The 16th annual Hawaii Book & Music Festival returns virtually, October 1 - November 4, with its core program of Hawai‘i Authors, and community thought leaders and experts in Hawai‘i Sustainability & Resilience, Health & Wellness, Innovation Future, Hawaiian Culture, amplified by national and international Authors addressing some of the greatest issues for Hawai’i’s future.

Join them via your mobile device, computer, tablet or laptop. Enjoy navigating your own voyage through the program, connecting with your friends, colleagues and family via social media or email. Click on the complete Schedule, or the list of Speakers and Panelists.

See below for major features in the program.

If you are unable to join the live presentations, you can catch up on the Highlights of each presentation via this website, or via our channel in the UH Manoa Better Tomorrow Speaker Series YouTube site.

Special Presentations

Kim Cobb
Solving the Climate Crisis Now

Dewitt Jones
Celebrating What’s Right with the World

Hawai’i Literary Arts Council
2021 Awards

Solomon Enos
Polyfantastica

Makana
in Concert at Kawaiahao

Kate Raworth
Doughnut Economics

US Sen. Mazie Hirono
Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter’s Story

Michael E. Mann
The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet

Charles Johnson
Buddhism & Race, and other topoics

Joy Harjo
US Poet Laureate
Living Nations, Living Words

Regular Presentations

30 HAWAII AUTHORS
Fiction, Nonfiction, Memoirs, Graphic, Poetry and Plays

HAWAIIAN CULTURE
Authors & Panels

HAWAI’I 2.0 PANELS
SUSTAINABILITY
INNOVATION
WELLNESS

INTERNATIONAL STORYTELLERS