HAWAIIAN MISSION HOUSES ANNOUNCES THE RETURN OF OUR ANNUAL HUAKAʻI
Huakaʻi: Ma Ō Ka ‘Aina: Ma Ō Ke Ka
Saturday, September 14, 2024, 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
The Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Monarch Room
2259 Kalākaua Ave, Honolulu, HI 96815
This special evening celebrates the journey the missionaries made to Hawaiʻi and around Hawaiʻi and the Pacific more than two hundred years ago.
Our evening begins with guests enjoying sunset specialty cocktails on the lawn overlooking Waikīkī Beach with Lēʻahi (Diamond Head) in view, while perusing an exciting silent auction. A seated dinner will be served followed by a special themed program of mele, oli, and hula, interwoven with HMH’s award-winning historical theatre portrayals, and a LIVE auction.
The history of the missionary impact on Hawaiian culture is complex and multi-faceted. HMH seeks to share our historic site and interpret the early to mid-19th Century period in Hawaiʻi and the stories of the missionaries, native Hawaiians, and others, whose lives intersected on this and associated sites throughout the state of Hawaiʻi. In 2024, we expanded on our interpretative materials and programs around our reconstruction of the 1823 hale pili o nā mikanele (grass house in the missionary style), built using cultural practitioner leadership and designed with sources from journals in the HMH archives.
Your support for Huaka’i helps us host almost 50 schools and over 3,400 students on our site to learn about Hawai‘i’s history from our resources, and offer Title I schools scholarships and bus transportation for field trips.We ask for your support so that we can continue to expand access and tell this rich history.
HAWAIIAN MISSION HOUSES, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH HAWAIIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE NEXT INSTALLMENT OF OUR ARCHIVES UNCORKED SERIES
ARCHIVES UNCORKED: WE DID WHAT? WHEN?
Friday, October 11, 2024
553 South King St. Honolulu, HI 96813
From 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM HST
Hawaiian Historical Society (HHS) along with Hawaiian Mission Houses (HMH) will host a collaborative event on Friday, October 11, 2024, from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm in person at our shared campus. Archives Uncorked: We did what? When? will feature curated exhibits from both organizations highlighting quirky and peculiar firsts that will entice even the most avid trivia extraordinaire. Ticket includes: a four-station tour, one drink, one personal charcuterie box, and one custom swag bag. Additional beverages will be available for purchase. Tickets are $65 for members and $75 for nonmembers per person. Gates open at 5:00pm.
October’s theme explores some of the first appearances on the islands from tooth extractors and sewing machines to counterfeit money and a train robbery. Guests will be treated to four special-access experiences. First, take a pull on the printing press and learn about the first publications in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi. Next, view early medical instruments in one of the original mission houses, while discovering Hawaiʻi’s first surgeries and treatments in Western medicine. In the Library Reading Room, interact with rare archival material and immerse yourself with the first written accounts of meteorological phenomena. Finally, explore the firsts of wine with a special tasting.This month we welcome guest sommelier, and librarian, Krystal Kakimoto from Bishop Museum. Join us for Archives Uncorked: We did what? When? for a night of firsts and experience the exclusive opportunity to tour the collections of two historically renowned organizations in one location. Come sip, snack, and learn about Hawaiʻi’s history.
Archives Uncorked
Friday, October 11, 2024
From 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM HST
Archives and Inquiry Speaker Series
On Zoom
HAWAIIAN MISSION HOUSES IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE NEXT INSTALLMENT OF OUR ARCHIVES AND INQUIRY VIRTUAL SPEAKER SERIES
ARCHIVES AND INQUIRY VIRTUAL SPEAKER SERIES: “Connecting the Kingdom: Sailing Vessels in the Early Hawaiian Monarchy” by Dr. Peter Mills of University of Hawaiʻi – Hilo.
Tuesday, October 15, 2024, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm HST
On Zoom
Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives is pleased to announce the next installment of the Archives and Inquiry Virtual Speaker Series on Tuesday, October 15, 2024 from 11am to 12pm Hawaiian Standard Time. The Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives’ Virtual Speaker Series highlights the discoveries and work of diverse history and humanities scholars that work with Hawaiian Mission Houses’ extensive archives, and whose work informs our contemporary world. The Hawaiian Mission Houses’ Virtual Speaker Series Archives and Inquiry, is an hour long presentation beginning with the guest speakers and end with Q& A from the audience. This presentation will be held on Zoom.
In this groundbreaking work, Peter Mills reveals a wealth of insight into the emergence of the Hawaiian nation-state from sources mostly ignored by colonial and post-colonial historians alike. By examining how early Hawaiian chiefs appropriated Western sailing technology to help build their island nation, Mills presents the fascinating history of sixty Hawaiian-owned schooners, brigs, barks, and peleleu canoes. While these vessels have often been dismissed as examples of chiefly folly, Mills highlights their significance in Hawaiʻi’s rapidly evolving monarchy, and aptly demonstrates how the monarchy’s own nineteenth-century sailing fleet facilitated fundamental transformations of interisland tributary systems, alliance building, exchange systems, and emergent forms of Indigenous capitalism.
The talk will be on Zoom at this link:
Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 834 5996 6594
Passcode: archives
HAWAIIAN MISSION HOUSES ANNOUNCES THE RETURN OF OUR MELE SERIES
“I Ke Kapuaʻi o Mōʻīwahine Emma”
“In the Footsteps of Queen Emma”
Saturday, October 19, 2024
553 South King St, Honolulu, HI 96813
DOORS OPEN AT 5:30PM, PROGRAM BEGINS AT 6:30PM
(Honolulu, HI) Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives is excited to announce the return of our Mele Program, on hiatus since 2019. Join us on a musical journey in the footsteps of Queen Emma’s circumnavigation of Oʻahu in 1875 featuring the musicians and dancers of Hālau Mele, Kumu Sam ʻOhu Gon III and Kumu Mahealani Wong, and Hālau Hula Kamamolikolehua, Kumu Pohai Souza.
The program will be held on the beautiful Kahua Hoʻokipa Stage at the Hawaiian Mission Houses, 553 S. King St., Honolulu, HI 96813, on the Waikīkī side of Kawaiahaʻo Church. Seating will open at 5:30pm and the program will start at 6:30pm. Tickets are $40 per person. There will be a cash bar with beer, wine, water, and soft drinks.In 1875, Queen Emma journeyed around Oʻahu following her election loss to David Kalākaua. The arrangements were made by John Adams Kuakini Cummins to travel around Oʻahu starting at her home in Honolulu around through Makapuʻu, up the windward side of the island from Waimānalo to Kahuku, then through Waialua, Wahiawa, Moanalua, and back to her home. The entire journey took 3 weeks and was filled with entertainments hosted by prominent friends and officials. Through the mele, oli, and hula presented by the two hālau, we will present some of the important places and the stories of those places as we follow Queen Emma around Oʻahu.
The Return of our Mele Series
I Ke Kapuaʻi o Mōʻīwahine Emma
“In the Footsteps of Queen Emma”
