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Your Guide to the Perfect Weekend: February 10-16, 2021
Get into art, share love, celebrate shave ice, bake and enjoy the holiday.
February 10, 2021
Navid Najafi will perform during ‘Ohana Day as part of the 2021 Virtual Art Summit. Photo: Courtesy of Hawai‘i Contemporary Art Summit.
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Listen to keynote speakers, artists, curators, and thinkers from Hawai‘i and around the world known for educational programming focused on art and ideas. They include multi-generational local arts and creative practitioners Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, the founders of Piliāmo‘o and ‘Elepaio Press, and Nikkya Taliaferro, Moanalua High School senior and executive director of Hawai‘i for Black Lives, musician and activist Navid Najafi, joined by international artists, filmmakers, performers and thinkers including Ai Weiwei, Theaster Gates and Homi K. Bhabaha. This new event by Hawai‘i Contemporary, formerly the Honolulu Biennial Foundation, and the Hawa
Katherine Don, E.D. of Hawai i Contemporary, discusses the Hawai i Art Summit 2021
Art today is not separate from life and that s the point, according to Katherine Don, Executive Director of Hawai i Contemporary. You know, contemporary art, and the way Hawai i Contemporary is thinking about art, it s not art for art s sake, says Don. Art is a language for communicating change. Whether we re about climate change, or social justice or other relevant issues, these artists are thinking about it too.
The focus of Hawai’i Contemporary’s Art Summit is to introduce themes curators are working through for the Honolulu Triennial in 2022. Those concerns include climate change, income disparity, racism, gun violence, the whole gamut of contemporary concerns are examined through art.