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The Green Room

Fostering a reverence for language, imagination, and nature through a series of arts and ecology salons in Hawai‘i.


The Green Room is currently on hiatus as we design new ways to bring these salons to a broader public. Please subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates about what’s coming next. You may view a growing archive of excerpts from past Green Rooms below.


Previous presentations of The Green Room have featured:

Joy Harjo in The Green Room [VIDEO]
In late 2019 and late 2020, following the death of W.S. Merwin, The Merwin Conservancy curated a special "memorial series"
Forrest Gander & Robert Hass in The Green Room
Robert Hass & Forrest Gander in The Green Room
Dr. Pualani Kanaka‘ole Kanahele reading The Folding Cliffs
Pualani Kanahele Reads “The Folding Cliffs” in The Green Room
Robin Wall Kimmerer in The Green Room
Richard Powers in The Green Room
Lewis Hyde & Matthew Zapruder in The Green Room
Alexis Rockman in The Green Room
Susan Middleton in The Green Room
Naomi Nye & Cathy Song in The Green Room [VIDEO]
In June 2018, The Merwin Conservancy hosted poets and long time friends Naomi Shihab Nye and Cathy Song to present
Bill McKibben in The Green Room
Tracy K. Smith in The Green Room [VIDEO]
On Friday, February 9th, 2018, The Merwin Conservancy hosted Pulitzer Prize winner and U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith in
Billy Collins in The Green Room
A 90th Birthday Tribute to W.S. Merwin in The Green Room
Dr. Pualani Kanaka‘ole Kanahele in The Green Room
Hope Jahren in The Green Room
Bill Porter aka Red Pine in The Green Room
William Finnegan in The Green Room
Gary Paul Nabhan in The Green Room
Michael Ondaatje in The Green Room
Jane Hirshfield in The Green Room
Hawai‘i: Language Matters in The Green Room
Susan Casey in The Green Room
Barry Lopez in The Green Room
“Symphony of the Soil” in The Green Room
Terry Tempest Williams in The Green Room
Naomi Shihab Nye in The Green Room
Abraham Verghese in The Green Room
Alexander Maksik in The Green Room

The Green Room salon series was launched in August 2013 and has now taken place on the islands of Maui and O‘ahu. Over the years, this series has been made possible by the generous support of:

Aqua-Aston Hospitality
Atherton Family Foundation
FIM Group /Mercer Advisors
Halekulani
Casa des Flores
Green Room Patrons
Slow Food O‘ahu
Berktech Solutions
Sean Hower Photography
Hawai‘i Flora Fauna
edible Hawaiian Islands

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