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.
Free with registration
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
After being demilitarized in San Diego, California, and shipped to Hawaii, the Blue Angels F/A-18C Hornet aircraft will be reassembled in a Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum event open to the public.
By WILLIAM COLE | The Honolulu Star-Advertiser | Published: January 24, 2021 (Tribune News Service) Two Vietnam War heroes who went on to wear the stars of admiral and general are being remembered for their longtime contributions to Hawaii. Retired four-star Adm. Ronald J. Hays, who was vice chief of Naval operations from 1983 to 1985 and head of U.S. Pacific Command on Oahu from 1985 to 1988, died Jan. 11 at the age of 92, the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum said. Meanwhile, Kauai-born retired Brig. Gen. Irwin K. Cockett Jr., who served on active duty and later commanded the Hawaii Army National Guard, died Nov. 5 at the age of 90.