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Event Calendar ItemLive From The Lanai @ Hawaii State Art Museum - Movies at the Museum
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Date: Friday - 2/1/2008
Time: 6 - 9pm
Location:
250 South Hotel Street, 2nd Floor
Honolulu, HI 96813
Phone: (808) 586-0307 or
586-0900
Cost: Free
-Movies at the Museum &
Grand Opening of New Art Exhibition
45th Annual Hawaii Region of the Scholastic Art Awards 2008
First Friday, February 1, 2008, 6 to 9 p.m.
Hawaii State Art Museum, Front Lawn
Free Admission
Join us for the grand opening of the 45th Annual Hawaii Region of the Scholastic Art Awards 2008 art exhibition at the Hawaii State Art Museum for First >Friday on February 1st from 5 to 9 p.m. The public is invited to this free event. The exhibition runs from February 1st thru April 4th. This annual art exhibition nationally recognizes creative excellence among Hawaiis public and private school students in grades 7-12. The local exhibition honors 100 Gold Award Winners, 100 Silver Award Winners, and five American Award Winners. A handful of select top award winners will go on to compete nationally in New York.
Join us at the Hawaii State Art Museum as we celebrate First Friday with a special Live from the Lawn event entitled Movies at the Museum. We will show the following four short films made by students from the Academy for Creative Media (ACM) at the University of Hawaii, which won awards at previous Hawaii International Film Festivals.
Follow the Leader Kenji longs to be a part of the group, but his peers bully him. Then he befriends and stands up for a boy who is an outsider and learns to stand up for himself. Steve Maii Documentary of the filmmakers father, a seminal figure in local music and the Hawaiian Renaissance of the 1970s with footage of performances by Maiawi and Henry Kapono. Home Again Maria is a young Filipino woman who considers getting a nose job to improve her chances at becoming a model. The Monkeyboy Fever On the eve of his senior prom, a boy is bitten by a wild monkey and transforms into a primate overnight. Winner of Video-On-Demand Best Short Film by Oceanic Time Warner Cable.
We will also show several films from Hawaii Student Television including Kamea, the 2005 Platinum winner; Toilet Story, the 2007 Platinum winner; and Platinum and Gold winners from the 2005, 2006, and 2007 Hawaii Student Television competitions. This free event is presented by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, the Friends of the Hawaii State Art Museum, and the LEF Foundation.
Visit our art galleries to see the beautiful art on display. In the Diamond Head Gallery, our new art exhibition uncommon objects features craft media by Hawaiis premier artists. In the Ewa Gallery, our semi-permanent art exhibition, Enriched by Diversity: The Art of Hawaii features artwork from the Art in Public Places Collection. The art galleries will be open from 5 to 9 p.m. This free event is presented by the Friends of the Hawaii State Art Museum, Hawaiian Airlines, Oceanic Time Warner Cable, and Outrigger Waikiki, and is co-hosted by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, the LEF Foundation, and the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.
Grab a plate of gourmet grinds to go from the ASAP Express at Downtown @ the HiSAM, the newest restaurant in town, located on the ground floor of the museum. Do you prefer to dine? Dinner will be served in the restaurant on a first come, first served basis.
Don't forget to see the great art from the State Art Collection on display in the museum's two art galleries. This free event is presented by the Friends of the Hawai'i State Art Museum, the LEF Foundation, and the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism
You can enjoy dinner at our new restaurant, Downtown @ the HiSAM, located on the museum's first floor, which will be open from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. For dinner reservations, call 536-5900.
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Enriched by Diversity: The Art of Hawai'i features 132 works of art by 105 Hawai'i-based artists from the Art in Public Places Collection. Inspirational themes in the installation revolve around rediscovering Hawaiian heritage, Asian roots, social consciousness, and cultural traditions.
"uncommon objects" uncommon objects showcases some of the finest works from the SFCA Art in Public Places Collection produced from media typically associated with craft -- clay, wood, fiber, metal and glass. Many local, national, and international artists are featured, including Satoru Abe, Michael Tom, Claude Horan, and Toshiko Takaezu. Click here for more details.
ABOUT THE HAWAII STATE MUSEUM
The Hawai'i State Art Museum is located in No. 1 Capitol Distric Building at 250 South Hotel Street. The building is situated in the historic Hawaii Capital Cultural District, across from 'Iolani Palace and the State Capitol. The museum is open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free. For more information on the Hawai'i State Art Museum call (808) 586-0900 or visit http://www.hawaii.gov/sfca.
For more information, contact:
Ken Hamilton, Public Information Officer
Phone: (808) 586-0307,Website: www.hawaii.gov/sfca
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