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Hi'ilawe Stream Restoration
Hi'ilawe Falls in Waipi'o Valley on Hawaii Island is literally the stuff of legends. Renowned for it's beauty, revered for it's life giving waters, Hi'ilawe is memorialized in chant and song, one of the famed twin falls of Waipi'o. But in the days of cane, sugar planters diverted this water for irrigation. For decades, Hi'ilawe falls, and Hi'ilawe Stream (which runs in the valley below), were nearly stilled, severely altering habitat and the aquatic plants and animals those habitats supported. Now, Kamehameha Schools Hawaii campus students are working with Bishop Museum scientists to document the rebirth of a Hawaiian stream. |
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Halau Ku Mana
Jack Johnson and John Cruz are just two of more than 200 artists appearing on a newly released CD which benefits Na Lei Na'auao, an alliance of twelve culturally and community based charter schools. The album is Mana Maoli, volumes two - InnoNative, and three - Change is Coming. Produced by the charter school Halau Ku Mana, Mana Maoli includes more than 200 Halau Ku Mana students, staff, friends, and a host of professionals. |
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Snowbird Bento
Snowbird Bento is widely acknowledged as one of the most talented students and teachers to come out of the Kamehameha Schools' Performing Arts Department in many years. The 1993 graduate is now a kumu hula. We caught up with her as she was preparing to take the men and women of Ka Pa Hula o Kalei Lehua to the 2006 Merrie Monarch competition in Hilo. |
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Hawai'i Book & Music Festival
The Hawai'i Book & Music Festival celebrates books, reading and music in Hawaii, spotlighting a wide range of local, national and international authors and musicians, and seeks to raise awareness of the serious issue of the high rate of illiteracy in Hawaii. The Festival displayed a variety of ways in which Native Hawaiian children can enjoy reading and writing. The Festival even featured song and dance by some of Hawaii?'s keiki. |
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Life in the Pacific in the 1700s
This remarkable exhibition at the Honolulu Academy of Arts presents several hundred objects collected during the second and third Pacific Ocean voyages of Captain James Cook. The collection is little-known to the general public. Of the works in the exhibition, the largest numbers come from the Tongan, Tahitian, and Maori cultures, while thirty-five of the works come from Hawai'i. All of the artifacts were created before Cook's arrival. |
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Tau Dance Theater - Peter Rockford Espiritu
Peter Rockford Espiritu, is the founder, choreographer, and Artistic Director of "Tau Dance Theater." He is the first indigenous Pacific Islander from Hawaii become the director of a professional dance company of western form. We visit with Peter on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Tau Dance Theater. |
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