# Event Details - **Event Name**: The Weight of Memory: Native Veterans and Vietnamese Perspectives on War - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 17 Jan, 2026 at 03:00 pm – Sat, 17 Jan, 2026 at 05:00 pm - **Event Description**: Watch a screening of a PBS documentary, and join a conversation about the enduring consequences of war.About this EventThis screening and panel discussion centers on historical context, lived experience, and the importance of dialogue among communities shaped by war and its enduring consequences. The program features Hunting in Wartime, a documentary that profiles Tlingit veterans from Hoonah, Alaska who served during the Vietnam War and reflects on combat, trauma, relationships with Vietnamese civilians, and the complexities of serving a government that has long oppressed Indigenous peoples.Through the film and facilitated discussion, this program creates space to consider how war reverberates long after it ends for individuals, families, and communities. It also explores how memory, survival, and responsibility are understood differently from Native and Vietnamese perspectives. Together, the screening and panel encourages reflection, conversation, and deeper understanding of war’s enduring human impact.The filmmaker will share a preview of a new documentary currently in development, offering additional context about these themes and underscoring the importance of this ongoing work.Questions can be directed to uhwolib@hawaii.edu.MORE INFORMATIONParking is free. Campus map: https://westoahu.hawaii.edu/about/our-campus/campus-map/. Directions to get to campus: https://westoahu.hawaii.edu/about/our-campus/#getting-to-campus.The event will be held in the James & Abigail Campbell Library, B-Building, at the ʻUluʻulu Theater space.This is a supplementary program offered in conjunction with exhibit which includes a three-quarter scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. That exhibit will be at UH West Oʻahu from January 14-19, 2026.ABOUT HUNTING IN WARTIMEHunting in Wartime is airing on National PBS (it aired on PBS Hawaiʻi for Veterans Day in 2021) and won the Big Sky Award at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism in Documentary and the Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking Award at the Inwood Film Festival in NYC. The film has screened in over thirty venues including the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, The National Archives, the American Indian Film Festival, the Hanoi Cinematheque and the Cambodia International Film Festival.https://youtu.be/AWAoxGSV9v0ABOUT THE SPEAKERSSamantha FarinellaSamantha Farinella is a veteran NYC filmmaker, now based in Honolulu, and the founder of One Angry Woman Productions. Farinella’s feature length project, Hunting in Wartime, premiered nationally on PBS, won five awards including the Big Sky Award at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and has screened in over thirty venues. Her first feature documentary, Left Lane, won eight awards including honors in New Zealand, Paris and New York. It received official selection in over forty film festivals including: San Francisco's Frameline, Out in Africa, Galway Film Fleadh, and opening night at Boston's Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Her short films have screened in over 50 festivals and won several awards. She also has extensive television production and advertising experience with media companies including Viacom, The History Channel, Animal Planet and PBS. Farinella is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hawai’i and received her MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College.Kim Compoc, ModeratorKim Compoc is an Associate Professor of history at the University of Hawaiʻi–West O‘ahu. Her research focuses on U.S. empire in the Philippines and Hawaiʻi; Asian/ American studies; as well as diasporic Filipinx Studies with an emphasis on Indigenous, Feminist, and Queer critique. Her research has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the American Association of University Women, and the Fulbright-Hays Program. She is the faculty advisor for Ka Mana O Nā Pueo, a UHWO student group which formed in response to the current genocide in Palestine.Malaya Caligtan-TranMalaya Caligtan-Tran (Kankana-ey Igorot, Ilocano, and Vietnamese) is a PhD student in American Studies at Harvard University. Their research engages with the Cordillera region and the reverberating impacts of American colonialism. More specifically, their dissertation research will examine the intersections of Igorot identity with concepts of indigeneity, extraction, development, and self-determination in diaspora and the “homeland.” Malaya received their B.A. in Indigenous Public Health with a minor in Environmental Analysis, their senior thesis examined the figure of the Igorot-Filipino-American soldier and the complexities of masculinity, debt, and biocitizenship. Malaya grew up in Kapālama and traces their activism and education to the community aunties, uncles, and elders in Hawai'i, California, Viet Nam and the Philippines. They have been attending protests and organizing meetings alongside their parents before they were even born.Ann WrightAnn Wright served 29 years in the US Army/Army Reserves and retired as a Colonel. She was also a US diplomat and served in US Embassies in Nicaragua, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan and Mongolia. She resigned from the US government in March 2003 in opposition to the US war on Iraq. She is a part of the Gaza flotilla initiative. She is the co-author of "Dissent: Voices of Conscience."Hanaloa HelelāHanaloa Helelā is an Aloha 'Āina, Kia'i Mauna, Kia’i Wai, and member of Hui Aloha 'Āina, Hawai‘i Peace and Justice, Wai Ola Alliance, and the Pearl Harbor-Hickam-Kalaeloa Restoration Advisory Board. He is an Air Force veteran and became involved in activism in 1991 as the US prepared to bomb Iraq. Hanaloa joined the Hawaiian Movement shortly after and worked throughout Ko Pae 'Āina Hawai'i with the Women of Hale o Papa, Ka Pākaukau, Ka Lāhui Hawai'i, Nation of Hawai'i, Hawaiian charter schools, HULI, O’ahu Water Protectors and many others who work for the restoration of Hawaiian Sovereignty, the protection and return of stolen Kingdom lands, and cultural, environmental and social education and justice. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/d7e5c090-f04a-11f0-a70a-c52c1556aa4b-rimg-w1200-h390-dcc0c0c0-gmir.jpg EVENT SPONSORSProgramming was made possible, in part, with support from the UHWO Veterans Center of Excellence. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/kapolei/the-weight-of-memory-native-veterans-and-vietnamese-perspectives-on-war/100001979937898553 - **Event Categories**: entertainment, festivals, art, business, health-wellness, literary-art, nonprofit, meetups, it, theatre - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Kapolei - **state**: HI - **country**: United States - **location**: University of Hawaiʻi – West Oʻahu - **lat**: 21.3551859 - **long**: -158.0555424 - **full address**: University of Hawaiʻi – West Oʻahu, ʻUluʻulu Theater, Kapolei, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: The Weight of Memory: Native Veterans and Vietnamese Perspectives on War - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/710e9724379a0c52bf94f883721c2ba0d3d6907cdc8a80c3a5e57ea1819dd756-rimg-w1200-h600-dc141619-gmir.jpg?v=1768286483 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is The Weight of Memory: Native Veterans and Vietnamese Perspectives on War being held? - **A:** The Weight of Memory: Native Veterans and Vietnamese Perspectives on War takes place on Sat, 17 Jan, 2026 at 03:00 pm to Sat, 17 Jan, 2026 at 05:00 pm at University of Hawaiʻi – West Oʻahu, ʻUluʻulu Theater, Kapolei, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing The Weight of Memory: Native Veterans and Vietnamese Perspectives on War? - **A:** The Weight of Memory: Native Veterans and Vietnamese Perspectives on War is organized by James & Abigail Campbell Library at UH West Oʻahu. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "The Weight of Memory: Native Veterans and Vietnamese Perspectives on War", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/710e9724379a0c52bf94f883721c2ba0d3d6907cdc8a80c3a5e57ea1819dd756-rimg-w1200-h600-dc141619-gmir.jpg?v=1768286483", "startDate": "2026-01-17", "endDate": "2026-01-17", "url": "https://allevents.in/kapolei/the-weight-of-memory-native-veterans-and-vietnamese-perspectives-on-war/100001979937898553", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "University of Hawaiʻi – West Oʻahu", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "ʻUluʻulu Theater", "postalCode": "96707", "addressLocality": "Kapolei", "addressRegion": "HI", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "21.3551859", "longitude": "-158.0555424" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Watch a screening of a PBS documentary, and join a conversation about the enduring consequences of war.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-07", "availabilityEnds": "2026-01-17", "validFrom": "2026-04-07", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/kapolei/the-weight-of-memory-native-veterans-and-vietnamese-perspectives-on-war/100001979937898553" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-07", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-07", "url": "https://allevents.in/kapolei/the-weight-of-memory-native-veterans-and-vietnamese-perspectives-on-war/100001979937898553", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "James & Abigail Campbell Library at UH West Oahu", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/james-and-abigail-campbell-library-at-uh-west-oʻahu/19128548" } ] } ] ```