08/11/2024
August 3, 2024
NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Amy Hammond, Special Events Hawai‘i, Inc.
(808) 223-6040, [email protected]
Hawaiʻi Book & Music Festival
The wonderful diversity of books, arts, ideas, and music that defines us.
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The 2024 Hawai‘i Book & Music Festival Returns Live and In-Person
HONOLULU, HI – After being virtual 2020 – 2023, the 19th Hawai‘i Book & Music Festival (HBMF), in partnership with the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UH Mānoa), presents a robust, 2-day program Saturday-Sunday, September 14-15, 2024, on the campus of UH Mānoa.
The Festival will feature 150 events in a dozen venues, with over 300 participants, including six themed programs, the Mainstage for Hula and Music, a Keiki Stage featuring Steve Songs, a Performance Stage featuring hip hop, improv, storytellers, and drama, and a Celebrity Readers Corner for the very young.
Two Author venues will present new works by the best Hawai‘i Authors and Poets, entertaining panels and the annual Hawai‘i Literary Council’s prestigious, annual Elliot Cades Awards for Literature, and the Loretta D. Petrie Awards for Service to the Literary Community. Six VIP Author-Speakers will top the bill. Themed programs will include discussion panels on timely issues in Hawaiian Culture, Sustainability & Resilience, Wellness, and Innovation, and the Impact of AI on the Humanities.
The Publisher’s Village will feature local publishers, exhibitors, a variety of vendors include a variety of food trucks.
Admission and parking are free. Parking is available in the Lower Campus Parking Structure. Find the event details, schedule, and registration links at www.HBMFonline or hawaiibookandmusicfestival.com
HBMF shares a unique culture of storytelling and song in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific. Founded in 2004 by a collective of publishers, booksellers and non-profit leaders as a free event for the community, the HBMF has grown into the most content-rich live event in the state, with stage performers, storytellers, musicians, artists, literary luminaries, and international thought leaders contributing to the wonderful diversity of books, arts, ideas and music that defines us.
HBMF in partnership with UH Mānoa is supported by sponsorships and grants from City & County of Honolulu, Kamehameha Schools-Kaiāulu, Kosasa Foundation, the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority, Oceanit, Hawai‘i Council for the Humanities, through support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Always Dream Foundation, Halekulani Hotel, Better Tomorrow Speakers Series, UH Manoa Bookstore, BDK Hawaii, Hawai ‘i Public Radio, Civil Beat, and iHeartMedia.
For upcoming event schedules and program updates, visit www.HBMF.online. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and .
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Mahalo to all the sponsors of the 2024 Annual Hawai'i Book and Music Festival.
Oceanit
City and County of Honolulu
Kamehameha Publishing
UH Better Tomorrow Speaker Series
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu Civil Beat
Kristi Yamaguchi's Always Dream
University of Hawai'i at Manoa Bookstore
The Conversation - Hawaii Public Radio
Hawai'i Council for the Humanities
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
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