Bishop Museum presents its Kapaemahu Speaker Series | Hidden in Plain Sight: The History of The Healer Stones of Kapaemahu in a Changing Waikīkī

Friday, July 8, 2022
6-7:30 p.m.
Atherton Hālau & Livestreamed via Zoom
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This program is part of a five-part speaker series that harnesses community discourse around The Healer of Stones of Kapaemahu exhibition on view in Bishop Museum’s Castle Memorial Building through Oct. 16, 2022. By bringing together cultural practitioners, scholars, artists, and community organizers, the program aims to cultivate deeper understanding of the exhibition’s central themes of gender diversity, Native Hawaiian health, and the power of monuments.

These talks will take place in person at Bishop Museum’s Atherton Hālau and will be streamed live for virtual participation. To kick off the series, join us for a Museum After Hours Pau Hana presentation with the exhibition curators to discuss the historical findings and artistic choices behind The Healer Stones of Kapaemahu. The conversation will include new details about the first written version of the moʻolelo, its loss, its rediscovery deep in a library archive, and its restoration—all in the context of the rise of tourism, militarization, and the erosion of Hawaiian cultural identity throughout the 20th century.

Speakers include:

• Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, co-curator, Kanaka Maoli teacher, cultural practitioner, and community leader

• Dean Hamer, co-curator and Emmy and GLAAD media award-winning filmmaker

• Joe Wilson, co-curator, Emmy award-winning filmmaker, community advocate

• DeSoto Brown, co-curator and Bishop Museum Historian and Curator of the Archives