Events

Join a docent for a themed tour, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum. Free with museum admission.

Directed by Amélie Ravalec. 2019. UK. 80 min. A journey into art, madness and the unconscious. An exploration of visionary artists and the creative impulse, from the Flemish Masters of the Renaissance to the avant-garde movement ...

Join Violetta Beretta and the Cherry Blossom Cabaret for a romp into the woods and through the magical doors of The Glass Slipper Cabaret, the hottest hot-spot in the Enchanted Forest! We’re celebrating our love of all things fairy...

Docent: Kaui Philpotts Cane Firesby Kaui Philpotts In the time after World War II when the Hawaiian islands were still blanketed with fields of sugar cane and pineapple, the myriad of ethnic races living in plantation camps have only j...

Join Violetta Beretta and the Cherry Blossom Cabaret for a romp into the woods and through the magical doors of The Glass Slipper Cabaret, the hottest hot-spot in the Enchanted Forest! We’re celebrating our love of all things fairy...

Directed by Amélie Ravalec. 2019. UK. 80 min. A journey into art, madness and the unconscious. An exploration of visionary artists and the creative impulse, from the Flemish Masters of the Renaissance to the avant-garde movement ...

Join a docent for a themed tour, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum. Free with museum admission.

Directed by Amélie Ravalec. 2019. UK. 80 min. A journey into art, madness and the unconscious. An exploration of visionary artists and the creative impulse, from the Flemish Masters of the Renaissance to the avant-garde movement ...

Directed by Amélie Ravalec. 2019. UK. 80 min. A journey into art, madness and the unconscious. An exploration of visionary artists and the creative impulse, from the Flemish Masters of the Renaissance to the avant-garde movement ...

Join a docent for a tour featuring the exhibition Constellation—drawing in space by Marian Bijlenga, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum. Free with museum admission.

Kailua-based Erin Smith Vocal Coaching is a popular program for vocal, stage and instrument training. Erin and her team of coaches work with students to be performance ready, spending hours in the studio rehearsing in a stage-like enviro...

Docent: Kaui Philpotts Cane Firesby Kaui Philpotts In the time after World War II when the Hawaiian islands were still blanketed with fields of sugar cane and pineapple, the myriad of ethnic races living in plantation camps have only j...

Kailua-based Erin Smith Vocal Coaching is a popular program for vocal, stage and instrument training. Erin and her team of coaches work with students to be performance ready, spending hours in the studio rehearsing in a stage-like enviro...

Join a docent for a tour featuring the exhibition Constellation—drawing in space by Marian Bijlenga, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum. Free with museum admission.

Open air artists have a history of wanting to capture nature as they experience it. Wahi Pana: A Sense of Place showcases artwork informed by the narratives of the wahi pana, sacred places, throughout the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaiians ...

Presented by Hawaiian Airlines® Bank of Hawaii World Elite Mastercard® Inspired by Marian Bijlenga’s textile exhibition Constellation-drawing in space, this event will be an elegant affair under the stars (think, MET ...

Humans have been manipulating light for centuries, enhancing architectural spaces with features such as the stained glass window. This exhibition focuses attention on three works from the museum’s permanent collection that rely on ...

Directed by Christopher Matoko Yogi. USA. 2018. 75 min. August at Akiko's is a mystical film that lives in the seams between dream, reality, and memory with a time-signature all its own. Armed with just his suitcase and a sax, cosmo...

Directed by Christopher Matoko Yogi. USA. 2018. 75 min. August at Akiko's is a mystical film that lives in the seams between dream, reality, and memory with a time-signature all its own. Armed with just his suitcase and a sax, cosmo...

Directed by Christopher Matoko Yogi. USA. 2018. 75 min. August at Akiko's is a mystical film that lives in the seams between dream, reality, and memory with a time-signature all its own. Armed with just his suitcase and a sax, cosmo...

Part of TALES OF EUROPE program. Directed by Salvatore Allocca. Italy. 2017. 80 min. Italian and Arabic with English subtitles. Set just after the 2011 Arab Spring, Italian filmmaker Salvatore Allocca's award-winning comedy fol...

Join a docent for a tour featuring the exhibition Constellation—drawing in space by Marian Bijlenga, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum. Free with museum admission.

Part of TALES OF EUROPE program.  Directed by Djordje Markovic. Serbia I Croatia. 2018. 60 min. English and Serbian with English subtitles.When Aleksandar Zograf, renowned Serbian cartoonist, stumbled on The Adventures of Kaktus Ki...

Part of TALES OF EUROPE program. Directed by Salvatore Allocca. Italy. 2017. 80 min. Italian and Arabic with English subtitles. Set just after the 2011 Arab Spring, Italian filmmaker Salvatore Allocca's award-winning comedy fol...

Directed by Christopher Matoko Yogi. USA. 2018. 75 min. August at Akiko's is a mystical film that lives in the seams between dream, reality, and memory with a time-signature all its own. Armed with just his suitcase and a sax, cosmo...

Part of TALES OF EUROPE program.  Directed by Djordje Markovic. Serbia I Croatia. 2018. 60 min. English and Serbian with English subtitles.When Aleksandar Zograf, renowned Serbian cartoonist, stumbled on The Adventures of Kaktus Ki...

Directed by Wolfgang Fischer. Germany | Austria. 2018. 94 min. English and German with English subtitles.Premiering at the Berlinale, where it opened the Panorama Special section, STYX is a work of unrelenting intensity and technical bri...

Directed by Jake Clennell. 2019. India / USA. 106 min. English and Kannada with English subtitles.Iyengar Yoga is universally respected, practiced worldwide and credited by multitudes as life-transforming, but because its founder, B.K.S....

The second in a two-part series featuring contemporary women artists, 21st Century Women focuses attention on works created between 2000 and 2018. Today’s artists continue to push beyond conventional notions of subject matter, mate...

Directed by Jake Clennell. 2019. India / USA. 106 min. English and Kannada with English subtitles.Iyengar Yoga is universally respected, practiced worldwide and credited by multitudes as life-transforming, but because its founder, B.K.S....

Part of TALES OF EUROPE program.  Written and Directed by Rayhana. France I Greece I Algeria. 2017. 90 min. Arabic with English subtitles.The debut feature from Franco-Algerian director and playwright Rayhana Obermeyer is an absolu...

Directed by Jake Clennell. 2019. India / USA. 106 min. English and Kannada with English subtitles.Iyengar Yoga is universally respected, practiced worldwide and credited by multitudes as life-transforming, but because its founder, B.K.S....

Directed by Jake Clennell. 2019. India / USA. 106 min. English and Kannada with English subtitles.Iyengar Yoga is universally respected, practiced worldwide and credited by multitudes as life-transforming, but because its founder, B.K.S....

Directed by Wolfgang Fischer. Germany | Austria. 2018. 94 min. English and German with English subtitles.Premiering at the Berlinale, where it opened the Panorama Special section, STYX is a work of unrelenting intensity and technical bri...

Part of TALES OF EUROPE program.  Written and Directed by Rayhana. France I Greece I Algeria. 2017. 90 min. Arabic with English subtitles.The debut feature from Franco-Algerian director and playwright Rayhana Obermeyer is an absolu...

Directed by Wolfgang Fischer. Germany | Austria. 2018. 94 min. English and German with English subtitles.Premiering at the Berlinale, where it opened the Panorama Special section, STYX is a work of unrelenting intensity and technical bri...

Directed by Wolfgang Fischer. Germany | Austria. 2018. 94 min. English and German with English subtitles.Premiering at the Berlinale, where it opened the Panorama Special section, STYX is a work of unrelenting intensity and technical bri...

Directed by Andrey Paounov. USA | Italy. 100 min.Ten years after the passing of his wife and creative partner, Jeanne-Claude, Christo sets out to realize The Floating Piers, a project they conceived together many years before. Boasting u...

As a self-described "Jewish kid from Hollywood," Glen Grant became one of Hawai‘i's most beloved teachers and Hawaiian historians. He popularized the term "Chicken Skin" and left a legacy of ghost stories that still scare and intri...

Consisting of some 50,000 verses, the Shahnameh, or Epic of the Persian Kings, follows the history of the Persian Empire from its mythical origins, and is one of the great classics of world literature. The Shahnameh’s stories provi...

Part of TALES OF EUROPE program.  Directed by Barbet Schroeder. France | Switzerland | Myanmar. 2017. 100 min.The third in his “Trilogy of Evil,” Barbet Schroeder has made yet another compelling documentary that demands...

Part of TALES OF EUROPE program.  Directed by Barbet Schroeder. France | Switzerland | Myanmar. 2017. 100 min.The third in his “Trilogy of Evil,” Barbet Schroeder has made yet another compelling documentary that demands...

Directed by Andrey Paounov. USA | Italy. 100 min.Ten years after the passing of his wife and creative partner, Jeanne-Claude, Christo sets out to realize The Floating Piers, a project they conceived together many years before. Boasting u...

Directed by Andrey Paounov. USA | Italy. 100 min.Ten years after the passing of his wife and creative partner, Jeanne-Claude, Christo sets out to realize The Floating Piers, a project they conceived together many years before. Boasting u...

Directed by Andrey Paounov. USA | Italy. 100 min.Ten years after the passing of his wife and creative partner, Jeanne-Claude, Christo sets out to realize The Floating Piers, a project they conceived together many years before. Boasting u...

Part of TALES OF EUROPE program.  Directed by Malgorzata Szumowska. Poland. 2018. 91 min. Polish with English subtitles.Jury Grand Prize winner at Berlinale. With a particularly memorable opening scene, Mug tosses the audience into...

Part of TALES OF EUROPE program.  Directed by Christian Frosch. 2018. Austria | Luxembourg. 137 min. English, German, Hebrew, and Yiddish with English subtitles.A well-respected politician and local farmer, Franz Murer is put on tr...

Part of TALES OF EUROPE program.  Directed by Malgorzata Szumowska. Poland. 2018. 91 min. Polish with English subtitles.Jury Grand Prize winner at Berlinale. With a particularly memorable opening scene, Mug tosses the audience into...

Part of TALES OF EUROPE program.  Directed by Christian Frosch. 2018. Austria | Luxembourg. 137 min. English, German, Hebrew, and Yiddish with English subtitles.A well-respected politician and local farmer, Franz Murer is put on tr...

Before the 19th century, only organic pigments such as indigo and dayflower, which faded quickly when exposed to ultraviolet light, could produce the color blue in Japanese prints. Therefore, when the synthetic, highly resilient pigment ...