HBMF 2024

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HBMF 2024

We’re Live in 2024 at UH Mānoa

10:00am HST

Dave Del Rocco Keiki Read Aloud StageDave Del Rocco Keiki Hula Keiki StageMaile Speetjens Bamboo Ridge #124 UH Campus CenterEric Chock • Darrell H. Y. Lum • Thomas Iannucci • Darlene M. Javar • Jonathon Medeiros • Gail Harada • Ann Inoshita • Marion Lyman-Mersereau • John E. Simonds Bringing The Magic Back To Writing UH Campus CenterPenny Pence Smith • Rachel Heller Earth at Risk: 5 Converging Crises UH Campus CenterMichael J. Cooney • Marti Townsend • Wayne Tanaka • Aurora Kagawa-Viviani

10:30am HST

Steve Songs Keiki StageSteve Songs Tammy Yee Keiki Read Aloud StageTammy Yee

11:00am HST

Alan & Bo Bowman Keiki Read Aloud StageAlan & Bo Bowman Ed Chevy Keiki StageEd Chevy TravisT Spotlight StageTravis Thompson Changing The Paradigm for LEARNING “Town Hall” UH Campus CenterJon Pennington, Moderator • Dawn Brown • Anson Li • Xyandri Ortiz • Mahealani Jackson • Gigi Kiyabu Papa ‘I‘i: Nā Hunahuna o nā Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi UH Campus CenterPuakea Nogelmeier Made in Hawai‘i UH Campus CenterDr. Tarah Suiter Taiko Center of the Pacific Main Stage Three Years on the Great Mountain: A Memoir of Zen and Fearlessness (Sponsored by BDK Hawaii) UH Campus CenterMaya Soetoro-Ng, Moderator • Cristina Moon Lei and the Invisible Island UH Campus CenterKristiana Kahakauwila • Malia Maunakea

11:30am HST

Uncle Wayne’s Howling Dog Band Keiki StageUncle Wayne’s Howling Dog Band Joaquín Zihuatanejo Spotlight StageJoaquin Zihuiatanejo

12:00pm HST

Annalisa Burgos Keiki Read Aloud StageAnnalisa Burgos Steve Songs Keiki StageSteve Songs Joaquín Zihuatanejo Spotlight StageJoaquin Zihuiatanejo Changing The Paradigm for TEACHING UH Campus CenterGabriel Yanagihara, Moderator • Casey Agena • Chris Ferry • Michael Lomuscio • Jennifer Roble • Alan Suemori An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific UH Campus CenterBrandy Nalani McDougall • Joyce Pualani Warren • Pono Fernadez • Caryn Lesuma • Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl The Breakthrough Years: A New Scientific Framework for Raising Thriving Teens Art AuditoriumEllen Galinsky Water City Trilogy / Midnight Water City; Eventide water City; Sunset Water City UH Campus CenterRobert Barclay, Moderator • Chris McKinney Hydrogen Future Now UH Campus CenterPatrick Sullivan Kumu Hula Mapuana De Silva Main StageKumu Hula Mapuana de Silva The Realities of Coastal Retreat UH Campus CenterMarcel Honore, Moderator • Makena Coffman • Emily Sobolewski Knight Clairboyance UH Campus CenterAndrew K. Hoe, Moderator • Kristiana Kahakauwila

12:30pm HST

Jasmine Anderson Keiki Read Aloud StageJasmine Anderson Storytelling by Jeff Gere Keiki StageJeff Gere Belly Dance Raqs Spotlight StageBelly Dance RaQs

1:00pm HST

Uncle Wayne’s Howling Dog Band Keiki StageUncle Wayne’s Howling Dog Band Zoe Leigh Keiki Read Aloud StageZoe Leigh Liam Skilling Spotlight StageLiam Skilling AI & Business Practice in Hawai‘i UH Campus CenterEvan Weber The AI Revolution at MidPac Institute UH Campus CenterBrian Grantham, Moderator • Elizabeth Cleary • Chris Ferry • Gianna Groves • Gigi Kiyabu • Toby Kishimoto • Danelle Landgraf • Kymbal Roley • Japjit Tulsi EVENT CANCELLED - The Kāmau Trilogy UH Campus CenterDonna Blanchard, Moderator • Alani Apio Energy self-sufficiency: How Hawai'i households can lower their cost of living and carbon pollution with new federal funds. UH Campus CenterJosh Stanbro • Evan Castro • Evan Weber Pandanus Club Main StageKen Makuakane The Old Timers UH Campus CenterCathy Song, Moderator • Wing Tek Lum Decarbonizing Hawaii UH Campus CenterCatherine Cruz, Moderator • Monique Schafer • Michael Colon • Emily Sobolewski Knight • Leah Laramee The Lost Souls of Benzaiten UH Campus CenterGabriella Contratto • Kelly Murashige

1:30pm HST

Shane Petosa-Sigel Keiki Read Aloud StageShane Petosa-Sigel Shooting Stars Keiki Stage Kamuela Kahoano Spotlight StageKamuela Kahoano

2:00pm HST

Adela Chu & Espiritu Libre Keiki StageAdela Chu & Espiritu Libre Sandra Taga Keiki Read Aloud StageSandra Taga Kaylee Shibata Spotlight StageKaylee Shibata The Rebuilding of Lahaina History UH Campus CenterLance D. Collins, Moderator • Bianca Isaki • Sydney Iaukea • ‘Umi Perkins • Ron Williams, Jr. The Bluff UH Campus CenterDouglas Corleone, Moderator • Bonnie Traymore Elemental Accelerator UH Campus CenterJosh Stanbro Jeff Peterson Main StageJeff Peterson Three Hawaiian Poets UH Campus CenterDonovan Kūhiō, (Colleps) • Brandy Nalani McDougall • Noukahauoli Revilla The Navahine Victory UH Campus CenterLeinā‘ala Ley • Navahine F. • Pahonu C.

2:30pm HST

Uncle Wayne’s Howling Dog Band Keiki StageUncle Wayne’s Howling Dog Band Jason Quinn Spotlight StageJason Quinn

3:00pm HST

Lavinia Currier Keiki Read Aloud StageLavinia Currier PAPA/Into the Woods Keiki StageJP Tai Oil in the Alley Spotlight StageOil in the Alley AI for Creative Arts UH Campus CenterKen Makuakane • Angie Anderson • Ikaika Agard The 1898 Project 1 UH Campus CenterTom Coffman, Moderator • Kēhau Abad • Kevin Chang • Kyle Kajihiro • Bianca Isaki Women! In! Peril! UH Campus CenterKristiana Kahakauwila • Jessie Ren Marshall Adela Chu & Espiritu Libre Main StageAdela Chu & Espiritu Libre Hawaii Literary Arts Council Annual Award Ceremony UH Campus CenterEric Paul Shaffer • Wing Tek Lum • Brandy Nalani McDougall • Susan Scott • Joy Kobayashi-Cintron

3:30pm HST

PAPA/Into the Woods Keiki StageJP Tai Oil in the Alley Spotlight StageOil in the Alley

4:00pm HST

Jeffrey Watumull on Why LLM-based AI is limited UH Campus CenterDr. Jeffrey Watumull The 1898 Project 2 UH Campus CenterKyle Kajihiro • Julian Aguon • Andre Perez • Marti Townsend Honolulu Stories Today UH Campus CenterDonald Carreira Ching • Joseph Han • Jeffrey J. Higa • Kristiana Kahakauwila • Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, Moderator • Mark Panek • Cedric Yamanaka Pay to Play UH Campus CenterBlaze Lovell, Moderator • Randall Roth • Alexander Silvert • Cynthia Thielen

4:30pm HST

Steve Songs Keiki StageSteve Songs

10:00am HST

Keiki Hula Keiki StageKumu Hula Collette “Momi” Akana Malia Collins Keiki Read Aloud StageMalia Collins Honolulu Arts Leaders Summit UH Campus Center Bamboo Ridge #126 UH Campus CenterVictoria Nalani Kneubuhl • Benjamin Fairfield • Leah Emi ʻAuliʻi Loudermilk • Marion Lyman-Mersereau • Misty-Lynn Sanico Readings: Works in Progress UH Campus CenterAmanda Galvan Huynh • Midori Fujioka • Lillian Howan • Pat Matsueda • Emily Viglielmo

10:30am HST

Catherine Toth Fox Keiki Read Aloud Stage Steve Songs Keiki StageSteve Songs International Students Association AKA SCUFFED Spotlight StageInternational Students Association AKA SCUFFED

11:00am HST

Ed Chevy Keiki StageEd Chevy Kealoha Spotlight StageKealoha AI and Intellectual Property UH Campus CenterAngie Anderson • Ikaika Agard Three plays-Readings Navigating Islands: Plays from the Pacific UH Campus CenterCraig Howes, Moderator • Thoren Black • Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl • Kristen Labiano • Lurana Donnels O'Malley • Sean O‘Malley Occupy Whiteness UH Campus CenterJason Quinn • Joaquin Zihuiatanejo Sam Spangler Keiki Read Aloud StageSam Spangler Kumu Hula Momi Akana Main StageKumu Hula Collette “Momi” Akana Calming the Storm: A Leader’s Handbook for managing Unproductive Conflicts UH Campus CenterFrank Haas, Moderator • Peter Steven Adler Psychedelic Medicine LSD, Psilocybin, Ayahuasca, Mescaline, MDMA UH Campus CenterJerris Hedges, MD, Moderator • Sean Munelly, MD • Richard Szuster, MD

11:30am HST

Uncle Wayne’s Howling Dog Band Keiki StageUncle Wayne’s Howling Dog Band Robert Morris Spotlight StageRobert Morris

12:00pm HST

Steve Songs Keiki StageSteve Songs Ballroom Dance Club Spotlight StageBallroom Dance Club The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth Art AuditoriumZoë Schlanger Three Kings: Race, Class and the Barrier-Breaking Rivals Who Launched the Olympic Age UH Campus CenterStuart Coleman, Moderator • Todd Balf Fay’s Men UH Campus CenterJoe O’Mealy, Moderator • Perle Besserman Holly Braffet Keiki Read Aloud StageHolly Braffet Kimee Balmilero Keiki Read Aloud Stage Jeff Peterson Main StageJeff Peterson A Success Story in Public Education: The Clarence C. Ching PUEO Program at Punahou UH Campus CenterBonnie Traymore • Carl Rogers Ackerman Future of Cancer Is Here UH Campus CenterJerris Hedges, MD, Moderator • Shane Morita, MD

12:30pm HST

Storytelling by Jeff Gere Keiki StageJeff Gere E1R1 & The Vill Spotlight StageE1R1 • The Vill

1:00pm HST

Uncle Wayne’s Howling Dog Band Keiki StageUncle Wayne’s Howling Dog Band TravisT Spotlight StageTravis Thompson Mele on the Mauna: Perpetuating Genealogies of Hawaiian Musical Activism on Maunakea (Music by Kenneth Makuakane & Sandy Essman) UH Campus CenterKen Makuakane • Sandy Essman • Joseph Keola Donaghy Miki’s Mad UH Campus CenterLee Siegel, Moderator • George Tanabe Sue Cowing Keiki Read Aloud StageSue Cowing Adela Chu & Espiritu Libre Main StageAdela Chu & Espiritu Libre Voices of Hawai‘i Vol. 3 UH Campus CenterBob Sigall, Moderator • Jane Marshall Goodsill Promise of GLP-1 UH Campus CenterJerris Hedges, MD, Moderator • Jeanette Qablawi, MD • Rebecca Pell, NP-C • Steve Thomas, DPT

1:30pm HST

Z from Baltimore Spotlight StageZ from Baltimore

2:00pm HST

Storytelling Keiki Stage ANNO Research Institute of Indigenous Performance UH Campus CenterTammy Hailiʻōpua Baker, Moderator • Kaʻiukapu Baker • Iāsona Kaper • Noelani Montas • Maile Speetjens The Blue Plate: A Food Lover’s Guide to Climate Chaos UH Campus CenterMark Easter Readings: Honolulu Noir UH Campus CenterChris McKinney • BA Kobayashi • Thomas Gammarino • Stephanie Han • Scott KIkkawa • Christy Passion • Michelle Skinner Poetry: Eric Paul Shaffer & Joseph Stanton UH Campus CenterStuart Coleman, Moderator • Joseph Stanton • Eric Paul Shaffer Joaquín Zihuatanejo Spotlight StageJoaquin Zihuiatanejo

2:30pm HST

Stacey Aldrich Keiki Read Aloud StageStacey Aldrich Uncle Wayne’s Howling Dog Band Keiki StageUncle Wayne’s Howling Dog Band

3:00pm HST

Fight Choreography Keiki StageTony Pisculli Sandra Taga Keiki Read Aloud StageSandra Taga Jason Quinn Spotlight StageJason Quinn Cinema Is AI UH Campus CenterDr. Jeffrey Watumull Hawai‘i Songwriter Festival Singer-Songwriter Competition Main StagePaige Okamura • Ken Makuakane Emily Jungmin Yoon UH Campus CenterAmanda Galvan Huynh Poetry: Arielle Taitano Lowe & Elmer Oscar Pizo UH Campus CenterElmer Oscar Pizo Readings: Micronesian Voices UH Campus CenterDavis Rehuher, Moderator • Randizia ʻDiziaʻ Crisostomo • Ifit Hoppe-Cruz • Marquina Hofschneider • Zea Francesca Pangelinan Nauta • Carol Ann Carl

3:30pm HST

Fight Choreography Keiki StageTony Pisculli Sandra Taga Keiki Read Aloud StageSandra Taga Sandra Taga Keiki Read Aloud StageSandra Taga Stacey Aldrich Keiki Read Aloud StageStacey Aldrich Qi Zhang / The Hu Village《扈家庄》 Spotlight StageQi Zhang

4:00pm HST

Hawaiian Labor History UH Campus Center Blips on the Way to Oblivion UH Campus CenterKayleen Polichetti, Moderator • Arabella Ark Zoe Eisenberg UH Campus CenterMegan Kamalei Kakimoto, Moderator • Zoë Eisenberg Lethal Doses: The Story Behind the Godfather of Fentanyl UH Campus CenterJohn Madinger Regenerative Medicine UH Campus CenterJerris Hedges, MD, Moderator

4:30pm HST

Steve Songs Keiki StageSteve Songs