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This October, the University of Hawaiʻi–West Oʻahu Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program will bring a Shakespeare performance and two experts in Hawaiian knowledge to the West Oʻahu campus. The performance and presentation are free and open to the public.

The UH West Oʻahu Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program brings seasoned scholars and practitioners in the humanities, social sciences and indigenous arts, traditions and cultures to UH West Oʻahu for the benefit of students, faculty, staff and the community.

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  • Hawaiʻi Shakespeare Festival Touring Show: Macbeth
    October 16, 5–6 p.m.
    UH West Oʻahu Campus Center Multi-purpose Room, C208

    A touring company of the Hawaiʻi Shakespeare Festival will perform Shakespeare’s Macbeth in a free performance. Hawaiʻi Shakespeare Festival Director Tony Pisculli will host a discussion following the play. For more information, visit the Hawaiʻi Shakespeare Festival website.

  • Specificity/Universality: The Role of Hawaiian Knowledge in the Transformation of Hawaiʻi
    October 22, 6–8:30 p.m.
    UH West Oʻahu Campus Center Multi-purpose Room, C208

    UH West Oʻahu Distinguished Visiting Scholars Manulani Aluli Meyer and MAʻO Organic Farms Co-founder Kukui Maunakea-Forth will discuss the role of Hawaiian knowledge and practices in creating an abundant life that is appropriate for the special place that is Hawaiʻi.

    Meyer is an international keynote speaker and has published extensively on the topic of native intelligence and its synergistic linkages to quantum sciences, transformational evaluation practices and liberation theology. She was the 2005–2006 International Indigenous Scholar at Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, the Center for Māori Research Excellence at the University of Auckland.

    Maunakea-Forth is the co-founder of MAʻO Organic Farms in Waiʻanae and is executive director of Kauhale ʻO Waiʻanae, a programmatic merger between Searider Productions, Mākaha Studios and MAʻO Organic Farms. She is active in organizations that serve youth and families because she believes ʻāina (place)-based education is key to the regeneration of the ancestral abundance for the Waiāanae community.

For more information, contact UH West Oʻahu’s Michael Hayes at (808) 689-2312.

A UH West Oʻahu news release

—By Julie Funasaki Yuen

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