One Morning You Wake (To The End of the World)

Jan. 13, 2018, may not be a date seared in your memory...unless you were a resident of Hawai'i at the time. That morning a false emergency alert about an incoming missile attack went out, which went unrecalled for about 40 minutes. The virtual reality documentary On the Morning You Wake (To the End of the World) is an immersive experience placing the viewer in the situation faced by Hawaiians that morning. It's viewed through headsets, so space is limited and registration is required; screenings of either the first chapter or the entire 60-minute film start hourly from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on March 9 and 10. Bombshelltoe Policy x Arts Collective founder and writer Lovely Umayam will follow at 4 p.m., March 10, on Zoom.

media release: The Graduate Associate Organizing Committee at CHE is organizing a two-day screening of the virtual reality documentary On the Morning You Wake (To the End of the World), including a virtual panel featuring key members of the Games for Change Impact Campaign team.

The screening and talks will take place on Thursday, March 9, and Friday, March 10. VR film screenings will run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on both days in Science Hall Room 280. Screenings are 20 minutes to view chapter 1 only, or 60 minutes for chapters 1-3.

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On March 10 at 4 p.m., there will be a virtual discussion with Lovely Umayam, a writer and a nuclear nonproliferation expert. She is the founder of the Bombshelltoe Policy and Arts Collective, a creative organization pushing for an active exploration of arts, culture and history to promote nuclear nonproliferation, arms control and disarmament.

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On the Morning You Wake (To the End of the World) recounts the events of January 13, 2018, when Hawaiʻi’s Emergency Management Agency sent a statewide warning about an imminent ballistic missile attack, a warning that turned out, ultimately, to be a false alarm.

Developed by creative teams at Atlas V and Archer’s Mark, organized by the nonprofit organization Games for Change, and featuring the spoken-word poetry of activist, artist, and Professor of Native Hawaiian politics Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, On the Morning You Wake immerses the viewer in the events of January 13, when over a million Hawaiians were forced to reckon with the existential threat posed by the destructive power of nuclear weapons.

On the Morning You Wake seeks to humanize and make immediate this vast, existential issue of global nuclear security, while updating and making relevant to a contemporary audience a threat many people mistake for a relic from the Cold War era.