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SEPTEMBER 2024

FIRST FRIDAY

Free admission, all ages welcome. Guided tours of the Hula Kiʻi exhibit, live jazz and soul music with local bands Banana Jazz and Mango Season Music, and the Art+Flea urban market. Museum galleries will be open.

Photo: August 2024 First Friday at Capitol Modern.
SEPTEMBER EVENTS

OPEN ON LABOR DAY (9/02)
Capitol Modern will be open on Monday, September 2, 2024. 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., free admission. Enjoy free street parking and reduced traffic in downtown Honolulu during this state holiday!

Photo: museum visitors in the “Our Sea of Island ” exhibit. Artwork in photo: Saumolia Puapuaga, on loan to the Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

FIRST FRIDAY
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 5-9 PM
Live music and Art + Flea

•   Guided tours of the “Hula Kiʻi” exhibit, ground floor, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

•   Banana Jazz and Mango Season Music in the outdoor Sculpture Garden.

•   Art+Flea urban market on the outdoor Grand Lanai.

•   All museum galleries open.

•   Food and beverage vendors.

FIRST FRIDAY


FRIDAY NIGHT TEMPO: THE FUSION
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 5:00 - 9:00 PM

Free, family-friendly evening of live music at Capitol Modern. Details to be announced.

Galleries and Sculpture Garden will be open, with Art + Flea urban market and food/beverage vendors.

FRIDAY NIGHT TEMPO



EXHIBITS

Free admission, Monday - Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Closed on Sundays and some state holidays.

School groups are welcomed! For more information on bringing a school group (or other group), please contact Shirley Lam, Museum Education Coordinator, at info@CapitolModern.org or (808) 586-0900.

Photo: museum visitors viewing the “Pilina” exhibit.

HULA KIʻI
THROUGH DECEMBER 2024

Hula Kiʻi is an ancient practice involving the use of a puppet and/or your own body to create images and share stories.

Curated by the Hula Preservation Society.
ʻAI Ā MANŌ
THROUGH DECEMBER 2024

Artworks by Native Hawaiian contemporary artists and culture bearers, selected from the Art in Public Places Collection of the Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

Curated by Kapulani Landgraf, Kaili Chun, and Drew Broderick.


NĀ AKUA ĀKEA
THROUGH DECEMBER 2024

Display of the artistic and weaving endeavors of Kumulā‘au and Haunani Balino-Sing and students. Ancestral images, demigods, goddesses, shapeshifters, and ʻaumakua.

Sponsored by the National Organization for Traditional Artists Exchange (NOTAE).
PILINA
THROUGH NOVEMBER 2024

Artworks by Native Hawaiian contemporary artists and culture bearers, selected from the Art in Public Places Collection of the Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

Curated by Kapulani Landgraf, Kaili Chun, and Drew Broderick.


OUR SEA OF ISLANDS
THROUGH NOVEMBER 2024

Rather than considering these islands as an exotic other, scholar and cultural practitioner Epeli Hauʻofa coined the term “Our Sea of Islands” and challenged the world to see the Pacific region as a metropolis for engagement of all kinds.

Curated by Dr. C. Makanani Salā and Alyssa Chau of Gravitas Pasifika.
COMMUNITY MURAL
THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2024

Artist and illustrator Solomon Enos will be in the ground floor POD (Passion on Display) gallery, Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and during the First Friday and Friday Night Tempo events. The public is invited to add a dot of paint to the mural, which will be the basis for the “waterless pool” State Capitol Pools project.


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