Episodes
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Episode #7: Lori Hepner
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Today we're joined by Pittsburgh-based light painting + new media artist Lori Hepner, who recently completed public artwork for Wailuku Town entitled UP TOGETHER JOIN HANDS, which was her chosen proverb from Mary Kawena Pukui's ‘Ōlelo No‘eau: Hawaiian Proverbs and Political Sayings.
Lori has spent considerable time in recent years in community centered artist residencies in Pittsburgh, Norway, Finland, Iceland and the Canadian Yukon. While on Maui this fall (2021), she partnered with ʻĪao Intermediate School + Hālau Makana Aloha O Ka Lauaʻe + Hale Hōʻikeʻike at the Bailey House Museum/ Maui Historical Society + Wailuku Coffee Company + 62 Marcket + Lokahi Pacific + the County of Maui and more to create light paintings that are temporarily installed in Wailuku Town. Here we talk story about her process, inspiration, public art experience and advice and reflections on Wailuku Town. Learn more at https://www.smalltownbig.org/hepner.html
Monday Oct 25, 2021
TALK STORY #5: Clifford Naeole & Hōkūao Pellegrino
Monday Oct 25, 2021
Monday Oct 25, 2021
In this episode, Clifford Naeole, Cultural Advisor at The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua + Hōkūao Pellegrino, Sustainability & ʻĀina-Based Learning Designer & Facilitator, Kamehameha Schools Maui talk story. LEARN MORE: https://www.smalltownbig.org/talk-story.html
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
TALK STORY #6: Gordean Bailey & Sissy Lake-Farm
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
In this episode, Gordean Bailey, Kumu Hula, Hālau Wehiwehi of Leilehua + Sissy Lake-Farm, Kumu Hula, Hālau Makana Aloha O Ka Lauaʻe talk story at Bailey Farms in Kula, HI.
Thursday Sep 16, 2021
Episode #6: Heather Knowles Negaard
Thursday Sep 16, 2021
Thursday Sep 16, 2021
Today I sat with Heather Knowles Negaard, founder of the Des Moines Poetry Slam which is now more than 20 years old - who is a working artist here on Maui as well as one of the many smiling faces that runs the wildly popular Wailuku Coffee Company on Market Street.
In preparation for her October 2, 2021 (Free) Slam Poetry Workshop for ages 13-18, I was excited to talk story today, get to know Heather as the Eternal Slam Mama and learn more about her artistic discipline. Please enjoy.
Friday Sep 10, 2021
TALK STORY #4: Wallette Pellegrino & Kalapana Kollars
Friday Sep 10, 2021
Friday Sep 10, 2021
In this episode, Kalapana Kollars, Hawaiian Cultural Programs Director of Lahaina Restoration Foundation and Wallette Pellegrino, Host of ”Preserving Our Recollections” Oral History TV Program for University of Hawaii Maui College talk story for our new StoryCorps DIY project.
Learn more at https://www.smalltownbig.org/story.html
Monday Aug 30, 2021
Episode #5: David Johnston
Monday Aug 30, 2021
Monday Aug 30, 2021
Artistic Director of Maui Academy of Performing Arts since 1992, David Johnston has led the purchase of three buildings in Wailuku to help lead the charge in seeing the neighborhood become an arts district. In this episode, you’ll hear him talk about his vision, work and legacy - which is not in the buildings, but in leaving a place where people of all ages can come to discover themselves, uncover who they are and what they're about, and where they can create gifts to give to the world. He sees the arts as an incubator for our humanity and wants to leave a place where that can continue to happen. Please enjoy. (Learn more: https://mauiacademy.org/david-johnston/)
Thursday Aug 26, 2021
TALK STORY #3: Skippy Hau & Dean Tokishi
Thursday Aug 26, 2021
Thursday Aug 26, 2021
In this episode, Dean Tokishi of the Kahoʻolawe Island Reserve Commission and Skippy Hau of the State of Hawaii Division of Aquatic Resources talk story for our new StoryCorps DIY project.
Learn more at https://www.smalltownbig.org/story.html
Wednesday Aug 04, 2021
TALK STORY #2: Roselle Bailey & Anuhea Yagi
Wednesday Aug 04, 2021
Wednesday Aug 04, 2021
In this episode, Student of Hawaiian Life Ways Anuhea Yagi sits with Kumu Hula Roselle Keli‘ihonipua Bailey of Ka’Imi Na’auao O Hawaii Nei Institute in Paukukalo, Maui to talk story.
Learn more at https://www.smalltownbig.org/story.html
Tuesday Aug 03, 2021
TALK STORY #1: Kepā Maly & Lopaka White
Tuesday Aug 03, 2021
Tuesday Aug 03, 2021
We are currently piloting a new project to help determine our community's capacity for building a place-based story, creating a story bank and inspiring/ motivating usage, practice and application, with the long-term goal of creating an oral histories archive by and for the larger community.
In this first episode, Lopaka White of the Kahoʻolawe Island Reserve Commission sits with Kepā Maly, Cultural Historian & Resource Specialist and Executive Director of Lāna'i Culture & Heritage Center at the home of Lopaka's parents in Hilo, HI. You can just barely make out the excited chatter of family in the background as Lopaka and Kepā share stories about Kahoʻolawe, Lāna'i, Wailuku and Aloha as a privilege - not a right.
Learn more at https://www.smalltownbig.org/story.html
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Episode #4: Andy Behrle
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Get to know internationally-acclaimed light art phenom Andy Behrle, who led Wailuku's SMALL TOWN * BIG ART program's very first community collaboration in the Fall of 2019. Following four months of project development, Andy worked with dozens of community members to research, reimagine and refine a light installation depicting a stained glass window from St. Anthony’s Church before it was lost to a devastating fire in 1977. Through hours of footage collected at different points of the Wailuku River, panes of glass were replaced with visions of water. Inspired by ʻōlelo Ma ka hana ka ‘ike (in working, one learns), the piece was on view for one night only, projected onto the historic ʻĪao Theater, yet has lived on as an exemplary moment of Wailuku community building, historic preservation and outstanding public art. Learn more at https://www.smalltownbig.org/behrle.html.