Jun. 6, 2018

Contributed by Nadine Lagaso

Through mele, storytelling, and art, keiki of Pa‘auilo along the Hāmākua Coast share the moʻolelo of Ali‘i ‘Ai moku ʻUmi-a-Līloa, a moʻolelo about this place that teaches the values of loving and caring for this ʻāina.

With support from Kamehameha Schools, Hui Mālama i ke Ala ʻŪlili (huiMAU) brought together 400 people from age two to kūpuna for the ʻUmi-a-Līloa Mural Project, which took two years to paint. For them, art was a way to bring community together at first. In the end, the project was really about learning moʻolelo and stories that were suppressed for a long time.