trees has been practiced around the world. Hawaiʻi and the Pacific used the plants such as wauke (paper mulberry) to make kapa (bark cloth). Learn the history and future of kapa in Hawaiʻi, and spend some time using traditional Hawaiian tools and methods to create a piece of kapa yourself.

The Bishop Museum Living Culture series and workshops are supported by Hawai‘i Tourism through the Kūkulu Ola Program.