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Four Seasons Resort Maui and Maui United Way to host first Earth Day Expo

The free, public event aims to unite local organizations, environmental advocates and the public to celebrate and elevate sustainability efforts across the island. 

Upcoming exhibit features works from Schaefer Portrait Challenge 2025

A signature of Maui Arts and Cultural Center, the Schaefer Portrait Challenge, has been held as a triennial since 2003. This year’s challenge will mark the eighth iteration of this statewide juried exhibition, which presents the unique diversity of the people of the Hawaiian Islands through explorations in portraiture.

Merwin Conservancy’s Green Room to host environmental author Terry Tempest Williams on Dec. 12

The Merwin Conservancy, a renowned palm garden and residency program for storytellers on Maui, has announced the next edition in its Green Room series. The edition will feature a reading and talk with Terry Tempest Williams in the Maui Arts and Cultural Center’s McCoy Studio Theater on Thursday, Dec. 12.

Call to artists for Schaefer Portrait Challenge 2025 announced

Applications are open for artists 18 years and older, who are residents of the state of Hawai‘i, and want to enter portraits into a statewide juried art exhibition, a signature exhibition of Schaefer International Gallery at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center (MACC), that occurs once every three years.

Merwin Conservancy to Present Painter

The Merwin Conservancy presents painter Alexis Rockman on Saturday, Oct. 27, at 7 p.m. in the Green Room at the MACC.

Green Room Series to Feature Poets Naomi Nye and Cathy Song

The Merwin Conservancy will present an intimate evening with poets Naomi Shihab Nye and Cathy Song in The Green Room, an environmental and literary salon series.

The Merwin Conservancy Presents Bill Porter on Maui, Feb. 10

The Merwin Conservancy presents Bill Porter (aka Red Pine) on Feb. 10. Porter is a renowned translator of Chinese literature and sacred Buddhist & Taoist texts