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Summer Art Camp 2023

Monday, June 12, 2023 - 8:00am to Friday, June 16, 2023 - 12:00pm

the Youth Arts Series Presents Summer Art Camp 2023

Program Description: The Youth Arts Series (YAS) annual Summer Art Camp is back for its 6th session! Keiki will join our talented local artists for creative adventures. In this year's summer session, the YAS team of skilled instructors will guide young artists through the process of learning a variety of mediums. Our student artists will create their own works of art while learning basic technical skills behind each medium. 

Community and Policing

Saturday, May 20, 2023 - 10:00am
Community and Policing: Where were we, where are we, where will we go?

INTRODUCTION

The facilities that now house the East Hawai'i Cultural Center were originally built in 1932 to house the Hilo Police Department, District Courthouse, and jail. Court staff remained there until 1969 and the police until 1975.

EHCC Lecture Series Online Presents: Roots and Routes Along Keaukaha's Seashore

Friday, April 21, 2023 - 5:00pm
Roots and Routes Along Keaukaha’s Seashore
A presentation by Halena Kapuni-Reynolds
Friday April 21, 2023, at 5PM HST
 
In this lecture, Halena Kapuni-Reynolds illuminates the concept of “huaka’i hele” [a sightseeing tour in which a knowledgeable guide takes others along a route to reveal the stories surrounding a particular land area] through the huaka’i hele shared with amateur ethnographer and Hawaiʻi photographer Theodore Kelsey by Henry Nālimu (1835-1934) and his niece Mary Ka‘ōulionālani Ka‘ai (1

EHCC Lecture Series Online Presents: Who owns the past? Cultural Heritage and International Law

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Thursday, March 9, 2023 - 3:00pm
EHCC Lecture Series Online Presents: Who owns the past? Cultural Heritage and International Law with Larry Butler
Zoom Lecture on Thursday, March 9th, 2023 at 3PM HST
 
Who owns the past? This has become the hottest question in museum and cultural studies around the globe. Should Britain send the Parthenon sculptures back to Greece? Should Benin bronzes be returned to Nigeria? Will that spark a wholesale transfer of museum antiquities? Are there laws, standards or conventions that might govern these questions?

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