HMA is still in the process of transition in order to publish Nuhou online, and I am hoping that the summer issue will be"delivered" to your email address. Hard copies will be available so please let me know if you prefer them instead.
The month of January was full of activity for the HMA and Western Museums Association (WMA) community. Early in the month, panel proposal submissions for the WMA Annual Meeting and Conference that will be held in Honolulu, were due, and shortly thereafter the WMA Program Committee started the work to select proposals. The committee consists of ten members from Hawai'i, and ten located in the WMA region on the mainland.On January 20 and 21, both groups convened at meeting in Honolulu in order to start selecting the Annual Meeting's pro-gram of workshops and panel.
HMA has been an integral partner with the Western Museums Association in regards to planning the 2011 Annual Meeting to beheld in Honolulu, from September 23 to 26. The Pacific Islands Museums Association, and Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums have all agreed to be co-sponsors. There will be a lot of information about the WMA Annual Meeting in Honolulu, so please connect with HMA through our website's www.hawaiimuseums.org, our Facebook and Twitter accounts also. In the next few weeks, more information will be publicized regarding a Call-for-Volunteers to help with the meeting.
Finally, on behalf of HMA members and the Board, I would like to thank and acknowledge the following for their generous support of the HMA co-sponsored WMA Annual Meeting in Honolulu.
· Mayor's Office of Culture & the Arts, City and County of Honolulu $5,000
· Cooke Foundation $5,000
· Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Shangri La Hawai`i $1,000
