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Honolulu’s Downtown Art Center has been gaining momentum since the 10,000-square-foot space opened in October. In fact, shows are booked into next year, but now there s a hitch the center is facing a possibly crippling rent hike.
Two months ago, Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi toured the Downtown Art Center on the second floor of Chinatown Gateway Plaza at Nu uanu and Hotel streets. The city owns the space, and when it was made available to the art center last year, volunteers reclaimed the space trashing dividers, rerouting electrical trunk lines and air conditioning ducts, and redoing walls and floors to create a pristine 4,000-square-foot gallery.
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Mānoa Village Gallery owner Catherine Cook (center)
A friendly gathering spot is developing in the heart of Mānoa Valley, seeking to emerge from the pandemic into the Summer of Love.
Mānoa Village Gallery has opened a photo exhibit of classic rock musicians, and many of them were captured at their sold-out Hawai’i concerts.
“Wouldn’t it be great to do something that goes back to the Summer of Love, to the ‘60s, but from a Hawai‘i perspective?” said filmmaker Bob Bates.
Also a producer and director, Bates curated Summer of Love, 14 weeks of Peace and Art. The answer to his question, by the way, is yes.
Noe Tanigawa covers art, culture, and ideas for Hawai i Public Radio. Noe began working in news at WQXR, the New York Times classical station in New York City, where she also hosted music programs from 1990-94. Prior to New York, Noe was a music host in jazz, rock, urban contemporary, and contemporary and classic Hawaiian music formats in Honolulu. Since arriving at HPR in 2002, Noe has received awards from the Los Angeles Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists Hawai i Chapter, and an Edward R. Murrow Regional Award for coverage of the budget process at the Hawai i State Legislature. Noe holds a Masters in Painting from UH Mānoa. She maintains an active painting practice, and has recently returned from a 2015 residency with the U.S. Art in Embassies program in Palau. Noe is from Wailupe Valley in East O ahu.
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The Hawai’i Review of Books, THROB, could be a place thinking people congregate for pleasure. It certainly is big and fresh to look at. THROB actually invites reading. Site metrics show they’re getting thousands of hits and people are spending time reading on the site.
THROB is the brainchild of writer and editor Don Wallace. Author of four books, Wallace has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and he s currently contributing editor at the Honolulu Magazine.
Last year, as he was receiving the 2020 Loretta Petrie Award for outstanding service to literature, Wallace said he was going to start an online literary magazine. That s why acceptance speeches are sometimes worth listening to.
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