{"id":154183,"date":"2022-01-12T13:36:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T23:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=154183"},"modified":"2022-01-13T08:24:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T18:24:27","slug":"storytellers-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/01\/12\/storytellers-wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"Storytellers wanted for <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo virtual program"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_67854\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dm6B7SjS0bw?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Wailau Episode 1, Story 2: \u201cThe Electric Guitar\u201d\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-size:85% !important;padding-top:6px;\"><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo Communications Professor Randy Hirokawa was a featured Wailau storyteller in episode, <em>The Importance of Communication in Love<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to prevent so many from gathering with loved ones and friends, the need for connection has perhaps never been stronger. An ongoing virtual storytelling program at the <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> is providing a space to build connections across the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Island campus and the community.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Related <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> News story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/04\/19\/uh-hilo-grad-shares-strength\/\">Stabbing survivor, <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo grad shares strength, hope<\/a>, April 19, 2021<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/uh-hilo-student-diversity-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"students gathered smiling\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-84020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/uh-hilo-student-diversity-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/uh-hilo-student-diversity-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/uh-hilo-student-diversity.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo program <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/wailau\/\">Wailau<\/a> is seeking applicants from <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo students, faculty, staff, alumni and <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Island community members of all ages to be featured in its storytelling event on Saturday, May 7. This spring will mark the program\u2019s fourth event and is centered around the theme, Tales of Misunderstanding. Organizers are encouraging people to share their experiences with feeling misunderstood in a situation or when miscommunicating something resulted in a funny, sad, ridiculous, or possibly disastrous outcome. <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/wailau\/storytellerapplication.php\">Storyteller applications will be accepted through Friday, February 11.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In <span aria-label=\"olelo\">&#699;&#333;lelo<\/span> <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> (Hawaiian language), Wailau means where water from diverse sources comes together to commingle and become a more powerful, unified whole.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Wailau is a project of <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo&#8217;s Relationships Doing Committee, a group that consults widely and forms partnerships in order to convert ideas to outcomes,&rdquo; said <strong>Kathleen Baumgardner<\/strong>, who helps organize Wailau and is a strategic planning project manager at <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo. &ldquo;This small group of faculty, staff, students and community members was charged to examine <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo\u2019s relationships with stakeholders and identify potential actions that would improve campus culture while positively impacting student success.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Accepted applicants will be offered coaching, take part in an on-stage meeting\/rehearsal, and then pre-record their stories in advance of the online premiere. If storytellers are unable to attend on-stage taping, self-taped stories will be accepted.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo students play a major role in staging Wailau, from operating lights, sound and cameras, to participating as hosts and storytellers. Students from the English Club determine Wailau themes, review applications and select storytellers.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&#8217;ve seen students&#8217; confidence grow in leaps and bounds,&rdquo; said <strong>Justina Mattos<\/strong>, Wailau director and associate professor of drama. &ldquo;They start off knowing nothing, very tentative and nervous.This provides a wonderful opportunity for them to practice working as professionals on-set and throughout the production process.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/wailau\/archives\/\">糖心Vlog官方 the Wailau website to view earlier episodes.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo Communications Professor Randy Hirokawa was a featured Wailau storyteller in episode, The Importance of Communication in Love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[14,56],"class_list":["post-154183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-uh-hilo","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154183"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154198,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154183\/revisions\/154198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}