Hawaii's Creative Industries

Infrastructure

• Film Studio and Creative Media Development

Performing Arts

Music

• Chamber Music Hawaiʻi
• Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame
• Hawaiʻi Opera Theatre
• Hawaiʻi Performing Arts Festival (Hawaiʻi Island)
• The Hawaiʻi Songwriting Festival (Hawaiʻi Island)
• Hawaiʻi Youth Symphony
• Kamuela Philharmonic (Hawaiʻi Island)
• Kauaʻi Concert Association (Kauaʻi)
• Kauaʻi Music Scene (Kauaʻi)
• Musicians’ Association of Hawaiʻi
• Maui Music Conservatory (Maui)
• Maui Songwriters Festival (Maui)
• Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awards
• Oʻahu Choral Society
• Royal Hawaiian Band

Dance

• Adaptation Dance Theater (Maui)
• Ballet Hawaiʻi
• Big Island Dance Council (Hawaiʻi Island)
• Hawaiʻi State Ballet
• King Kamehameha Hula Competition (Hawaiʻi Island)
• Merrie Monarch Hula Festival (Hawaiʻi Island)
• Prince Lot Hula Festival

Theatre

• Aloha Performing Arts (Hawaiʻi Island)
• Blaisdell Arena and Concert Hall
• Diamond Head Theatre
• Hawaiʻi Children’s Theater (Kauaʻi)
• Hawaiʻi Theatre
• Hawaiʻi Shakespeare Festival
• Honokaʻa People’s Theatre (Hawaiʻi Island)
• Honolulu Theatre for Youth
• Kahilu Theater (Hawaiʻi Island)
• Kennedy Theater
• Kumu Kahua Theatre
• Mānoa Valley Theatre
• Maui Academy of Performing Arts (Maui)
• Maui Arts & Cultural Center (Maui)
• Storybook Theatre of Hawaiʻi (Kauaʻi)
• Women in Theatre (Kauaʻi)

Literary Arts and Publishing

• Hawaiʻi Book & Music Festival
• Hawaiʻi Book Publishers Association
• Hawaiʻi Literary Arts Council
• Hawai’i Library Association
• Hawaiʻi Publishers Association
• Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts
• Hawaiʻi State Public Library System
• Kauaʻi Writers Festival (Kauaʻi)
• The Pacific Writers’ Connection

Periodicals

• Hawaiʻi Film and Video Magazine
• Kaimana
• Mānoa
• ʻŌiwi: A Native Hawaiian Journal
• Tinfish

Applied Design

Fashion

• Art + Flea
• Hawaiʻi Fashion Incubator (HIFI)
• Hawaiʻi Fashion Month (HFM)
• Honolulu Fashion Week

Architecture

• American Institute of Architects (AIA), Honolulu Chapter
• Hawaiʻi Architectural Foundation
• Historic Hawaiʻi Foundation
• Lāhainā Restoration Foundation (Maui)

Culinary Arts

• Farmers’ Markets
• Hawaiʻi Food & Wine Festival

Film

Film Offices of the Hawaiian Islands (FOHI):

• State of Hawaiʻi Film Office / Filming in Hawaiʻi

County Film Offices:

• Honolulu Film Office
• Kauaʻi Film
• Maui County Film Office
• Hawaiʻi Island Film

Other Resources:

• Film Labor Unions in Hawaiʻi
• Big Island Film Festival
• Doris Duke Theater
• Hawaiʻi European Cinema
• Hawaiʻi Film Makers Collective
• Hawaiʻi International Film Festival
• Hawaiʻi Women in Filmmaking
• Hilo Palace Theater (Hawaiʻi Island)
• Kukui Grove Cinema (Kauaʻi)
• Maui Film Festival (Maui)
• Maui Theater Lāhainā (Maui)
• Movie Museum
• ʻŌiwi TV
• PAʻI Foundation
• PBS Hawaiʻi
• Waimea Theater (Kauaʻi)

Visual Arts

• The Atherton Family Foundation
• The Cooke Foundation
• Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation (Maui County only)
• Garden Island Arts Council (Kauaʻi)
• Hawaiʻi Arts Alliance
• The Hawaiʻi Community Foundation (All Islands)
• Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities
• Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts
• Honolulu Biennial Foundation
• Hui Noʻeau Visual Arts Center (Maui)
• Kauaʻi Academy of Creative Arts (Kauaʻi)
• Maui Craft’s Guild (Maui)

Museums and Galleries

• The ARTS at Marks Garage
• Bishop Museum
• Donkey Mill Art Center (Hawaiʻi Island)
• East Hawaiʻi Cultural Center (Hawaiʻi Island)
• East-West Center Gallery
• First Friday
• Garden Isle Arts Council (Kauaʻi)
• Grove Farm Sugar Plantation Museum (Kauaʻi)
• Hana Cultural Center and Museum (Maui)
• Hawaiʻi Craftsmen
• The Hawaiʻi Museum of Contemporary Art (Hawaiʻi Island)
• Hawaiʻi State Art Museum
• Honolulu Museum of Art
• Honolulu Printmakers
• Hui No‘eau Visual Arts Center (Maui)
• ʻIolani Palace
• Kauaʻi Museum (Kauaʻi)
• Lyman House Memorial Museum (Hawaiʻi Island)
• Maui Arts & Cultural Center (Maui)
• Molokaʻi Museum and Cultural Center (Molokaʻi)
• Pacific Handcrafters Guild
• Pacific Tsunami Museum (Maui)
• Shangri La
• Spalding House
• University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa, Art Gallery
• Volcano Art Center (Hawaiʻi Island)

Heritage and Preservation

Some of Oʻahu’s Historic Cultural & Visitor Attractions:

• Battleship Missouri Memorial
• Bishop Museum
• Diamond Head State Monument
• Hale Hōʻikeʻike – Bailey House (Maui)
• Hawaiʻi Museums Association
• Hawaiʻi Maritime Center
• Huliheʻe Palace (Hawaiʻi Island)
• ʻIolani Palace
• Lahaina Historic Sites (Maui)
• Mission Houses Museum
• National Parks in Hawaiʻi (All Islands)
• Papahānaumokuākea, Marine National Monument (Hawaiʻi Island)
• Queen Emma Summer Palace
• U.S.S. Arizona Memorial Museum
• Washington Place

Education

• Academy for Creative Media, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
• Art courses at The Humanities Department, UH Windward Community College
• The Arts, UH Leeward Community College
• Creative Media, UH Kauaʻi Community College (Kauaʻi)
• Culinary Arts Program, UH Kapiʻolani Community College
• Culinary Arts, UH Hawaiʻi Community College (Hawaiʻi Island)
• Culinary Arts, UH Kauaʻi Community College (Kauaʻi)
• Culinary Arts, UH Leeward Community College
• Culinary Arts, UH Maui College (Maui)
• Department of Art and Art History, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
• Digital Media Arts, UH Hawaiʻi Community College
• Digital Media, UH Leeward Community College
• Environmental and Interior Design, Chaminade University of Honolulu
• Fashion Design and Merchandising Degree Program, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
• Fashion Technology, UH Honolulu Community College
• Fashion Technology, UH Maui College (Maui)
• Hawaii Film School
• Multimedia Cinematic Production, Hawaiʻi Pacific University
• Music Department, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
• New Media Arts Program, UH Kapiʻolani Community College
• School of Architecture, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
• Theatre and Dance, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
• Visual Arts, UH Maui College (Maui)