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HUGEAUX - An Artist's Diary - The 6th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities 2008. Honolulu, Hawaii of the island of Oahu. Part #2 (Final)

written by Hugeaux aka Mr. Hugo R. Miller


Sunday Day 3 - January 13, 2008 - Part 1
Aloha
I started the day at the conference laptop laboratory. There was a lot of information I needed to download before the day began. I met Curlee Holton at the breakfast banquet for a long talk. Curlee is very grateful of my presentation, as it sledded light on how written documentation by well known African American Humanitarians exists. We talked a little about NCA with a renewing interest of the organization. Curlee is a person whose friendship shall serve an importance.
I later met Fiona Oliver Te Momo ( Massey University-New Zealand) at the tattooing history session. She informed me on the South Pacific area and my personal interest in Papua, New Guinea. By this time I was ready to attend the 10:45am morning worship at the African American Trinity Missionary Baptist Church in east Honolulu. The Church is pastored by Rev. Dr. Dwight E. Cook. Like yesterday, I got lost, but had to turn around and take the right turn.

The morning worship was very tropical with a southern Baptist ambiance. I had always heard of these white walled, height ceilings and hurricane fan blowing churches. The breeze and the pastor's baritone voice reminded me of my own Atlantic Tropics. The church I believe is a scared sanctuary so I didn't photograph. A real Pacific - Southern Baptist delight.

After lunch I returned back to the conference to attend a session by Joseph Thompson on the Digital Humanities and the Internet. I next hopped back to the other hotel to listen to Virginia Whatley Smith (University of Alabama-Birmingham) session about WEB DuBois visit and writings while in china. Next, I hopped back to the other hotel to catch the session by Jerald Walker (Bridgewater State College-Massachusetts) on the "The Heritage Room: Angry Black Male-Stereotype and the Realities of Humor, very revealing. Mahalo.

Sunday - Day 3 - January 13 - Part 2
Aloha
Nothing could have been so pleasing and relaxing of this third day than the evening performance of Lee Hyung-Hwan, whose Komungo music world with Korean traditional music ensemble " Poong-Ryu" (Choong-Ang University). I captured the finale of the day when I hopped over to catch the beginning session / recital by opera singer Luvada Harrison (graduate student - Florida A&M University) on the music of Italian composer Franco Alfano. Dinner tonight would be the burger shop on the corner. It has gotten to the point that the woman at the register called me Mr. Miller (my name tag around my neck), because I eat there so often.
Throughout my visit I had the pleasure of waking and listening to all pacific island reggae music. Tomorrow is the last day and the Luau. Look forward to my photo-documentary of my visit to Honolulu, Oahu of Hawaii. I leave tomorrow for Chicago after the Luau for my photography exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry titled " Black Creativity ". This is a group show, before my return to Florida. Mahalo.

Final Day - January 14
Aloha
The day started like always with the breakfast banquet meet and greet. I then hopped over to sit in on the session on Linguistics by members of National Cheng Kung University: Kimmy En-hsuan Chin and Dr. Shelly Ching-Yu Hsieh. Next I hopped over to sit in on session by Abayomi Okunowo (University of Colorado) and his session about mistaken identity and linguistics on the Yuroba theatre drama dialogue " The gods are not to blame".

I remained in the room for the session by my friend Ratna Mullick (Sultan Qaboos University) and her session " Power point in Classroom presentation: enhancer or distractor as Art. Ratna mentioned my presentation " The Importance of Documentation and The History of ARTE MECCO" in her presentation concerning the great usage of power point presentation, thank you Ratna.
I next hopped to the session of Terri Leo Mauu (pacific liaison-Unitec New Zealand) who spoke on the Pacific Cultures of Learning: Issues and Challenges. This was a very enlightening session. A very pacific presentation. I remained in this room for the final 3 presentation of the 2008 conference. Dr. Fiona Te Momo (Massey University) and her presentation called "Cultural Shifts and Identity on the Maori Culture - an indigenous New Zealand culture. Also Sangwon Sohn (University of West Georgia, USA) presentation on Modern and contemporary design and lastly Ramiah Nena (Bangkok University). Honolulu There was nearly 1,500 international presenters. Hawaii is really a PARADISE!!!! MAHALO !!. I am now off to Chicago for the Black Creativity group exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago Illinois.

Special Thanks to Darren Garvey (Coordinator) as tiresome as his job could be made me very welcome.

A special Thank You to Madame Justine P. Devan, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (NCA) whose contribution support helped assist me to the conference.

PS. I wrote a letter to myself from Honolulu, which is not presented with this article at the time.

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