The Ecotone with Melissa Chimera + Hina Kneubuhl - Artist's Walkthrough

February 18, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Mānoa Campus, University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa Art Gallery

ʻO Ka Wai Mai مي From Lahaina to the Litani calls for the continuous flow of water in Hawaiʻi and the Middle East. The Hawaiian phrase ʻo ka wai mai is interpreted as the water shall flow. Mai has a double meaning: The Arabic مي (mai) means water. In ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi, it indicates the flow of water (wai) towards the speaker. Artist Reem Bassous (Lebanon, b. 1978), multi-media artist and conservationist Melissa Chimera (Hawaiʻi, b. 1972), sculptor Kahi Ching (Hawaiʻi, b. 1962), and translator and kapa maker Hina Puamohala Kneubuhl (Hawai‘i, b. 1977) consider water’s sacred role in sustaining lands, cultures, and self-determination in Hawai‘i, Palestine, and Lebanon at a time when it has been contaminated, diverted, destroyed, and denied by illegal occupation, settler economics, or war. They remind us to hold water as sacred and vital, so that it can always flow towards life. This event will be an Artist's walkthrough with Melissa Chimera + Hina Kneubuhl at 12pm, with lunch to follow.


Ticket Information
Free to attend! Register at go.hawaii.edu/Dd5

Event Sponsor
Center for Pacific Islands Studies, Department of Asian Studies, The AAPI Environmental Humanities & Environmental Justice Initiative, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Michelle Harangody, (808) 956-0926, msharan@hawaii.edu

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