Haleakala, Inc.

The Archive Project is an ongoing initiative to preserve and modernize The Kitchen’s extensive collection of more than four decades of historic audio and videotapes documenting performances and events that have taken place at The Kitchen following its inception in 1971. We have catalogued a significant portion of our archive and continue to make progress each year, with the ultimate goal of establishing a complete online working archive of experimental performance through the present day. The Kitchen has also provided archival material from 1971 - 1999 to The Getty Research Center in order to ensure the archive’s long-term conservation and access to a broader public. We currently have a considerable portion of print and video material accessible to the public online via our archive website. Additionally, six music CDs of material from the audio archive have been commercially released, and further releases of such material are planned.

The Kitchen’s educational programs provide hundreds of youth and adults with substantive and singular arts experiences each year. As a result of the partnerships we have forged with individual schools and organizations over the years, The Kitchen’s education initiatives continue to evolve to meet the particular needs of our program participants, while remaining a vital resource for the community we serve. At the core of our education program are our long-standing in-school and after-school programs at Liberty High School Academy for Newcomers. While the program provides a range of benefits to recent immigrant students, the overarching goals of the in-school workshops are through the performing arts workshops to increase students verbal language skills and vocabulary; provide a safe, nurturing environment where students can express themselves and build confidence; foster cross-cultural respect; and finally, to offer young people, often for the very first time, experiences with live performance, experimental theater, music, dance and other interdisciplinary genres. We also offer regular, free “Lunchbreak” performance series for class groups from neighborhood schools and exhibition tours led by the artists for high school and college student groups. In addition, we have an ongoing series of public panels, symposia, lectures, and artists’ talks that are primarily educational opportunities for adult audiences.