The Fifth Annual 2003 Hawai`i Fall Festival of Writers

"VISIONS OF (DIS)LOCATION: NATIVE, IMMIGRANT, SETTLER"

Learn about the Guest Writers and see the poster

This year's Fall Celebration includes two discussion panels in the afternoon and a reading in the evening on Thursday, November 13, 2003. The evening reading features writers Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, Haunani-Kay Trask, and Kathleen Tyau. These same writers will participate in the discussion panels along with Tammy Hailiopua Baker, Lee Cataluna, and Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, the four playwrights published in He Leo Hou, A New Voice, a collection by Bamboo Ridge Press.

Linked with the Fall Festival of Writers is the Bamboo Ridge Press launch of HE LEO HOU: A New Voice, which takes place on Wednesday, November 12, at 7:30 pm following the 7:00 pm reception, in the Art Auditorium.

Discussion Panel 1: "Who Owns the Past?" Moderator - Gary Pak, Principal Humanities Scholar, Panelists - Joy Harjo, Victoria Kneubuhl, and Kathleen Tyau, 12:00noon - 1:30pm, Kuykendall Auditorium

Discussion Panel 2: "The Stories 'They' Tell About 'Us'" Moderator - Rodney Morales, Humanities Scholar, Panelists - Tammy Baker, Lee Cataluna, Martin Espada, and Haunani Kay Trask, 3:00noon - 4:30pm, Kuykendall Auditorium

Evening Reading by Fall Celebration guest writers Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, Haunani Kay Trask, and Kathleen Tyau, Art Auditorium, 7:00pm

The English Department's Hawai'i Fall Celebration of Writing is supported in part by the University of Hawai'i Department of Languages and Literatures of Europe and the Americas, and funded in part by the University of Hawai'i Endowment for the Humanities. We acknowledge with gratitude the LLL Dean's support for the reception.