SUMMER '24: Sight and Sound
Sight and Sound: Creating with Downtown Hilo
July 15-26 (two weeks, Monday–Friday)
10:00 am-2:00 pm
Ages 14-18
Deadline to register is Tuesday, May 28 by 4:00 PM
For questions email: [email protected]
Enrollment Fee: This program is FREE thanks to funding from the Atherton Family Foundation, the Hawaii Community Foundation, and First Hawaiian Bank.
Program Description: Explore place-based art, psychogeography, and observation in downtown Hilo as methods for students to explore creativity in a community-rooted way, linking past and present. Students will discover new ways to see the world around them using appreciative inquiry and investigating the historical and contemporary stories that lie beneath the surface. Artwork formation will move between digital photography and sound art with each discipline informing the other to ultimately produce the studentʻs own narrative of place.
Please Note: A smartphone is required for this class. Please contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions or concerns.
SPACES ARE LIMITED AND WILL BE ACCEPTED ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED BASIS. REGISTRATION IS FULL – PLEASE EMAIL [email protected] TO BE ADDED TO THE WAITLIST.
Students should bring their own lunch. If lunch cannot be provided, please email [email protected].
Instructors
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Digital Photography
Bio:Artist, educator, curator, editor of photography books. Previously he was chairman of Imago Mundi Foundation (2005-2010); Deputy Art Director at the Photo Month in Cracow (2006-2008). He had been also involved in the Photo Proxima research project carried out by the Ethnographic Museum in Cracow in collaboration with the Fratelli Alinari Museum of Photography, studying private collections of family photographs. He lectures on photography at University of Hawaii and Hawaii Community College. Author of books; Rzeczy (Things) and Invisible Maps. Learn More -
Sound Art
Bio:Seb Choe is a youth educator, community organizer, and musician based in Hawai’i and New York. Seb has led creative youth education programs across the country, often alongside teens with marginalized identities. In Hawai’i, Seb has worked with the Donkey Mill Art Center, East Hawai’i Cultural Center, The KōLab, and Hawaii-Fi. Elsewhere, they have taught with Carolina Youth Action Project, Harbor Camps, Kids on Point, Old Firehouse Teen Center, Rave Salon, and the Rikers Education Program. Learn More