Blood Work: Reading and Roundtable

Join us for a reading and roundtable discussion. Donald Carreira Ching in conversation with civic and community leaders will explore themes of cost of living in Hawaiʻi, housing, climate change, sustainable economies, substance use/prevention, and the impacts/response to these issues for Hawaiʻi’s people as well as the role of writing and storytelling in fostering connection and understanding.

Featuring:

Donald Carreira Ching
Author of Blood Work and Other Stories and Between Sky and Sea: A Family’s Struggle
Assistant Professor of Writing, Leeward Community College

Della Au Belatti
State Representative, 26th District

Aiko Yamashiro
Executive Director, Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities

Moderated by: Craig Howes
Professor of English and Director of
the Center for Biographical Research, UH Mānoa