Welcome to the Arts at HPU!

The Arts at Hawai'i Pacific University are thriving!  Three minors have recently been launched: Art History, Studio Art, and Music.  We offer a variety of music performance opportunities as well as art, music, and theatre courses. HPU is very proud of our Theatre Program, in which students can create an individualized major or minor.  The Theatre Program produces two major shows per academic year, which feature students as well as members of the greater Honolulu community.

Our performing ensembles include the International Chorale and Vocal Ensemble, the HPU Orchestra, and the HPU Wind Ensemble.  Each of these programs offer generous scholarships, allowing students to major in any academic field while continuing to enjoy playing their instrument or singing.  The International Vocal Ensemble and Orchestra returned recently from a concert tour in China, visiting Beijing and Xi’an.  The HPU Wind Ensemble will embark upon a West Coast concert tour in the spring of 2012.
HPU Orchestra Recital-Voices of Resistance


HPU Symphonic Band-Voices of Resistance



Arts at HPU News

Director of Theatre Joyce Maltby is pleased to announce HPU’s spring production of Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler.”
Ibsen, the father of modern drama, created one of the most confounding and complex characters when he first penned Hedda Gabler in 1891. Since then, Hedda has become one of the most talked about fictional women in all of drama, "the female Hamlet." She bewitches her audiences, and over a century later still has the capacity to shock. Just back from her honeymoon and bored with her marriage and domestic life, Hedda manipulates her situation to devastating effect. Through Hedda, Ibsen reveals the bitter conflicts and thwarted longings that lie just below the "civilized" transactions of daily life.

This classic piece of theatre features two HPU students in the cast and one student on the production team. MORE...

HPU's Paul & Vi Loo Theatre Ustore Box Office: 808-375-1282

First Look: Mixed Media & Art Festival The HPU community, family and friends are invited: Come hang out and see paintings, photography, digital media and cinematic screenings. Eat, drink and be merry. … Don’t miss our fabulous HPU HIP HOP Crew perform live on stage at 5:30 p.m. Then First Look Awards for best art and media will be presented, followed by cinematic screenings on two big screens. Free food provided by Cafe Che Pasta. 5 p.m.-9:30 p.m., Pier 10 Aloha Tower. Saturday, May 4, 2013.

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