UH Hilo active in community over Spring Break
Front page! Hawaii Tribune-Herald: This week, keiki are learning about science at UH Hilo astronomy center, and university students are working on a mural “rich with stories of Hawaiian culture.”
By Staff/UH Hilo Stories.
It might be spring break at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, but, as the Hawaii Tribune-Herald reports today, ʻImiloa Astronomy Center is holding its Spring Intersession of Camp ‘IMI-possible, and university students from the Hawaiian studies program are hard at work on a Mele Mural at HPM Building Supply.
Above the fold today on the front page of the Tribune-Herald are photos from Constellation Camp, a four-day experience for future scientists in grades K-3 hosted by UH Hilo’s ʻImiloa Astronomy Center. Caption on top photo:
All eyes are locked on Evry Pffaf, 8, as he squeezes vegetable oil on top of layers of water, dish soap and maple syrup while he and other students learn about liquid density Tuesday afternoon during Camp ʻImi-possible: Mapping the Nighttime Sky at ʻImiloa Astronomy Center in Hilo (link added). The spring intersession Constellation Camp gives keiki in grades K-3 a chance to explore the four voyaging star lines through Hawaiian Polynesian and some Greek mythology storytelling, science experiments and star and constellation art projects.
Below the fold is a story on a Mele Mural going up on the HPM building in Hilo.
When Estria Miyashiro first caught a glimpse of the blank beige wall of HPM Building Supply last year, he had one thought.
“We were driving by, and I was like, ʻI want to paint this wall,’” the Honolulu-based muralist and Estria Foundation co-founder recalled.
This week, Miyashiro and about 50 youth, who are part of the foundation’s Mele Murals community art movement, are making that happen.
The amateur muralists, composed of Laupahoehoe students and students of the University of Hawaii at Hilo’s Hawaiian Studies program, have been working long hours each day to create a more than 2,400-square-foot outdoor mural rich with stories of Hawaiian culture (link added).
On Tuesday, artists worked hard to complete the mural for a Sunday unveiling — just in time for the start of the Merrie Monarch Festival.
“(The mural) is speaking to people about our Hilo and our Hawaii,” said Shyla Nobriga, 15, one of two teens Tuesday who were painting a portion of the mural depicting Mauna Loa. “The picture is trying to tell us something.”
The mural is one of about a dozen statewide in the Mele Murals series, which includes one in Waimea and several in Kona.
RELATED: Read UH Hilo Stories about the Mele Murals done at UH Hilo:
- First UH Hilo mural: UH Hilo Mele Mural unveiled: “Wow!”
- Second UH Hilo mural: UH Hilo Mele Mural unveiled; first Mele Mural in state to have 11 separate walls.
