Dr. Kanahele will be the guest of honor at the first event of the “Memorial Series” of the Green Room arts and ecology salons, held in memory of the conservancy’s founders, poet and environmentalist W.S. Merwin and his wife Paula Merwin.
In this special presentation, Dr. Kanahele, a longtime friend of Mr. Merwin, will read from his epic Hawaiian narrative poem, “The Folding Cliffs,” and will discuss Merwin’s masterwork through a Kanaka Maoli lens. $20 & $15 for museum members.