An evening of storytelling from the producers of the popular Moth Podcast and Radio Hour. The Moth is true stories, told live and without notes. Since its founding, The Moth has presented more than fifteen thousand stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide.

Vincent Rodriguez III is a Filipino-American actor known for his roles on The CW’s Emmy Award-winning CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND, Netflix's INSATIABLE and Prime Video’s WITH LOVE. He most recently starred in CHRISTMAS ON CHERRY LANE for The Hallmark Channel, with a sequel in production. He is the voice of "Raiden" in the MK1 video game and singing Filipino dad “Val” in Disney Junior’s KINDERGARDEN: THE MUSICAL this fall. Stage credits include the “DJ" in HERE LIES LOVE Off-Broadway at The Public Theatre during his 11 years in New York. Rodriguez is also a magician, martial artist, speaker, mentor, and teaching artist.

Experience the thrill of ghost hunting with the Ghoul Boys at a special screening of a never-before-seen episode of Ghost Files! Join hosts Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej after the screening for exclusive behind the scenes stories, a little Too Many Spirits, an audience Q&A, and even a live ghost hunting demonstration!

An urban art-themed showcase and discussion at their annual Talk Story Festival.

Featuring a live painting demonstration and in-depth artists panel.

DAC Storytelling Night is presented in partnership with Honolulu master storyteller Jeff Gere.

Our bodies are mostly water, it makes complete sense that one of the most powerful "pulls" in our psychic and physical selves would be ka mahina, the moon! Let's move together with the universe around us! Nai'a is here to get us there! 

Puʻuhnoua Society, a long standing community arts and culture nonprofit, alongside local collaborator Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea and national collaborators from the initiative One Nation One Project: ARTS FOR EVERY BODY, is demonstrating real-time how the arts can lead to healthier people and healthier communities. Artists, civic leaders, and community health providers in 18 cities and towns across America including Honolulu will simultaneously premiere an array of large-scale participatory art projects.

The culmination of over a year of supporting Hawaiʻi-based art collectives, over 80 storytellers, weavers, dancers, healers, voyagers, kapa makers, poets, musicians, photographers, lei makers, activists, creators and dreamers will come together to share their embodied understanding of EA, of self determination and sovereignty, through individual and collective acts of affirmation and resistance.

July 27th Highlights

10-3pm Keanahala and NiU NOW! share lauhala (pandanus) preparation,

weaving and ʻike niu (coconut knowledge) and practices

10-3pm Large scale banners of akua wāhine or ancient Hawaiian goddesses,

moʻolelo of place and accompanying zines

11-2pm Walt Keale and other talented local musicians invite community to sing

songs of sovereignty at Tūtū’s Hale

12-3pm 808 Breakers, Hawaiʻi’s Premiere Break Dancing Crew shares

Performances, Showcases, Intro Workshops, and Battle Competitions

1-2pm Guest speaker Uncle Walter Ritte with the Sierra Club of Hawai’i

Partner Booths & Activities
Visit educational booths across campus featuring community partners, including: Ohana Wa’a, Polynesian Voyaging Society – Wa‘a Honua, Friends of Hōkūleʻa & Hawai‘iloa, Kōkua Kalihi Valley | Ho’oulu ‘Āina, Kānehūnāmoku Voyaging Academy, Polynesian Cultural Center – Iosepa, Mauna Kea Education Awareness, Makali‘i ‘Ohana, Arizona State University, NOAA Pacific Islands Region Collaboration Team, and more.

Overall Program Timeline
10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Daytime Program
Oral History Sessions
Planetarium Presentations w/ Featured Wayfinders
Virtual Reality Wayfinding Experiences

Moʻolelo Mai: Connections, Moananuiākea
11 a.m. + 1 p.m.
Location: Gallery Lawn, Outside Hawaiian Hall
Free with Museum Admission
Moananuiākea is the remembrance, the genealogy, the movement of time, and the passage from understanding into knowing. Over the last 48 years, canoes of all shapes, sizes, and functions have been birthed, and leaders have emerged as ancestral connections and voyaging memories are seamed together by the membrane of the ocean that passes under the hulls of canoe. The islands are pulled up, and the destination lies before us. Join the family as we Moʻolelo Mai Moananuiākea, and share our connections with Moananuiākea and how our experiences influence our lives today. These oral history talk-story sessions with special guests will be moderated by Pomai Bertelmann and Mahina Paishon-Duarte. Guest speakers to be announced!

5 p.m. – 10 p.m. Evening Program
Mele Mau:
Mele and ‘oli in honor of Papa Mau Piailug
Formal Proclamation in honor of Papa Mau Piailug
Concert featuring the Makali‘i ‘Ohana Top Ten & the Hōkūleʻa Album Band

Celebrate the rich history of ʻAʻala Park and the vibrant Makahiki season in the heart of urban Oʻahu!

Unite for community strengthening, cultural connections, and a day of joy. Continue to uplift our precious cultures, communities and wai at ‘A’ala Park!

The award-winning Mana Up Showcase Broadcast & Livestream is back!

Join Mana Up Cofounder Meli James and Special Cohost Zavier Cummings (aka Howsdisguy) in a 1-hour special including entrepreneur stories, music, live shopping, giveaways, great deals and more!
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Streaming Globally at 4PM Hawaii Local  Time
(3:30 PM Preshow) via YouTube and Facebook
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Hawaii News Now Broadcast at 8PM Hawaii Local Time

The quintessential moth experience returns:
An evening of storytelling from the producers of the popular Moth Podcast and Radio Hour. The Moth is true stories, told live and without notes. Since its founding, The Moth has presented more than fifteen thousand stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. The group celebrates the ability of stories to honor both the diversity and commonality of human experience, and to satisfy a vital human need for connection.

SEE, HEAR, and EXPERIENCE their incredible heroics through this masterpiece of innovative storytelling.

Far from a history lesson, it’s a demonstration about inner strength, one that inspires us in our search for courage in today’s world. Join Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Jeff MacIntyre and ABC7-Los Angeles News Anchor David Ono, as they immerse you into the tragic, yet uplifting world of these heroes who fought prejudice at home and the enemy abroad.

You’ll fly over World War II battlefields in Italy, France, Germany and Japan, in an immersive and unforgettable live event that includes: Stunning Cinematography, Live Music & Choir, Historic Film and Eyewitness Interviews.

An evening of storytelling from the producers of the popular Moth Podcast and Radio Hour. The Moth is true stories, told live and without notes. Since its founding, The Moth has presented more than fifteen thousand stories to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. The group celebrates the ability of stories to honor both the diversity and commonality of human experience, and to satisfy a vital human need for connection. It seeks to present recognized storytellers among established and emerging writers, performers and artists and to encourage storytelling among communities whose stories often go unheard. The Moth began on a back porch in small-town Georgia, where our founder—poet and best-selling novelist George Dawes Green— would spend sultry summer evenings swapping spellbinding tales with a small circle of friends. There was a hole in the screen, which let in moths that were attracted to the light, and the group started calling themselves "The Moths."

Mālama O‘ahu: Care for O‘ahu” will feature stories from some of the dedicated volunteer groups who donate their time and energy to mālama our island home, including:

6:00 p.m.- Opening
6:10 p.m.- Hui o He‘e Nalu
6:35 p.m.- Kingdom Pathways
7:00 p.m.- Mālama Pu‘uloa
7:25 p.m.- Lo‘i Kalo
7:50 p.m.- 808 Cleanups
8:15 p.m.- Parks and Recreation Staff and Q&A with all groups

For more information contact Samantha Sun at (808) 768-3032 or visit our website at honoluluparks.com

This master storyteller is one of Hawaii’s most popular teller of tales and has been in the business of scaring people for more than 20 years. Lopaka is terrifically skilled at provoking that sudden chill going down one’s back or causing the small hairs on your arms to stand up. Chicken skin is what we call it in Hawai‘i. Others might refer to it as chills or goosebumps. Sharing real accounts of Hawaii’s supernatural culture, Lopaka often leaves audience members questioning the darkness on their drive home and anxiously leaving the light on at bedtime.

We celebrate our many rich connections across time, place, and ocean, showing that while the pandemic presents barriers to being together, we continue to maintain connections, share cultural art, performances, poetry, stories, and resources of the islands of Micronesia. We invite you to join us in this celebration of Micronesian cultures and connections.

This will be a hybrid event, featuring virtual online discussions and in-person programming at Bishop Museum.

A 4-week storytelling workshop, concluding in a public show!
Thursdays, March 3, 10, 17, and 24 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Public show Saturday, March 26, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
The ability to express yourself clearly, to get others to see your views, and to inspire emotions with words is a life skill. You can improve this skill and it can be FUN! Storytelling is FUN! This class will be social, interactive, supportive, and creatively challenging. Learning by doing. Students will play with story every session in many aspects, pairing and sharing, and find their voice to tell their story.

SHOW: The class takes the stage in the DAC Performance Space, in front of family and friends, while Jeff acts as the MC. Lights, Camera, Action, Ready, Set, GO! The Moment of Truth.

International PechaKucha Day is a 24-Hour Worldwide Celebration of Creativity, Optimism, and LOVE!

“Drop in” online anytime and hear inspiring stories by 100+ presenters across all continents, including Hawai‘i’s own Jack Soren – wave-surfing, graffiti-spraying, mural-painting, Native Hawaiian artist, born, raised, and currently residing on the North Shore O‘ahu.

Soren will present in Hour 21.

PechaKucha (Japanese for “chit chat”) is the world’s fastest-growing storytelling platform, used by millions around the globe. PechaKucha is what “Show and Tell” always dreamed of becoming.

In 2003, yearning for “More show. Less tell,” architects Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Tokyo’s Klein Dytham architecture invented PechaKucha. The initial purpose: to streamline long design presentations. Sessions soon morphed into happenings: PechaKucha Nights -- first in Tokyo, then around the world. Today, more than 50,000 people present at 1,100+ global PechaKucha Nights every year. And the number keeps exploding.

Comedian Ron “Tater Salad” White is a classic storyteller; relaying tales from his real life ranging from growing up in a small town in Texas, to sharing stories of his daily life, to becoming one of the most successful comedians in America. Ron rose to fame as the cigar-smoking, scotch-drinking funnyman from the Blue Collar Comedy Tour phenomenon, but since 2004 has established himself as a star in his own right. Over the past nine years he has been one of the top three grossing stand-up comedians on tour in America. During this time, all four of his comedy albums have charted #1 on the BillboardTM Comedy Charts. He is a three time Grammy-nominated comedian, and has sold over 10 million albums (Solo/Blue Collar Comedy Tour).

May include mature subject matter.

A 4-week storytelling workshop, concluding in a public show!
Thursdays, Feb 3, 10, 17, and 24 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Public show Saturday, February 26, 5 to 7 p.m.
The ability to express yourself clearly, to get others to see your views, and to inspire emotions with words is a life skill. You can improve this skill and it can be FUN! Storytelling is FUN! This class will be social, interactive, supportive, and creatively challenging. Learning by doing. Students will play with story every session in many aspects, pairing and sharing, and find their voice to tell their story.

SHOW: The class takes the stage in the DAC Performance Space, in front of family and friends, while Jeff acts as the MC. Lights, Camera, Action, Ready, Set, GO! The Moment of Truth.

Joe Miller is a native of Palama. He has been a high school teacher for 40 years in private Catholic schools on ‘Oahu. He has three children, a cat and a dog and a beautiful wife who still teaches 7th and 9th graders in Honolulu. He loves singing, storytelling and messing around in small boats -- mostly native outriggers.

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Giovanna Conforto is an Italian storyteller and published author. She is the creative director of the Italian Storytelling Center and teaches at the School of Storytelling, Emerson College (UK).

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Adam Booth's original stories blend traditional mountain folklore, music, and an awareness of contemporary Appalachia.

A nationally touring artist, his professional telling appearances include premiere storytelling events across the United States.

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Halloween Special: The Sobbing Spirit of Punahou Street, Okiku, and the Nine Plates Testing God

In partnership with Mānoa Outreach College & SCEP (with permission from the estate of Dr. Glen Grant)

Speakers: Alton Takiyama-Chung, Katy Collins, Jeff Gere

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Looking for a spooky event to get into this weekend?

On Halloween Eve, Lopaka Kapanui will present “Chicken Skin Ghost Stories” at the Waikiki Shell. There are two showings, at 5:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., and both are absolutely frightful.

Looking for a spooky event to get into this weekend?

On Halloween Eve, Lopaka Kapanui will present “Chicken Skin Ghost Stories” at the Waikiki Shell. There are two showings, at 5:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., and both are absolutely frightful.

Graphic storytelling –a graphic novelist and an illustrator compare notes

Speakers: R. Kikuo Johnson & Caren Loebel-Fried

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We are honored to welcome Dovie Thomason, an Indigenous storyteller of Lakota and Plains Apache descent, as well as Scot traveller. The modern appeal of her retellings of traditional stories has garnered her acclaim and respect, as well as awards from the American Library Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers, and the National Storytelling Network’s Circle of Excellence Award.

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