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 from the perspective of both parties. This R&D program will focus on intellectual property (IP) law, with a primer on some of the more pressing legal concerns for artists and creatives today, such as the distinction between ideas and expression, the use of appropriated images and text, as well as fair use.

Panelists
Sharon Webb, esq., Honolulu arts and IP attorney
Mark Bernstein, esq., Honolulu arts and IP attorney
Robert Saarnio, Director of Development, UH Foundation
Ola Rapozo, Designer and Owner, Fitted Hawaii
David Deluca, Executive Director, Bess Press

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 immediately following the screening.

About the Film
In the fashion world, “The Tents” are synonymous with the giant white tents erected every spring and fall during NY Fashion Week. It is here where hundreds of designers showcase their latest collections to fashion editors, buyers and celebrities and where legendary designers have made their first big break. Director James Belzer & Cinematographer Marcus K. Jones catalogue the birth of New York Fashion Week, its expansion and finally its move out of Bryant Park, fashion week’s home since 1993, to Lincoln Center.

Told with exclusive behind the scenes footage and intimate interviews with top fashion players such as: Betsey Johnson, Carolina Herrera, Donna Karan, Glenda Bailey, Hal Rubenstein, Tommy Hilfiger and Zac Posen, to name just a few. Great commentaries are also featured with Carson Kressley, Patrick McMullan, Michael Musto and Robert Verdi, adding humor to the mix.

Typescripting Party

Wednesday / Apr18 / 6:30 – 8pm / R&D

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. The project is digitizing century-old newspaper archives to create a searchable database that reveals new insights into Hawai‘i’s past. Come be a part of a mass volunteer movement and learn more about the typscripting project by watching this video!

Living in a digital age doesn’t have to mean we can’t celebrate and learn from the experience of the analog. We’ve gathered together some great finds in used architecture, design, culinary and art printed matter, as well as some film-kine photo equipment for a good old fashioned swap meet! Bring other architecture, design, culinary or art books and/or photo equipment and materials you’d like to donate or trade. Bring a friend to browse!

If donating items to Interisland Terminal to sell/swap on your behalf…   Please try to arrive between 9:30/10:30 to drop off items.  You may help us by pricing them ahead of time and/or work with us to price items when you arrive.  Interisland Terminal will keep the proceeds from any sales of these items and/or pass on/give away any items leftover at the end of the sale.

If you’d like to sell/swap items yourself:

Please email wei@interislandterminal.org in-advance so we can reserve a space for you.  You must stay to man your “table” for the duration of the event.  Bring your own cashbox and/or small bills and coins to make change.  You keep whatever you make, but we suggest a small donation to Interisland Terminal from your sale proceeds to help cover the costs of the event.

• 9:30am arrive at R&D (691 Auahi Street – free 1 hr parking in the lot behind our building). Check in with a staff member to be assigned a spot
• 10 am Sale opens to the public.
• 11 am Morning Glass coffee service starts.
• 2pm sale closes, we clean up and re-set tables for the regular Saturday R&D crowd

Opening: March 16 / 687 Auahi St

Roll-Up is the fourth collaboration of Brittany Powell and Tae Kitakata–an offshoot of Low-Commitment Projects that ventures into the high-commitment, focusing on rolled paper as a medium. Since they live in different states, it made sense to discuss the project, create the work independently, then install the results. From grocery list to faux waterfall, this exhibition has provided  an opportunity to present actual objects versus the virtual ones from our website.

Tae’s bio:  Tae Kitakata likes turning doodles into reality and is a self-proclaimed neat freak who used to work as a museum registrar.  Her work varies between intricate paper word cut outs and brightly colored wall paintings spanning twenty feet.   

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 did not: these are the original venture capitalists.

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 philosophical and metaphysical theorems to ethical individualism in contemporary society through the eyes of its protagonist, reclusive attorney Richard Jason Steele. Shaindlin will discuss his experience as a writer/publisher, as well as the central character’s conclusion that philosophy– regardless of its intent — has no actual intrinsic value beyond inverted intellectualism and theoretical speculation if it is not embraceable by general society for the practical betterment of mankind.

Peter Shaindlin is a businessman, fine art photographer and author  living in Honolulu, Hawaii. Born in 1957 in Manhattan, he was raised in Valley Cottage, New York and studied music, art and business at Mannes College and New York University. He highly values his roots in the classical western canons of literature and the performance and visual arts, his interests influenced collectively by a broad spectrum of individuals– in particular Balthus, Samuel Johnson, John Clare, Marcel Proust, Bertrand Russell, Lawrence Durrell, Roland Barthes and Michel Houllebecq.

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 contemporary cross-currents in these disciplines.

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 month is THE CITY DARK, a New York Times Critic’s Pick.  The City Dark explores the phenomenon of an illuminated night, as well as the ecological and spiritual consequences of this. A New York Times Critic’s Pick, Ian Cheney’s The City Dark “explores what our increasing inability to see the night sky means for us philosophically.” An entertaining and poignant look at an aspect of our natural world that we too often take for granted. With this film, we are raffling a copy of the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Ecological Urbanism.

Wednesday / Feb29 / 6:00pm / Free / Map

The visual arts of Polynesia offer a richly diverse and relatively little known body of work, covering an enormous geographical area yet linked by shared artistic conventions. 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. It features both ceremonial and functional traditional forms in diverse media, from delicate ivory ornaments and decorated barkcloth to formidable weaponry and imposing sculpture in coral, wood, and stone.

Mark Blackburn is a senior certified appraiser and has been buying, selling, and appraising collectibles for more than 30 years. Mark brings his experience appraising for New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and Honolulu’s Bishop Museum to the items in the Mauna Kea Galleries Collection (2005 S. King Street, Honolulu). Founded with his wife Carolyn Blackburn in 1995, and the company remains one of the nation’s pre-eminent sources for Hawaiian collectibles.Mark is the author of Hawaiiana: The Best of Hawaiian Design, Tattoos From Paradise, Hula Girls and Surfer Boys ,Hula Heaven: The Queen’s Album and Surf’s Up.