{"id":343581,"date":"2026-09-11T04:10:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T04:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/343581\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T04:10:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T04:10:54","slug":"lahaina-think-space-set-for-gathering-sept-18-in-new-york-city-maui-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/343581\/","title":{"rendered":"L\u0101hain\u0101 Think Space set for gathering Sept. 18 in New York City : Maui Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\"\"A Sept. 18 L\u0101hain\u0101 Think Space visit to New York City for a gathering will be the first time the L\u0101hain\u0101 wildfire remembrance project travels outside Hawai\u02bbi to a national audience. PC: Maui Public Art Corps<\/p>\n

L\u0101hain\u0101 Think Space will go on the road to New York City for an event on Sept. 18, marking the first time the Think Space experience extends beyond Hawai\u02bbi to a national audience, according to an announcement. The event is being organized through a collaboration of Maui County, Maui Public Arts Corps and New York University.<\/p>\n

Prompted by an invitation from the Hawai\u02bbi Club at NYU, the Asian\/Pacific\/American Institute at NYU and the Center for Collaborative Indigenous Research with Communities and Lands (Center CIRCL), the day-long campus experience recognizes that those who carry memories of Lahaina across oceans remain an essential part of the community\u2019s story and of the ongoing conversations about how communities remember and honor the more than 100 lives lost in the Aug. 8, 2023 Maui wildfires.<\/p>\n

The event is timed to coincide with the beginning of NYU\u2019s academic year, the university\u2019s 2026 \u201cOceans\u201d theme and the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11. \u201cThe gathering creates a meaningful bridge between Hawai\u02bbi and New York,\u201d the announcement says. \u201cThrough public dialogue, community storytelling and film, participants will explore how communities remember after tragedy, how stories travel across generations and geography, and how listening can shape meaningful acts of remembrance and community-centered memorialization grounded in lived experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

The day will feature\u00a0Listening Across Oceans: Story, Memory, and the Making of Memorials,\u00a0an interdisciplinary panel<\/a>\u00a0bringing together artists, cultural practitioners, students, government leaders and museum professionals to discuss how community voice can inform collective remembrance, public memory and approaches to memorialization. That evening, audiences will experience the\u00a0Hui Mo\u02bbolelo: L\u0101hain\u0101 Film\u00a0Showcase<\/a>, a collection of animated short films inspired by intergenerational talk-story recordings with Lahaina residents and their loved ones, transforming memories of place, family, humor, culture and belonging into moving works of art.<\/p>\n

\u201cPart of my job now is not just rebuilding a town for economic development, but to restore hope for the community,\u201d said Erin Wade, Maui County deputy managing director. \u201cWe are focusing on the things that brought joy and connection to ensure the continuation of life can happen. I would invite all of you to engage with us as we continue to reshape, remember and rebuild the Lahaina that each and every one of us loves and collectively wants to share with the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur work exploring community-centered memorialization in L\u0101hain\u0101 has been strengthened by the generosity of communities that have walked this path before us,\u201d said Kelly White, founder and chair of Maui Public Art Corps and administrator of the County of Maui Public Art Program. \u201cOver the past year, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum has shared invaluable insight from its own experience stewarding memory, loss, and public dialogue. As New York marks the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11, we come not only to share Lahaina\u2019s stories, but to listen, to learn, and to honor the profound responsibility of creating places of remembrance that are shaped first by the people they serve.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Sissy Lake-Farm, cultural consultant for the County of Maui Public Art Program. PC: Maui Public Art Corps<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us to take this all the way to you folks in New York City, this is a first for us,\u201d said Sissy Lake-Farm, cultural consultant for the County of Maui Public Art Program. \u201cHaving you consider us and wanting to be part of this feels very appropriate. We are honoring and looking at the diaspora because their connectivity and opinions matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAny excuse to help Hawai\u02bbi come to New York is a valuable opportunity,\u201d said Pua Farm, president of the NYU Hawai\u02bbi Club. \u201cThe Hawaiian community at NYU is so tight, and this project is so gorgeous because it helps us stay connected to our roots and who we are even when we are across the ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis activation creates a meaningful bridge between Hawai\u02bbi and New York,\u201d said Amita Manghnani, associate director of NYU\u2019s Asian\/Pacific\/American Institute. \u201cIt is an opportunity to explore how storytelling helps communities remember, heal and imagine meaningful forms of remembrance grounded in lived experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

The collaboration also reflects an ongoing exchange between Maui and organizations that have navigated their own journeys of remembrance. Leaders from the National September 11 Memorial & Museum have shared insights with Maui County and Maui Public Art Corps as they explore community-centered approaches to remembrance, offering lessons from preserving memory, stewarding community dialogue and developing places of public remembrance.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am really impressed and in awe of how attentively you are integrating the community,\u201d said Amy Weinstein, vice president for Oral History and Museum Collections at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. \u201cYou are genuinely starting with the community, whereas for us, that was a decision we had to come to later. You\u2019re already partway there.\u201d<\/p>\n

While rooted in the story of Lahaina, the Sept. 18 gathering also asks universal questions: How do communities remember? Who carries memory across generations and geography? And how can artists, institutions and community members work together to create places that honor both loss and life? By bringing these conversations to one of the world\u2019s leading universities, Maui County, Maui Public Art Corps and NYU hope to deepen understanding of community-centered memorialization while fostering dialogue among students, scholars, artists and communities about the role storytelling plays in carrying memory across generations and place.<\/p>\n

The public is invited to attend both the daytime panel discussion at NYU (20 Cooper Square<\/a>) and the evening\u00a0Hui Mo\u02bbolelo: L\u0101hain\u0101 Film Showcase\u00a0at MoMA (11 West 53rd street<\/a>). Admission is free, but advance RSVP is required for admission. To RSVP and find full event information, visit\u00a0mauipublicart.org\/nyu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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