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Arts and Culture Calendar (October 2024)

October 1, 2024
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Image: promotional graphic for October 2024 First Friday at Capitol Modern – Honolulu Pride Celebration

This arts and culture calendar features SFCA grantees, partners, and Hawaiʻi state and local government programs and events.

Questions regarding a particular program or event should be directed to the organization listed with the opportunity. Inclusion here should not be interpreted as an endorsement.

Festivals

Art Exhibitions

  • Bishop Museum “Ka ʻUlu Wena: Oceanic Red” exhibition. Through January 12, 2025. For more information, please visit the Bishop Museum website: BishopMuseum.org/KUW.
  • Donkey Mill Art Center “Hānau Ka Moʻolelo” exhibit through December 14, 2024. For more information, please visit the DMAC website: DonkeyMillArtCenter.org/event/?event=5552.
  • East Hawaiʻi Cultural Center “Now Here We Are: Scott Groeniger” October 4 – November 27, 2024. Opening reception October 4, 6:00 p.m. ehcc.org/content/now-here-we-are-scott-groeniger.
  • East-West Center “Expressions of Gratitude: Works of Art from the East-West Center Collection” October 20, 2024 – January 22, 2025. For more information, please visit the East-West Center website:  www.eastwestcenter.org/education/arts-program/gallery-exhibition-expressions-gratitude-works-art-east-west-center.
  • “Hawaiʻi Craftsmen Annual Statewide Exhibition 2024” at Downtown Art Center, October 4-26, 2024. For more information please visit the Hawaiʻi Craftsmen website: HawaiiCraftsmen.org.
  • Honolulu Department of Parks and Recreation “Original Oil Painting Pals and New Beginnings” through October 17, 2024 https://honolulumoca.org/original-oil-painting-pals-and-new-beginnings/
  • Honolulu Museum of Art “Home of the Tigers: McKinley High and Modern Art” September 28, 2024 – January 12, 2025. Features work by seven artists who graduated from McKinley High School, one of Honolulu’s oldest and largest high schools. For more information, please visit the museum website: HonoluluMuseum.org/pQpDjCN/home-of-the-tigers–mckinley-high-and-modern-art
  • Kauaʻi Society of Artists, Art Kauaʻi 2024 exhibit at KSA Gallery, September 14 – October 25, 2024. Opening reception Friday, September 13, 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. For more information, please visit the Kauaʻi Society of Artists website: KauaiSocietyOfArtists.org.
  • Leeward Community College Hōʻikeākea Gallery “Bitter Sweet” exhibit featuring young women painters in Hawaiʻi. Through November 2, 2024. For more information please visit the gallery website: Leeward.hawaii.edu/hoikeakea.
  • “HERE: Contemporary Queer Portraiture from Hawaiʻi” at The Manifest (a combination night club, cafe, and cocktail bar in downtown Honolulu) until October 27. A juror talk and award ceremony is scheduled for Wednesday, October 2, 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
  • Maui Arts and Cultural Center, Schaefer International Gallery, “Altered Earth” through October 19, 2024.Features ten contemporary ceramic artists with connections to Hawaiʻi. For more information, please visit the MACC website: MauiArts.org/exhibit-detail.php?id=129.
  • Kahilu Exhibits “Amber Aguirre: Obiter Dictum” and “Leslie Gleim: In the Beginning…” September 26 – November 3, 2024. For more information, please visit the Kahilu Exhibits website: kahilu.org/exhibits.
  • Wailoa Arts Center Exhibits (Hilo, Hawaiʻi Island)
    • “Hawaiʻi Surrealism Exhibit” October 4 – 24, 2024
    • “16th Annual Hawaiʻi Nei” November 1 – December 12, 2024

University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa Department of Art and Art History

  • University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Commons Gallery “We Found Where the Sun Sets: work by John Pule” exhibit featuring John Pule. “An accomplished painter, printmaker, poet and writer, John Pule is arguably one of Oceania’s most celebrated artists. Pule is inspired by the history and stories of Niue and his own experiences of movement and migration. As a form of cultural cartography, Pule’s imagery often adapts the layout, ​​patterning, and color palette of Hiapo, Niuean barkcloth, to present contemporary narratives of journeying within and beyond the Pacific.” Opening reception Sunday, October 6, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Exhibit open October 6 – 27, 2024. For more information please visit the university website: hawaii.edu/art/we-found-sun-sets-john-pule.
  • “John Young, His Life and Work” John Young Museum of Art, September 1 – December 9, 2024. https://hawaii.edu/art/john-young-his-life-work/
  • “Tribute to Satoru” Commons Gallery, August 27 – September 29, 2024. https://hawaii.edu/art/tribute-satoru-artist/.
  • “Satoru Abe: 100 New Paintings” in The Art Gallery through December 8, 2024. hawaii.edu/art/satoru-abe-100-new-paintings/.  
  • Kū I Ka Mana – “ʻAuʻa” exhibit curator panel discussion, Thursday September 5, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m., Art Auditorium. Free and open to the general public. The exhibit is on view through September 29, 2024 at the Honolulu Museum of Art.
  • Learn more on the UHM Art and Art History Department website: hawaii.edu/art/exhibitions-events-museum.

Windward Community College Gallery ʻIolani

Performances and Presentations

“Hānau Ka Moʻolelo” exhibit presentations at Donkey Mill Art Center

  • ʻAʻohe Lua e Like Aku Ai: Moʻolelo With Kumu Keala Ching, Saturday November 2, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
  • Hānau Ka Moʻolelo Roundtable Discussion, Saturday November 16, 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Chamber Music Hawaiʻi 2024-25 Season

  • “Oktoberfest: Beer, Brats, and Beethoven!” with Honolulu Brass Quintet, Blue Note Hawaiʻi (Honolulu) 10/10 at 6:30 p.m.
  • “Jon Nakamatsu: Beethoven & Schumann” with Galliard String Quartet and Spring Wind Quintet, Doris Duke Theatre, 10/19 at 7pm.
  • “Rameau, Ravel, and Coleman” with Spring Wind Quintet, Doris Duke Theatre 11/23, 7pm, and Palikū Theatre, 11/24, 4p.m.
  • “HBQ Christmas” with Honolulu Brass Quintet at Blue Note Hawaii, 12/16, 6:30 p.m.
  • “Holiday Brass” at the Cathedral of St. Andrew, 12/21, 6:30 p.m.
  • “Reflections on Americana” with Galliard String Quartet, Doris Duke Theatre 01/25/2025, 7:00 p.m.; Palikū Theatre 12/26, 4:00 p.m.
  • “Beethoven Fest” with Galliard String Quartet and Friends, Doris Duke Theatre, 3/1/2025 7:00pm
  • “Dances Around the World” with Honolulu Brass Quintet, Doris Duke Theatre 3/22/2025 7:00pm and Paliku Theatre 3/23/2025 4:00pm
  • “Mozart’s Gran Partita” with Spring Wind Quintet and Friends, Doris Duke Theatre 4/19/2025 7:00pm
  • “The General” with Tresemble, Orvis Auditorium 5/10/2025 7:00pm
  • “The Bones of Pele” with Tresemble, Paliku Theatre 6/5/2025 7:00pm and Doris Duke Theatre 6/7/2025 7:00pm

Capitol Modern (Hawaiʻi State Art Museum)

  • First Friday, Honolulu Pride Celebration, free all-ages evening of drag shows, drag tours, live music, October 4, 5:00 – 9:00 p.m.
  • Friday Night Tempo, family-friendly evening of live jazz music and Art+Flea urban market, October 18, 5:00 – 9:00 p.m. Free admission, all ages welcome.
  • More information on the State Art Museum website calendar: CapitolModern.org/events.

Hawaiʻi Contemporary

  • Film screening and talk with Hawaiʻi Trienniel 2025 visiting artist Futoshi Miyagi. Saturday October 12, 6:00 p.m. at BoxJelly (Ward Centre, Honolulu). Free and open to the public. For more information, please visit the Hawaiʻi Contemporary website: HawaiiContemporary.org.

Hawaiʻi International Film Festival 2024

  • Honolulu October 2-13
  • West Oʻahu October 15-17
  • Maui October 19-20
  • Lānaʻi October 21-23
  • Kauaʻi November 1-3
  • Hawaiʻi Island (Waimea) November 2-3
  • Molokaʻi November 7-8
  • Hawaiʻi Island (Hilo) November 7-10
  • For more information, please visit the festival website at hiff.org/.

Hawaiʻi State Archives

Hawaiʻi State Archives “For Love of the ‘Jumping Flea’: Celebrating the History of the ʻUkulele” Sunday, October 6, Orvis Auditorium (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa), 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Event will also be live-streamed on the Hawaiʻi State Archives Facebook page.

Manoa Valley Theatre

  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show, October 25, 26, and 31. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit the Manoa Valley Theatre website: https://www.manoavalleytheatre.com/

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