Why Preservation Matters: Connecting Youth with Nu‘uanu Pali
Preservation Program Helps At-Risk Youth Among the programs I have most enjoyed has been to mentor at-risk teens in a cultural mentoring partnership with Alu Like. Historic preservation in an era dominated by electronic distractions presents a challenge to youth engagement, and this program enabled us to connect young people [...]
Cultural Heritage is Theme of 2016 New Generation Seminar
East-West Center 2016 New Generation Seminar- Now Accepting Applications Dates: September 18-October 1, 2016 Theme: Cultural Heritage and Identity in a Globalizing, Urbanizing World Destinations: Honolulu, Hawaii; Phnom Penh, Cambodia; and Yangon, Myanmar Application Deadline: Monday, June 13 ________________ Annually since 1990, the East-West Center invites rising young leaders from [...]
History of Holau Market Featured at Preservation Month Event
Come hear the history of Hōlau Market at this Historic Preservation Month event! HART’s Planning team would like to invite you to a collaborative gathering with the State Historic Preservation Division, a historic preservation lunchtime event at HART-owned Hōlau Market on Friday, May 27, 2016 at 12:00pm-1:00pm: He Inoa no [...]
Alison Chiu: What Preservation Means to Me
Preservation means something a little bit different to each person but there are common threads in the responses of everyone who answered our call for thoughts on why they care to preserve the receptacles of our past. Alison Chiu of Fung Associates in Honolulu Shares Her Thoughts on Why Preserving [...]
Hawaii Historian Nanette Napoleon on Why Preservation Matters
"Preservationist Nanette Napoleon is considered Hawaii's leading expert on graveyards. She's the author and photographer of a book on Hawaii's oldest public graveyard. She gives walking tours of the site and she supervised documentation of more than 300 graveyards and 30,000 tombstone inscriptions throughout the state." (From PBS's Long [...]
Honoring Preservation Visionaries
Frank Haines and his Award The Frank Haines Award, presented by the Historic Hawaii Foundation at the annual Preservation Honor Awards Ceremony, was established in 2009 and is named for master architect Frank Haines, FAIA who passed away on August 10, 2017. From 1948, Haines headed many prominent architectural projects, [...]