The Martin E. Segal Theatre Middle presents a dialog livestreaming on the worldwide, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV community on Indigenous Efficiency and Hana Keaka (Hawaiian Theatre) Monday 10 July 2023 at 6:30 a.m. HST (Honolulu, UTC -10) / 9:30 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 12:30 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).

Be a part of us for a dialog with Tammy Hailiʻōpua Baker and Markus Wessendorf concerning the historical past, curriculum, theatre productions, analysis, and present initiatives of the Hana Keaka (Hawaiian Theatre) program on the Division of Theatre and Dance on the College of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM). The MFA in Hawaiian Theatre was established within the fall of 2012 and has already obtained nationwide and worldwide recognition. A brand new PhD focus in Hawaiian and Indigenous Efficiency at UHM begins this fall. These two tracks are the one graduate packages in america with a selected concentrate on Indigenous efficiency. Moderated by Frank Hentschker.

Tammy Hailiʻōpua Baker is a Professor of Theatre and Kumu of Hawaiian Theatre (Hana Keaka) on the Division of Theatre and Dance on the College of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her work facilities on the event of an Indigenous Hawaiian theatre aesthetic and type, Hawaiian language revitalization, and the empowerment of cultural identification via stage efficiency. She can be a playwright and the inventive director of Ka Hālau Hanakeaka, a Hawaiian-medium theatre troupe. In Might 2022, she obtained the Kennedy Middle Medaillon of Excellence “for her creation and improvement of the MFA in Hawaiian Theatre, her mentorship of Indigenous theatremakers, and for her each day lively, observe of reclaiming the tales of generations of indigenous populations who’ve been repressed, diminished, or silenced.” She can be the initiator and director of ʻAhahui Noiʻi Noʻeau ʻŌiwi—Analysis Institute of Indigenous Efficiency (ANNO) at UHM.

Markus Wessendorf has been a Professor of Theatre on the Division of Theatre and Dance on the College of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa since 2001 and is at the moment the Division Chair. He obtained his graduate levels from the Institute of Utilized Theatre Research at Giessen College, Germany, the place he additionally was an assistant professor from 1992 to 1997. His areas of specialization are in experimental and avantgarde theatre, efficiency research and theatre concept, and dramaturgy and devised theatre. He has been the editor of The Brecht Yearbook/Das Brecht-Jahrbuch since quantity 43 (2017).