2009

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June 22
Bon Dance and its Longevity: Changing Practices in Multicultural Hawai'i (Guest: Ralston Nagata)

June 29
Hawai'i Internment Sites Project (Guest: Brian Niiya)

July 6
Sustainable Agriculture in Hawai'i (Guest: Dean Okimoto)

July 13
Pacific Buddhist Academy (Guest: Pieper Toyama)

July 20
Okinawan Performing Arts (Guest: Norman Kaneshiro & Eric Wada)

July 27
JCCH Book Club featuring Life Behind Barbed Wire by Yasutaro Soga (Guest: Jane Kurahara & Betsy Young)

August 3
Hongwanji 750th Anniversary (Guest: Bishop Thomas Okano)

August 10
Youth Speaks Hawai'i (Guest: Ittai Wong & Jamaica Osorio)

August 17
Oral History (Guest: Warren Nishimoto)

August 24
A Japanese American in the U.S. Senate (Guest: Senator Daniel Inouye)

August 31
JCCH Book Club featuring Mililani Mauka by Chris McKinney (Guest: Chris McKinney)

September 7
Arts, Culture and Tourism in Honolulu (Guest: Mayor Mufi Hannemann)

September 14
Public Education in Hawai'i (Guests: Ann Bayer & Lois Yamauchi)

September 21
Documentary film on Forgotten Temples (Guest: Lorraine Minatoishi Palumbo)

September 28
JCCH Book Club featuring The Island Edge of America by Tom Coffman (Guest: Tom Coffman)

October 5
Aging Gracefully (Guest: Blossom Hoffman)

October 12
Koji Ariyoshi and the Invention of Local Identity (Guests: Craig Howes & Vicky Kneubuhl)

October 19
Being Hapa - Part 1 (Guests: Ty & Mike Tengan)

October 26
JCCH Book Club featuring Obake Files by Glen Grant and Morgan's Corner by Lopaka Kapanui (Guest: Lopaka Kapanui)

November 2
Aloha Medical Mission (Guests: Ann Miller & Dr. Brad Wong)

November 9
Ethnic Media: Can it Survive? (Guests: David Furuya, Joanne Ninomiya, and Paul Yempuku)

November 16
The Mysterious Mary Foster (Guest: Pat Masters)

November 23
808 Urban: Youth Identity and Art (Guests: John Hina & Jordan Arenas)