Community Calendar

Learn/practice Mindfulness in the natural beauty of The private Hawaii Loa Ridge Park (at the end of Puuikena dr, below the trail-head) in East Oahu. Beginners welcome with introductory guidance starting at 10 am every 2nd Sat of the month. Email mindfulhawaii@gmail.com for more information.
We offer this opportunity to all interested in Mindfulness as in our free online course at www.mindfulnesscourse.org

See our collection of Holy Qur'an Books translated into multiple languages! Ask a Muslim anything! Enjoy free literature! Revive with tasty snacks and refreshing drinks! Converse with good company! We welcome guests to drop in & visit our mosque in the Kalihi neighborhood, Sat., 9/12/26 from 10am to 4pm. Families are welcome. Relax and stay awhile. Be at peace.

For the 80 Years of Closure Commemoration of when Honouliuli Internment Camp closed, the National Park Service in partnership with the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i, Kinetic Productions, and Pacific Historic Parks, will be bringing special film screenings of "Voices Behind Barbed Wire" on all neighboring islands.

"Voices Behind Barbed Wire", a film by Kinetic Productions, tells the story of Japanese-Americans living in Hawaiʻi after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and how their families were affected by martial law. Following the film will be a panel discussion with Ryan Kawamoto, director of the film, Carole Hayashino, President Emeritus of the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i, and Christine Ogura, Superintendent of Honouliuli National Historic Site.

In September, in partnership with the Nisei Veterans Memorial Center, the film will be shown at the Nisei Veterans Memorial Center on Maui. There will also be a Honouliuli NHS pop-up exhibit display at the Wailuku Public Library all month in coordination with the film.

Participation for this event is free, but registration is required. Please use the following link to register: Voices Behind Barbed Wire Tickets, Saturday, September 12  •  1:30 PM - 3:30 PM | Eventbrite

PUBLIC MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16th, 5pm-7pm at the 'Iao Theater!

We will be addressing the issues of Crime and Safety and the ongoing work for change.

On our current list is working toward establishing a SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT that will be the foundation of a new management plan and office. This will be based on the Maui Street American program that has been highly successful in towns across the country. We are working in conjunction with the County on this program and will be announcing public meetings as we get consultants and programs developed. Stay tuned!

The non-profit Ku‘ikahi Mediation Center will host a free talk on September 17th as part of their “Finding Solutions, Growing Peace” Brown Bag Lunch Series. Talks are Third Thursdays from 12 noon to 1 pm via Zoom.

This month’s speaker is JoYi Rhyss on the topic “The Choice for Peace: Intention, Attention, Meaning, Attitude, & Response.”

“Peace is not one grand choice. It is a thousand small choices to pay attention differently, hold a truer attitude, and respond in ways that do not keep reproducing your own suffering,” says Rhyss.

Rooted in attitudinal healing and mindfulness, this session explores how individuals and organizations can move from reactive patterns to deliberate, heart-centered responses, transforming how they show up in conflict.

Ku‘ikahi’s Brown Bag Lunch Series is free and open to the public. To get the Zoom link, contact Ku‘ikahi Mediation Center at (808) 935-7844 or visit hawaiimediation.org.

Ku‘ikahi Mediation Center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

This September, 25th United States poet laureate Arthur Sze will come to Honolulu for the first stop of his "Words Bridging Worlds" project, a four-city national tour encouraging Americans to engage with translation. Organized by the Library of Congress in collaboration with several Hawaiʻi nonprofit organizations, programming will take place across two consecutive days, with a public presentation on Friday, September 18 at Mission Memorial Auditorium and a translation workshop to follow on Saturday, September 19. These programs are both free and open to the public with pre-registration required. Registration is now available through The Library of Congress.

This programming is being organized with the support and participation of several Hawaiʻi-based nonprofit organizations. These include The Merwin Conservancy—a Maui-based nonprofit organization founded to steward the home, garden, and legacy of the renowned poet and ecologist W.S. Merwin—where Arthur Sze was a resident in 2022. Arthur Sze’s public presentation at Mission Memorial Auditorium is made possible through the support of the Honolulu Mayor’s Office of Culture and the Arts. The Hawaiʻi Center for the Book, housed at the Hawaiʻi State Library, will host a translation workshop the following day, on September 19. Additional support for this program is provided by the Laila Twigg-Smith Art Fund.

The September 18th event will launch Arthur Sze’s “Words Bridging Worlds” tour, the main project of his second term as poet laureate which empowers readers to dissolve the boundaries between reading, writing, and translating poetry. Recognizing the Hawaiian Islands as a vital crossroads of cultural and linguistic exchange, and honoring the vitality and enduring presence of ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, Arthur Sze will be in conversation with Puakea Nogelmeier, co-founder of Awaiaulu, an organization dedicated to fortifying the continuity of Hawaiian language and knowledge. Hawaiʻi State Poet Laureate Lee Tonouchi, Da Pidgin Guerrilla, will introduce the event, drawing a connection between the national and Hawaiʻi’s state laureateship, which is hosted by The Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities, and Hawaiʻi State Public Library System. On the afternoon of September 19th, a translation workshop will take place at the Hawaiʻi Center for the Book, allowing participants to practice their own translations.

Learn/practice Mindfulness in the natural beauty of The private Hawaii Loa Ridge Park (at the end of Puuikena dr, below the trail-head) in East Oahu. Beginners welcome with introductory guidance starting at 10 am every 2nd Sat of the month. Email mindfulhawaii@gmail.com for more information.
We offer this opportunity to all interested in Mindfulness as in our free online course at www.mindfulnesscourse.org

Protecting Hawaii’s Children is a free community awareness event focused on child trafficking and sexual abuse in Hawaii. Join Maluhia Baptist Church, Ho‘ola Nā Pua, and the Honolulu Police Department to learn about the realities of exploitation, recognize warning signs, protect children, support survivors, and respond appropriately. Attendees will hear from local experts, receive practical educational resources, and explore how individuals, families, churches, and communities can work together to protect Hawaii’s children and bring hope.

As a part of Honouliuli National Historic Site's 80 Years of Closure Commemoration, they will be partnering with Pacific Historic Parks to bring a new, free, virtual speaker series to the community. Titled "Hidden Histories - Remembrance Awakened", this speaker series will focus on remembrance through the lenses of art, architecture, institutions, and technology. By examining remembrance through these undervalued lenses, we can expand what we understand about the incarceration story by learning how far its impacts spread.

September's Remembrance Awakened speakers will be Lorraine Minatoishi, President & CEO of AEPAC Architecture and Engineering, Anoma Pieris, Professor of Architecture and Associate Dean at the University of Melbourne, and Lynne Horiuchi, an independent scholar with numerous published works about Japanese incarceration.

Through this talk, uncover how the power of architecture and design contributed to the oppression experienced by incarcerated peoples during WWII.

Across Hawaiʻi, neighborhoods such as Kakaʻako, Kaimukī and Downtown/Chinatown continue to evolve. This panel will bring together voices from food, art, planning and culture to explore what makes a neighborhood feel vibrant, connected and rooted in place. The conversation will look at the balance between growth and identity, revitalization and preservation, and how thoughtful placemaking can support communities while honoring the history and character that make each neighborhood distinctive.

Join us for a conversation exploring how art, food, planning and culture can help Hawaiʻi’s neighborhoods thrive while staying rooted in place.