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Did you love “A Small Area of Land (Kaka’ako Earth Room)”? Please donate here to help artist Sean Connelly recuperate the cost of this installation

For 36 days in the spring of 2013, a 32,000 lb earth sculpture was formed in ii gallery in Kaka’ako. Handmade by artist Sean Connelly, with enormous help from over 60 individuals and 10 local businesses, this power object is called: “A Small Area of Land (Kaka’ako Earth Room).” Comprised of soil and sand from [...]

Artist Sean Connelly Fills Gallery With 32,000 lbs of Volcanic Soil and Coral Sand to Create Earth Sculpture in Kaka‘ako

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 4, 2013 Media Contact: Sarah Honda / 808-277-4484 sarah@interislandterminal.org Marissa Abadir / 808-343-0240 maabadir@yahoo.com   Artist Sean Connelly Fills Gallery With 32,000 lbs of Volcanic Soil and Coral Sand to Create Earth Sculpture in Kaka‘ako   ART EXHIBITION: A Small Area of Land (Kaka‘ako Earth Room) WHERE: ii gallery, 687 [...]

First Light Last Light by Friendly Falcons (Jeff Kurosaki + Tara Pelletier) special performance at R&D/ii Gallery – March 8 at 8pm

First Light Last Light by Friendly Falcons (Jeff Kurosaki + Tara Pelletier) special performance at R&D/ii Gallery – March 8 at 8pm First Light Last Light is a multimedia performance by the New York City-based collaborative Jeffrey Kurosaki and Tara Pelletier. The project explores a dialectic between “reason” and “intuition”. The tension between these is [...]

Hawaii Cocktail Week Seminar: Hendricks Tea and Cocktails // Sat Feb 23, 10:30AM-1PM

SAT, FEB 23, 10:30AM-1PM: Hendricks Tea and Cocktails PACIFIC SESSIONS: Tea, Cocktails, and Peculiarities. Settle in for tea while you enjoy a seminar from the botanically minded Ambassadors of Hendrick’s Gin. Mark Stoddard and David Piper trace the origins of this delightful daytime tradition and suggest unusually tasty enhancements for your cocktails. Additionally, a local [...]

Film Screening: HORI SMOKU SAILOR JERRY (Hawaii Cocktail Week film screening)

Thursday, February 21 7:00-9:00 PM R&D, 691 Auahi Street Sponsored by Sailor Jerry, Hawaii Cocktail Week & The Pacific Sessions presents: HORI SMOKU SAILOR JERRY SCREENING! Tatoos. Rum. Hotel Street. From WWII through the Vietnam Era, millions of U.S. GI’s spent time in Hawaii while serving in the Pacific Theater. Chinatown and Hotel Street in [...]

Mission Street Food 2-Day Event

Tickets on sale now for Mission Street Food Book “Ex-Libris” Book Talk and Dinner! Click here to purchase tickets!   “Ex-Libris” Book Talk Anthony Myint and Karen Leibowitz are creative thought leaders in the culinary, literary, non-profit, and entrepreneurial fields. The restaurant they co-founded was named one of the 10 best new restaurants in America by GQ. Their book, Mission Street [...]

LIVES OF KAKA‘AKO Theatrical Performance

Tickets on sale now for CO-LAB KAKA‘AKO! Click here to purchase tickets! Kumu Kahua Theatre in association with Interisland Terminal has embarked on a cutting edge program that will benefit area playwrights, directors, actors, and historians, appreciators of artistic expression and community members and visitors in O‘ahu. After an intensive master class in script and [...]

Lost and Found

Thursday / August 2 / 7pm / R&D (691 Auahi Street) Directed by Doug Walker, Lost & Found is a documentary based on the discovery of 30,000 black & white negatives found at a flea market in Pasadena, California. It’s a journey over 3 plus years of reuniting and sharing the images capturing stories if not told will [...]

Co-Lab Kaka’ako – New Voices Collaborative Writing Master Class

Aug 13 – Aug 25 /  R&D Writers, Directors, and Actors are all invited to submit applications to participate a unique collaborative writing opportunity to tell the story of Kaka’ako. This ground-breaking master class with Actors Studio life member and former faculty member Lisa Formosa-Parmigiano will begin accepting applications to participate throught July 13th. For [...]

Kanoa Zimmerman – Photography

Friday / July 20 – Aug 12 / 6-8pm / 687 Auahi Street Gallery You may have spotted his photos in Mollusk Surf shop’s collaboration with R 20th Century Design in the Hamptons last summer.  This summer, Interisland Terminal presents a solo show of recent work by Kanoa Zimmerman. Opening Friday, July 20, 6-8pm Co-presented by [...]

4 x 4 : Architecture and Design Film Series

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Aloha Friday Photozine Launch

Wednesday / June20 / 6:30pm / R&D Join us to celebrate the arrival of the much-awaited Aloha Friday #4! Started in 2010 by local DJ and photographer Grady Gillian, Aloha Friday joins a long tradition of photographers such as Daido Moriyama,  the Hamburger Eyes collective, and Martin Parr, who present photography to a wider public [...]

Ice Cream BAR&D

Saturday / June9 / 2pm & 4pm / R&D Highlighting Honolulu’s creative culinary talent, this edition of BAR&D kicks off the summer with a focus on ice-cream… yum! Presented by Prima Kailua, attendees will enjoy exclusive and unique flavors, varieties and interpretations of ice-cream. Prima’s pastry chef Alejandro Briceño, gelato-maker Kimberly Oi, and pastry chef Daniel [...]

Intellectual Property Panel

Saturday / May19 / 4:00 – 5:30pm / R&D Virtually all creators, as well as arts and cultural organizations, are faced today with licensing opportunities both as the owner (licensor) and potential licensee of intellectual property. Understanding licensing has never been more important, and various issues arising out of contractual licensing arrangements will be addressed [...]

Manufacturing Reality Documentary Film Series: The Tents

Thursday / May3 / 7:00pm / $20 / 691 Auahi St We teamed up with the Hawaii Fashion Incubator (Hifi) for a special screening of the fashion documentary, The Tents. We will be joined by Lynne Hanzawa OʻNeill, a New York fashion show producer who is prominently featured in the film, for a Q&A session [...]

‘Ike Kū‘oko‘a Liberating Knowledge – the Hawaiian Newspaper Initiative

Bring your laptops and join R&D for a type-scripting party hosted by Puakea Nogolmeier, Executive Director of Awaiaulu, and Kau‘i Sai-Dudoit, Project Manager of Ho‘olaupahi

Analog Swap Meet

Living in a digital age doesn’t have to mean we can’t celebrate and learn from the experience of the analog.

Manufacturing Reality Documentary Film Series: Something Ventured

Thursday / Apr5 / 7:00pm / $10 / 691 Auahi St Apple. Intel. Google. Cisco.Stratospheric successes with high stakes all around. Behind some of the world’s most revolutionary companies are a handful of men who (through timing, foresight, a keen ability to size up other people, and a lot of luck) saw opportunity where others [...]

R&D:Ex-Libris Presents – Peter Shaindlin / Citizen Steele

Thursday / Mar29 / 6:00pm / Free / Map The changing landscape for publishing is quickly diversifying opportunities for both readers and authors. Our Ex Libiris talk this month features the novella Citizen Steele by Peter Shaindlin, a businessman, fine art photographer and author living in Honolulu, Hawaii. Citizen Steele examines the application of abstract [...]

New Projects at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, a talk with Curator Joao Ribas

Saturday / Mar17 / 4:00pm / free / 691 Auahi St João Ribas is Curator of the MIT List Visual Arts Center. In his visit to R&D, Ribas will share some new projects and ideas he working on at List, connecting science, technology and the arts. Join us for a lively presentation and rich discussion of [...]

Manufacturing Reality Documentary Film Series: The City Dark

Thursday / Mar1 / 7:00pm / $10 / 691 Auahi St In March, we continue our documentary film series “Manufacturing Reality” – housed in a micro-cinema setting at the R&D bookstore and feature a R&D-related twist: Admission to each film will include a chance to win a book from the R&D bookshop. Our film this [...]

R&D:Ex-Libris Presents – The Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection of Polynesian Art

The collection of Mark and Carolyn Blackburn, one of the greatest private collections of Polynesian art in the world, encompasses this broad field of artistic endeavor.

iOS Developer Meetup

Monday / Feb27 / 6:00pm-8:00PM / Free / 691 Auahi St A roving band of local iOS developers is stopping at R&D from 6-8PM Monday. If you’re a developer interested in talking about building, marketing, supporting iOS applications, come down and join Chad Podoski and the rest of the iOS devs.  

Code For America Fellows

Friday / Feb24 / 3:00pm-7:00PM / Free / 691 Auahi St Honolulu’s Code For America Fellows will be at R&D from 3PM to close. Learn more about this program and discuss your ideas for open data and open government. Honolulu was one of 8 cities in the US awarded a CFA grant. Learn more about [...]

Hawaii’s 5-0: AIGA Award Winners Traveling Exhibition

Tuesday-Friday / Feb7 – Feb10 / Free / Map

Did you miss the 2011 5-O Awards Show? Now’s your chance to see all of the winning entries from the Awards of Excellence & Top Student Winners to the Top Print and Web Winners! The full Traveling Exhibit is now on display downtown at R&D, but hurry! It’s only there this week!

As an added bonus, it’s AIGA month at R&D. All AIGA members will receive a 10% discount on any purchase.