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Keynote Panel Presentation / Thursday, March 27
HULA – PAST, PRESENT, & FUTURE
A special panel discussion about traditional hula as a changing art-form from an older generational perspective. Focusing on the transfer of knowledge from Kumu to haumäna and the cycle from one generation to the next, the panel consists of kumu hula with different perspectives and backgrounds but each to relay a little of the training, the commitment, the sacredness, and a perpetual respect for the standards of the past in the teaching of hula. Participants will find many gems of knowledge from these revered teachers that will hold relevance to their respective teaching regardless of their subject matter or expertise. Our panelists include:
Kumu Patience Namaka Bacon		Kumu Joan Lindsey
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Kumu Kimo Alama Keaulana		Kumu Edith McKinzie
Keynote Presentation / Friday, March 28
COMMUNITY BUILDING
Puanani Burgess is a community building facilitator, trainer and consultant. Based in Hawai'i, her work takes her all over the U.S. and the Pacific. She is also a poet, cultural translator and has been a lecturer with the Department of Urban and Regional Planning of the University of Hawai'i. She was a Weinberg Fellow and the Myles and Zilphia Horton Chairholder for the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee. She is noted for her experience in community, family and values-based economic development, mediation and storytelling processes as part of conflict transformation, and in developing community-based organizations.

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