Join us for the 2nd Annual K?huli Festival to celebrate the Year of the K?huli. This year’s festival theme will be focused on increasing capacity and building awareness. It will showcase Bishop Museum’s and its many partners’ efforts in research, conservation, and education of this rich biocultural resource, and brings together the community of research and conservation partners, along with artists and community members that represent the collective effort necessary to save these jewels of the forest and the ecosystems on which we all rely.

This is an opportunity to learn about and celebrate some of the biocultural diversity that makes Hawai?i unique and a place we all love to call home. The daylong program will include talks by conservationists, authors, researchers, and cultural practitioners; informational and activity booths hosted by community partners; snail captive rearing exhibits featuring live endangered and rare snails from Bishop Museum’s Hawaiian Land Snail Conservation Program and the Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Snail Extinction Prevention Program; art exhibits featuring local artists, and more.

Although k?huli is often mistakenly thought to refer primarily to the famous O‘ahu tree snails, it refers to land snails, broadly. At least 759 species of land snails are native to Hawai?i, and 99% of them are found nowhere else in the world. Unfortunately, most of them are critically endangered.

Date:
September 23, 2023

Hours:
3:00pm to 9:00pm

Location:
Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice Street
Honolulu, HI 96817

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