Opening Reception and Dinner

Thursday January 15
Ala Moana Hotel, Hibiscus Ballroom

Registration is required.
$55.00 (Includes Buffet Dinner, Program and Entertainment). Click here for the registration form

5:00pm			Registration and Opening Reception
			Music by Espiritu Libre
5:30pm			Welcome Chant
>			Vicky Takamine, Founder and Kumu Hula of Pua Ali`i `Ilima
5:45pm	-	6:30pm	Buffet Dinner
6:30pm			Welcome
>			David McClain, President, University of Hawai`i, Honolulu, Hawai`i
>			Elisa Joy White, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai`i
6:50pm	-	7:45pm	Keynote Address - Why Diaspora? Rethinking African Peoples and Power in the Twenty-First Century
>			Kim D. Butler, Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
7:45pm	-	9:00pm	Social
			Musical Performance by Espiritu Libre