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Shelly Lowe, a citizen of the Navajo Nation, heads the federal grantmaking agency that supports culture, heritage, education and civic work across the United States. Lowe will be in Hawaiʻi from April 22 to April 26.
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"(re)Imagining Homelands" will be held at Leeward Theatre at Leeward Community College on Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are available for live streaming and in-person attendance.
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Nā Leo Pilimehana, the biggest selling female Hawaiian band in the world, is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a benefit concert at Windward Community College. The band continues to perform to sold-out crowds in Japan, Hawaiʻi and the continental U.S.
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Honolulu city officials have removed a Waikīkī lifeguard tower that was damaged by large swells in August 2020. The city is taking the opportunity to reevaluate its coastline infrastructure as sea levels rise. HPR's Savannah Harriman-Pote reports that one approach is mobile towers on sleds or skids that can be moved back as the sand erodes.
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According to Hawaiian Electric, the AES West Oʻahu solar project with storage can produce energy equivalent to 750,000 barrels of oil throughout its lifetime.
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The "1898 Project" is a series of events, including a summit that starts Thursday. Organizers expect hundreds of people to participate in the breakout sessions and conversations about topics of imperialism and decolonization.
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In his last year at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, we speak with J. P. Ovens, a composition major who plays the bassoon and electric bass. Originally from Las Vegas, J.P. gives advice to young musicians and musicians looking at studying at U.H.-Manoa.
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The Kani Kūola Music Festival this Saturday on Maui offers mentorship and hands-on learning for those interested in taking their music to the next level.
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Solar winds, magnetic fields and coronal mass ejections — how hot are they? Such is the world of Shadia Habbal from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy. She is en route to Arkansas for the best viewing of the total solar eclipse on April 8.
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The installed artwork is part of a State Foundation on Culture and the Arts program that places art in public places statewide, including schools, hospitals, airports and state office buildings.