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The Past Four Years at Hub Coworking Hawaii

September 5, 2021

Back on August 23rd, The Hub celebrated its 4th year of operation out of our Queen Street location. We are so honored to have made it this far as a coworking space, creative outlet and a gathering place. Together, we have grown through renovations, a rebrand, community volunteer opportunities and countless events–pau hanas, networking opportunities, movie premieres, crop swaps– just to name a few! We only hope that this growth continues long-term, and that we can provide the location, resources and opportunities for you and your business to, as we say, “do well and do good.” 

Before 2020, the Hub was a community resource for businesses needing a venue for their meetings and events. The Hub was and still is a gathering place for many of its own community members allowing the businesses in our own network to spotlight their products/services. While events have taken more of a back seat nowadays, we can’t help but to reminisce on some of the past events that we have had the pleasure of hosting. We hope to bring events back when we’re able to gather in a safe manner again.

  • Art@Hub Shows
    • The Hub has had the pleasure of having it’s space beautified by murals painted by local artists. Artists would create murals or installations on the common theme of “Community.” In exchange, the Hub would provide membership or residency for artists to continue their work or provide classes to the community. Each artist would also be featured in their own Art@Hub Show where they’d display their gallery of work. Local artists that have created murals or installations for the Hub are Lauren Hana Chai, Boz Schurr, Aimee Dukes, Shenae Tam, Bai Xin Chen, Ryan Higa, Aria Villafranca, and Lauren Trangmar.
  • Indie Lens Film Nights
    • In partnership with PBS Hawaii, we would transform our Main Event Space into a theater and feature independent documentary films focused on a variety of social issues. PBS Hawaii would even bring pizza, a popcorn machine and arare/mochi crunch. Some popular features were “Out of State” and “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
Indie Lens Film Screening of Bedlam
  • Climathon
      • In fall 2019, we hosted the first ever Honolulu Climathon. We hosted the Climathon Honolulu Hackathon with guest judges Chelsea Harder of Hawaiʻi Green Growth, June Matsumoto of Pacific Islands Institute, and Chris Barzman from Sustainable Tourism Association of Hawaii. We focused on sustainable tourism and guided our participants with the guiding question of: “How do we reduce the human impact of tourism in Honolulu?”
        Climathon 2019 Winners Team Get Zero Wasted
  • Wellness Wednesday
    • Awakened Mana has been hosting Wellness Wednesday events once a month at the Hub since our early Impact Hub Honolulu days. They are creators of conscious events and products. With a focus on movement, health, sustainability, growth and community, their events and products inspire reflection and an awakened consciousness. Popular events have consisted of Sound Healing Meditation, Kombucha Brewing Workshops and Light Alchemy. 
  • Weekly Member Luncheon
    • Formerly held every Wednesday in the community kitchen, our Member Luncheon was an opportunity for our members to connect with each other during the lunch hour. We’d provide pizza or food from local neighborhood restaurants (thank you, Thyda’s Tacos!) and break the ice for everyone.
  • Monthly Crop Swaps – Back on! 
    • This series of events was born from members sharing their abundance from their home gardens and crops. Our amazing members would bring in apple bananas, mangos, marrungay leaves (malunggay/moringa) and all kinds of herbs to share with others. We figured why not make this a monthly occurrence? This was also the perfect pairing with Long Spoon Farms to help with the monthly efforts as they were providing a similar community service in Kaimuki. 
Crop Swap meeting in our community kitchen

Another growth point of ours has been our membership. Our core group of members has changed over the years, as we steadily welcome freelancers, digital nomads, entrepreneurs, small business owners and non-profit organizations seeking a flexible workspace. Our variety of month to month membership options and offices allowed our members to use our space at their convenience and scale up when ready. When COVID-19 made its way to the Hawaiian Islands, we were just as worried as everyone else. Our memberships took a hit and some long standing office members had to vacate. Since then, we’ve reached a new demographic of remote workers, businesses seeking office space that didn’t require a long lease and workers wanting an alternative space to their home office (or dining tables). 

We’d love to recognize several of our previous members, that have scaled their businesses over the years:

  • DreamHouse ‘Ewa Beach
  • Zero Waste Oahu
  • HI Tech Hui
  • LifeDNA
  • Blue Logic Labs
  • KM & Associates, eXp Realty
  • Pineapple Group HI, eXp Realty

After working with some incredible entrepreneurs/companies, we were inspired to make a greater impact in our community. Since 2017, we have created and joined forces with a variety of programs that have allowed us to provide many mentoring, coaching and networking opportunities for our members and the greater community.

Programs:

  • SIIP

The Social Impact Incubator Program helps fill the opportunity gap for very early stage entrepreneurs – especially educators – in Hawaiʻi. SIIP is a six month program where participants gain access to content specialists, top-notch mentorship, weekly learning modules and up to $8,000 in capital to take their venture to the next level. We are currently working together with Teach for America Hawaii on the second cohort of entrepreneurs.

  • Hawaii Freelance Network

The Hawaii Freelancer’s Network is open to any small business, entrepreneur, freelancer or business leader, current or aspiring! Via monthly workshops at the Hub, HFN helps to connect members to the greater community and share valuable knowledge and insights. 

  • Women’s Personal Finance Group

Women’s Personal Finance workgroup was a casual bi-monthly meetup at the Hub for any woman that wants to learn more about finances, better understand their own financial habits and needs, and get more comfortable asking questions and learning about this big subject. 

Women’s Personal Finance Group Meeting

 

Announcing the Indie Lens Pop-Up Film Series!

December 2, 2019

We are excited to announce that again we will be hosting Indie Lens Pop-Up film series for 2019-2020. In partnership with PBS Hawaii, we will be hosting these films starting this month and onwards into May 2020. All of these film screenings are free and open to the public, and heavy pupu is provided to attendees! This is our second season hosting the film. Read more about the films we hosted for the 2018-2019 season.

The 2019 film series covers some of the most pertinent topics of our time, including race relations, homelessness and mental health, climate change, and consumerism, and we look forward to being a community partner for PBS Hawaii for this series. Dates and times for the following films are subject to change.

The Indie Lens Pop-Up series are film screenings that brings people together for community-driven conversations around documentaries from the award-winning PBS series, Independent Lens on PBS Hawaiʻi. Learn more about Indie Lens Pop Up in this short video here:

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The first film in the series is entitled The First Rainbow Coalition will be shown Wednesday, December 4, from 5:30PM-8:15PM. This powerful film looks at how, in 1969, the Chicago Black Panther Party began to form a multi-ethnic coalition with the Young Lords Organization and the Young Patriots.

Banding together in one of the most segregated cities in post-war America, the Rainbow Coalition changed the face of 1960s Chicago politics and created an organizing model for future activists and politicians.


Indie Lens Pop-Up Film: Bedlam

Wednesday, February 26 at 5:30 pm

Filmmaker and practicing psychiatrist, Ken Rosenberg visits ERs, jails, and homeless camps to examine our national mental health crisis. Rosenberg follows the poignant stories of people grappling with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and other chronic psychiatric conditions, whose silence and shame often worsen the suffering.

BEDLAM trailer from Upper East Films on Vimeo.


Indie Lens Pop-Up Film: Eating Up Easter

Wednesday, April 22 at 5:30 pm

Threatened by climate change and globalization, remote Easter Island provides a wake-up call for the rest of the world.  More than just a picture postcard of iconic stone statues, Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is a microcosm of a planet in flux. Native Rapanui grapple with a booming tourism trade that rakes in money, but brings about a changing climate that threatens the fragile ecology on the island. Rapanui filmmaker Sergio Mata’u Rapu gives voice to his fellow islanders, who struggle to balance their strong cultural heritage with modern-day challenges.

Eating Up Easter (2018) | Official Trailer from Kartemquin Films on Vimeo.


Indie Lens Pop-Up Film: Recorder

Wednesday, May 20 at 5:30 pm

Marion Stokes secretly recorded television twenty-four hours a day for thirty years. It started in 1979 with the dawn of the twenty-four hour news cycle and ended when Marion passed away in 2012. In total, Marion recorded on 70,000 VHS tapes, capturing revolutions, lies, wars, triumphs, and catastrophes that tell us who we were and how television has shaped the world of today.

ImpactART 2019 Featuring Aria Villafranca- Vox: A World without Humanity

November 11, 2019

We are excited to announce our fourth ImpactART event featuring artist and illustrator, Aria Villafranca, December 5, 2019.

For details and to RSVP to the event, please click here. The event will be held December 5, 2019, starting at 6pm. The opening is free, and drinks and pupu will be provided. Find more work by Aria on her website, on Facebook, and Instagram.

If you spend any time here at Impact Hub HNL, you’ll likely recognize Aria’s work, which adorns the pillars in the Queen Street side of the space. The scenes are from a sci-fi cityscape and it was some of the first work to color our walls, so it’s really exciting to host this event that features a more full body of work from this multi- talented artist.

Aria, born and raised on Oahu, received a BFA from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, and is currently working towards an MFA in Sequential Art at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

In this coming show, which features comic book-style sequences, standalone pieces, and animations, Aria invites us to examine the familiar through an unfamiliar lens. This alien world has been created for the viewer to enter, fully examine, inhabit, and interact with this new world to escape reality to enter a world of fiction. See selected images from the show in the Gallery below:

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I chatted with Aria about her work for the show and to learn more about the motivation behind some of this work.

Andrea Bertoli (AB): Where does your inspiration come from for all the different worlds you create?

Aria Villafranca (AV): Whenever I create a world for any of my stories, there’s both a visual inspiration and a thematic inspiration. One can come before the other, but they both work together to shape the world. It’s hard to pinpoint a hard and fast “rule” when it comes to creating, because I usually build up these worlds over a long period of time, so the process is slightly different for each work. I like to keep it organic though, and I usually compound ideas as I think of them.

Visual inspirations often come from reality, or at least ideas from other media that are informed by reality. For “Vox,” my visual inspiration comes from cities, and the idea of cities. I’ve always had an interest in cities and urban architecture, so I wonder if my exploration of cities via this work is my way of vicariously experiencing life in an urban space, since most of my time is spent in smaller communities. What time I have spent in cities has really resonated with me, and the visuals and feelings I keep from those experiences heavily influence “Vox.”

What has struck me about these places is the juxtaposition of different perceptions that one can have of them. When you see advertisements for these places, they are very polished, very flashy and inviting; but when you get there, there are a lot of parts that are dirty, that have trash in the streets, dilapidated storefronts, graffiti on bus stops, and other darker sides of urban living. These aspects of “the city” are not advertised, particularly, but they are there as part of the reality of city living. In the interest of money and tourism, many people would like to pretend that these less than pleasant aspects of a city’s image is non-existent, and it’s for that reason I am inspired to utilize these aspects.

And honestly, I just think that the actual messy reality of a city is much more interesting to exist in and be a part of. It feels lived in, it has character, and that really appeals to me to not have the world exist as a pristine Stepford Wives-esque utopia as seen in advertisements.

I’m also pretty influenced by other forms of media that thematically tie into the “mood” I’m going for in my work. Music is a big part of how I conceptualize ideas, so there are a few hip-hop and electronic music artists that convey the grit and grime I’m portraying in “Vox”, like Run the Jewels and Foreign Beggars. Then there are shows (The Wire, Futurama), films (Blade Runner 2049, Dredd), comics (Blacksad, The Spire, V for Vendetta), a bunch of non-fiction books and articles, and of course, the news.

In these depictions from other media, there are aspects that speak to me, that I then translate into my own world. There’s the bombastic violence and glamour that Run the Jewels raps about, the zany alien culture of “Futurama,” the repetitive and looming structures of “Blade Runner,” the cameras and police of “V for Vendetta.” These themselves are inspired by reality, starting a game of telephone between what exists, what is depicted, and what is predicted, in the culture of these real and imagined spaces.

There are just so many aspects from so many different things that influence and inspire me at different intervals that contribute to this stew that then becomes this world. It’s a process.

AB: What do you think viewers can learn from living – at least temporarily- in this fictional/fantasy worlds?

AV: I think that by entering a fictional world the viewer can remove inhibitions when it comes to thinking about certain ideas. In the real world, we can often be guarded and stubborn when it comes to issues we care about. My theory is that, when experiencing a fictional situation, you are more likely to take it at face value, without preconceived notions, and you become more open to contemplating an idea you perhaps would not have in reality if someone just presented it to you, even though the core concept is the same.

The way I see it is fiction can be used as another way to explain a point of view. It’s like if you’ve ever been in a discussion, and you didn’t understand a concept, and someone used a metaphor and it suddenly made sense; that’s what fiction (and fictional worlds) have the potential to be, if that’s the artist’s desire.

In each fictional world I create, and their corresponding narratives, my intent is to tackle specific issues that I feel are worth talking about. In “Vox,” I hope that by reframing situations we face in the modern age, viewers can understand the absurdity, tragedy, and danger we face in the current socio-political moment that we are living in.

AB: In your artist statement, you write about dealing with ‘made up conflicts to forget real problems–’ so do you envision your work as a kind of self-reflective therapy?

AV: I was actually being playfully sardonic there; weird as it is to say about a story with no humans in it, my work is rooted in reality, so in the narrative sense, it really is only about real problems. While I am speaking to issues I care about in society, I am also trying to entertain the viewer to some degree (otherwise I could just be writing academic essays). The irony is that, in a lot of works that are explicitly or implicitly making statements on contemporary issues, because the work itself is so engaging and, for lack of a better word, fun, viewers can… miss the point.

I think it’s perfectly feasible that a viewer can forget real problems by being entertained by made up conflicts that are themselves commentaries on real problems. But this is also the double-edged sword of creating art as entertainment, balancing the line of being too overt or too subtle with your intentions. It’s also not up to me to determine what someone takes away from the art; as long as they take something away, I’m happy, but there is also a specific intention that I have when I’m creating something.

Creating the work is therapeutic for me, because I feel that I am contributing, at least in a small way, to the discourse surrounding important issues. Explorations of poverty, race, class, law, and power are interesting to me and necessary; whether the viewer themselves also finds this therapeutic is probably up for debate. I hope, though, that the work provides the opportunity for viewers to experience internal and external reflection about what’s going on in the world and how that relates to themselves.

For details and to RSVP to the event, please click here. The event will be held December 5, 2019, starting at 6pm. The opening is free, and drinks and pupu will be provided. Find more work by Aria on her website, on Facebook, and Instagram.

What is ImpactART?
ImpactART supports Hawaii’s artists by creating an equal exchange of artwork for studio and exhibition space. Co-created by Impact Hub HNL and Honolulu Biennial Foundation in 2017 to address the need for art studios and the proper valuation of artists’ work. We have thus far hosted three ImpactART events, featuring artists Lauren Hana Chai, Boz Schurr, and a group show featuring Sheanae Tam, Ryan Higa, and Bai Xin Chen.

Anne Weber, Impact Hub HNL Community Manager, explains, “The idea for ImpactART was inspired by our commitment to creating community impact. When we opened in August 2017, we had huge blank walls and wanted to figure out a way to beautify the space, support local up and coming artists, inspire a new audience of art lovers, and show the business community how they too can support local arts in a creative way. It is a win-win.” To inquire about art space or to learn more about Impact Hub HNL, contact us.

First Ever Honolulu Climathon WINNER Announced!

November 1, 2019

This last weekend we hosted the first ever Honolulu Climathon. The event was a BLAST, and we’d like to extend a big thank you to all of those that attended, as well as our community that helped make the event happen. This includes our list of esteemed judges: Chelsea Harder of Hawaiʻi Green Growth, June Matsumoto of Pacific Islands Institute, and Chris Barzman from Sustainable Tourism Association of Hawaii.

June Matsumoto, Chris Barzman, and Chelsea Harder, our judges for the first Climathon.

Another special thanks to Dr. Darragh O’Carroll for being our guest for the Saturday night film discussion and screening of his new series about climate change and public health. More mahalos also to Molly Pierce from the Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resiliency, Lauren Wantanabe from Sierra Club, and the local chapter of Project Drawdown, all of whom hosted workshops and shared information for our attendees and for the public.

Dr. Darragh O’Carroll presenting his climate change and public health documentary on October 26.

Finally, many thanks to our financial and food sponsors that make the event happen, including Hawaii Energy, Maui Brewing Company, Down to Earth, and Whole Foods Market!


Climathon Honolulu, as part of the global Climathon day of action, proves that local action can have global impact. Earlier in 2019, we convened a diverse group of stakeholders to design the first Climathon for Honolulu. The group determined that reducing the human impact of tourism in Honolulu would be a great focus for the first Climathon. So this weekend, this was the guiding question for our participants: How do we reduce the human impact of tourism in Honolulu?

When we saw the final pitches on Sunday, it was awesome to see how the various groups approached the question. Some teams looked at policy solutions, some offered technology solutions, and others were “surprisingly analog,” according to Honolulu Civil Beat reporter Brittany Lyte in her feature story about the event.

The winning team, named Get Zero Wasted, created a solution to reduce waste from all the goods that tourists purchase for their holiday. This business idea is to deliver gently used (and cleaned) items like snorkels, masks, boogie boards, beach mats, and other items to hotel rooms, so that tourists don’t need to purchase these items new (and throw away when they are done). The team featured Severine Busquet, Engineer & Product Design, Miranda Gallegos, BSW, Community Organizer, Jake Roberts, MBA, BD, Sarah Daigle, and Scott Cooney, seriel eco-entrepreneur and advisor to the group.

Team Get Zero Wasted

Watch their winning pitch in the video below:

This team is eligible to head to Paris, France, for the Global Climathon event to be held in January 2020. They also receive membership to Impact Hub HNL and 15 hours of mentorship from local business leaders, like Alec Wagner from Purple Maia, Lisa Kleisner, an impact investor and founder of Hawaii Investment Ready, and the founders of the Impact Hub Honolulu (Nam Vu, George Yarbrough, Anne Weber).

Some of the other proposed solutions we saw from our hackers during the pitches include:

  • A policy solution that creates an ‘eco-pass’ that gives visitors passes to all city and state parks, and additional regulation for tour operators to educate guests about sunscreen and single-use plastic;
  • Videos and education to inform tourists about the importance of the Ohi’a plants, which are facing an extinction crisis due to a fungus;
  • The Global Green Energy Hospitality Initiative that will monitor energy use in the hospitality sector;
  • And a crowd-sourced composting company to reduce waste in our favorite neighborhoods.

And if you missed our other discussions about the Climathon, here’s some background: Climathon, a project of Climate-KIC and under the auspice of the European Union, has the official mission of empowering a global wave  of  change-makers and innovators to help humanity achieve zero emissions in 20 to 30 years. Last year the Global Climathon included 113 cities with over 5000 participants and 400+ solutions – and this year will be bigger than ever. This year, the Climathon team connected with Impact Hub Global, joining together these two organizations to build ongoing climate solutions.

 

Final Schedule & FAQs for Climathon Honolulu this Saturday!

October 22, 2019

Honolulu Climathon 2019 is just a few days away, and we’re so excited! For those participating in the Hackathon portion on Saturday, or for those wishing to watch the pitch competition on Sunday, we’ve created a detailed schedule so that you can prepare for the big day.

Individuals and teams participating in the competition are allowed to work all day (and all night) Saturday at Impact Hub to refine your project. Please see our FAQs below for more details about prizes, food, parking, and access on Saturday and Sunday.

For those pitching in our competition, the final contest will be Sunday, 12pm to 1:30pm. You will pitch your idea in 3 minutes or less to a team of 3 judges. The judges are Chelsea Harder of Hawaiʻi Green Growth, Kalani Kaʻanāʻanā from Hawaii Tourism Authority, and Chris Barzman from Hawaii Ecotourism Authority.

 

Not pitching an idea for Climathon? No problem, there is still a lot of fun activities: you can join us at the following times for these public (non-Hackathon) events:

Saturday Public Events:

  • 1pm WORKSHOP: Project Drawdown- Stopping global warming is possible, with solutions that exist today. In order to do this, we must work together to achieve Drawdown, the point when greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere start to decline.
  • 4:30pm: WORKSHOP: Sierra Club: Lauren Watanabe- Discussing the intersection of Climate Action and Social Justice.
  • 6:15pm- 8pm: Double Feature Film Night & Pizza Party. Dr. Darragh O’Carroll just returned from emergency response in Abaco Island in the Bahamas where Hurricane Dorian devastated the islands and will talk about his TV documentary series. The Human Element film will show after.

Sunday Public Events:

  • 12pm-1pm: Final Pitches! Everyone is WELCOME!
  • 1pm: Lunch & Judge’s Deliberation Time
  • 1:30: Final Winners Announced

Many thanks to Hawaii Energy for being the lead sponsor for the event. Hawai‘i Energy’s mission is to empower island families and businesses to make smart energy choices that reduce energy consumption, save money and pursue a 100% clean energy future. Additional sponsors include Maui Brewing Company, Down to Earth, and Whole Foods Market. Our media partner for the event is Hawaii Business Magazine.


Climathon Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs):

+ What is a Climathon?
Climathon is a global event bringing together nearly 1 million participants from 300 cities around the world. This is a global event with inspired local action. Learn more in our blog post here.

+ Why should I pitch and what are the prizes?
Winners of the Hackathon are decided by a team of esteemed local judges on Sunday. The winning person/team for the Hackathon will win some great prizes, including 4 months of Unlimited Membership at Impact Hub HNL, 15 hours of mentorship from a group of mentors in Hawaii. The list includes Alec Wagner from Purple Maia, Lisa Kleisner, an impact investor and founder of Hawaii Investment Ready, and the founders of the Impact Hub Honolulu (Nam Vu, George Yarbrough, Anne Weber). The winner also receives an opportunity to pitch their solution at the Global Climathon finals in Paris, France, in early 2020.

+ What will the judges be looking for in the pitches? 

Our esteemed judges have a set of criteria that they will follow to evaluate all the pitches from the Hackathon:

  1. FIT: Does the product address the prompt – will this reduce the impact of tourism in Honolulu?
  2. INNOVATION: Does the product introduce a new approach or perspective, technical, analytical, or visual?
  3. FEASIBILITY: Does the concept hold water and can it be reasonably carried out in Honolulu over the next 5 years?
  4. POTENTIAL FOR IMPACT: Will this project mitigate the impact of tourism in Honolulu and take climate action?” Team Are the right people involved or identified to help bring this idea to fruition?

+ What if I don’t have an idea but I want to participate?
That’s the beauty of Hackathons. People come with ideas, willingness to get involved, their own skills, and sometimes a team. The Hackathon is designed so that there will be an opportunity for people to join forces, and recruit new team members. Team formation happens early Saturday, so be sure to join early to find your people.

+ Do I need to bring food and drinks?
Just bring what you can’t live without. We have organized great food with the help of our sponsors Hawaii Energy, Down to Earth, Whole Foods, and Maui Brewing Co., we’ll provide lunch and dinner on Saturday, and baked goods for breakfast and lunch on Sunday. We’ll have water, coffee, and drinks available all day. We also have all the cups, plates, and utensils you’ll need. Just bring your reusable water bottle and your energy! All foods are vegan/vegetarian friendly! If you do get hungry or snacky, Whole Foods is just across the street, along with dozens of other restaurants in the Kakaako neighborhood.

+ Do I have to stay overnight? What about access?
If you and your team wish to stay overnight at Impact Hub HNL to work on your idea, you are welcome to do so. However, for security reasons, both the outside/building door and our door will be locked after the film event, and your team members will have to let you in. If you don’t wish to spend the night, please return on Sunday at 9am for breakfast and pitch practice.

+ Do I have to be there all day (24hrs)?
Nope! The Climathon is an optional 24-hour event. If you and your team refine your idea on Saturday during the day, there is no need to stay overnight. Please return for breakfast and pitch practice on Sunday at 9am. Molly Pierce from the Office of Climate Change, Sustainability, and Resiliency will be presenting on how to best communicate your ideas, so you don’t want to miss that key talk.

+ What is the Parking Situation?
Our parking garage is closed on the weekend. Do not enter the parking garage or you will get locked in! Please see our parking map here.

+ What do I need to bring?
Bring your ENERGY, IDEAS, and your TEAM! Otherwise, bring your favorite device, chargers, (phone, tablet, computer, notepad) that you need to brainstorm. We have super fast wifi, printers, pens, markers, and poster paper (and white boards) for creative drawing.

Any other questions: please contact us and we’ll respond right away!

Event Spotlight: Wellness Wednesdays

October 14, 2019

In this feature, we’re highlighting our monthly Wellness Wednesday events. These events, hosted in partnership with Awakened Mana, are conscious and wellness-focused events that help the community relax, connect, and unwind.

I chatted with Diana Dymarsky, founder of Awakened Mana and coordinator of our monthly events, to learn about why these types of events are important to the community, what Members can gain from attending, as well as learn more about what type of events we can expect to see in 2020.

A reminder that Members can WIN two free tickets for the monthly Wellness Wednesday events (a $30-40 value). See the suggestion box in the kitchen for more details about this monthly drawing.


AB: Tell us more about Awakened Mana. Why did you decide to start a company like this?

DD: I’ve always loved organizing events and bringing people together. During a sound healing meditation a few years ago it hit me- this is incredible and more people need to experience this! A month later I was planning my first event at a friends warehouse, and it was very well attended. After a few successful pop up events, I made it official and created Awakened Mana. Our vision is that:

We are creators of conscious events. We provide the platform to inspire, create, nourish and connect to a deeper level internally and with the surrounding community. With a focus on movement, healing, sustainability, growth and community, our events inspire reflection and an awakened consciousness. We invite you to Uplift your Soul!

AB: Tell us more about some of the events you’ve hosted in 2019 and what we can expect for the remainder of the year?

DD: This year Awakened Mana has collaborated with a special group of healers! We’ve had several Sound Healing journeys, a Cacao Ceremony, a workshop on How to Brew Kombucha, and an Intro to Herbal Medicine.

It’s hard to believe that we only have TWO events left for the year! Sound Healing on October 16th with Bryan Jordan, and NEW to the Wellness Wednesday line-up: a Light and Sound Meditation Experience on November 13th. Both offer attendees an opportunity for deep relaxation and meditation, and both events are suitable for beginners. Give yourself the opportunity for this relaxing experience, so we invite you to make time for yourself as we gear into the busy holiday season!

AB: Some of our members might not be aware of some of these things: can you explain what a Cacao Ceremony is and why in the world someone might want to partake in a Sound Healing event?

DD: A Cacao Ceremony combines Cacao (the raw, unrefined form of chocolate) and Sound Healing. Ceremonial cacao comes from Guatemala and is a natural plant medicine and superfood. It is hand prepared to preserve all the antioxidants, minerals, cocoa butter, and other compounds that make it a highly effective superfood. Attendees drink the cacao, and are guided through meditation with sound.

Sound Healing uses the vibrations of a variety of instruments to relax the body and mind. Participants either lay or sit comfortably on yoga mats for the duration of the journey, and experience a deep meditative state. Some of the instruments used include gongs, crystal bowls, rain stick, drums, digeredoo, voice, chimes and more.

AB: What types of events can we look forward to in 2020?

DD: Members can look forward to more Sound Healing events featuring instruments like Gongs, Crystal Bowls, Didgeridoos and for the first time – a Harp! We’ll also feature a homemade body care class with Hub team member Andrea, who’s also a chef and educator. Kombucha brewing and much more!

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