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One Boy, No Water, will headline conference events on Oʻahu.
Hawaiʻi Island award-winning artist and author Caren Loebel-Fried, known for her eco-focused hand-colored block prints will be a featured guest at
UH Hilo’s event.
“The
Kirsten Møllegaard, professor and chair of
UH Hilo’s English department. “In organizing the Hilo event, we’ve made an effort to celebrate the creativity, artistry and joy of working with children and literature that exist in our local communities.”
The Hilo campus’ event will also feature
UH Hilo faculty
UH Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching and
Kamalani Johnson, a lecturer and curriculum specialist at Ka Haka ʻUla O Keʻelikōlani College of Hawaiian Language. Other speakers include a roundtable of children’s librarians from public libraries in Kona, Kealakekua and Hilo.
A friend of one of Hawaiʻi’s most iconic and celebrated playwrights,
Edward Sakamoto, has gifted his entire catalog of plays to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Department of Theatre and Dance, an extremely rare endowment. The gift gives
UH full ownership and copyright authority of the award-winning writer’s 19 plays which will help support theatrical productions in the department as well as around the world. Sakamoto, a
UH Mānoa alumnus, died in 2015. The Oʻahu native wrote highly-acclaimed plays in pidgin and specialized in nostalgic comedies and family dramas largely focused on local Japanese in Hawaiʻi.