The Asian Adult Adoptee Gathering & Film Festival is an international gathering of adult adoptees of Asian heritage. KAHI, your host organization, invites you to enjoy a program including film screenings, food, discussion sessions and presentations, entertainment and more, in beautiful Honolulu, Hawai'i, our home in the Pacific.

Below is a tentative program overview of the Asian Adult Adoptee Gathering & Film Festival. Optional activities, conference sessions and the film festival program will be finalized in the weeks and months to come, and announced here on our website. Please check back often for updates.

• Catamaran Sail - Departs at 11:45 a.m.
• Hike - Departs at noon
• Windward and East Island Tour - Departs at noon

• Hanauma Bay Snorkel - Departs at 6 a.m.
• Pearl Harbor Tour - Departs at 6 a.m.
• Surfing Lesson - Departs at 6:30 a.m.

• Searching for Go-hyang by Tammy (Tolle) Chu
• Jagadamba: Mother of the Universe by Amber Field
• My Great Grandfather by Jette Hye Jin Mortensen
• Missing by Kate Hers
• Tracing Trades by Jane Jin Kaisen and Tobias Hübinette

• Preview: Resilience by Tammy Chu
• Preview: Operation Babylift: The Lost Children of Vietnam by Tammy Nguyen Lee (producer, Jared Rehberg)
• Annie Ong: Lost and Found by Jeannette Loakman
• Adopted by Barb Lee

• Mixed-Race Asian Adoptees - Open to all attendees (Facilitator: Susan Ito) - Being adopted presents enough of a challenge to one's sense of identity. But being mixed race adds an extra layer of complexity to that challenge. A panel of mixed-race Asian adoptees with a range of experiences will discuss what it meant for each of them to grow up as mixed-race Asian adoptees. (Mauna Kea Ballroom)

• An Artist Talk With Tammy Chu - Open to all attendees (Facilitator: Tammy Ko Robinson) - Filmmaker Tammy Chu, whose film "Searching for Go-hyang" is featured in Saturday's Asian Adoptee Film Festival, will present clips from her work-in-progress, "Resilience," and discuss her perspective and process as an artist in an interactive Q&A discussion session. (Haleakala/Kilauea)

• International Adoption and the Babylift Legacy - Open to all attendees (Facilitator: Kevin Minh Allen): As adoptees, we are often confronted with hard truths as we search our histories for meaning. Often we learn that things are not always as they seem and come to realize that one of our greatest assets is our ability to question. This presentation takes another look at the historical events that surrounded the "babylifts" of Korea and Vietnam and examines how those events influenced current adoption practices and attitudes. (Mauna Kea Ballroom)
• Racism & Social Justice Issues: What About Asian Adoptees? Open to adoptees only (Facilitators: Kimberly Langrehr and Allen Majors): This discussion invites adoptees to share their thoughts and experiences with the racial and cultural challenges that Asian adoptees often face in the context of a racialized society. We will cover salient topics such as the minimization of racial reality and the distorted messages about adoption presented by the media. Adoptees with backgrounds in social justice are strongly encouraged to attend to discuss their work and advocacy efforts for Asians and adoptees.  (Haleakala/Kilauea)