>> ART IS A MANIFESTATION N IDEA OR EMOTION THAT CAN BE EXPRESSED IN COUNTLESS WAY.

IT'S CULTURAL, IT'S EDUCAT, IT'S PERSONAL.

ART PLAYS AN INTEGRAL ROLE IN SOCIETY AD RESEARCH SHOWS BENEFITS FOH PHYSICAL AND MENTAL WELL-B.

HOWEVER, NOT EVERYONE IN HI HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE OR CREATE ART.

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JOIN US FOR KAKOU, TONIGHT'S LIVE BROADCAST AD LIVE STREAM OF KAKOU, HAWAS TOWN HALL, START NOW.

>> Yunji: ALOHA AND WELCOMO KAKOU: HAWAI'I'S TOWN HALLE FROM THE HARRY AND JEN ET WEINBERG MULTI-MEDIA STUDIM YUNJI DE NIES.

IN HAWAI'I, THE ARTS ARE ME THAN ENTERTAINMENT -- THEYE CULTURAL MEMORY, COMMUNITY BUILDING, AND A REFLECTIONF WHO WE ARE.

A RECENT STUDYM THE KOSASA FOUNDATION, WHIS BEEN A LONG-TIME SUPPORTERF PBS HAWAI'I, PAINTS A CLEAR PICTURE OF WHERE THE ARTS D IN HAWAI'I TODAY -- SHOWING THEIR WIDE REACH, CULTURALD ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE, WHILEO REVEALING WHERE MORE SUPPOS URGENTLY NEEDED.

ACCORDING TO THE SURVEY, HI IS HOME TO NEARLY 1,000 AR, CULTURE, AND HUMANITIES ORGANIZATIONS, EMPLOYING NY 3,000 PEOPLE STATEWIDE.

TOGETHER, THESE ORGANIZATIS GENERATE NEARLY 300-MILLION DOLLARS IN ANNUAL REVENUE D HOLD CLOSE TO BILLION DOLLN TOTAL ASSETS.

YET ACCESS TO THE ARTS IS UNEVEN.

ARTS EDUCATION IS T GUARANTEED IN EVERY HAWAI'I SCHOOL.

THE SURVEY ALSO FOD THAT FUNDING IS LIMITED, COMPETITIVE, AND DIFFICULTO SUSTAIN.

SO WHY DO THE ARTS MATTER?D HOW CAN WE ENSURE THEY GETE SUPPORT THEY DESERVE?

KAKOU MEANS ALL OF US, AS - AS IN, WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER.

THE ARTS IMPACT T ONLY THOSE WHO CREATE THEMT ALSO THE FAMILIES, EDUCATO, AUDIENCES, AND COMMUNITIESY REACH AND INSPIRE.

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU IR DISCUSSION.

YOU CAN EMAIL R CALL IN YOUR QUESTIONS.

WEE ALSO STREAMING LIVE AT PBSHAWAII.ORG AND OUR YOUTE PAGE.

IN OUR TOWN HALL, WE HAVE ARTISTS, EDUCATORS, CULTURL LEADERS AND ARTS ADVOCATESM ACROSS HAWAI'I.

SO, LET'S .

WE WANT TO START WITH CHRIE VAN BERGEIJK, THE CEO CEO E KOSE SAY FOUNDATION.

HER STUDY GIVES US A SNAPSF WHAT ARTS STAND IN HAWAI'I TODAY.

WHAT WERE SOME INTERESTING FINDINGS YOU FOUND IN THIS?

>> THANK YOU.

THAT WAS A GOOD QUESTION.

I THINK WHAT WE SAW, WE AS, WE STRUCTURED THE STUDY ARD LEARNING HOW ORGANIZATIONSD CHANGED SINCE COVID.

I THINK IT WAS CLEAR FOLKSE HAVING, YOU KNOW, WRESTLINH AUDIENCES THAT DISAPPEARED OVERNIGHT WITH COVID.

SO THEY'RE WORKING TO SORTF BRING BACK AUDIENCES IN PE.

AND SO WE REALLY FOUND THAT ORGANIZATIONS WERE LEARNING THEIR AUDIENCES HAD CHANGED.

WHAT AUDIENCES WERE AUDIER 4 CHANGED.

THEY HAD A LOT OF CHALLENGN THE HEALTH OF THE ORGANIZAN ITSELF.

AND THEN THERE WERE AND COE TO BE ISSUES AROUND VENUES, ACCESS TO THE ARTS, PLACESO DISPLAY ART THAT WERE AFFORDABLE, ACCESSIBLE.

THAT FOLKS COULD ACTUALLY O AND USE.

>> Yunji: IT'S SUCH AN INTERESTING SURVEY.

WE'RE GOING TO EXPLORE A LF IT TOGETHER.

THANK YOU FOR PUTTING IT TOGETHER.

THE PROMISE 6 OUR PROGRAM E ARTS AND WHY WE NEED THEM.

LET'S HEAR FROM PEOPLE DIRY INVOLVED.

LET'S START WITH ERIC ER, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR FOR HONOU THEATRE FOR YOUTH.

FULL DISCLOSURE FOR OUR AUDIENCE, I'VE BEEN ON THED FOR H-2Y.

TELL US ABOUT WHAT ROLE ART EDUCATION PLAYS IN A CHILDS DEVELOPMENT.

>> WELL, I THINK ARTS EDUCN IS THE CENTER OF HOW WE UNDERSTAND THE WORLD THROUH STORY, AND SO IT IS HOW WES OUR CULTURE T. IT IS HOW WE EXPLORE CREATY AND INNOVATION.

I THINK THAT'S WHAT'S SO SL ABOUT THE ARTS SPECIFICALLE IN HAWAI'I.

THAT I THINK THE ARTS ARE E THING THAT MAKE YOU LOVE WE YOU LIVE.

AND SO TAKING IN THESE STOS THAT ARE SO UNIQUE TO THISE AND BEING AN ACTIVE PARTICT IN SHAPING WHAT THIS PLACEL BECOME, THAT'S THE CENTER F CREATIVITY.

I THINK WE NEED THAT MORE N EVER.

>> Yunji: YEAH.

FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ACROSS THE STATE, WE MADE REFERENCE AE TOP.

TELL US ABOUT THAT EQUITY , DO KIDS HAVE ACCESS TO ART EQUALLY IN OUR STATE?

>> I DON'T THINK THEY DO.

I THINK THAT THAT'S ONE OFE THINGS, IF YOU LOOK AT PRIE SCHOOLS VERSUS PUBLIC SCHO, THE DIGS DIGS -- DISPARITYE AND CLEAR.

IF YOU LOOK AT RURAL COMMUS VERSUS URBAN COMMUNITIES, E MAY BE MORE OPPORTUNITIES E THAN THE OTHER, BUT I THINK THERE ARE ALSO BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLES OF JUST AMAZING W. NANAKULI HAS ONE OF THE GRT THEATER PROGRAMS ON THE IS.

THERE ARE RIGHT HERE AMONG.

THERE'S BEAUTIFUL WORK THAS HAPPENING IN RURAL COMMUNI, AND I THINK THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IT CAN BE GN RIGHT HERE IN HAWAI'I.

>> Yunji: THANK YOU FOR TH.

LET'S MOVE TO MUSIC.

CLARKE BRIGHT, WHO'S THE BANDMASTER FOR THE ROYAL HAWAIIAN BAND ROYAL.

AND VICE PRESIDENT FOR I'MA BRIGHT KID FOUNDATION.

WE KNOW THAT MUSIC IS ESSE.

YOU HAVE DEVOTED YOUR LIFEO MUSIC.

WHAT IS SO SPECIAL AND SO IMPORTANT ABOUT MUSIC?

AS AN ART FORM?

>> I THINK IT ALLOWS THE HN LIFE TO REALLY GATHER ALL S SENSES AT ONE TIME.

THE POWER OF MUSIC CAN BE EXPRESSED LIEU THE YOUTH.

IT CAN ALSO BE EXPRESSED TH KUPUNA AS WELL.

WE'VE SEEN A STORY BE TOLDD THEN YOU SET IT TO MUSIC AD EVERYTHING CHANGES.

THE POWER THAT IT HAS TO CE AN EMOTION OR FEELING OR ME THAT STORY COME TO LIFE ISN IMPORTANT PART OF WHY I DOT I DO.

AND AS AN EXAMPLE WITH THEL HAWAIIAN BAND ROYAL, WE ARE TO SHARE OUR MUSIC IN ITS D FORM.

WHARF IS APPROPRIATE -- WHS APPROPRIATE FOR THE AUDIENE ARE SERVICING.

>> AND WATCH THEM LATE -- LITERALLY HAVE THE LIGHT G. IN THE CASE OF SERVING KUP, I'LL NEVER FORGET THIS STO.

WE WENT TO AN ELDERLY HEALTHCARE.

WE WERE GETTING READY TO S, AND A WOMAN WALKS RIGHT ACS THE STAGE RIGHT BEFORE WE GETTING READY TO START IN R WALKER.

AND A MINUTE WHEN YOU GETTG READY TO PERFORM SEEMS LIKN HOUR.

WE'RE WAITING FOR HER TO GT THERE.

THROUGHOUT THE CONCERT I WD AS SHE SAT DOWN.

AND WE PLAYED A SONG THAT T HAVE JOGGED IN HER MEMORY E IN THE PAST.

SHE GOT UP -- PUT A WALKERF TO THE SIDE AND DANCE AD HO SOUR SONG.

SHE GETS BACK TO HER WALKED GINGERLY GO BACK TO HER CH.

I REMEMBERED ABOUT SO TOUC.

I THOUGHT, THAT'S A POWER F MUSIC.

>> Yunji: WHAT A BEAUTIFUL STORY.

THAT REALLY SPEAKS TO NINA GUERRERO AND THE WORKING TT YOU DO.

NINA GUERRERO, VICE PENALTF SOUNDING JOY MUSIC THERAPY.

YOU USE MUSIC FOR HEALING.

WHAT IS THE MEDICAL POWER F MUSIC, IF YOU WILL?

>> WELL, BECAUSE MUSIC HASN SIGN BEEN -- SCIENTIFICALLY DEMONSTRATED TO ACTIVATE AD INTEGRATE MANY DIFFERENT PS OF THE BRAIN, MANY DIFFERET UNUSUAL SYSTEM, IT'S CAPABF ADDRESSING THE WHOLE GAMUTF THERAPY GOALS, RANGING FROM GROWTHS IN FINE MOTOR GOALO MEMORY ATTENTION, COGNITIO, LEARNING.

AND VERY IMPORTANTLY, EMOTL AND SOCIAL GOALS.

SO IN MUSIC THERAPY, WE HAE WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY TO UE MUSIC AS A CULTURAL RESOURO HELP TO ADDRESS THAT WIDE E OF GOALS THAT PEOPLE BRING.

AND WE SERVE PEOPLE OF ALLS AND ALL LEVELS OF ABILITY.

>> Yunji: BEAUTIFUL.

THANK YOU.

EMMA BRODERICK IS THE EXECE DIRECTOR.

PUUNU SOCIETY.

SIMILAR TO WHAT ERIC WAS SHARING, WHAT DO YOU THINKS THE VALUE OF SELF-REPUTATIF ARTS?

WHY IS IS IT IMPORTANT FORE OF THE STATE TO TELL THE S?

>> WHO BETTER?

I MEAN REALLY, I THINK WE'E COME TO A POINT IN TIME WHE HAVE HAD OTHERS TELL OUR SS LONG ENOUGH.

EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT FEELI.

AND SO BE ABLE TO SPEAK TOE ANCESTRAL FEELING AND THE EDUCATION PIECE.

WHEN WE TELL OUR OWN STORI, WE'RE ABLE TO GIVE VOICE TO THINGS THAT HAPPENED BEFORS AND WILL HAPPEN MUCH AFTERE GOING.

SO I THINK THERE'S A DEEP R THERE IN GROUNDING OUR WORN PLACE AND IN OUR GENEALOGYD ALSO ALLOWING PEOPLE TO ENN FOR WHAT'S TO COME.

THERE'S AN INCREASING NUMBF HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS CURRE.

PLACES WHERE PEOPLE DON'T L SAFE OR PEOPLE AREN'T ABLEO CONNECT WITH OTHERS.

TO HAVE A SPACE WHERE PEOPN GO AND CREATE AND CAN HAVE CONVERSATIONS THAT THEY WOT FEEL COMFORTABLE HAVING OTHERWISE IS SO IMPORTANT.

I THINK ABOUT SO MANY OFOUS SPACES THAT WE HOLD.

WE HAVE A MAKE OUR SPACE.

WE HAVE A WEEKLY GATHERINGF PEOPLE INTERESTED IN LEARNO ULANA, HOW TO WEAVE.

YOU THINK THEY'RE COMING TO WEAVE.

THEY'RE COMING FOR A SPACEO TELL THEIR STORY.

LOOKING FORPLACES WHERE THY WON'T BE JUDGED.

WHERE SOMETHING IS CREATEDT ALLOWS FOR COLLECTIVE EXPEE TO ANCHOR BUT ALSO TO GROUO THAT PEOPLE CAN BE THEIR BT SELVES AND AUTHENTIC SELVE.

>> Yunji: THANK YOU.

HULA IS ONE OF THE WAYS WEL STORIES.

WE WANT TO INVITE FRANK KAWAIKAPUOKALANI HEWETT, KU HULA AND FACULTY MEMBER OF HONOLULU COMMUNITY COLLEGE.

WE HAVE VIDEO FROM 1990.

THERE YOU ARE TEACHING HULA GROUP OF YOUNG PEOPLE.

HULA IS A LIVING ARCHIVE OY AND EXPRESSION.

WHAT IT IS TO TEACH THIS, Y HULA IS SO IMPORTANT AND WY YOU'VE MADE IT YOUR LIFE'S.

>> HULA IS ABOUT THE PAST,E PRESENT AND THE FUTURE.

BEING ABLE TO EXPRESS THE TRADITIONS OF MOOLELO, STORYTELLING OF THE DANCE.

MOOKUA, GENEALOGY.

HULA IS THAT ART FORM WHERU CAN CREATE USING YOUR IMAGINATION.

AS LONG AS YOU STAY WITHINE PERIMETERS OF THE FOUNDATIF THE TEACHINGS, WHICH THEN S YOU TO EXPOUND ON THOSE TEACHINGS BECAUSE REMEMBERO FARMER PUTS A SEED INTO THA AND SAYS, DON'T GROW.

WHEN YOU PUT A SEED INTO TE AINA, YOU POUR WATER ON ITD YOU WANT IT TO GROW.

TO BARE LEAVES, TO BEAR FR.

THAT IS WHAT THE TRA TRADIS ABOUT.

IF WE WANT IT TO BE PERPETD FOR THE FUTURE D AS I SAID, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE, , THE KUPUNA TEACHERS NEED TE THAT ARM THAT GUIDES THAT GENERATION INTO THE FUTURE.

ALWAYS REMEMBERING THE FOUNDATION, THE PAST OF WHE YOU CAME FROM.

>> Yunji: THANK YOU.

I WANT TO TURN TO SOLOMON , AN ARTIST.

NATIVE HAWAIIAN ARTIST LEAA VERY PUBLIC WORKS PROJECT E STATE CAPITOL.

I'M SURE SOME OF OUR AUDIE, MYSELF INCLUDES, PARTICIPAN THIS WORK.

WE WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO SE ABOUT IT.

YOU'RE INVITING COMMUNITY O PARTICIPATE.

TELL US THE IMPORTANCE OF E SCALE PUBLIC WORKS.

THE DIFFERENCE OF THAT KINF WORK AND WHAT YOU'RE DOINGT THE CAPITOL IN PARTICULAR.

>> ALOHA.

THANK YOU FOR THIS AMAZING OPPORTUNITY TO BE AT SUCH I OF CREATIVE AND PROBLEM SO.

ART IS PROBLEM-SOLVING BY ANOTHER NAME.

IN THIS INSTANCE AT THE HAI STATE CAPITOL, WE'VE HAD TS PRETTY PROFOUND OPPORTUNITO OPEN THREE FIFTHS OF A MASE INSTALLATION.

WE'VE INVITED OVER 3500 MES OF THE COMMUNITY TO HAKU, , WEAVE TOGETHER AND RESET TE FOUNDATION OF STATE CAPITOO ADDRESS THE WATER FEATURES, WHICH WERE INITIALLY AN INTERESTING IDEA, BUT OVER, THEY BECAME SOMETHING THATS VERY DIFFICULT TO MADGE, M- IMAGINE, CONSIDERING THE WR DAMAGE DONE.

WE WANTED TO CREATE SOMETHG THAT REPRESENTED THE OCEAN.

I CAME BACK TO UNDERSTANDIG THAT AS AN ARTIST, WE GET A CHANCE TO BE CONDUCTORS MOD RATERS, WE HAVE BEEN DOING COLLABORATIVE ART.

THE UNUSUAL STATE OF BEINGS YOU HAVE THE ARTIST THAT TS THE STORY FOR EVERYBODY.

AND THAT HAPPENS.

AL THAT'S AN IMPORTANT ROLT INVITING EVERYONE TO BE A T OF THAT STORY AND SO BE ABO MAKE THAT STORY IS VERY MUI THINK, IN LINE WITH WHAT OR PERFORMANCE -- THEIR KUMU , FOLKS MOVING IS AN EXTENSIF THE NATURAL FORCES THAT TIS TO THAT MYSTERY.

SO I WOULD TELL YOU TO BAKL OF THAT INTO THIS CREATIVE PROCESS.

THERE'S LOT MORE BUT I'VE OUTDONE MY TIME.

>> IT'S GOING TO BE SOMETHO MANY OF US ENJOY.

IF YOU COULD BRIEFLY REFLEN THAT.

IT'S NOT JUST A ONE-TIME T. OTHER PEOPLE WILL GET TO INTERACT WITH THIS FOR A LG TIME.

>> I'M TRYING TO HOLD MBAC.

I'M EITHER GOING TO TALK F0 SECONDS OR THREE HOURS.

WHAT IT IS, WE INVITED PEOO MAKE MARK ON TWO CAN VASES.

BASED ON A TRIP I TOOK TO PAPAHANAUMOKUAKEA.

I THINK I'M STILL THERE.

WHAT YOU'RE SEEING MIGHT BA PHANTOM OF MYSELF.

THAT WAS SUCH A PROFOUND TO VISIT OUR KUPUNA ISLANDS AT AN UNDERSTANDING THAT HAWAS CONTINUE UM.

IT IS CONTINUING.

AND SO I CREATED A PATIENT- PAINTING AND INVITED FOLKSO MAKE MARKS ON A CANVAS.

THESE ISLANDS ARE CANVASSE.

IF WE CAN LEARN HOW TO COLLABORATE AND SHARE THESE CANVASS TOGETHER WITH MODERATION, AND MEDIATION,N WE CAN ACTUALLY -- I THINKN ONE GENERAL ACHIEVE ALL THE GOALS WE COULD WANT FOR OUR COMMUNITY.

WE ARE ONE GENERATION FROMG IT.

JUST LIKE WE CAN SING TOGE, WE CAN VISUALIZE TOGETHER.

THE ART CREATED, I TOOK TO GERMANY.

WE SCALED IT UP 1500 PERCE.

THEY'RE GOING TO BE INSTALD HOPEFULLY BY MID 2027.

AND FOR THE NEXT HUNDRED Y, THE LIFE, FOLKS WHO MADE TR MARKS ON THE GLASS OR CANVS THAT WILL BE TURNED INTO GS WILL BE ABLE TO COME BACK D SAY, THEIR GRANDMA MADE THS WHEN SHE WAS TEN YEARS OLD.

SO BIG PART OF MY UNDERSTAG WE THINK OF HEIAU ISN'T THE PERSON PLACED ALL THOSE STS BY THEMSELVES.

IT WAS THE LAULIMA.

THE HALEAKALA, HALE HALE.

THAT STATE CAPITOL NEEDS AT OF HELP.

[LAUGHTER] WE'RE THERE TO DO IT.

WE'RE THERE TO DO IT IN A Y THAT BRINGS BEAUTY AND SIGNIFICANCE.

THE ACTUAL MANIFESTATION OF THAT.

>> Yunji: ASHLEY RAYMOND, O IS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR E DONKEY MILL ART CENTER, A COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIN THE BIG ISLAND.

THE KOSASA FOUNDATION FOUNN THEIR SURVEY THAT THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE ARTS INSTIN OF HAWAI'I WERE TEN PEOPLER LESS.

TO ERIC'S POINT EARLIER THT GREAT THINGS HAPPENING IN L COMMUNITIES.

TELL US ABOUT THE VALUE OFT IN THE SMALLER PLACES.

>> I WAS THINKING ABOUT TH.

WHEN WE THINK ABOUT EQUITYE DON'T HAVE MUSEUMS OR LARGE INSTITUTIONS FOR OUR RURAL COMMUNITY IN KONA TO GO TO UNLESS THEY TAKE A FIELD TO ANOTHER ISLAND.

WE REALLY SEE OUR PLACE ASA PLACE WHERE STUDENTS CAN CE AND ENGAGE.

AND USUALLY WE HAVE SOME SF ART ACTIVITY.

THE EXPOSURE TO ART IN AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE THEY MAYT HAVE, SO I THINK THAT'S REY IMPORTANT FOR US.

AND BRINGING THE ARTS INTOE LOCAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ISY IMPORTANT TO US, SO I THINH OUR PHYSICAL STRUCTURE, WEE SUCH A BEAUTIFUL ASSET BY G A SPACE THAT WE GET TO CALL HOME, AND WE REALLY WANT TE IT MORE FOR THE COMMUNITY O COME AND GATHER AND BE ABLO EXPLORE MORE THROUGH ARTS D CULTURE.

>> Yunji: THANK YOU.

JORDAN KANDELL IS A SCREEN RIGHTER.

HE'S A BOARD MEMBERS OF THE HAWAI'I INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL.

TO COUNTRY COUNTRY'S CHRISTINE'S POINT, I'M CURS WHAT THE EXPERIENCE HAS BEN WITH HIPP.

IMPACT ON THE WORK AND THE ARTISTS.

>> GREAT QUESTION.

BEFORE I ANSWER THAT, I WAO ECHO SOMETHING SOLOMON SAI, WHICH IS EVERYTHING THAT AF THESE PANELISTS HAVE SAID O FAR, TO ME, IS STARTING TO ANSWER THE QUESTION THAT'SE TOPIC OF THIS TOWN HALL.

WHY ART MATTERS.

WE HAVE A COLLEGE OF PEOPL.

I'M INSPIRED BY LEARNING AT THIS SPECTRUM THAT IS ACTID HAPPENING AND WORKING IN OR COMMUNICATION ACROSS THE IS FROM MUSICAL THEATRE TO MUO VISUAL ARTS TO PERFORMING S TO THERAPY, FILM.

THAT'S A SAMPLING OF HOW AN INSPIRE, AND THE RIPPLE EFS THAT IT CAN DO TO CREATE COMMUNITY, AND SO I'M ALREY FEELING INSPIRED AND EXCITD ABOUT THAT.

I FEEL LIKES YOU'VE ANSWERE QUESTION BY SPEAKING ABOUTR OWN EXPERIENCES.

TO THE SPECIFIC QUESTION AT FLISMG AND COVID, YEAH, COD WAS -- IT RADICALLY TRANSFD THE FILM AND TELEVISION LANDSCAPE.

EVERYBODY WHO'S A VIEW, WHS EVERYBODY AT THIS STAGE HAS EXPERIENCED THAT JUST MOVIG AWAY FROM THEATRE TO HOME VIEWING AND STREAM AND ALLF THAT RADICALLY TRANSFORMEDE LANDSCAPE.

FOR HAWAI'I INTERNATIONAL M FESTIVAL, IT WAS A TIME FOR SURVIVAL.

WE'RE FACING WITH NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR ARTS BEING PD BACK IS IMPACTING OUR ORGANIZATION AND MANY ORGANIZATIONS, INCLUDE INCE WE'RE ON THIS SHOW FOR.

SO WE HAD THE LARGEST YEARI THINK, WE'VE HAD IN OVER A DECADE.

AND HUGE GROWTH.

>> WE'RE TRYING TO BUILD OT AND KEEP IT ALIVE WHILE WEE LOST 20% OF OUR FUNDING INE PAST TWO MONTHS, AND JUST G TO FIND WAYS TO EXPAND ON E COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND THE INDUSTRY BUILDING AS WELL S INVITING FILMMAKERS FROM AS ASIA, PACIFIC AND INTERNATL TO COME AND JOIN OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY OF FILMMAKERS THS GROWING AND INCREDIBLY STR.

>> Yunji: THERE'S A DIFFERE OF WHAT I'M HEARING FROM TE GUESTS.

COMMUNITY IS SUCH AN IMPORT PART OF THE WORK.

THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEN WATCHING SOMETHING AT HOME, WHICH IS COMFORTABLE AND GT AND ALL OF US DO THAT AND EXPERIENCING SOMETHING IN A GROUP.

>> I GREW UP, TO MAKE IT PERSONAL, THE FIRST FILM I REMEMBER SEEING WHICH INSPD ME TO LOVE FILM, I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT YEAR.

I WANT TO SAY EIGHT, TEN, E BLACK STALLION."

AT THE VARSITY THEATER.

AND MY MEMORY IS MAYBE BADD BIAS BUT I REMEMBER CAROL BALLARD, THE DIRECTOR, DOIA TALK BACK.

WAS THAT ME IN PERSON AT TE FILM FESTIVAL OR WHEN HE CE TO, APPROXIMATE -- I I CANT REMEMBER.

IT MADE ME GO, HERE'S AN AT INVOLVED IN CREATE SOMETHIG THAT MOVED ME, AND MAKES MT TO BE A STORYTELLER.

FIRST SCRIPT I SOLD WAS A K STALLION ANIMAL THING, VERH A STRAIGHT LINE FROM THAT Y CAREER.

AND SO THAT'S A COMMUNAL EXPERIENCE THAT I HAD.

MY MOM TOOK ME TO THE THEA.

I WAS IN THAT BLACK ROOM.

IF I CAN SEE IT IN A THEATT CAN ELEVATE AND AM AMPLIFY.

IT IS AN ARMY OF PEOPLE WHE IT AND SHOULD BE SEEN BRI A VILLAGE OF PEOPLE.

>> Yunji: GAYE HUMPHREY, WE KNOW THAT PUBLIC FUNDING PA MAJOR ROLE IN ART ACCESS.

WE HEARD A LITTLE BIT ABOUE CHALLENGES IN HIFF.

TELL US WHY PUBLIC FUNDINGS IMPORTANT FOR THE ARTS AND WHAT'S AT STAKE IF WE DON'T PRIORITIZE THAT.

>> THANK YOU FOR THAT QUES.

YOU'RE RIGHT.

PUBLIC FUNDING IS KEY TO SUPPORTING THE ART.

AS WE'VE HEARD FROM THESE WONDERFUL PANELISTS, THE AO SO MUCH GOOD IN OUR COMMUN.

THEY IMPACT ALL OUR ASPECTM CHILDREN TO ADULTS TO SENI, AND IT'S IMPORTANT THAT THE COMMUNITY IS INVESTED IN T 4*GSS.

AND SOME OF THE WORK THAT E ALLIANCE IS DOING.

ONE OF OUR PRIMARY ROLES IS SERVE AS A BACKBONE.

WE WANT TO SUPPORT THE GRET WORK FROM THESE WONDERFUL S AND CULTURAL LEADER.

ADVOCACY IS A BIG PART.

WE'RE LOOKING ACROSS THE ISLANDS, WE'RE LISTENING TR HOW WE CAN HELPING SHORE UE GREAT IT IS DOING.

AND PUDGE FUNDELING IS -- C FUNDING IS KEY.

WE WANT THE BUSINESS COMMUY IS INVESTED.

WE KNOW THAT THE ART AND CE DO SO MUCH GOOD.

IT'S CRITICAL THAT EVERYONY A ROLE.

HELPING TO CREATE A THRIVES 4-R9S AND CULTURAL.

>> Yunji: IT'S NOT SOMETHIG THAT YOU WOULD NECESSARILYK OF OFF THE BAT.

WHY DID YOU WANT TO CREATEE SNAPSHOT?

>> OUR FOUNDATION HAS SUPPD CULTURE AND ARTS FOR A LONG TIME.

FOUNDATION WAS SORT OF GOIG THROUGH AN EVOLUTION.

WE THOUGHT WE WANTED TO LIP THE CULTURE AND AFTER THE .

WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE E DOING IT THE RIGHT WAY WITH GUIDE, FROM THE ARTS LEADE.

WE ENDED UP DECIDING WE WOO WHAT TURNED OUT TO BE A MULTIFACETED STUDY IN INTES AND SURVEYS AND FOCUS GROU, AND WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WEE GOING TO FIND WHEN WE WENTO IT.

BASED ON WHAT WE LEARNS, WE ACTUALLY CREATED A NEW GRAT PROGRAM, AND RAN IT FOR FOE FIRST TIME IN FEBRUARY.

FEBRUARY THROUGH APRIL OF S YEAR AND WE WILL DO IT AGAN NEXT YEAR ALSO.

WE ENDED UP FUNDING ABOUT 2 ART NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIOND COMMITTED ABOUT $1.2 MILLI, WHICH IS JUST A TINY FRACTE NUMBERS OF ARTS ORGANIZATIS GENERATING $300 MILLION IN REVENUE A YEAR, YOU CAN SEW IT DOES TAKE A VILLAGE TO SUPPORT THE ART.

>> Yunji: TO THAT END, AND WE'RE STARTING TO GET FOLKS WRITING IN.

WE DO APPRECIATE IT.

KALIE SAYS, WHY SHOULD PEOE GIVE TO THE ARTS WHEN THERE GREATER NEEDS IN HEALTH, ET CETERA.

WHEN WE HAVE SO MANY DIFFET PRIORITIES.

>> ABSOLUTELY.

I KNOW THAT MY VIEW, YOU K, THE ARTS ARE ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL.

FOR EXAMPLE, IN THIS PARTIR PERSON'S QUESTION, HE'S TAG ABOUT HEALTH IS A PRIORITY.

MAYBE CHILDREN AND CHILDRES HEALTH AND WELLNESS.

AS WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUE ARTS CAN PLAY SUCH A ROLE L OF THESE AREAS.

ON ONE HAND, ART FOR ART'SE IS CRITICAL, IT'S IMPORTAN.

ART CAN REACH CHILDREN.

IT CAN HELP PEOPLE WHO ARE DEALING WITH PHYSICAL OR ML ILLNESSES.

I BELIEVE THAT PRIORITIZINS HELPS OURS COMMUNITY IN SOY DIFFERENT WAYS.

THAT'S WHY WE CANNOT LET IL TO THE BOTTOM OF OUR PRIORY LIST.

IT DOES SO MUCH GOOD IN THE COMMUNITY.

WE HAVE TO MAKE THAT COMMIT TO INVEST INDIVIDUALLY, AS COMMUNITIES, AS A STATE, IS CRITICAL.

>> Yunji: ERIC, FOR ART EDUCATION IN PARTICULAR, WE THINK OF HTY, A LOT OF FOLS THINK OF THEATER AND PLAYSD PERFORMS.

ART EDUCATION AND GIVING TEACHERS TOOLS SO YOU'RE NT NECESSARILY A DRAMA TEACHET ARE USING ART IN THE CLASS.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?

>> THERE'S A HUGE DIFFEREN.

AND YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A WHE TEAM OF EDUCATORS WHO IN TE CLASSROOMS.

THEY TRAIN TEACHERS, AND IT THINK IT'S AN EITHER/OR.

EVEN IF HEALTH OR THINKINGT THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE IF YU THINK ABOUT LIKE WORK THATO A LOT OF IS EDUCATORS ARE WORKING WITH ENGLISH LANGUE LEARNERS.

IF YOU CAN IMAGINE A KID WO COMES TO SCHOOL, DOESN'T SK THE LANGUAGE.

IF EITHER THROUGH PROFESSIL DEVELOPMENT OR ONE OF THE RESIDENCIES, THAT KID CAN E SUDDENLY AND STAND UP AND E THEIR BODY, USE THEIR VOIC, MAYBE GAIN SOME CONFIDENCE.

SO FOR THE FIRST TIME, COMO SCHOOL FEELS LIKE IT MATTE.

AND IT FEELS LIKE THEY COUD SUCCESS IN A WAY THAT MAYBY NEVER HAVE BEFORE.

I THINK THAT IF YOU THINK T THE BENEFITS IN TERMS OF HH AND THE EMOTIONAL LIFE OF T CHILD AND THE BENEFITS OF T TEACHER BEING ABLE TO TEACA WAY THAT ENGAGES ALL THESE CHILDREN AND LETS THEM SUC, I THINK THAT BENEFIT IS JUT COMPOUNDED.

AND WE'VE SEEN THAT HAPPENR AND OVER AGAIN.

THERE'S TONS OF NATIONAL SS THAT SHOWS THAT ARTS EDUCAN BRINGS UP TEST SCORES, CRES BETTER ENGAGE.

MENT.

IS A DIRECT SOLVE FOR TRUA.

THAT'S NOT NEW INFORMATION.

IT IS QUITE PROVEN.

>> Yunji: TELL ME ABOUT THE TRANSFORMATIONS YOU SEE INE KEIKI THAT GO THROUGH YOUR PROGRAM.

SO WE KNOW YOU HAVE TAUGHT, MANY CHILDREN.

WHAT IS THE A THAT YOU SEE?

A STUDENT STARTS WITH YOU D GETS TO BE ON THE STAGE.

>> TO BE A KUMU HULA, YOU E TO BE DEDICATED.

WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY FIND OF FUNDING.

WE DIDN'T HAVE ANYBODY TO P US.

WE IN THE COMMUNITY ARE DEDICATED TO THE COMMUNITYO MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR COMMUNITIES.

THE WAY WE MAKE THE CONTRIBUTIONS IS WE TEACH.

WE TEACH THE KEIKI, WE TEAE OPIO AND MAKUA.

WE WELCOME THEM INTO THE HU AND WE ONLY HAVE US.

SPIRITUAL HEALTH, MENTAL H, PHYSICAL HEALTH IS TAUGHT E KUMU HULA AND BECOMES A DISCIPLINE OF THE HULL HUL.

THE HULA IS A TRADITION OF HAWAI'I.

NOBODY IS GIVING US MONEY.

IF WE'RE NOT DEDICATED, THT IS GOING TO BE LOST.

SO EACH AND EVERY KUMU HULT HAS PERPETUATED THE ART/SOE PEOPLE REFER TO AS ENTERTAINMENT.

NO, NO, NO.

IT IS AN ART THAT TOUCH SOY OTHER ART FORMS IN THE HAWN CULTURE.

WE HAD NONE OF THAT.

I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS ASKEO PERFORM IN THE COOK ISLANDR THEIR IND INDEPENDENT CELE, I WAS INVITED BY THE QUEENF AOTEAROA, NEW ZEALAND, WHEI WAS INVITED TO GO TO FIJI,E HAD NO MONEY.

WE HAD TO GO OUT AND FUNDR, AND IT WAS THE COMMUNITY TE WERE IN, AND THE FAMILIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE COMMUNS THAT PUT UP THE FUNDS SO WE COULD GO.

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IN THE 1970s, 1980s, 1990s.

NOT THAT FAR AGO, NOT THATG AGO.

MY GOD, WE HAD TO REALLY STRUGGLE.

WE HAD NONE OF THIS.

NOW THAT PEACH HAVE IT, GO.

THAT WE NEED IT, GOOD.

WE NEED TO PERPETUATE THE .

LIKE I SAID, IT IS A CONNEN THAT ALLOWS CREATIVITY WITE IMAGINATION OF GROWTH.

>> WE HAVE TO GROW IN MANY DIRECTION.

ALWAYS REMEMBERING THE FOUNDATIONS WHICH IS THE A. I GAVE THAT SCENARIO, YOU T A SEED IN THE AINA.

YOU WATER IT, IT GROWS.

THAT IS HOW WE CONNECT.

WE'RE CONNECTED TO THE AKUA AND PEOPLE.

AND TOGETHER WE GO FORWARD.

TOGETHER WE GO FORWARD.

>> Yunji: CLARK, YOU WORK H A LOT OF KIDS.

YOU SHARED THAT WONDERFUL Y OF A KUPUNA EXPERIENCING M. TELL ME ABOUT WHAT YOU SEEN CHILDREN WHO EXPERIENCE MUS MUSICIANS THEMSELVES.

PICK UP AN INSTRUMENT FOR E FIRST TIME AND GET TO BE RY GOOD AT IT.

>> PRIOR TO THAT, I WAS BOD RAISED IN A MUSICIAN THEATR FAMILY.

MY DAD TAUGHT MUSICIAN THER FOR MANY YEARSFULS I WAS BN AND RAISED WATCHING THESE S IN A COMMUNAL ENVIRONMENT T IMPACTS YOU DIFFERENTLY.

I SAW THE VALUE OF CHILDRES LIVES BEING TOUCHED AND CHD FIRSTHAND, AS THEY CHANGE N STAGE.

MY DAD WOULD WHEN THEM INTR HOMES.

AND MY MOM WOULD OFTEN HAVO COOK FOR MORE THAN OUR FAM.

THESE KIDS' LIVES ARE CHAND THROUGH THE ART FORM.

HE EXPECTED EXCELLENCE, ITS MORE BECAUSE OF THE LIVES T WERE BEING CHANGED.

CHANGED THROUGH THE ART PR.

PART OF THE REASON I LOVE O MUCH.

I SAW THE VALUE OF HUME BES AS THEY DEVELOP INTO CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS OF A SOCIETY.

WITH A MUSICIAN SPECIFICAL, IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO PERT YOUR ART AS A MUSICIAN.

SOME OF THE GUYS THAT ARE E ROYAL HAWAIIAN BAND ROYAL E IT LOOK SO EASY NOW, BUT TY SPENT HOURS AND HOURS AND PRACTICE BY THEMSELVES OVEE COURSE OF TIME.

EACH THEN, MANY WON'T MAYB.

WON'T CONTINUE.

SOMETHING HAPPENS TO YOU INTELLECTUALLY, SPIRITUAL,S SAID EARLIER, PHYSICALLY, MUSICALLY AS YOU PREPARE YR ART FORM.

THAT TECHNICAL ABILITY DEVS A DESIRE TO WANT TO SHARE T BETTER.

WANT TO COMMUNE WITH OTHER ARTISTS TO SHARE YOUR ART , AND YOU KEEP GOING.

AND IT BECOMES LESS ABOUT N OPPORTUNITY BEING PLAYED BT MORE ABOUT A STORY BEING TD THROUGH THE INSTRUMENT.

YOU GET TO COLLABORATE WITH OTHER MUSICIANS IN A STORYA SONG.

MUCH OF HAWAI'I'S MELE IS T SONG OR AINA OR PLACE NAME.

SOME OF THAT BECOMES THE SY AS AN INSTRUMENTISTS SHARES STORY THROUGH AND AMONGST R PEOPLE IN THE GROUP.

SO IT'S TRANSFORMATIVE.

VERY, VERY TRANSFORMATIVE A YOUNG AGE TO A PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN.

>> Yunji: WHAT I'M HEARINGS HOW IT BUILDS COMMUNITY.

EMMA, YOU DID SHARE THAT YE A LAUHALA WEAVER, WHAT DO U THINK IT IS ABOUT DOING SOMETHING PHYSICAL IN WHAT HAPPENS AND BRINGS PEOPLE T CREATING SOMETHING IN THE T TIME?

IN A FAL PHYSICAL MANIFEST?

WHAT IT IS ABOUT THE PHYSIL CONNECTION TO THE WORK THAO SPECIAL FOR YOU?

>> IT'S IMPORTANT TO ACKNOE THAT I'M ABLE TO LEARN HOWO WEAVE BECAUSE OF THE WORK T MY MOTHER DID BECAUSE SHE T TAUGHT BY HER MOTHER.

MY GRANDMOTHER WASN'T TAUGY HER MOTHER.

IF WE DON'T TALK ABOUT THAE HAVEN'T ALWAYS HAD ACCESS,D THERE WAS A TIME BECAUSE OF COLONIZATION WHERE THERE WA DIVIDE, I THINK WE MAKE PEE FEEL AS IF THERE'S NOT A PE FOR THEM.

I THINK THAT'S ONE THING, T CREATION IS SOMETHING THATE ALL HAVE WITHIN US, AND WHR WE LEARN IT THROUGH OUR OWR WHETHER WE HAD TO LEARN ITM A STRANGE ENTER A WORKSHOPS DEEPLY EMBEDDED IN OUR DNA.

IN TERMS OF HAVING SOMETHIG PHYSICAL, WE HAVE BECOME SO ACCUSTOMED TO CONSUMER WITH OTHERS BUT NOT TO CREATINGH OTHERS.

AND SO IN OUR SPACES, PEOPE RECOGNIZE THAT THEY CAN AC, CONTRIBUTE, TRANCEFORM.

JUST AS YOU TRANSFORM THE MATERIAL, YOU YOURSELF ARE TRANSFORMED.

SO THERE IS AN INCREDIBLY N THING ABOUT SOMETHING THE TRANSFORMATION OF SOMETHIND ALSO REALIZING THAT YOU, T, ARE CAPABLE OF THAT.

YOU BROUGHT UP HALA.

IS ABOUT TRANSFORMATION, AD IT'S ALSO A WORD SPEAKS ABT PROFITSIZING.

ENVISION SOMETHING DIFFEREN ORDER TO CHANGE.

BEING ABLE TO CREATE WITH S GIVES US SOMETHING THAT CAD THE MANA, AND THEN SOMETHIG THAT WE CAN HOOMANA.

WE CAN REALIZE THAT WE ARE ENOUGH JUST AS WE ARE, THAE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ENOUGH, AD THAT IT'S OKAY TO LEARN.

IT'S OKAY TO NOT KNOW, ANDO MANY PEOPLE SHOW UP AND HAE DEEP, LIKE HURT AND SADNESS ABOUT WHAT THEY'VE LOST.

AND THAT IS SUCH A COMMON .

BUT I'M ENVISIONING, I'M AO UNANA A MOMENT WHERE MY CHD DOESN'T HAVE TO LEARN FROMA STRANGER.

I GET TO TEACH HER IN OUR .

THE KESHES CONNECTION TO A.

IF YOU DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO PUHALA.

THAT PHYSICAL FORCES YOU TE A RELATIONSHIP WITH AINA.

IT HAS TO BE ONE OF CARE, F INTENTION AND PLANTING FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.

OUR KUMU, TREES THAT WERE E TO HOUR HAR INVEST FROM WET THE BY OUR KUMU.

CONTINUITY, SOMEBODY BROUGP THAT WORK.

>> Yunji: REMEMBER WE'RE CD NOT CREATORS.

A LOT OF TIMES IN THE DIGIL SPACE.

THAT'S BEEN TRANSFERRED TH, BUT SOLOMON, ONE THING ABOT HAVING CHILDREN, I THINK MS ARE ALWAYS DRAWING, AND THE ALWAYS ASKING ME TO DRAW WH THEM.

MY INSTINCT IS TO SAY, I CT DRAW.

RIGHT.

THAT IS THAT CONDITIONING T EMMA IS TELLING US ABOUT.

TELL US ABOUT THE VALUE OFE LAY PERSON PARTICIPATEING.

>> CHILDREN WILL CUPPING TE MUSEUM.

WHEN YOU ASK, WHO LIKES TO, HANDS GO UP.

AS THEY GET OLDER, MORE HES TACKLE TO RAISE THEIR HAPP.

AN AMAZING TO DELIVER A SIE AND DIRECT NARRATIVE, AND T IS FOR EVERY HOUR YOU SPEND PLAYING VIDEO GAMES OR WATG TELEVISION, TAKE AN HOUR TO DRAW, PAINT, CITE POETRY, O DANCE, CULTIVATE SOME SORTF CREATIVE PROCESS.

A ONE TO ONE ROUSH RATIO.

ONE HOUR TAKING IDEAS.

BREATHE IN, BREATHE OUT.

AND BYE-BYE.

THAT'S IT.

BUT I REALLY WANT TO ADDRES THERE WAS A CONCERN EARLIER ABOUT A FRIEND FROM WAIANA.

MY STOMPING GROUND.

IT'S CRITICAL TO UNDERSTANT KEEPS PEOPLE OUT OF THE EMERGENCY ROOM.

IT IS THE EQUIPMENT ESSENTY PROACTIVE FORM OF ENGAGINGN LIFE.

ART IS PROBLEM-SOLVING.

GOING TO WAIANAE HIGH SCHOI HAD FRIENDS THAT WOULD EACP FOR ART CLASS.

THEY COULD GET INVOLVED.

WEAVE A LITTLE BIT OF WHO Y WERE INTO THE WORLD AROUND.

AND ALL KINDS OF ANALOGIESI LIKE TO COME BACK TO FOOD.

YOU EAT HEALTHY STUFF BECAE YOU NEED TO HAVE GOOD DIGE.

ART IS COGNITIVE DIE VENGE.

-- DIGESTION.

KEEP ALL THE REALITY AND PN THINGS YOU DON'T WANT TO.

TO PROCESS REALITY, YOU NED GOOD IMAGINATION LIKE JAWS.

CLUE AND PROCESS AND DIGESN AN ATTEMPT TO SEEK TRUTH IN AGE OF PROFOUND OPPOSITE OF TRUTH.

>> Yunji: AND TO YOUR POINT ABOUT HEALING, THERE'S TWO QUESTIONS FOR NINA.

I'M READING BOTH.

I WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO ADS THEM.

SARA FROM MAKIKI.

DOCTORS PRESCRIPTION MEDICN FOR AILMENTS.

WILL ART BE PRESCRIPTIONED?

AND HOW MUSIC PERHAPS CHAND THEM.

>> THEY'RE BOTH WONDERFUL QUESTIONS.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

THE BEAUTY OF MUSIC AND OTR CREATIVE ARTS MODALITIES IT THEY ARE NONPRESCRIPTIVE.

SO BECAUSE THEY ARE PRECISY CREATIVE, IT'S NOT AS IF, U KNOW, YOU PRESCRIBE A CERTN GENRE OF MUSIC OR CERTAIN S LONG SELECTION FOR A CERTAN AILMENT.

RATHER, BECAUSE IT IS A CRE MODALITY IT FUNCTIONS HOL F COURSELY.

IT DEPENDS UPON RELATIONSH, SO WE WOULD GET TO KNOW A CLIENT, A GROUP OR AN INDIVIDUAL, A FAMILY, A COMMUNITY.

IN A VERY HUMAN WAY, AND IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT THEC THAT IS CREATED IS NOT IMPD BY A THERAPIST UPON A CLIET RATHER ITS COLLABORATIVELY CREATED.

SO SOMEONE IN THE GROUP HEE ASKED ME EARLIER WHAT A MUC THERAPY SESSION LOOKS LIKE.

IT LOOKS LIKE A GROUP OF PE CREATING MUSIC TOGETHER.

SO SENDING, PLAYING INSTRUS TOGETHER, ENGAGING IN EXPRE MOVEMENT.

A LOT IS IMPROVIEDED.

FOR EXAMPLE, MUSIC RES NANH SOMEONE'S CULTURAL TRADITIR GENERATIONAL PREFERENCES, C FROM THEIR YOUNG DOCUMENT R SO SUCH.

THEY'RE USED IN IMPROVISATL AND INTERACTIVE WAY.

IT'S STILL POSSIBLE TO CREE SOMETHING NEW.

YOU THINK SOME OF THE SUCCS STORIES THAT WE CAN SHARE E TO DO WITH OUR WORK WITH KA IN VARIOUS SETTINGS.

DAY PROGRAMS BUT ALSO RES S COMMUNITIES, LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES.

THERE ARE MANY, MANY EXAMPF PEOPLE WHO MAY HAVE MEMORY LOSSES THAT ARE SO PROFOUN, PARTICULARLY SHORT-TERM MEY LOSSES.

AND VERBAL ABILITIES THAT E QUITE COMPROMISED ON A DAIY BASIS.

YET A CREATIVE MODALITY SUS MUSIC ALLOWS US ALL TO ENGN A VERY IN THE MOMENT EXCHAF IDEAS.

IT MAY NOT ALWAYS BE A VERC CHANGE, BUT I WANTED TO MA9 POINT THAT MUSIC THERAPY AD OTHER CREATIVE ARTS MODALIY CREATE A NONVERBAL ALTERNAE TO VERBAL THERAPY.

VERY IMPORTANT IN ACCESS.

THINK ABOUT MAKING THERAPY, WHETHER IT'S PSYCHOTHERAPY, SPEECH THERAPY, MAKING THOE VITAL SERVICES, REHABILITAN FOR PEOPLE WITH MOTOR DYSFUNCTIONS.

MAKING THOSE SERVICES ACCEE TO GROUPS OF PEOPLE WHO MAT HAVE TRADITIONAL ABILITIESO ENGAGE AND TALK THERAPY ORR MORE ESTABLISHED THERAPY MODALITIES.

>> Yunji: A QUESTION FOR JORDAN.

WITH THE RECENT VACUUM RESS FROM MOVIE AND TELEVISION PRODUCTION LEAVING HAWAI'I, GROWING THAT SPECIFIC.

WE HAVE A HUGE HIT, "CHIEFF WAR."

WE DO NOT HAVE PRODUCTION N HAWAI'I.

HARRY WROTE IN.

WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT THAT DISCONNECT?

>> HOW MUCH TIME DO WE HAV?

IT'S A CRITICAL QUESTION BG ASKED BY EVERYBODY IN THE L FILMING LOCAL -- FILM INDUSTRY ANDN CHAMPIONED AND HIT BRICK CS IN THE LAST LEGISLATIVE SEN IN VERY DISAPPOINTING WAYS.

AND THERE'S A LOT OF ADVOCS AND A LOT OF PEOPLE AND A F CHAMPIONS WHO ARE FIGHTINGO BRING AS MUCH LOCAL PRODUCN BACK AND PAVE THE WAYS TO E THAT HAPPEN.

OR TO CLEAR WHATEVER ROAD S AND OBSTACLES BECAUSE "CHIF WAR" IS THE PRIME BEAUTIFU, INSPIRING EXAMPLE OF -- ITE FIRST TIME IN TV HISTORY WE OLELO HAWAI'I HAS BEEN SHON THAT SCALE IN THAT WAY IN E ACTION.

I THINK "MOANA" WAS THE FIT FILM THAT WAS CONVERTED INO OLELO BY A COMMUNITY HERE THROUGH U.H.

AND COLLABORAN WITH DISNEY.

SO TO SEE IT ON THE BIG SCN EVEN BEING AT THE PREMIER,T FELT LIKE WHAT -- I WANT TO BACKTRACK TO GET TO THIS.

THE FIRST SCREENPLAY I WROE COMING OUT OF SCHOOL BASEDY FIRST CREATIVE WRITING TEAR WAS ABOUT RIDING ABOUT EDDE AIKAU.

IN LEARNING ABOUT THE HAWAN RENAISSANCE, WE CAME ABOUT- THIS IS A CASE STUDY FOR MD HOW ONE ARTIST CAN INSPIREA MOVEMENT.

PICASSO HAS THIS QUOTE, ARS POWER.

ART INSPIRES.

MOVES US AND MAKES US MOVE.

FOR MANY PEOPLE LOCALLY, BE MY TIME, BEFORE I WAS BORNE WAS AN ARTIST WHO EVERYONEE PROBABLY NOW KNOWS, HERB K. HE STARTED AS A RESEARCH IO VOYAGING CANOES, AND THEREA STORY THAT WAS HISTORY ANDD OF DONE.

ART REVEALS THE QUESTIONS T THE ANSWERS KEPT HIDDEN.

THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A SEC.

IT'S A LITTLE DEEP.

AND I THINK HISTORY KEPT HN OR SAID WHAT HAS NOW BECOME QUESTIONED, HOW WERE ALL OF THESE ISLANDS ACROSS THE PC POPULATED?

AND HISTORY SAID, WE DON'T.

THEY WERE SIMPLE PEOPLE ANY DRIFTED.

AND HERB KANE STUDIED IT AD SAID, I'M GOING TO DRAW THE CANOES, VOYAGES CANOES THAT PROVED FROM MY RESEARCH AND HISTORIANS KNOW THAT THAT'T TRUE.

WE WERE THE GREATIVE VOYAG, NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND POLYNEN PEOPLE.

THAT ART, THOSE PAINTINGS LAUNCHED THE POLYNESIAN VOG SOCIETY.

HELPED BRING HULA AND MELED THINGS THAT WERE SUPPRESS E HISTORICALLY BANNED FROM JT COLONIZATION.

CONTINUED TO INSPIRE ALL TY TO "MOANA" WHERE THE ART OB KANE AND POLYNESIAN VOYAGIG SOCIETY, WE BROUGHT IN.

GAVE EVERY HEAD OF DIRECTO, EVERY PERSON HERB KANE'S B.

THAT CONTINUES.

IT BRINGS ME BACK TO "CHIEF WAR."

OPENING SCENE REMINDS ME OA PAINTING BY HERB KANE AND E SHARK.

I DON'T KNOW IF THEY TOOK T FROM THAT PAINTING.

ART CONTINUES TO BE A CONVERSATION THAT INSPIRES.

I HOPE THAT "CHIEF OF WAR"N SPEAK TO THE COMMUNITY, THE LEGISLATORS TO SHOW, LISTE, THIS IS OUR STORIES.

OUR CULTURE IS BEING REPRET THE IN A GROWN WAY AND -- L WAY.

INSPIRING FUTURE GENERATIOO SAY ALL THE DEPARTMENT HEAL THE CULTURAL ADVISERS HAD .

TO FILM HERE AND CLAIM IT.

EVEN SHOW IT'S CLAIM ACROSL NEARBY NA.

I THINK THAT WILL BRING ITK TO LIFE.

PLEASE SUPPORT.

[LAUGHTER] >> Yunji: THERE'S A QUESTIN HERE FOR YOU, ASHLEY.

THIS IS FROM MICAH IN PEARL CITY.

I ENJOY GOING TO MUSEUMS AD EXHIBITS BUT SOMETIMES I DT GET ART.

WHAT IS THE VALUE OF GOINGA GALLERY GALLERY SPACE EVEN IF YOU T GET IT.

>> ART ISN'T A LUXURY.

IT IS A MODE FOR EVERYTHIN.

WE LIKE TO SAY ART IS LIFEE IS ART.

I WOULD SAY GET OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE AND JUST GO F. I THINK THAT'S WHAT'S SO IMPORTANT ABOUT ART.

IT DIZZYIT DOES OPEN UP OUS OUR LAUREN LANGUAGE AND ALO COMMUNICATE IN A UNIVERSAL.

THE MORE THAT WE TALK ABOUT AND SHOW HOW IMPORTANT IT T WILL BECOME MORE OF A NORME THE TOPIC OR SOMETHING THA, YOU KNOW, WE DO ON A DAILY BASIS.

IF WE GROW UP AROUND IT, AA YOUNG KID YOU'RE GOING TO MUSEUMS OR AS A PARENT YOUE TAKING YOUR KID TO THE MUS, THEY'RE GOING TO GROW UP AD HAVE MORE LANGUAGE AROUND S A NORMAL PART OF LIFE.

THAT'S WHY I THINK WE'RE AL HERE.

IT SO EXPRESS HOW IMPORTANS IS TO OUR DAILY LIVES AND O AFTER IT.

>> Yunji: GAYE, A QUALIFIER FROM KAUA'I SAYS I'M A RETD ART EDUCATOR FROM KAUA'I.

HOW DOES OUR 2KE79 DEPARTMF EDUCATION SUPPORT ART?

>> NEVER ENOUGH.

I HAVE A DEAR FRIEND WHO ON SAYS MUSIC IS A RIGHT.

I EXTENT THAT TO DANCE AND THEATER AND VISUAL ARTS.

IF WE THINK ABOUT THE CLOTS THAT WE'RE WEARING, PHONEST WE CARRY, ART AND CREATIVE THINKING A A PART OF EVERY.

I LOVE WHAT SOLOMON SAID AT ART IS PROBLEM SOLVING BY ANOTHER NAME.

YES, WE DO NEED TO MAKING E THAT ART AND ARTS EXPERIENS ARE A PART OF WHAT OUR YIN PEOPLE ARE GETTING IN EDUC.

WHETHER IT'S DURING THE SCL DAY AFTER SCHOOL, THE WEEK, SUMMER.

IT REALLY IS IMPORTANT, ANT DOES SO MUCH.

I THINK ERIC YOU WERE MENTG HOW YOU'VE SEEN PERSONALLYW ART IMPACTS YOUNG PEOPLE.

BEFORE BECOMING AN ARTS ADMINISTRATOR, I GREW UP IN DANCE.

MY MOTHER WANT THE TO BRIGF A SHY SHELL.

ALLOWING ME TO TRAVEL ABRO.

LED ME TO A CAREER 50*EU67.

IT'S BEEN AN INCREDIBLE JOY FOR ME.

I WOULD LOVE FOR EVERY YOUG PERSON TO HAVE AN ART EXPEE OR HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONNECT WITH THIS CREATIVE ESSENCE THAT WE ALL HAVE.

SO WE NEED MORE.

UNTIL EVERY YOUNG PERSON CN HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY, HAVE ACCESS TO ARTS ENRICHMENT R ARTS CLASSES WE HAVE MORE K TO DO.

>> Yunji: WE FOCUS ON THE IMPACT OF THE AUDIENCE BUTE HAVE SO MANY CREATIVES.

WUKUMUICS YOU CREATE SONG,E HULA.

AS A PERSON CRETING THE AR- CREATING THE ART, WHAT IS E EXPERIENCE LIKE?

>> WE TALK ABOUT THE CHALLS OF BEING AN ARTIST.

ONE IS GETTING FUNDING.

BUT IF YOU MAKE THAT YOUR Y CHALLENGE, IRE NOT GOING TE ABLE TO CREATE.

YOU'VE GOT TO KEEP CREATIND FIND A WAY TO CREATE.

AS A KUMU HULA, I WASN'T AO CREATE ANY INCOME FOR MY FY SO I BECAME A SCHOOL TEACH.

AND I BECAME A CLOTHING DESIGNER.

AND I STARTED TO DESIGN JE.

THEN I STARTED TO WRITE POY AND RECORD MUSIC.

I'M STILL DOING ALL OF THA.

NOTHING HAS REALLY CHANGED BECAUSE IS LOVE ART.

ART, INSPIRATION, CREATIVID GROWTH.

NOW I'M 72.

I GET 30 MORE GOOD YEARS.

I PLAN TO CONTINUE BECAUSE REMEMBER NOW, I FOLD TOLD E INVITED TO ALL THE PACIFIC COUNTRIES BEFORE THERE WASA HOKULEA.

WE WERE GOING THERE TO PER.

WHEN I WON'T TO THE LEGISLE AND SAY WE'VE BEEN INVITEDO FORM.

PERFORM.

THEY SAID GOOD.

THAT'S WHAT I HAD TO DEAL .

OKAY.

THAT'S NOT GOING TO STOP MM GETTING THERE.

I'M GOING TO FIND A WAY, AD THAT'S WHAT YOU NEED.

TA DRIVE TO CONTINUE REGARS OF EVERYTHING ELSE THAT'S HAPPENING, LISTEN, PEOPLE S SAY.

KUMU, YOU WROTE SO MANY BEAUTIFUL SONGS.

YOU WON ALL THREES HOKU SO.

GI MY WORD OF INSPIRATION.

I NEVER WROTE A SONG TO WIN AWARD.

I WROTE A SONG BECAUSE I LE WRITING MUSIC.

IF YOU'RE FOCUSED ON ONE SG THAT'S GOING TO GET YOU AN AWARD, YOU'RE NEVER GOING T THERE.

YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS BELONO YOU.

TREASURE THEM.

ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU CAN DT AND DO IT.

AND EVENTUALLY ONE DAY YOUY GET THAT AWARD.

BUT YOU DIDN'T GRET IT TODY SHOULD NOT BE THE REASON YU STOP.

YOU CONTINUE AND YOU MOVE FORWARD WITH YOU CREATIVIT.

>> Yunji: WHAT IS IT LIKE O LEAD THE OTHER MUSICIANS?

WHAT IS THE FEELING?

>> THAT IS A BIT OF CREATI.

MUMUSIC MAY BE WRITTEN BUTU MANEUVER, THAT'S A CREATIVE PROCESS IN AND OF ITSELF.

I LIKE IT BECAUSE MY BACK O THE AUD AUDIENCE.

[LAUGHTER] RATHER THAN MY FRONT.

I FEEL LIKE I'M CREATING WH THE MUSICIANS.

I NEVER REALIZED THEY'RE T. WHEN WE GET INTO IT, IT'S E MUSIC.

THEY'RE FACING THE AUDIENC.

WHEN I TURN AROUND AND ACKNOWLEDGE THE BAND, THATS WHAT I SEE THE APPRECIATIOF WHAT THEY'VE DONE.

I REMEMBER A TIME WHEN YOU BROUGHT YOUR YOUNG KIDS TOE PAL LAST PALACE GROUNDS.

IT WAS IMPORTANT TO EXPOSEM ON LIVE MUSIC AND ART.

THAT'S PART OF CREATIVITY.

EXPOSE THAT TO YOUNG PEOPLS WELL AS OLD.

IT'S A JOY, AN HONOR.

>> Yunji: I WOULD OWN COURE ANYONE TO DO THAT.

WE WENT EV FRIDAY THAT YOU PERFORMED AND THEY STILL DT FRIDAYS AT NOON.

CHECK THE WEBSITE.

YOU SIT IN THE SHADOW OF II PALACE AND LISTEN TO THE S. IT'S TREMENDOUS.

SPECIAL PLUG FOR THE ROY RL HAWAIIAN BAND ROYAL.

ERIC, YOU TAKE A WORKS, A Y ON THE PAGE AND LEAD THESE ARTISTS.

WHAT IS IT LIKE TO SEE SEEK ON THE STAGE AND HEAR THE LAUGHTER?

>> I HEAR GIGGLES ALL DOW .

I WANT TO RESPOND TO A COUE THINGS.

IT'S IMPORTANT TO REALIZES THERE'S LOTS OF ARTISTS WOG IN HAWAI'I THAT ARE GROWINP AND MAKING BEAUTIFUL ART H. I THINK ABOUT SUSAN STANTON WROTE A PLAY ABOUT NAVIGATN FOR A COMPANY.

AND MOSES GOOD WAS IN IT.

SUSAN WENT ON TO HUGE TELEN CAREER AND HAS DONE BEAUTIL WRITING.

AND MOSES, BEFORE HE WAS IN "CHIEF OF WAR," HE'S STILL WORKING WITH US, BEFORE HES IN THERE, HE DECIDED HE NED TO SPEND TIME AT THE BISHOP MUSEUM AND HE REALLY WAS CONNECTED WITH HIS CULTURED THERE WERE THESE DIFFERENT ARTISTIC ORGANIZATIONS THAE SORT OF FEEDING PEOPLE THAT EXISTS HERE.

AND I THINK ABOUT JUNIOR WS ALSO IN THAT SHOW.

JUNIOR TESORO NOW 30 PLUS S GETTING UP EVERY SINGLE MO.

HE WORKS AT 5:30 TO PERFORA PRESCHOOL.

HE'S PERFORMING EVERY DAY,D THAT'S HIS LIVELIHOOD.

THAT'S HIS PASSION.

AND I THINK WE NEED MORTIS TISES.

WE ARE CULTIVATING TICES A.

AND THE TALENT IS AMAZING.

THERE IS SOMETHING SPECIALD UNIQUE.

I THINK ABOUT SOLOMON AND R COMPANY HAVE BEEN ORGANIZEN AUGUSTMENTED REALITY.

WE JUST DID A PROJECT FOR Y BECAUSE THEY WERE LIKE, WET KNOW HOW TO REFRAME STORIE.

AND THAT WAS WHAT SOLOMON D BEST.

I WAS LIKE, WE KNOW HOW TOK ABOUT A MUSSOLINI BUILDINGA NEW LIGHT THROUGH ART.

AND THERE ARE BEAUTIFUL THS THAT AN ARTIST WHO GREW UPE IN HAWAI'I AND WAS NURTUREY THESE DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIS BRINGS TO THE TABLE.

THAT I THINK ARE UNIQUE AND SPECIAL AND THINGS THAT MAE "CHIEF OF WAR" AND PROJECTE THAT REALLY SHINE.

AND IT EXISTS.

>> THAT'S HAPPENING.

MAY NOT BE THE MOST VISIBLT IT IS HAPPENING.

>> Yunji: COUNTRY CHRISTINE DOING YOU HAVE IN?

BASED ON WHAT YOU SAW IN TE SURVEY YOU CONDUCTED?

>> AS A FUNDER WE SEE THE D FOR MORE FUNDING IN SUPPORG CULTURE AND ARTS AT THE LEL THANK WE SHOULD.

THERE'S ANOTHER ISSUE THATM SURE A LOT OF YOU FOLKS ARE FAMILIAR WITH, AND THAT ISE NEED TO DEVELOP MORE VEN VE PUBLIC SPACES.

MORE ACCESSIBLE AND AFFORDE WAYS TO PERFORM OR RECORD R DISPLAY.

AND I THINK THAT'S ANOTHERL CHALLENGE IN ADDITION TO FUNDING.

JUST THINKING MORE, BEING A LITTLE MORE CREATE EV ABOUW AND WHERE ART CAN ACTUALLY MANIFEST ITSELF THAT'S ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC.

>> Yunji: EMMA, WHAT ARE YU THOUGHTS ON THAT?

OTHER THAN FINANCING, MONEN HELP BUT HOW CAN WE AS A COMMUNITY DO MORE TO PRIORE AND CELEBRATE THE ARTS?

>> I CORNER COME FROM A GEF PEOPLE WHO ARE CREATIVE THINKERS.

WHEN I THINK ABOUT THE SPAE NEEDS, I THINK ABOUT, DO DH NEED OUR OWN HOME OR CAN YU SHARE IT WITH OTHERS?

ARE YOU A NIGHT PERSON?

ARE YOU A DAY PERSON?

JUST AS THE FORM IS A CREAE FORM, WE HAVE TO THINK CREATIVELY ABOUT HOW WE'REE TO GET THERE.

I WAS SHARING WITH SOME FOS EARLIER THAT WE'RE AT A IMPORTANT PART.

>> TWO LOCATIONS ARE AT WAD CENTER OF.

ONE IS DOWN THE ROAD, ON AI STREET.

AS AN ARTS PERSON IN THE S, WE RECOGNIZE THAT ARTISTS E THE FIRST IN AND LAST OUT.

VERY RARELY DO THEY GET TOD THE WHOLE TEST OF TIME.

THEY'RE KIND OF THE PERSON, OKAY, WE'LL MAKE THIS NICER OTHERS TO COME AND END UP PUTTING YOURSELF OUT OF A .

BUT THERE'S THIS GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO THINK CREATY ABOUT HOW WE CAN EXIST WITH OTHER.

I LOOK FORWARD TO FINDING A PLACE HOPEFULLY WITH OTHER.

WE DON'T ALL NEED OUR OWN .

I THINK THAT'S ONE WAY WE N ADDRESS SOME OF THE ISSUESE HAVING ABOUT NEEDING A HOM.

YES THERE'S A QUESTION HER.

WHAT WOULD LIFE BE WITHOUTE ARTS?

SOLOMON?

>> GOODNESS.

HERE'S AN EASY AND ACCESS J DICHOTOMY.

YOU HAVE THE AS ATHLETIC AN NECESSARY THET IRK.

YOU CUT OFF CIRCULATION TOR FINGERS AND THEY BECOME NU.

THAT NUMBNESS IS REPLACES L THE THINGS YOU DON'T WANT.

AND ART IS -- IT'S EXTREMEY VISIBLE AND EXTREMELY INVIE AT THE SAME TIME.

AS ARTISTS WE CELEBRATE THE PARADOX.

SO WHEN OUR COMMUNITIES ARE UNABLE TO VISUALIZE ANYTHIG BEYOND THE STORIES, THEY BE THOSE STORIES.

COMING FROM WAIANAE, I GETA CHANCE TO REMIND EVERYBODY, WAIANAE, THERE'S SOME AMAZG STUFF HAPPENING.

SEARIDER PRODUCTION WINNING NATURAL AWARDS.

AND YEARS AGO, SO MUCH AMAG STUFF.

I SEE SUCH CHAMPIONS COMINM THE PLACES WHERE FOLKS ARER CONSTANT DURESS, STRAIN AND STRESS.

I'VE HAD FRIENDS WHO WOULD, HEY, WE GO OUT.

GO PARTY TONIGHT, NAH, I'LE IN MY STUDIO PAINTING.

EXPLORING IT'S WORLD WITHI.

AND THEY'LL COME BACK YEARS LATER.

I WISH I HAD STAYED HOME, .

I WISH YOU HAD FOUND THE TREASURE WITHIN.

I GET A CHANCE TO TALK TO E KIDS TO COMING TO THE MU S. FIND YOUR PASSWORD.

YOU CAN FIND IT WITH YOUR .

ONCE YOU FIND YOUR PASSWORU GET ACCESS TO THE TREASURET EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US HS WITHIN US.

IF EVERYBODY WAS I NOT GOIT MAKE TROUBLE.

I'M GOING TO FIND OUT WHO M THROUGH MY PRACTICE, WHAT A WORLD.

>> Yunji: YOU MAKE US ALL T TO GO HOME AND PAINT.

>> I WANT TO SPEAK TO THAT.

IT'S A SUPER USEFUL THOUGHT QUESTION TO GO INTO.

RIGHT.

WHAT WOULD THE WORLD WITHOE ARTS OR ART AT ALL?

IS I WOULD SUGGEST TOWARDSE ART BECAUSE WE ALL LOVE ARS HERE.

WE'RE HERE TO CHAMPION THES AND I WILL ANSWER LESS POLY THE QUESTION THAT YOU POLIY ANSWERED.

YES, WE NEED MORE ARTS FUN.

KUMU HAS BEEN SPEAKING TO W THE ARTS ARE ALWAYS CHALLE.

LED MY PEOPLE WHO MADE THER LIVE.

TO SHARE, TO SPREAD.

THIS IS HISTORIC.

THERE'S RARELY BEEN TIMES.

MAYBE PATRONS IN THE RENAIE WOULD SUPPORT THE ARTS.

THERE'S VERY RARE PERIOD OE WHERE ARTS HAVE BEEN FLOURISHING.

THERE'S A GREAT FRED ROGERS TALKING ABOUT WHY PUBLIC BROADSCASTING MATTERS.

THERE'S A TRADITION OF DISE YAN NOVELS.

1984, THEY'RE BURNING ALL F BOOKS.

GO THROUGH THAT THOUGHT EXERCISE.

I LOVE MY FAVORITE KIDS BOK GROWING UP CALLED "PEOPLE"Y RICHARD SPEAR.

AND IT'S OF TIME SQUARE AN.

WHAT IF WE ALL LOOKED THE .

WHAT IF THERE'S NO COLOR.

YOU SEE A GRAY SCALE PICTUF TIME SQUARE.

ISN'T IT SO WONDERFUL THATE HAVE COLOR?

THAT WE HAVE ART, AND YOU E WHAT TIME SQUARE ACTUALLY S LIKE.

IMAGINE IF TIME SQUARE HADO ART.

IT WAS JUST CORPORATE FEED.

IT WAS JUST ADVERTISING, JT THOSE COLORS.

THERE'S NO MUSIC.

THERE'S NO POETRY, NO DANC.

ANY ART YOU COULD THINK OF.

I LOVE THE QUESTIONS FROM EARLIER.

I DON'T GO TO MUSEUMS AND E MOVED FROM ART.

HAS THERE BEEN ONE SONG THU HEART, ONE POEM THAT YOU R?

ONE MOVIE, LIKE "THE BLACK STALLION" FOR ME.

THAT MADE YOU GO, I'M ALIVD I'M NOT JUST IN A DISTAUPE- DISTOPIAN.

VISUALIZE THAT ART.

>> Yunji: IT'S A PRETTY BLK PREM SUS.

>> I WOULD LIKE TO REFLECTN WHAT HE SAID.

WHEN I STARTED TEACHING HUT WAS A RESPONSIBILITY AND DEDICATION TO THE COMMUNIT.

FOR TEN YEARS, I NEVER CHAD ANYONE TO COME AND LEARN FM ME.

I STRUGGLED TO GET A JOB TE ABLE TO BE A TEACHER BY MYF THE.

AND THE ONLY FEE THE STUDES HAD TO PAY WAS A DOLLAR ISY CAME INTO THE CLASS LATE.

THAT WAS BECAUSE I WAS TRYO TEACH THEM DISCIPLINE.

DON'T COME IN LATE WHEN I'M COMING HERE TO SHARE AND GO YOU, AND YOU COME IN LATE.

NO.

SO THAT WAS YOUR RESPONSIB, AND WITH THAT $5 I MADE, ID BITE ME LUNCH.

A TASTY TREAT IN KANEOHE.

I WAS STRUGGLING, YET I WAD THIS TO WORK.

I TOOK THAT COMPLIMENT AND DEDICATION BECAUSE IF THE S ARE GOING GOING TO SURVIVES ALL OF US WORKING TOGETHER MAKING THESE CONTRIBUTIONSO OUR COMMUNITIES.

IF NOT, YOU SEE IN THAT VIO THERE, THAT'S ME HAVING LOR THE COMMUNITY AND THE KIDSD WANTING THEM TO GROW AND TO LEARN.

THAT IS 1,972ND 1972.

AND TODAY IT'S 2025, AND IM DOING THE SAME THING BECAUF ART.

BECAUSE HAVING THOSE TRADIS CONTINUE TO LIVE.

AND SO IT IS THE LOVE AND E DEDICATION AND THE COMMITMT AND THE STRUGGLE THAT MAKET HAPPEN.

>> Yunji: ASHLEY, TELL US A LJT ABOUT WHAT THE PASSIONT YOU SEE IN YOUR COMMUNITY M THE ARTISTS CREATING WORK.

WHAT KUMU IS SHARE WITH USS WELL.

>> YEAH.

I SEE A LOT OF SIMILARITIE.

LIKE A WAY OF BEING.

ART CENTER, OUR COMPLICATIS STATEMENT WE SAY WE'RE A PE OF CONVERGENESS.

WE BELIEVE IN THE COMMUNITY COMING TOGETHER AND HAVINGA PLACE TO PHYSICALLY COMINGD ICE YOUR HANDS.

AND WHETHER IRE YOU'RE POPG THROUGH BUT PEOPLE FEEL SO INSPIRED TO BE AROUND OTHER PEOPLE.

IF YOU HAVE A SAFE PLACE TO AND ONLY FEEL JUDGED AND YN ACTUALLY BE YOURSELF, THATS PART OF THIS CREATIVE ENVIRONMENT THAT WE WANT TO EMBRACE AND PERPETUATE.

SO TO US, THE COMMUNITY CER IS SO IMPORTANT.

AND SO BY HAVING A PHYSICAL SPACE, WE REALLY LIKE PROTT THAT AND WANT TO AMPLIFY TT EVERY MORE.

BECAUSE IT'S RL REALLY IMPT THAT WE'RE GATHERING PHYSI.

>> Yunji: THIS IS A VIEWER QUESTION FROM CASEY.

HAWAI'I HAS CREATIVE TALEN.

WHY SO TAX MONEY GOING TO S STADIUM?

SHOULDN'T IT BE GOING TO MC ARTS CULTURE?

>> THE ASHES ANSWER IS YES.

THE VIEWER IS MAKE A GREAT POINT.

WE SPEND MONEY ON ALL OF TE FIERCE AND DON'T QUESTION E AMOUNTS THAT ARE SPENT THE.

AS WE'RE HEARING FROM THIS WONDERFUL PANEL, THE ARTS E DOING SO MUCH GOOD.

WE ABSOLUTELY NEED TO INVET MORE.

IT'S CRITICAL THAT WE DO T. I'M IN AGREEMENT WITH THAT VIEWER.

WE NEED TO PUT MORE VESSEL.

PRIVATE, PUBLICKING.

>> Yunji: SOLOMON, WHAT STRIKES MY, A LOT OF HAWAI- OUR NUMBER ONE INDUSTRY IS TOURISM.

A LOT OF WHAT WE'RE MARKETG OURSELVES TO IS REALLY ARTS BASED HERE IN HAWAI'I.

IT'S OUR SONGS, OUR DANCESS ART.

HOW DO YOU SEE THAT?

>> OH, BOY.

IN A WAY, WE HAVE THE SHOEN THE DOOR, SO TO SPEAK.

WE THINK ABOUT PEOPLE BEING AWARE OF HAWAI'I, BUT HAWA.

WE NEED TO PUT OUR FOOT INT SHOE.

WE NEED TO TAKE THAT OPPORTUNITY, THERE'S BEEN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS PUT TOWARDS -- IT SOUNDS TER TE BUT BRANDING HAWAI'I TO THE WORLD, WHICH IS WHY WE, THE PACIFIC IS ONE-THIRD OF THE EARTH'S SURFACE.

WE HAVE ONE-THIRD OF THE ES STORIES, AND IMPORTANTLY, E BEEN REALLY EXCITED -- EMMS DEAR AUNTIE, MY KUMU, I JUT FINISHED A LARGE COLLABORAN WITH THE QUEEN LILIUOKALANI CHILDREN'S CENTER AT WARD.

WE ARE THE CONTEMPORARY HAN ARTISTS WHO ARE, OUR UMBILL IS STILL CONNECTED TO THE .

WHILE WE FOR HEAD OR FORGE BACKWARDS INTO THE FUTURE.

I THINK -- I'M REALLY EXCID ABOUT "CHIEF OF WAR."

THE IDEA THAT OUR MO'OLELOE BEING TOLD ON A MUCH LARGER SCALE.

SO I THINK THERE IS -- WE E GOING TO BE ABLE TO ACHIEVA KIND OF CRITICAL MASS, ANDT REALLY IS AN AMAZING OPPORY TO START THINKING ABOUT SUPPORTING OUR CONTEMPORARY HAWAIIAN ART MOVEMENT TO ME SURE THAT WE MALAMA ALL THE TRADITIONS THAT GOT US TO E WE ARE TODAY.

A VERY QUICK ANALOGY, WHETR WE'RE RESTORING ANCIENT LOR BUILDING NEW LOI, EITHER WY WE'RE EATING KALO.

PROTECTING AND PERPETUATINR FOUNDATIONAL MA MANAO BUT O KNOWING THAT HAWAI'I, THE O OLELO HAVEN'T ENDED.

THE AKUA ARE STILL ALIVE AD THRIVING.

I DARE SAY MOVING INTO DIGL SPACES.

I'M STOP.

>> Yunji: I LOVE THAT.

ERIC, IF YOU CAN BUILD ON .

THERE IDEA THAT THERE ARE W STORIES TO BE TOLD.

SO MUCH OF WHAT YOU DO IS E THE AUDIENCE EXPERIENCE KID REFLECT THAT ON TO THE STA.

>> I THINK THAT'S ALMOST AF OUR WORK IS NEW, ORIGINAL K CREATED BY CONTEMPORARY AR.

BUT I ALWAYS CHALLENGE MYSO THINK ABOUT, LIKE, WHAT ARE TOOLS THAT THE YOUNG PEOPLE GOING TO HAVE?

AND, YOU KNOW, WE'RE CREATG ART THAT SORT OF REACHES BO THE ANCESTORS AND PROVIDES, BRINGS THOSE BEST STORIES FORWARD TO THEM.

BUT THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SET OF TOOLS.

LIKE A.I.

RIGHT NOW THE BIGGEST QUESN IS HOW DO YOU ASK REALLY GD QUESTION OF THESE MINUTES.

AND ART IS ALL ABOUT ASKING QUESTIONS.

IT ASKING QUESTIONS BETTERN ANYTHING THAT I KNOW OF, SO BEING ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, TH OUR YOUNG PEOPLE HOW TO COLLABORATE, HOW TO USE THR CREATIVITY.

WHAT ARE THE GREAT STORIEST HAVE INSPIRED THEM AND THER GENERATIONS AND THEN GIVE M WHOLE NEW SETS OF TOOLS AND PAINT BRUSHES TO PLAY WITH.

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO CREATE, BUT I'M SO EXCITED TO SEE.

>> Yunji: YEAH.

>> WHAT IS COMING.

>> Yunji: EMMA, YOU WORK WH A LOT OF EMERGING ARTIST.

WHAT IS YOUR LANDSCAPE OF W ART COMING OUT OF HAWAI'I ?

>> I CAN'T HELP MYSELF.

WHENEVER I HEAR THE WORD "I THINK OF MY AUNTIE, K.N.E.- KNEW.

WE'RE TIME TRAVELING.

BUT NEW ART IS I THINK SPID AND COMMITTED AND DEDICATED BELOVED AND IT'S ALWAYS BEN HERE.

SO I REALLY FEEL LIKE AS A SPACE, IS ABOUT ENSURING TT ARTISTS, INDIVIDUALS HAVE T THEY NEED TO BE ABLE TO CR.

SO PROVIDE A SPACE, TO SPAA SMALL AMOUNT OF FUNDING, TO PROVIDE CONNECTION TO AINA.

THOSE ARE THINGS WE TRY TOO BECAUSE IT'S HARD ENOUGH.

I REALLY FEEL LIKE BEING AO SUPPORT PEOPLE, IT'S REALLY DIFFICULT TO BE CREATIVE WN YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT FOOD.

GORINGS>>> YES.

>> BASIC NEEDS NEED TO BE .

GIVING PEOPLE AN OPPORTUNIO FEEL SAFE.

IT'S IN OUR NAME.

SPACE WHERE YOU'RE SAFE.

WHERE PEOPLE CAN FEEL SAFE.

I LOVED THE QUESTION ABOUTT IF I DON'T LIKE IT?

YES.

YOU DON'T LIKE EVERY FOOD T YOU EAT BUT YOU KEEP EATIN.

IT'S ABOUT FINDING WHAT DOS RESONATE.

THERE'S THIS PROCESSING THS IMPORTANT FOR US TO DO.

SO I AN INCREDIBLY INSPIREY THROWS THAT COME OUR WAY, I HOPE WE CAN CONTINUE TO SUT THEM SO THEY'VE CAN DO THE THINGS THAT THEY'RE MADE TO AND NOT WORRY ABOUT ALL THE REST.

>> Yunji: I'D LOVE TO HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS.

THE IDEA OF I DON'T LIKE TO I DON'T WANT TO DO THIS.

>> I LOVE THAT QUESTION.

I LOVE THAT QUESTION.

I LOVE THE FIRST QUESTION,, I WANT TO COME BACK TO, LIY ARTS?

THERE'S A PRESUMPTION WHY S MATTER.

IT'S A FAIR AND VALID QUES.

MAYBE IT DOESN'T.

WHAT IF IT DOESN'T.

AND BE OPEN TRULY TO THAT BECAUSE THE PANELIST THAT E ENGAMING WITH ON THIS PROGM HAVE COMMITTED OUR LIVES IE WAY TO ARTS IN VARYING FOR.

AND THAT IS -- FOR ALL OF , BEEN A MORE CHALLENGING PAH THAN TO BE A LAWYER -- I MN ALL THESE THINGS ARE HARD,T IOLANI GRAD, MANY OF MY FRIENDSES WENT THE TEMPERA.

TO BE AN ARTIST IS LIKE KU, TEN YEARS OF PEANUT BUTTERD JELLY SANDWICHES BEFORE I D KIT MY TEACHING JOB.

IT'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE FER FAMINE.

THAT'S THE NAME OF IT.

TO SAY IT MAY NOT MATTER AH TO EVERYONE, AND THAT'S OK.

I COME BACK TO, LET'S MANAA WORLD IN WHICH THERE IS NO.

HOWEVER YOU DEFINE IT.

HAS THERE BEEN A PERSON INE AUDIENCE WHO WAS NOT MOVEDR TOUCHED BY SOME FORM OF NOURISHMENT AND INSPIRATIOT CAME FROM A CREATIVE SOURC?

WHATEVER THAT IS.

FINDS ME THAT PERSON.

I WANT TO TALKS TO THEM.

I WANT TO ASK, REALLY?

MAYBE THAT EXISTS.

WHAT BRINGS THEM ALIVE?

WHERE THEY FEEL THE MOST A?

WHAT IT IS?

IT COULD BE MATH, BUT I'VE WRITTEN A MOVIE ABOUT KARL SAGEN, ONE OF GREAT SCIENT.

TO HIM SCIENCE WAS ART.

WAS CREATIVITY.

WHY SHOULD ART MATTER AS MR GET FUNDING WHEN THERE'S ME IMPORTANT ISSUE.

THANKSTHAT'S NOT HOW YOU S, VIEWER.

THERE ARE ISSUES LIKES HOMELESSNESS.

IT'S VALID BUT THAT'S BEEND TO WEAPONIZE AGAINST ART OL IN THE BLANK OVER WHATEVER PROGRAM IS NOT.

TODAY AT HISTORIC THING.

YOU MAKE A BIN BINARY TO RE THING AND PUT DOWN THE OTH.

HOMELESSNESS IS AS IMPORTAD PROBABLY MORE IMPORTANT OFN ISSUE THAN THE ARTS.

THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY SHOE HELD NEXT TO ONE ANOTHER TO DEMINISH THE OTHER.

THAT'S KIND OF MY ANSWER.

IT MAY NOT MATTER BUT PRACE SOMETHING.

IS WHAT I WOULD SAY TO THAT PERSON.

WRITE A SONG.

WRITE A POEM.

READ A BOOK.

GO TO A MUSEUM AND SEE IF E THING MOVES YOU AND ASK WH.

>> Yunji: WE HAVE ABOUT TWO PNGTSZ MINUTES LEFT.

FROM EVERYTHING YOU'VE HEAD TONIGHT, WHY DO YOU THINK E ARTS PLEATER?

>> BECAUSE ARTS IS LIFE.

WITHOUT LIFE, LIFE -- ART,O LIFE.

EVERY ASPECT OF LIFE IS AR.

THEY EXIST SIMULTANEOUSLY TOGETHER.

YOU CANNOT HAVE ONE WITHOUE OTHER.

THIS IS WHY IT'S SO VERY, Y IMPORTANT.

EVERYONE HERE SAID BEAUTIFL THINGS ABOUT HOW IMPORTANTT IS.

FOR ME IT'S ABOUT THAT DEDICATION, TAKING THAT TIO BE A PART OF THAT WITH THE COMMUNITY.

AND WHEN I DIDN'T HAVE NOTG TO SUSTAIN ME, IT WAS THE COMMUNITY THAT DID.

I GAVE WHAT I COULD, AND ID ALL THE CONTRIBUTIONS TO TE COMMUNITY.

AND I WISHED EVERY DAY THAE STUDENTS WOULD BE LATE SO I WOULD HAVE FIVE DOLLARS TOA PLATE LUNCH BECAUSE THAT PE LUNCH SUSTAINED ME WHEN THE WAS NOTHING ELSE.

MY DEDICATION DROVE PLEA MO CONTINUING.

THAT WAS 1982.

19 -- 1972.

THIS IS 2025.

FROM THAT TIME, I'VE GROWN.

MY COMMITMENT HAS GROWN.

MY DEDICATION HAS GROWN.

AS I SAID EARLIER, I'M GOOR 30 MORE YEARS AND I HOPE EVERYONE HERE IS GOOD FOR 0 MORE YEARS.

AT THE END OF THE DAY, I WS TO BE IMMORTAL.

TO GIVE MY HEART AND SOUL E ARTS SO A HUNDRED YEARS FRM NOW, PEOPLE WOULD SAY REMER KUMU?

HE WROTE A THOUSAND SONGS D IT'S PLAYED ON THE RADIO EY DAY BUT WE DON'T KNOW WHO E THAT.

IT'S OKAY.

I SHALL LIVE ON FOREVER.

THAT'S WHAT I THINK ABOUT E ARTS.

>> Yunji: THAT IS SUCH A WONDERFUL WAY TO END OUR DISCUSSIONENT TO.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

MAHALO TO ALL OF OUR GUESTS TONIGHT, AND TO YOU AT HOMR BEING PART OF THIS CONVERS.

WHAT WE'VE HEARD IS CLEAR E ARTS ARE NOT A LUXURY, THEN BE A LIFELINE.

THEY ARE ECC DRIVERS, CULTURAL TOUCHSTO, AND A POWERFUL FORCE FOR HG AND HOPE.

AND IT'S UP TO AF US TO ENSURE THEY REMAIN PF HAWAI'I'S FUTURE.

WE'LL BE BACK IN OCTOBER WH ANOTHER KAKOU IN OCTOBER.

T FIRST, NEXT WEEK ON INSIGH, GOVERNOR JOSH GREEN SIGNEDA BILL THIS YEAR OFFICIALLY DESIGNATING SEPTEMBER AS HAWAIIAN HISTORY MONTH.

THW LAW HONORS THE LEGACY OF QN LILI'UOKALANI AND RECOGNIZE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE NATIVE HAWAIIAN COMMUNITY TO OUR , PRESENT AND FUTURE.

PLEASEN US THEN.

I'M YUNJI DE NIESA AND GOOD NIGHT.