Community Calendar

Enjoy Buster Keaton’s “Hard Luck” and other silent short films shown on the Palace big screen, accompanied by a live score performed on the Mighty Palace Pipe Organ by Walter Greenwood.

Directed by Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Starring Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts

“Hard Luck” Synopsis: Strange things ensue after a young man attempts to take his own life.

OCEAN WITH DAVID ATTENBOROUGH takes viewers on a breathtaking journey showing there is nowhere more vital for our survival, more full of life, wonder, or surprise, than the ocean. The celebrated broadcaster and filmmaker reveals how his lifetime has coincided with the great age of ocean discovery. Through spectacular sequences featuring coral reefs, kelp forests and the open ocean, Attenborough shares why a healthy ocean keeps the entire planet stable and flourishing. Stunning, immersive cinematography showcases the wonder of life under the seas and exposes the realities and challenges facing our ocean as never-before-seen, from destructive fishing techniques to mass coral reef bleaching. Yet the story is one of optimism, with Attenborough pointing to inspirational stories from around the world to deliver his greatest message: the ocean can recover to a glory beyond anything anyone alive has ever seen. The showing is FREE and will be introduced by Papahānaumokuākea National Marine Sanctuary Education Coordinator Andy Collins, who will also have a short Q&A after the film. Time: August 15 and 16 at 7 PM, and August 17 at 5 PM.

OCEAN WITH DAVID ATTENBOROUGH takes viewers on a breathtaking journey showing there is nowhere more vital for our survival, more full of life, wonder, or surprise, than the ocean. The celebrated broadcaster and filmmaker reveals how his lifetime has coincided with the great age of ocean discovery. Through spectacular sequences featuring coral reefs, kelp forests and the open ocean, Attenborough shares why a healthy ocean keeps the entire planet stable and flourishing. Stunning, immersive cinematography showcases the wonder of life under the seas and exposes the realities and challenges facing our ocean as never-before-seen, from destructive fishing techniques to mass coral reef bleaching. Yet the story is one of optimism, with Attenborough pointing to inspirational stories from around the world to deliver his greatest message: the ocean can recover to a glory beyond anything anyone alive has ever seen. The showing is FREE and will be introduced by Papahānaumokuākea National Marine Sanctuary Education Coordinator Andy Collins, who will also have a short Q&A after the film. Time: August 15 and 16 at 7 PM, and August 17 at 5 PM.

Honouliuli National Historic Site is pairing up with Honolulu Museum of Art to bring you "Voices Behind Barbed Wire", the second in a series of three films by Kinetic Productions that tell the stories of Japanese Americans in Hawai'i and will have special one-day screenings at the Doris Duke Theatre. Free tickets are available to the movie, courtesy of Pacific Historic Parks (see event details below).

While the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II has been well documented on the continent, new information about the sites and untold stories continue to emerge from Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i who endured this dark chapter of history. Voices Behind Barbed Wire: Stories of Hawai‘i explores the personal stories of Japanese Americans on O‘ahu, Maui, Kaua‘i, and Hawai‘i Island., They talk about their initial arrests, their transfer and interrogation, and incarceration in faraway places like New Mexico, Arkansas, and Arizona. The film also takes an archeological journey through nineteen former WWII confinement sites in Hawai‘i and the relevance of history upon civil liberties today.

Presented by the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i. Original film sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program, Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i, Monsanto Hawai‘i, The Freeman Foundation, and the Kama‘āina Fund of the Hawai‘i Community Foundation.

The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Carole Hayashino, the former President/Executive Director of the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i, author Tom Coffman who wrote a book on how Hawaiʻi protected its Japanese American population from mass incarceration, and writer-director Ryan Kawamoto.

Photo courtesy of Kinetic Productions

OCEAN WITH DAVID ATTENBOROUGH takes viewers on a breathtaking journey showing there is nowhere more vital for our survival, more full of life, wonder, or surprise, than the ocean. The celebrated broadcaster and filmmaker reveals how his lifetime has coincided with the great age of ocean discovery. Through spectacular sequences featuring coral reefs, kelp forests and the open ocean, Attenborough shares why a healthy ocean keeps the entire planet stable and flourishing. Stunning, immersive cinematography showcases the wonder of life under the seas and exposes the realities and challenges facing our ocean as never-before-seen, from destructive fishing techniques to mass coral reef bleaching. Yet the story is one of optimism, with Attenborough pointing to inspirational stories from around the world to deliver his greatest message: the ocean can recover to a glory beyond anything anyone alive has ever seen. The showing is FREE and will be introduced by Papahānaumokuākea National Marine Sanctuary Education Coordinator Andy Collins, who will also have a short Q&A after the film. Time: August 15 and 16 at 7 PM, and August 17 at 5 PM.