HONOLULU — A new exhibit coinciding with the 13th Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture features the works of two Kānaka Maoli artists, Noah Harders and Nanea Lum, through June 18 at Honolulu Hale.

What You Need To Know

  • Harders’ photographic works of his floral projects incorporates the making of lei to turn found organic objects into Oceanic expression

  • Lum presents digital prints on kapa with photos that document Nuʻuanu Stream

  • “Hawaiian Futurisms” will have an opening event, 4 to 6 p.m. June 12

The Mayor’s Office of Culture and the Arts and the Pacific Arts Association present “Hawaiian Futurisms,” in which Harders and Lum weave ancestral knowledge into kānaka methods of cultural expression, creating art that takes a look at the problems of the present and “embodies the actualization of the futures by looking to the past for guidance, protocols and answers,” according to a news release.

Harders’ photographic works of his floral projects incorporates the making of lei to turn found organic objects into Oceanic expression. Flowers growing, picking and weaving or stringing the flowers together, the receiving of lei – all “speak to the sum of the whole” as the “individual relating and reverberating within the collective.”

Lum presents digital prints on kapa with photos that document Nuʻuanu Stream. This series of work will coincide with a larger temporary public art video projection, “Nuʻuanu Streaming” that takes place on June 15 at Nuuanu Avenue and Hotel Street. The projection memorializes the freshwater stream that once flowed through Chinatown with a video projection that will “flood” the street with a moving image of water offering a collective remembrance of the wai that once flowed and nourished the area.

“Hawaiian Futurisms” will have an opening event, 4 to 6 p.m. June 12, and will be on view through June 18 at Honolulu Hale at 530 South King Street, Honolulu.

In conjunction with the exhibit, the Pacific Arts Association will host a symposium and artist talks, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on June 15, inviting the community to join in the discussion around art and literature. The event will be held at Mission Memorial Auditorium at 550 South King Street, Honolulu. Information and registration.

The public video projection by Nanea Lum and collaborators, “Nuʻuanu Streaming,” is 7 to 9 p.m. June 15 at Nuuanu Avenue and Hotel Street. The event is co-sponsored by the Mayor’s Office of Culture and the Arts, Hawaiʻi Contemporary and Downtown Art Center, and is funded by Native Arts & Culture Foundation 2023 Lift-Early Career Support from Native Artists Program.