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Akakū Maui Community Mediaʻs March salon will feature renowned sculptor and painter Dale Zarrella on Thursday, March 20.

Akakūʻs salon features local Maui filmmaker Lucas Zarro and collaborators Alex Farnham and Arona Ale this Thursday, Feb. 20.

Residents are encouraged to attend the County of Maui’s Lahaina Community Meeting at 5:30 tonight (Feb. 5, 2025), at the Lahaina Intermediate School cafeteria.

Akakū Maui Community Media kicks off its 2025 monthly Akakū Upstairs salon series on Thursday Jan. 16, 2025, with a screening of the award winning feature film, “My Partner.” There will be a followup discussion with Maui writer Lance D. Collins and Kānaka Maoli Director Keli’i Grace. 

A decision made under the 2019 Trump administration could impact the fees cable companies pay to the state for public programming.

Akakū Upstairs will bring in photographer Arifin Graham to share his black & white portraiture from his book “The Last Resort: Portraits from Lahaina & Maui” on Thursday, Nov. 21. Most of the book’s photographs were shot in 2022, a year before fires burned down Lahaina.

Akakū Upstairs returns on Thursday, Sept. 19 with a sneak peek at “Lahaina: Rising from the Ashes,” a film that explores themes of environmental degradation, social injustice, community resilience, and hope and recovery. This documentary is currently in progress with local Director Matty Schweitzer at the helm.

Akakū Maui Community Media, along with sister access stations ‘Ōlelo on Oahu, Hō’ike on Kaua’i and Nā Leo on Hawai’i Island, won two Hometown Media Awards at the Alliance for Community Media national conference in San Jose, California in late June, for a collaborative effort to broadcast a statewide vigil following the Aug. 8. 2023 Maui wildfires.

Discover the vibrant world of Hawaiʻi’s floriculture and the importance of supporting local nurseries and farms in a new one-hour video “Spirit of Hawaiʻi Neotropica,” presented by the Hawaiʻi Floriculture and Nursery Association (HFNA).

The County of Maui Environmental Protection and Sustainability Division has announced the third installment of its Sustainability Together: Community-led Regenerative Action speaker series from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 30, at the Maui Ocean Center Sphere. This session, titled “Grassroots Guardians: Battling Invasives in Maui County,” is being held during Hawaiʻi Invasive Species Awareness Month.

Akakū Upstairs returns Thursday, May 16, with a free screening and discussion of the short film, “The Green Wave: Maui,” which showcases threats the Hawaiian islands are facing and solutions local communities are implementing, from rainforest conservation to ocean preservation.

Akakū Upstairs returns with the president/CEO of Akakū, Jay April, who will be taking a philosophical look at the paradigm shift many are experiencing with Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Thursday, April 18.

After a community meeting in Pukalani on March 29, concerns arose about the timeframe for assessing a 30-year water purchase agreement for drilling wells in Kula. The Chicago-based developer, Free Market Ventures, LLC (FMV), has since extended the timeline to allow the council more decision-making time.

Council Member Yuki Lei Sugimura announced today that she has requested a financial analysis of a potential water source development agreement between the County of Maui and Free Market Ventures, LLC. 

A virtual and in-person discussion to talk about Senate Bill 3381 SD2 – a bill to establish and appropriate funds to a nine-member “Lele Community District” in Lahaina – will take place on Saturday, March 16 from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The PBS point of view documentary “Wisdom Gone Wild,” which focuses on elderly dementia, will be shown on Jan. 27 at sites on Maui island, Molokaʻi and Lānaʻi.

Radio and TV personality Kathy Collins is hosting Akakū Maui Community Media’s free 2024 Community Connection Day, with live entertainment from Homestead, on Jan. 12 from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Akakū, Maui Community Media is bringing back recording a holiday greeting video, with a festive green screen backdrop.

Renowned action watersports cinematographer, producer, and director, Jace Panebianco, will host a screening and discussion at the next Akakū Upstairs salon on August 17.

Akakū Maui Community Media will host its next Akakū Upstairs salon on July 20, featuring a screening and discussion of “Shaka, A Story of Aloha”.