Teaching the Hawaiʻi Triennial! 4 Part Community Workshop Series
Dates: Saturday, October 9, 16, 23 and 30, 2021
Time: 3:30–5:00pm HST
Location: Online Via Zoom
Cost: Free!
PLEASE NOTE: While this workshop series was previously planned to take place in-person at Hanahau'oli School, they will now be facilitated ONLINE via Zoom in response to the recent surge in Covid-19 cases on O'ahu. Thank you for your support and your personal efforts to maintain the safety and well-being of our community.
The Hawai‘i Triennial 2022 (HT22) is an eleven week arts festival that will take place February 18 – May 8, 2022. It is framed around the fluid concept of Pacific Century - E Ho‘omau no Moananuiākea, interweaving themes of history, place, and identity within the context of Hawaiʻi’s unique location at the confluence of Asia-Pacific and Oceania. This workshop series is designed for educators and community members who want to use the HT22 as an opportunity for teaching and learning with students of all ages.
Art is a means of telling stories: How do the artists tell their stories? How do we listen to community stories? How do we tell our stories? This community engagement workshop series seeks to listen and create conversation with local and global communities about HT22. The sessions will support local educators and community members through the process of integrating some of the ideas highlighted in HT22 into their spring semester curriculum, and will offer opportunities for bringing students to the Triennial, hopefully even to revisit the spaces and engage with the artwork over time. The series will also support the development of community leadership opportunities for young people.
The series will consist of four online workshops on October 9, 16, 23, and 30, 2021. The in-depth workshops will provide information about HT22 themes, artists, and exhibition sites. Each participant in the workshop series will also receive a free copy of the HT22 monograph, featuring a set of essays centered around the Spring 2022 Triennial theme of Pacific Century – E Ho‘omau no Moananuiākea and descriptions of each of the artists participating in the Triennial.
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
Participants will be able to:
Learn more about the global and local artists in the HT22 triennial
Learn more about how the artists integrate themes of sustainability, environmental awareness, place, and history into their work
Try out some educational activities with the group/brainstorm ideas with other teachers on how to integrate these themes into their curriculum.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Dr. Leilehua Lanzilotti is a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) musician dedicated to the arts of our time. A “leading composer-performer” (The New York Times), she is the recipient of a 2020 Native Launchpad Artist Award. Her “conceptually potent” works often deal with unique instrument-objects, such as The Noguchi Museum commissions involving sound sculptures. “Lanzilotti’s score brings us together across the world in remembrance, through the commitment of shared sonic gestures.” (Cities & Health) As a recording artist, Lanzilotti has played on albums from Björk’s Vulnicura Live and Joan Osborne’s Love and Hate, to Dai Fujikura's Chance Monsoon. Dr. Lanzilotti’s current music commissions include a new work for the GRAMMY-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth—supported in part by the National Science Foundation—centering indigenous ways of knowing and indigenous language revitalization.
A dedicated educator, Dr. Lanzilotti has developed community engagement programs for those age 5 to 50. She was artist faculty at New York University (where she developed curriculum for the two-semester contemporary performance course series), an Assistant Professor at University of Northern Colorado where she was also the Director of the contemporary music ensemble, and summer faculty at Casalmaggiore International Music Festival, Wintergreen Performing Arts, Montecito International Music Festival, and Point CounterPoint Festival. Dr. Lanzilotti was co-founder and artistic consultant for Kalikolehua – El Sistema Hawaiʻi and has taught extensively in Panama through both the Associación National de Conciertos and the Fundación Sinfonía Concertante de Panamá. She was recently appointed Director of Community Engagement for Hawaiʻi Contemporary, connecting Hawaiʻi and the Pacific through contemporary art.