Exhibition Schedule 2007-2008
The following exhibitions and events are scheduled for galleries at the Bishop Museum and Hawai‘i Maritime Center in Honolulu , and Amy B. H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Gardens in Captain Cook, Hawai‘i beginning January 2007 through February 2008. More detailed information will be available at www.bishopmuseum.org or in Ka’Elele, the journal of Bishop Museum . Visit the press room online for more information. This information is subject to change.
CONTINUING & PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS
HAWAIIAN HALL RESTORATION PROJECT
Grand Opening: December 2008
Hawaiian Hall
For more than a century, Hawaiian Hall has guarded the fragile artifacts of old Hawai’i . Five generations of children have glimpsed their royal heritage for the first time in her great hall. For more than 30 years, she has held the sacraments of a great Hawaiian cultural renaissance. In July 2006, Bishop Museum began a $20 million restoration of the Hawaiian Hall Complex. The project includes the renovation and modernization of the aging building including the Hawaiian Hall, the Picture Gallery and elevator court. Phase II will include the Vestibule Gallery, Polynesian Hall, and the entrance foyer. New features such as air conditioning, state-of-the-art display cases with built-in security, lighting, and conservation measures. The restoration will include updated electrical systems, fire safety measures, and a new elevator to transport artworks and people to the upper floors, especially those with walking disabilities.
The second phase focuses on the interpretation and presentation of the incomparable collections of stone, feather, kapa, and wood artifacts. Scientific perspectives will be woven into the interpretation to provide context and reference. Improved access to many objects that were too delicate for the once harsh display conditions will be a great benefit of the restoration project. The exhibits will be reorganized in ways that will make them more meaningful to thousands of school children, visitors, and residents who visit Bishop Museum each year.
Highly qualified experts including Heath Construction and Mason Architects are spearheading the project. These local companies were chosen because of their experience renovating historic structures including ‘ Iolani Palace , Honolulu Academy of Arts, Shangri La and Washington Place . Ralph Appelbaum Associates, a world-renowned design firm whose work includes the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Heard Museum , and renovation projects at the American Museum of Natural History, will be overseeing elements of design.
Supporters include the J. M .Long, Vera M. Long, Geist, Cooke, and Atherton Foundations, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Kamehameha Schools, and the State of Hawai‘i , as well as many private donors. The restoration of Hawaiian Hall will be a testament to our commitment to the ideals of Charles Reed Bishop and Princess Pauahi: To tell the stories of Hawai‘i. Watch for the grand opening in December 2008.
DINOSAURS ALIVE!
December 9, 2006 through January 28, 2007
Castle Memorial Building , First Floor
Take a walk on the wild side and step into a land that time forgot. Meet some of the most awesome creatures to have ever roamed the earth at Bishop Museum ’s traveling exhibit, Dinosaur’s Alive! Visitors will join in a safari through amazing prehistoric surroundings and marvel at moving, roaring dinosaurs, including Tyrannosaurus Rex, Apatosaurus, Dilophosaurus, Velociraptor and more. Bishop Museum ’s Education Department will supplement the exhibit with interactive, hands on activities and special teaching displays. Dinosaurs Alive! promises to be DINO-MITE!
PA‘A KA LA‘A
Animism and Totemism: Contemporary Expressions from an Indigenous Mind
December 16, 2006 through April 22, 2007
Vestibule Gallery
This Exhibit commemorates Hale Nauā III’s 30 th anniversary in exhibiting Maoli Fine Arts and marks the beginning of a new journey of collaboration between the Kanaka Maoli and other indigenous artists. Curated by Lucia Tarallo Jensen and Natalie Mahina Jensen-Oomittuk, the exhibiton explores the fundamental belief shared by all First Nation people—of Animism and Totemism. Through this exhibition, the interrelationship between totem and human is explored. Interspersed throughout the exhibition will be rare ‘amakua images from the Bishop Museum ’s own unrivaled collection.
Pa‘a ka La‘a also celebrates the beloved and long-standing member of Hale Nauā III, artist Leialoha Kanahele. Her surreal landscapes of the Ko‘olau Mountains evoke the time-honored indigenous traditions that all things have soul. Kanehele received her formal training at Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles and at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Her paintings are in the collection of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and in numerous corporate and private collections throughout the world. At 80, Kanahele is currently on a quest to document sacred sites in Hawai‘i .
NOAA’s SCIENCE ON A SPHERE (SOS)
Opened Nov. 19, 2006 - Ongoing Permanent Exhibit
Cooke Rotunda, Jhamandas Watumull Planetarium
Bishop Museum ’s newest permanent exhibit allows you to see our planet as the astronauts do—as a great blue marble in space. Created using technology and data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and funded through NOAA, this exhibit will change the way you see the world—literally. Science on a Sphere (SOS) achieves its extraordinary effects by projecting satellite imagery onto a 6-foot diameter sphere suspended from the ceiling. The results are startlingly realistic. While remaining motionless, the sphere appears to rotate slowly. Onto this virtual spinning sphere, a variety of views are projected throughout the day.
During the daily live demonstration Too Hot to Handle visitors can explore the causes and impacts of Global Warming. Science on a Sphere r is used to run the earth forward to 2200 AD to show possible methods of global warming if we continue to emit greenhouse gases at our current levels. The show also talks about steps that we can take now to reduce future impacts.
But SOS is not just about Earth. You can also see the cratered surface of Mars. Or a global view of the moon, where even the so-called “dark-side” is visible in rich detail. Vivid images of the sun. Or the surface of Venus, with the planet’s dense clouds stripped away. Any data set that is global, and of high enough resolution, can be shown on the sphere. Satellite imagery can also paint a tumultuous portrait of Earth. Watch the record-setting 2005 hurricane season hammer the Earth. See typhoons rage in the Pacific, and the wave-patterns of December 2004 tsunami spread out across the Indian Ocean to the shores of Africa .
The global view from SOS neatly complements the more local perspective offered at the Richard T. MamiyaScience Adventure Center on the other side of the Museum’s campus.
GLOBAL WARMING
Opened Nov. 18, 2006 - Ongoing and co-located with NOAA’s Science on a Sphere
Cooke Rotunda, Jhamandas Watumull Planetarium
A companion piece to our new NOAA Science on a Sphere, this new interactive exhibit explores causes, effects, and possible solutions to global warming, one of the most important issues in science today. Compare your temperature to the planet’s temperature; discover the impact of global warming around the world, from receding glaciers in Alaska to “climate refugees” in Micronesia; Learn about steps we can all take to help slow global warming.
RICHARD T. MAMIYA SCIENCE ADVENTURE CENTER (SAC)
Opened Nov. 19, 2005 – Ongoing Permanent Exhibit
In the Richard T. Mamiya Science Adventure Center (SAC) you can see the mechanics of tsunamis in the wave-making machine, or watch a display of volcanic activity at the model volcano and lava melting demonstrations.
Opened November 19, 2005 , the SAC is a 16,500-square-foot facility with more than 30 custom-designed interactive exhibits and unique learning opportunities for children and adults. The dramatic centerpiece is a giant walk-through volcano that really “erupts.” This volcano is loosely modeled after Kïlauea’s active vent, Pu‘u Ö‘ö on the Big Island of Hawai‘i. There is also a 30,000-gallon Deep Ocean Tank with remotely operated vehicles you can pilot through a model of Hawai‘i’s youngest volcano, Lö‘ihi.
Other exhibits include the Hawaiian Origins Tunnel where you can learn about the natural and cultural origins of the islands through glowing artwork created by Hawai‘i’s schoolchildren. And the Living Islands Gallery provides an up close look at the stimulating work of Bishop Museum scientists as they explore rare native species using cutting-edge investigative technology.
Japan & Hawai‘i: Building Bonds Across the Pacific
The Hall of Discovery
Through April 1, 2007
The formal and informal ties that historically bind Hawai‘i and Japan result in the legacy of the many Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i today. This exhibition helps visitors experience the fascinating story of how two island kingdoms have embraced one another. From the first contact of a shipwrecked Japanese sailor to King David Kalākaua’s visit with Meiji Emperor Mutsuhito in 1881, the exhibition allows visitors to explore how this royal journey led to the influence of Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i. Featured objects include a rare journal of King Kalākaua with personal accounts of his travels to Japan . He once proposed a marriage between his niece, Princess Ka‘iulani and the Meiji Emperor and Mutsuhito’s nephew, Prince Yamashina. The story of John Manjiro, a drifter from Japan who arrived in Honolulu in 1841, is also presented. Manjiro, overcame many hardships, learned English, and eventually became the translator for Commodore Perry. One of the few surviving original sets of the Bandan, a three-volume collection of beautiful, original watercolors made by the Japanese sailor Jirokichi who shipwrecked in 1838, is also on view.
AMY GREENWELL GARDEN FREE GARDEN TOUR
Second Saturday of Every Month; 10 a.m. – to 11:30 ; Free Ongoing Event
Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden; Captain Cook, HI
Learn the value of various native hardwoods from garden educator Noa Lincoln on the free tour of this month. For more information call (808) 323-3318. Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden is a Bishop Museum ’s native plant facility located in Captain Cook on Hawai‘i Island . The Garden is located twelve miles south of Kailua-Kona on Highway 11, just south of mile marker 110. The Amy Greenwell Garden is located in Captain Cook, 12 miles south of Kailua-Kona, between the 110 and 11 mile markers of the Mamalahoa Highway . The garden welcomes all visitors from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on weekdays. Admission to the garden is by donation, suggested at $4.
JANUARY 2007
THE CANOE: AN ALASKAN AND HAWAIIAN TRADITION
Opens January 19, 2008 and will be ongoing
Hawai‘i Maritime Center, Pier 7, Honolulu Harbor
Indigenous cultures around the world share many similar practices—among them canoeing. This exhibit, produced in cooperation with the Alaskan Native Heritage Center , presents a comparison and contrast of Hawaiian and Alaskan canoe voyaging traditions. Among the featured items will be Alaskan and Hawaiian canoe-building materials including adze, lashing materials, dye, seal skin, birch and cedar bark, kapa, coconut husk cordage, and basalt rock. This exhibit celebrates the 2007 January through March voyage of Hökūle‘a to the Western Pacific and the island nations of Micronesia and Japan .
FEBRUARY 2007
PAUAHI: A LEGACY FOR HAWAII
February 3 through July 29, 2007
Castle Memorial Building , Second Floor
The founding of Bishop Museum was the result of an unconventional love story between a hāole man and a Hawaiian Princess. Pauahi: A Legacy for Hawai‘i opens February 2, 2007 on the second floor of Castle Memorial Building . The exhibition features personal legacies and bequests from the collection of Princess Bernice Pauahi Pākï Bishop, and includes treasures from others that may not have survived without the founding of Bishop Museum .
Charles Reed Bishop fell in love with Bernice Pauahi Pākï when she was only 16. In 1847, he met her for the first time and began calling on her nearly every night thereafter. They fell deeply in love. But, Pauahi’s parents heatedly opposed the match. They had already betrothed to her as a child to, Lot , who later became Kamehameha V. She was in line to be Queen and yet, she rejected it all for love. Despite the objections by family and friends, they were married in a small private ceremony in 1850.
Their relationship stood the test of time and eventually won the respect and admiration of Pauahi’s parents and that of the greater Hawaiian community. They were married for nearly 35 years until Pauahi’s untimely death separated them. Bishop was at her side when she died October 16, 1884 . He was devastated, mourning Pauahi’s loss deeply and profoundly. The founding of Bishop Museum in 1889 was an act of love by Charles Reed Bishop in honor of his beloved deceased wife. From 1898 to 1903, he built the Hawaiian Hall Complex to house Pauahi’s personal collections. It was Charles Reed Bishop’s intention that Bishop Museum study, preserve, and tell the stories of Hawai‘i and the Pacific, a mission that is still being carried into the next century.
Today its collections encompass more than 24 million catalogued objects and specimens from across the Pacific, placing Bishop Museum among the top five natural history museums in the United States and among the top ten in the world. For more than 100 years, Bishop Museum has served as the keeper of extraordinary Hawaiian cultural treasures, including those of Princess Pauahi, Princess Ruth Ke‘elikölani, and Queen Emma. Hawaiian Hall, currently undergoing a massive $20 million renovation, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Opening in February, Pauahi: A Legacy for Hawai‘i will be an ongoing exhibition of objects with several rotations planned while the Hawaiian Hall Complex undergoes renovation and reopens in Fall of 2008. Among the first treasures will be Princess Bernice Pauahi’s feather cape, a feather cloak of Kamehameha the Great, Princess Ruth’s buggy, an early holua sled associated with Lonoikamakahiki, journals and letters by the ali‘i,makaloa mats, ‘umeke (bowls), ipu (gourds), and the personal journals and objects of adornment from Princess Pauahi such as jewelry and hats. Weapons, poi pounders, kapa beaters and stamps will also be featured.
Among the rare objects in the first rotation will be an 19 th century Makaloa mat woven with a tax protest made by an elderly Hawaiian woman named Kala‘i and intended for King Lunalilo. With the introduction of written language to the Islands , Hawaiians incorporated letters of the alphabet taught by the missionaries in tattooing and mat decorating. Short affectionate greetings were woven into mats, but lengthy messages, such as the one found in the “Protest Mat” were rare. Only one other mat with such a long text is thought to have existed, one proclaiming the Lord’s Prayer. Because of his unexpected death, the mat never made it into the hands of Lunalilo, but the subsequent king, Kalākaua, received and displayed it. At least two newspapers printed Kala‘i’s message in its entirety. This makaloa mat can be seen as an exquisite poetic expression of protest, one not easy to ignore.
Other highlights include ali‘i ornaments such as kāhili (feathered standard bearers) and lei niho palaoa (necklaces of braided human hair holding precious ivory pendants).
The most famous fishhook in the Pacific, the Manaiakalani (Hook from the Heavens) will also be on display. The Manaiakalani was acquired from the Hawaiian National Museum in 1891.
This legendary hook is said to be the one demi-god Māui used to lure the great ulua, Pïmoe, from the depths of the sea. For two days and nights the giant fish pulled on the line while Māui’s brothers struggled to keep the canoe afloat and paddled for shore. They were careful not to look at Pïmoe, lest he turn himself into an island to avoid capture. But closing into shore, they turned and gazed at Pïmoe. As they did so, the line broke and the magical ulua became a solid island that would no longer move. Māui freed Manaiakalani and threw it into the sky, where it formed a constellation now known as Scorpio.
7 th ANNUAL MARY KAWENA PUKUI PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL
February 18, 2007 ; $3 per person; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Great Lawn
Native storytellers from Hawai‘i , Alaska , and Massachusetts will gather on the Great Lawn at Bishop Museum to “talk story” and join in a celebration of native cultures through the ancient art of storytelling and dance. The 7 th annual Mary Kawena Pukui Performing Arts Festival will be held at Bishop Museum on February 18 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $3 per person. Members and children 3 and under are free.
The festival is funded through a federally sponsored program, Education through Cultural and Historic Organizations (ECHO). The ECHO Act is a major, federally-funded educational and cultural enrichment initiative, established by Congress as part of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. ECHO brings to culturally diverse audiences innovative programs collaboratively produced by six regional cultural entities: Alaska Native Heritage Center and North Slope Borough ECHO Project in Alaska ; Bishop Museum in Hawai‘i; New Bedford ECHO Project and Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts , and the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in Mississippi .
Among the participating institutions in this year’s Mary Kawena Pukui Performing Arts Festival are the Bishop Museum , the Peabody Essex Museum and New Bedford Whaling Museum of Massachusetts, and the Inupiat Heritage Center and Alaska Heritage Center of Alaska.
The festival’s theme is Harvest and the Moon. According to Bishop Museum Project Director Kealoha Kelekolio, this year’s event will be more sophisticated and elaborate than in past years. “Over the years, the festival has evolved into a new format where our stories and the stories of the other indigenous peoples represented are woven together,” say Kelekolio.
Also invited to participate in this year’s event are well known storytellers from the local and regional community. There will be several stages featuring a variety of storytellers and programs for both adults and children, hula hālaus, and music performances. Food and native craft booths will also be among the attractions of the event. Bishop Museum Press will also have a large selection of books about Native Hawaiian topics available for sale during the event.
“Children are always a focus of this important cultural program,” says Kelekolio. “Each year the storytelling group also takes the program into the schools prior to the festival day at Bishop Museum .”
In the past, the storytellers have traveled to Nanakuli, Nanaikapono, Kamehameha Schools, and plan to visit immersion and charter schools, as well as part of the outreach efforts. The storytelling group will also travel to the new National Museum of the American Indian in Washington , D.C. to share the stories of Hawai‘i , Alaska , and New England .
The festival is held each year in honor of Mary Kawena Pukui, a revered Hawaiian scholar and linguist who knew the importance of storytelling to the host Hawaiian culture. Pukui published the first Native Hawaiian language dictionary and worked tirelessly to preserve and perpetuate Hawaiian traditions of hula and storytelling.
“The stories, the mo‘olelo, were the most important means by which the history of many of these cultures survived. We want to make sure the stories continue to be heard and survive into the next generation,” says Kelekolio.
The Mary Kawena Pukui Performing Arts Festival provides an opportunity to perpetuate the storytelling traditions and to introduce new generations of Hawai‘i’s children to this important cultural legacy.
For more information about the Mary Kawena Pukui Performing Arts Festival, or school outreach programs, call (808) 847-3511 or visit www.bishopmuseum.org.
LOST MARITIME CULTURES: CHINA AND THE PACIFIC
February 24 through 15 April, 2007
Castle Memorial Building , First Floor
Bishop Museum scientists have been in search of answers to the question of the origins of the Pacific people and cultures since the inception of the Museum in 1889. They are about to place a few more pieces of the puzzle with the world debut of Lost Maritime Cultures: China and the Pacific, a groundbreaking exhibition of international significance organized by Bishop Museum. The landmark exhibition explores connections between ancient China and Oceania .
Included will be the finest examples of prehistoric seafaring civilizations of China , featuring many rare national cultural treasures that have never traveled outside of China . Most scientists have determined that Southeast China is the original homeland of the Austronesians, a group that includes Polynesians, Melanesians, Micronesians and the indigenous people in Southeastern Asian Archipelagos. Some of the maritime cultures featured in this exhibition are believed to be the ultimate source of the seafaring Austronesian culture that eventually spread out throughout the Pacific, reaching as far as the Hawaiian Islands .
Tianlong Jiao, Bishop Museum ’s Chairman of Anthropology and a world-renowned expert in Chinese archaeology, is directing this international research project with cooperation from the government of the People’s Republic of China .
Working with the Chinese State Bureau of Cultural Heritage, the Department of Cultural Affairs of Fujian and Zhejiang Provinces , Jiao has arranged for the loan of exciting examples of material culture from a prehistoric past dating from 3000 to 7000 years ago.
“ Bishop Museum was founded to honor Hawaiian royalty and our collection of cultural objects and natural history specimens from across the Pacific Basin helps present the rich history in the study of Pacific cultures and migration,” says Bishop Museum President Bill Brown. “We hope Lost Civilizations will stimulate more discussion, more questions, and more reasons to identify what these cultures share in common.”
Lost Cultures will include extraordinary archaeological discoveries in Southeast China made over the past half century. The coast area of Southeast China was home to people who had great maritime traditions in prehistory. These maritime civilizations flourished from 7000 to 3000 years ago, but never were recorded in historic texts. It wasn’t until modern archaeology began in China that these cultural finds were unearthed and studied by internationally recognized archeologists, such as Jiao.
The exhibition will consist of three parts: The Beginning of Maritime Traditions in China, specifically in the Hemudu culture (7000-5000 B.P.); Voyaging on the Pacific Coast, featuring four seafaring societies in prehistoric Southeast China (6000-4000 B.P.); and the Splendor of Coastal Civilizations (5000-3000 B.P.), featuring three complx societies: The Liangzhu, Huangtulun, and Fubin.
The Hemudu people were rice farmers and fishermen who developed seafaring which allowed them to migrate southwards along the coast of Southeast China . Many scholars believe the Hemudu Culture was the ultimate source of the proto-Austronesian cultures. Their descendents colonized most of the Pacific Islands . The Hemudu people were also skilled carpenters and craftsmen, manufacturing fabulous ceramics, bone tools, stone adzes, and personal ornaments. Objects found in the Tianluoshan, Zishan, and Hemudu sites will be featured.
The second section looks at four seafaring societies of Southeast Chins, 4000-6000 years ago: Keqiutou, Damaoashan, Tanshishan, and Huangguashan. These people that lived along the coast and on the islands of Southeast China at the time were deeply tied to the sea. They were voyagers with a mixed economy of farming and fishing. They lived in small villages, made stone tools, manufactured ceramics, and exchanged goods with one another.
The last section features extraordinary artistic works created by indigenous peoples who lived on the coast of Southeast China from 5000 to 3000 years ago. This society had a high level of complexity of social and political organization. These people are believed to be descendants of the pre-/proto-Austronesians who continued to live in China during these two millennia. Among the highlights are discoveries of the lost civilizations of the Liangzhu, Huangtulun, and Fubin Cultures.
Liangzhu Culture has been called the “civilization of jade,” and will be represented by splendid jade works with unparalleled artistic sophistication. The Huangtulun and Fubin Cultures were early Bronze Age civilizations and will be represented by elaborately manufactured ritual stone tools, weapons, and pottery.
The exhibition will include a full-color, hard cover catalogue (approximately 300 pages) available for $49.95 in Shop Pacifica at Bishop Museum . Advance orders are currently being accepted by emailing press@bishopmuseum or calling (808) 848-4135.
AMY GREENWELL GARDEN GROW HAWAIIAN FESTIVAL
February 24, 2007 ; 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. ; Free
Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden, Captain Cook, HI
Weavers, dancers, kapa makers, and other practitioners of traditional Hawaiian culture meet with biologists, conservationists, and horticulturists to explore their common passion for the native and Polynesian introduced plants of Hawai‘i. Festival-goers have a unique opportunity to meet and talk with many of the foremost practitioners of Hawaiian arts like lei maker Marie MacDonald or kapa maker Kapua Van Dorpe as well as leading scientists like botanist Clyde Imada or entomologist David Preston.
The festival includes cultural demonstrators, ask-the-expert booths, and displays by schools, parks, and conservation organizations. There will be a continuing program of speakers and panels on the main stage throughout the day, activity areas for young and old, and plate lunches by Super-J’s.
On the main stage, the program will be a mix of cultural insights, entertainment, and fascinating accounts by leading conservationists and botanists. There is never a dull moment with Tom Cummings and Kealoha Kelekolio as masters of ceremony--they are well known storytellers who work with the Bishop Museum Education Department and they fit in a number of their dramatic presentations on traditional themes during the day. Bill Garnett will discuss his successful outplanting techniques in one session, and Angela Keppler will describe tracking down the elusive Hawaiian banana varieties in another.
A roundtable of well known cultural practitioners including Marie MacDonald will bring their personal stories of plants and planting before the audience, and Don Hemmes will talk about the fungus he has known in his years as an expert at Hawaiian. Kanu o ka ‘Äina will open and close the program with chants, and Ulali‘a Berman and her dancers will provide an interlude of hula.
Cultural demonstrators will be available all day for visitors to meet and talk story about their specialities. The Kona Weavers Club, an informal group that meets once a month at Amy Greenwell Garden to weave, will be at the festival making hats, mats, and other items from lauhala. Kapua Van Dorpe will beat kapa on the traditional kua, or wooden anvil. Manny Mattos will bring the spears, clubs, daggers, and other weapons he makes from traditional plant and animal resources, and lei makers Kilohana Domingo and Maile Napoleon will demonstrate different lei making techniques. Michael Harburg will be on hand with the Kona Gourd Society demonstrating the art of gourd decoration. Lisa Schattenburg from Maui Nui Botanical Garden brings a beautiful display of native plant dyes and explains how she makes them.
For those seeking hands-on experiences, there are many activities to choose from. George Place will help festival-goers create their own art with ‘ohe kāpala, traditional bamboo stamps. Nancy Redfeather will make ti leaf leis with children and adults alike. Weary attendees can refresh themselves with a lomilomi massage from Wes Sen and his students. Kau‘hane Morton will help participants make, tune, and blow their own ‘ohe hano ihu—bamboo nose flute.
One of the most popular activities at previous festivals is a guided tour of Amy Greenwell Garden led by David Orr, curator of collections at Waimea Arboretum and Botanical Garden on O‘ahu. His deep knowledge of native plants and enduring passion for conservation make this tour a must-do event for garden lovers and conservationists in West Hawai‘i.
This year’s festival will introduce an informal lei contest. Everyone is invited to present lei in categories of nā lei pua ‘ole (lei with no flowers), lei hapa haole (lei featuring exotic plants), lei haku, and an open category. Lei can be prepared beforehand or made during the festival.
The festival provides an extraordinary opportunity for people to ask experts for advice on all manner of things biological or horticultural. Bring your mystery plants or bugs to the festival to get them identified! Clyde Imada of Bishop Museum and Marie Breugmann of USFWS between them can name almost any plant from the garden or native forest. Pat Conant (Hawai‘i Dept. of Agriculture) and David Preston ( Bishop Museum ) will do likewise with any insect, whether an imported pest or native treasure, brought before them.
Jerry Konanui, noted taro expert will be on hand to identify taro varieties and answer questions about cultivating the traditional staple crop, and Ed Johnston, editor of the new definitive book on ‘awa, will help farmers and gardeners understand the art of growing this important and beautiful plant. Dr. Scot Nelson, CTAHR plant pathologist, is an expert on whatever ails a plant, so festival-growers can bring their problem plants for an outdoor office visit. The Kona Master Gardeners will be available for garden consultation nearby. Unusual bananas and other rare fruit can be identified by Ken Love and Angela Keppler. Dr. Keppler was an ornithologist before she became a botanist and can also help with bird identifications. All fungus are unusual to most people, but Don Hemmes (UH Hilo ) will help sort out the toadstools from the pepeiao.
At the many booths in the festival, conservation experts will be ready to talk to visitors about projects on Kaua‘i, Moloka‘i, Maui , and Hawai‘i. Experts like Dave Bender of National Tropical Botanical Garden who has worked extensively on Kaua‘i as well as Hawai‘i, and Bill Garnett, who has been restoring landscapes for many years on O‘ahu and Moloka‘i will discuss planting techniques and maintenance challenges. Patti Moriyasu, of the Volcano Rare Plant Facility, can discuss propagation techniques for some of the rarest plants in the world. Jill Wagner will be available to talk about the restoration work she has done with TREE Hawai‘i in West Hawai‘i, and representatives of schools and conservation groups will be on hand to describe their projects.
For more information call (808) 323-3318. Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden is a Bishop Museum ’s native plant facility located in Captain Cook on Hawai‘i Island . The Garden is located twelve miles south of Kailua-Kona on Highway 11, just south of mile marker 110. The Amy Greenwell Garden is located in Captain Cook, 12 miles south of Kailua-Kona, between the 110 and 11 mile markers of the Mamalahoa Highway . The garden welcomes all visitors from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on weekdays. Admission to the garden is by donation, suggested at $4. These and other programs are supported by the Bishop Museum , the Native Hawaiian Culture and Arts Program (NHCAP), and the Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations (ECHO). For more information, contact Noa Lincoln, Garden Educator, at (808) 323-3318; by fax at (808) 323-2394; or email agg@bishopmuseum.org. Or Visit the web site at: http://www.bishopmuseum.org/exhibits/greenwell/greenwell.html.
MARCH 2007
2 ndAnnual Benefit Dinner - Picture Gallery and Art Restoration Fund
March 5, 2007; 5 to 8 p.m. ; $175 per person; (808) 848-4172 for Reservations
Morton’s, The Steakhouse, Honolulu at Ala Moana Center
Like to eat for good cause? The 2nd Annual Benefit Dinner supporting Bishop Museum 's Picture Gallery and Art Restoration Fund will be held Monday, March 5, 2007 , from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. at Morton’s, The Steakhouse, Honolulu , located at Ala Moana Center . Limited tickets are available and begin at $175 per person.
For the second year in a row, Morton's, the Steakhouse, Honolulu and Bishop Museum have teamed up to offer a fabulous evening at Morton's, including a lavish, strolling buffet of Morton’s signature dishes, select wines and classic martinis. In addition, event goers will have the rare opportunity to view selected pieces from Bishop Museum's extraordinary collection of oil paintings of Hawai‘i from the 19th and early 20 th century, including the following recently restored Magnolias by Margaret G. Gillin, a painting originally exhibited in Bishop Museum’s Picture Gallery in the 1890s; Scottish Landscape by Princess Kaiulani, a piece by the Princess herself, painted during her schooling in England; and Halemaumau by D. Howard Hitchcock, depicting Kilauea’s famous crater in 1894.
In addition, the Museum will showcase several rare pieces that are in need of restoration work: D. Howard Hitchcock’s Pele in Flames and Haleakala. This painting shows a view of Charles Reed Bishop’s home in downtown Honolulu .
All funds will go to the Museum's Art Restoration and Picture Gallery Fund, to restore paintings in need of conservation work and prepare them for eventual display in the Museum's Picture Gallery. The Picture Gallery is scheduled to open in the newly renovated Hawaiian Hall in the fall of 2007.
Event goers will also have the rare opportunity to bid on silent auction items featuring recently deaccessioned archival photographs and other special treasures from Bishop Museum 's Library and Archives. For reservations and more information please call (808) 848-4172.
3 rd ANNUAL MAD ABOUT SCIENCE FESTIVAL
March 31, 2007
Great Lawn
Everyone is invited to be a scientist at the 3 rd annual Mad About Science Festival. From earth sciences and medical sciences to out-of-this-world space sciences, kids and their parents will enjoy dozens of activities to explore and discover. Learn about archaeology, marine biology, entomology, and other scientific areas of research.
APRIL 2007
No exhibit openings scheduled at this time.
MAY 2007
KÜ I KÄ NI‘O 2: MASTER ARTISTS
May 4 through August 26, 2007 ; normal Museum admission applies.
Vestibule Gallery
This art exhibition, featuring new works from Native Hawaiian visual artists who have led the Native Hawaiian arts movement, honors the celebration of Native Hawaiian Arts Month at Bishop Museum . The featured artists are the recipients of the second annual MAMo Awards which acknowledge master artists for their devotion, labor, and commitment to creating and promoting Native Hawaiian Arts in the community.
2 nd Annual NATIVE HAWAIIAN ARTS FESTIVAL
May 26 and 27, 2007; $3 per person; Members Free
Great Lawn
Over 40 of the top Native Hawaiian visual artists gather at Bishop Museum to share, display, demonstrate, and sell their works.
SUMO IN HAWAI‘I: JAPAN ’S NATIONAL SPORT IN THE ISLANDS
May 26 through July 29, 2007
Hall of Discovery
This exhibit tells the history of sumo wrestling in Hawai‘i through photographs and artifacts from the Museum’s unmatched collection of Japanese immigrant materials. Dramatic costumes worn by sumo wrestlers are among the featured treasures of the exhibit, including exquisitely designed and decorated kesho-mawashi from such famous wrestlers as Hayanami (Nobuyoshi Tanno) and Takahigawa (Nobumi Tokugawa). Archival photographs from the Bishop Museum collections will also feature images of Hawaiian sumo wrestling from the early 1900s.
JUNE 2007
MOONLIGHT MELE
June TBA, 2007; $15 per person; $10 Members & Military; $5 Youth 6-18; 5 and under free
Gates open at 5:30 pm for Members; 6 p.m for General Public.
Great Lawn
Bishop Museum ’s Moonlight Mele is a staple of Honolulu ’s summertime fun. Pack a picnic, bring a blanket and enjoy Hawaiian music under the stars.
SPEED
June 2 through September 3, 2007
Castle Memorial Building , First Floor
Fast, faster, fastest—the new traveling exhibit SPEED is coming to Castle Memorial Building at Bishop Museum in June 2 through September 3, 2007 . Created by COSI Columbus, SPEED investigates how we achieve speed, what going fast means, and how fast is too fast.
How quickly (or slowly) do you type a page, run around the block, or drive to work? Everything that moves has speed, or rate of movement. (Specifically, speed is the ratio of distance covered to time taken by the moving object. Who knew that?) Even a tree has speed (it moves as it grows), and so does a feather floating to the ground. Something so fundamental is certainly worth exploring. From light speed to instantaneous deceleration, SPEED has it all covered.
PUSH!: This section of the exhibit examines the sources of speed. Find out how bobsleds, powered by human legs and gravity, obtain amazingly high accelerations. Build a roller coaster to explore the relationships among height, acceleration, and velocity. Measure your own ability to produce horsepower by pedaling a stationary bicycle.
GO!: What is speed, and how do we achieve it? In this section of the exhibit, explore the mathematical relations that govern motion, and discover some physical features that enhance or retard speed. You can trace the evolution of Indy 500 car designs, then build your own racer out of LEGO[R] parts and test its performance against others. Use a computer to design a completely new machine from various engines, wheels, and body types. Can you create the fastest vehicle ever?
ZOOM!: There’s fast, and then there’s FAST! Just how quickly do sound waves move, and what exactly is a sonic boom? And why is the speed of light called the ultimate barrier? Use mirrors, a 564-foot-long tube, flashing green lights, and other hands-on components to discover some of the strange things that happen at extremely high speeds.
DRAG!: A body in motion tends to stay in motion, right? Then why do things slow down? Learn about impediments to speed. Compete with others to move a vehicle across a slippery surface in the shortest amount of time. Since air behaves like a fluid, you can use a “turbulence tank” to observe how different shapes move through air. Which shapes create the smoothest (most efficient) flow?
STOP!: The most dangerous speed is 0 mph. Insert a penny into a stream of high-velocity wind; after it smashes against the wall, take a look at the effects of instantaneous deceleration. Examine video footage of speed-induced crashes to detect where things went wrong, and hear race car drivers tell us what we all want to know: How does it feel to hit a wall?
Packed with hands-on components and interactive media, SPEED draws inspiration from the worlds of sport, entertainment, and cutting-edge research, featuring people who use speed to test their own abilities or the limits of technology. It is an exhibit not to be missed…no matter how quickly you are moving through the Museum.
SPEED was created by COSI Columbus with support from the National Science Foundation and in cooperation with the Science Museum Exhibit Collaborative. It will be on exhibit at Bishop Museum from June 2 through September 3, 2007 . For more information about SPEED, call 808.847.3511 or visit www.bishopmuseum.org.
BISHOP MUSEUM FAMILY SUNDAY – SPEED!
June 10, 2007 ; $3 per person
Great Lawn
Bishop Museum ’s Family Sundays provide a day of fun on the Great Lawn with special reduced rates of only $3 per person. Entertainment, games and activities for the children, and food booths are featured. Enjoy gallery tours and access to daily programs in the Planetarium, Science on a Sphere, and the Richard T. Mamiya Science Adventure Center .
HAWAII ISLAND SEED EXCHANGE FESTIVAL
June 16; 8:30 a.m. – to 12:30 p.m. ; Free Event
Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden; Captain Cook, HI
The 5th annual Seed Exchange has grown to feature dozens of local farmers and horticulturalists. Come to find and share seeds for your favorite fruits and vegetables as well as many popular and rare native plants for landscaping. For advance registration or more information call (808) 323-3318. Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden is a Bishop Museum ’s native plant facility located in Captain Cook on Hawai‘i Island . The Garden is located twelve miles south of Kailua-Kona on Highway 11, just south of mile marker 110. The Amy Greenwell Garden is located in Captain Cook, 12 miles south of Kailua-Kona, between the 110 and 11 mile markers of the Mamalahoa Highway . The garden welcomes all visitors from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on weekdays. Admission to the garden is by donation, suggested at $4.
JULY 2007
MOONLIGHT MELE
July TBA, 2007; $15 per person; $10 Members & Military; $5 Youth 6-18; 5 and under free
Gates open at 5:30 pm for Members; 6 p.m for General Public.
Great Lawn
Bishop Museum ’s Moonlight Mele is a staple of Honolulu ’s summertime fun. Pack a picnic, bring a blanket and enjoy Hawaiian music under the stars.
AUGUST 2007
9 th ANNUAL BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP AWARDS DINNER
August 25; $250 per person; 5:30 – 9 p.m. ; (808) 848-4172 for Reservations
Great Lawn
Bishop Museum ’s major fundraiser for the year, this prestigious event honors two long-standing community members for exemplifying the spirit and purpose of the Museum’s founder Charles Reed Bishop, and for devotion and outstanding civic leadership. This year’s honorees are Senator Daniel A. Akaka and W. Allen Doane. Nearly 1000 people attend making this the largest and most lavish event on Bishop Museum ’s Great Lawn each year. The event celebrates individuals who have made life-long commitments to Hawai‘i and its people. Under the starry night, there’s an elegant dinner with fine wines, entertainment, behind-the-scenes tours, and a celebration of excellence in philanthropy and leadership. Don’t miss it. For premium tables or reservations, call (808) 848-4172.
MOONLIGHT MELE
August TBA, 2007; $15 per person; $10 Members & Military; $5 Youth 6-18; 5 and under free
Gates open at 5:30 pm for Members; 6 p.m for General Public.
Great Lawn
Bishop Museum ’s Moonlight Mele is a staple of Honolulu ’s summertime fun. Pack a picnic, bring a blanket and enjoy Hawaiian music under the stars.
SEPTEMBER 2007
No openings scheduled at this time
OCTOBER 2007
BRAIN: THE WORLD INSIDE YOUR HEAD
October 13, 2007 through January 20, 2008
Castle Memorial Building , First Floor
What did Abraham Lincoln, Thomas A. Edison and Albert Einstein have in common? Besides being great minds, they all suffered from disabling and debilitating brain disorders. Both Einstein and Edison were dyslexic, and Lincoln suffered from severe depression. Bishop Museum will present a multi-million dollar interactive exhibition that will help make brain-related disorders easier to understand. The groundbreaking traveling exhibition is made possible by Pfizer Inc and was produced by Evergreen Exhibitions, in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The hands-on exhibition provides a close-up look at the human body’s most essential and fascinating organ by exploring its development, geography, and function. Using virtual reality, video games, optical illusions and interactive displays, it shows how the brain functions, and how, like other parts of the body, it can sometimes malfunction. Visitors will walk right through the electrical workings of a re-created functioning brain.
Visitors will also see real brains of humans and animals and experience amazing optical illusions. They’ll visit a 19 th century lab to see how we first started learning about the brain. Interactive components include the ability to launch an electrical signal down a neuron tunnel, stimulate memories with smells, decipher optical illusions, conduct brain surgery, and play a game filled with facts to help boost the brain.
The most amazing and complex structure in the universe, the human brain contains as many neurons as there are stars in the Milky Way. They brain never turns off and by age 4 has grown to its full size. The brain feels no pain, and while it makes up only 2 percent of body weight, it uses 20 percent of the body’s fuel.
A study by Pfizer shows that nearly 40% of American adults said they have a family member with a brain-related disorder such as Alzheimers, Attention Deficit Disorder, dyslexia, migraines, depression and other anxiety disorders, or other brain diseases. Many families have difficulty discussing mental illness with their children-In the Pfizer study, fewer than 16% of parents said they have “very thoroughly discussed” mental illness with their children, while more than 64% had talked about underage alcohol use and 69% had talked about illegal drug use. Mental illness is often stigmatized and rarely is it understood that many mental illnesses have a physical cause and are often treatable.
“Understanding brain disorders is the key that unlocks a family’s ability to cope with mental illness,” said Museum President Bill Brown. “This exhibition will provide both our residents and visitors with a first-hand opportunity to learn and understand more about the brain, one of science’s most exciting and challenging areas of research. We hope families will walk away with the message that treatments exist for people with brain-based conditions, and that people with mental illnesses and other brain-related conditions can live productive lives.”
BRAIN premiered at the Smithsonian’s Art and Industries Building in 2001, and has since traveled to 15 major science centers and natural history museums worldwide. Bishop Museum will be the only Hawai‘i venue to present BRAIN. The Smithsonian is also loaning two objects, a human skull (circa 1300) found in Cinco Cerros , Peru , with evidence of brain surgery; and an epoxy cast of a triceratops brain cavity made from a bisected fossil skull from an animal that lived around 70 million years ago. Both are from the National Museum of Natural History in Washington , D.C. and will be included in the Honolulu debut.
At the time of the Smithsonian opening, Pfizer also funded a new guide for parents through the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry titled, “Talking to Kids about Brain-related Conditions.” The guide is available for downloading free at www.pfizer.com/brain. (There is also a virtual tour of the exhibition at the web site.) Like the exhibition, the brochure explains brain-related conditions and helps parents and children talk about these important, but often sensitive issues. The guide also includes referral information for national mental health organizations.
Pfizer discovers, develops, manufactures and markets leading prescription medicines for humans and animals. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) co-partnered in the production and content collaboration. NIH is the principal biomedical and behavioral research agency of the United States Government and one of the world’s foremost medical research centers. Statistics say more than 44 million Americans have a mental disorder, ranging from anxiety to schizophrenia. Another 50 million (about the same number who suffer from high blood pressure) have neurological diseases including migraines and Alzheimers.
The exhibition is appropriate for parents and children of all ages. For more information about BRAIN, call 808.847.3511 or visit www.bishopmuseum.org.
BISHOP MUSEUM FAMILY SUNDAY – Brain: The World Inside Your Head
October 14, 2007 ; $3 per person; Members Free
Great Lawn
Bishop Museum ’s Family Sundays provide a day of fun on the Great Lawn with special reduced rates of only $3 per person. Entertainment, games and activities for the children, and food booths are featured. Enjoy gallery tours and access to daily programs in the Planetarium, Science on a Sphere, and the Richard T. Mamiya Science Adventure Center .
20 th ANNUAL TREAT STREET
October 31, 2007 ; 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Museum Grounds; Free Admission
Get ready for a spooktacular Halloween night at Bishop Museum ’s 20 th annual Treat Street . Coordinated by the Bishop Museum Association Council, the event features a variety of activities the whole family can enjoy. Go trick-or-treating along a street filled with colorful facades, visit the Richard T. MamiyaScience Adventure Center and Science on a Sphere, participate in the costume contest, listen to spooky stories, stuff yourself at the pie-eating contest, and have a safe and fun-filled Halloween night with family and friends.
NOVEMBER 2007
AMY GREENWELL GARDEN ARBOR DAY PLANT GIVEAWAY
November 3; 8:30 a.m. – to 12 p.m. ; Free
Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden; Captain Cook, HI
Free tree and plant giveaway! Sponsored by Ka Ulu Nani we give away several hundred native species for home landscaping, many of which are rare and endangered. For more information call (808) 323-3318. Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden is a Bishop Museum ’s native plant facility located in Captain Cook on Hawai‘i Island . The Garden is located twelve miles south of Kailua-Kona on Highway 11, just south of mile marker 110. The Amy Greenwell Garden is located in Captain Cook, 12 miles south of Kailua-Kona, between the 110 and 11 mile markers of the Mamalahoa Highway . The garden welcomes all visitors from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on weekdays. Admission to the garden is by donation, suggested at $4.
DECEMBER 2007
Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop Birthday Celebration
December 19
Bishop Museum staff members set aside a time to gather together to honor Princess Bernice Pauahi’s legacy. Singing, scripture readings and storytelling are shared with a spirit of aloha and gratitude for all her contributions to the children of Hawai‘i.
JANUARY 2008
No openings scheduled at this time.
FEBRUARY 2008
ANIMAL GROSSOLOGY
February 9 through May 8, 2008
Castle Memorial Building , First Floor
Gross Out! Get the scoop on poop! When was the last time you were really en-GROSS-ed? Welcome to Animal Grossology, the interactive exhibition that takes a slightly different view of Fluffy, Fido, and the rest of the animal kingdom. Prepare to meet frogs that give birth by belching. You may think leeches are pretty disgusting, but did you know that they’re used after some surgeries to assist in the healing process? Play Tranfusion Confusion to discover which animals have what color blood. This is the slimiest, stinkiest, and downright yuckiest creatures on Earth—you’re gonna love it! Come learn why a cat’s anatomy is the reason why it spits up hairballs. Discover the mystery of the incredible tapeworm. Eeeuwwww… Animal Grossology is an exhibition created and produced by Advanced Exhibits, a division of Andvanced Animations L.L.C. Books published by Price Stern Sloan, A member of Penguin (USA) Inc.
DECEMBER 2008
HAWAIIAN HALL RESTORATION PROJECT
Grand Opening: December 19, 2008
Hawaiian Hall
For more than a century, Hawaiian Hall has guarded the fragile artifacts of old Hawai’i . Five generations of children have glimpsed their royal heritage for the first time in her great hall. For more than 30 years, she has held the sacraments of a great Hawaiian cultural renaissance. In July 2006, Bishop Museum began a $20 million restoration of the Hawaiian Hall Complex. The first phase includes the renovation and modernization of the aging building. New features such as air conditioning, state-of-the-art display cases with built-in security, lighting, and conservation measures. The restoration will include updated electrical systems, fire safety measures, and a new elevator to transport artworks and people to the upper floors, especially those with walking disabilities.
The second phase focuses on the interpretation and presentation of the incomparable collections of feather, kapa, and wood artifacts. Scientific perspectives will be woven into the interpretation to provide context and reference.
Highly qualified experts include Heath Construction and Mason Architects are spearheading the project. These local companies were chosen because of their experience renovating historic structures including ‘ Iolani Palace , Honolulu Academy of Arts, Shangri La and Washington Place . Ralph Appelbaum Associates, a world-renowned design firm whose work includes the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Museum of Natural History, will be overseeing elements of design.
Supporters include the J. M .Long, Vera M. Long, Geist, Cooke, and Atherton Foundations, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and the State of Hawai’i , as well as many private donors. The restoration of Hawaiian Hall will be a testament to our commitment to the ideals of Charles Reed Bishop and Princess Pauahi: To tell the stories of Hawai’i . Watch for the grand opening in fall 2008.
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