Jaga Alam (Taking Care of Nature): Performance-Based Environmental Education (2021-25)
Led by Dr. Kirstin Pauka, (PI); Dr. Annie Reynolds, I Madé Widana
This project brings together SEA-based performing artists with UHM faculty and college students to develop new environmentally-themed performances and lecture-demonstrations for schools and local audiences in Hawaiʻi. The selected themes deal with environmental issues shared across SEA and the Pacific such as deforestation, loss of biodiversity, plastic pollution, and coastline erosion.
Pamana ng Lahi: Philippine Cultural Heritage and Indigenous Knowledge (2020-24)
Led by Dr. Pia Arboleda (PI); Dr. Nerissa S. Balce.
This project showcases Philippine oral traditions of human/nature conflicts to develop online curricular material and use it in the classroom.
