UCSC Mauna Kea Protectors are bringing Kūkulu Art Exhibition to the UCSC campus. Initiated by Pua Case, a noted Hawaiian cultural practitioner and Lead Coordinator of Mauna Kea Education and Awareness (MKEA), this traveling exhibit features art, music, and messages from the movement to protect the sacred mountain of Mauna Kea. The MKEA web site puts it like this: "The purpose of these exhibits are twofold; to highlight the collective efforts of the kiaʻi [protectors] on the mauna especially for those not able to physically travel to the mountain and to 'take the mountain to the community' so the community remains connected, engaged, supportive and inspired by the mauna movement."
The UCSC version of the exhibit would especially highlight the decades-long resistance to the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope project, which drew global attention in 2019 as Mauna Kea Kia'i (protectors) maintained a six-month blockade of the access road leading to the project and 38 Kūpuna (elders) were arrested.
