Aloha Shirt Postage Stamps
Postage stamps picturing colorful Aloha shirts will go on sale at U.S. Postal Service offices around the country. The stamps also will be available online at www.usps.com. The aloha shirt stamps will be 29 cent postcard stamps.
Nothing says “Hawai‘i” or conjures casual good times like the colorful Aloha shirt, which takes its name from the Hawaiian word often used as a blessing or greeting. The U.S. Postal Service celebrates the spirit of “Aloha” with five stamps, each depicting a different shirt. Aloha shirts are made from boldly patterned fabric showing decorative images of Hawaiian life. Two of the five classic shirts depicted in the stamp art showcase surfers and their boards; one shows fossil fish, shells, and sea stars; another shows a tropical flower known as the bird of paradise; and one shows Kilauea, a volcano on the Big Island of Hawai‘i.
Waipa Kalo Festival 2011
The Waipa Kalo Festival will be December 9, 10 and 11 on the North Shore of Kauai.
Friday
6:00 pm – Kalo Movie Night
Movies, talk story and potluck at Waipa. Bring your favorite kalo or lu`au dish.
Saturday
10:00 am to 4:00 pm – Ho`olaule`a
In the big field at Waipa. Food and craft booths, entertainment, contests and competitions, keiki activities, tours, educational displays, biggest kalo competition, a cooking contest, lo`i tours, keiki kalo art contest, and workshops…all about kalo. Fabulous entertainment will include live music and presentations throughout the day.
Sunday
9:00 am to 12:30 pm – Workshop
Kalo varieties workshop and tasting followed by lunchtime pa`ina at Limahuli Garden.
The Waipa Foundation is a community-based nonprofit, whose mission is to restore the health and abundance of the 1,600 acre Waipa watershed, through the creation of a Hawaiian community center and learning center. To accomplish it’s mission and goals, the foundation has created programs, curriculum, and activities which utilize and maintain those learning sites.
In ancient times, ahupua’a were sustainable communities that originated in the interdependence between the land and the people. Such was a mutuality in which use of land, water and economic, social and cultural choices flourished in balance. Today, Waipa is a place where Hawaiians and community can renew ties to the ‘aina (land and resources), the culture and a more traditional lifestyle; a place to create assets and opportunities for more culturally relevant teaching, sharing, learning and living; and a place to work toward bringing health, vibrance, and pono to our land, resources, and community.
Lights On Rice Parade 2011
Join Kauai at the Lights On Rice Parade and the most prominent craft fair on Friday, December 2. Starting at 11:00 am at the Kauai Museum is one of the longest running craft fairs. Shop at the season’s most popular event while supporting local crafters. Inside the Museum until 6:00 pm you can browse the bake and preserve sale, membership booth, and the gift shop with exquisite gifts.
The annual parade starts at 6:00 pm at Vidinha Stadium and winds its way up Rice Street to Eiwa Street then ends at the Historic County building for the annual Lighting Ceremony. Community members and businesses light themselves up for this grand parade to honor the holiday season. The opening ceremony from 6:00 to 6:30 pm features the Kauai Chorale and Santa and Mrs. Claus arriving in a historic carriage dating from 1912 courtesy of Kauai Horse and Carriage.
Dazzling lights will illuminate the Historic County Building Park, which has been restored to its original splendor featuring historic colors and unique architectural features. Built in 1913, it is the oldest continually operating county building in the State of Hawaii.
Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Festival 2011
This year, the Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Festival is being staged on four islands – Oahu, the Big Island, Maui, and Kauai. On Kauai, the festival will take place at Hilton Kauai Beach Resort and Spa on Nov 20th from 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm, and will feature some of Hawaii’s finest Slack Key Guitarists who are known statewide and internationally.
Musicians slated for the festival’s performance lineup include: Ledward “Led” Kaapana, Makana, Stephen Inglis, Keale, John Keawe, Dennis Kamakahi, John Cruz, Michael Kaawa, Hiikua, Brother Noland, LT Smooth, Bobby Moderow, Patrick Landeza, and Donald Kaulia. Also, at the festival will be food booths featuring some of Hawaii’s favorite local foods, island crafters, exhibits, festival merchandise and informational booths by different community groups.
The Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Festival is grounded in aloha and the love of the music – drawn from the heart and soul and out through the fingers of each player. Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar, or ki-hoalu, which simply means “loosen the key,” in the Hawaiian language, is a solo finger-picked style that’s unique to Hawaii. It originated here in the 19th century with Hawaii cowboys (paniolo). Strings (or keys) are “slacked” to produce major chord, or a chord with a major seventh note, or sometimes one with a sixth note in it. Each tuning produces a lingering sound behind the melody and has characteristic resonance and fingering.
Garden Island Range and Food Festival 2011
The Garden Island Range & Food Festival brings together cattlemen, farmers, chefs, and the Kaua‘i community to taste local, healthy, nutritious foods and meals. This Kauai festival will take place November 13th from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm in the Kilohana Pavilion.
This important event is the public’s opportunity to meet the producers of Kaua‘i Island grown foods and to sample their products. The vision is to provide a venue for the education, encouragement and support of locally produced agricultural products through social, cultural and scientific exchanges featuring a diverse array of talents brought together for the purpose of developing an ethos of compatibility, tranquility and sustainability with this land we co-inhabit.
Contributing ranchers are providing beef, pork, and lamb. Dozens of farmers from around the island are providing fresh produce. Contributing chefs will be drawn from a dozen local restaurants and the Kaua`i Community College culinary arts program. Chefs will get a particular cut of meat a couple days before the event and come up with a way to serve it. Attendees will graze their way though samples of each recipe while they mix and mingle with farmers and ranchers who provided the Kauai-grown products for the feast.
Na Lima Hana Festival 2011 Events
Wednesday, October 26
8 am to 4 pm – ANA Grant Workshop
Thursday, October 27
Malama Ola Events
Dawn – ‘Aukai – Poipu Beach Park
7 am – Fitness Walk. 2.5 miles, an excellent way to strengthen the legs and improve circulation.
8 am – Interval Training. Bench step and jump rope for 3 minutes with 1 minute intervals of weight repetition.
9 am – Hula Aerobics. Hula is not only a dance of interpretations, but also the birth of body, mind and nature as they interconnect.
10:30 am – Electric Vinyasa Yoga. Flowing on a current of breath, student and instructor blend movement, mind, and spirit.
Hawaiiana Events
8 am to 4 p.m – ANA Grant Workshop
10 am to 2 pm – Cultural Craft Fair
5:30 to 8:30 pm – Lu’au
Friday, October 28
Malama Ola Events
7 am – Fitness Walk (2.5 miles). An excellent way to strengthen the legs and improve circulation.
8 am – Fit Ball Power Sculpt. Exercise that benefits the total body.
11 am – Aqua Aerobics. Allows a unique three-dimensional plane of resistance so that the muscles must contract in every direction.
10 am to 2 pm – Health demonstrations
La`au Lapa`au (herbal medicine) – Momi Subiano
Detox for Health – Justine Henriquez & Maco Waialeale. A total body detox. Sit and place your feet in warm water as your body detoxes through your feet.
Traditional lomilomi and la`au – Roland Logan and Miho Fukuda
Hawaiiana Events
8 am to 3 p.m – HLTA-Kaua`i Conference: The Collective Spirit of the Hawaiian Culture
8 am – ‘Awa Ceremony
8:30 am – Ho`opa`a Inoa/`Aina Kakahiaka (Registration/Breakfast)
9 am – Kahea Ho`opomaika`i (Opening Pule)
9 to 11 am
Kekai Kapu – Kukui Kahele Po. Create your own stone light (Enlightenment to Akua).
Solomon Apio – Niho`oki – Sit with `Anakala and create your own knife as he talks story.
`Anake Janet Kahalekomo – Shares her knowledge of Puolo Point, the salt beds, and her `ohana’s history in relation to this historic area. Create your own `umeke used for preparation to gather salt.
Leina`ala Kai and Ku`ulei Becklund – Lau hala. Join our weavers and learn about hala and create your own star or bracelet.
Verna Takashima – Kapa. Noted kapa creator `Anake Verna will create, as well as help you to imprint pieces of kapa.
Loea Kumu Kaha`i Topolinski – Pa Hula. Lecture and learn an `olapa.
Mayette Loseto – Creation of a kupe`e (floral bracelet).
Gordon Kai – Sit and weave your own aho (cord) for the creation of a necklace.
Loea kumu Kekoa Wong – Kinolau. Plants as they relate to hula.
11 am – Lunch
12:30 – 3:00 pm – Attend another class or finish a piece
10 am – Kaua`i Aloha Week Royal Court
10 am to 2 pm – Cultural Demonstrations
Pahu (drum) Making – Keone Turalde
Hawaiian Medicinal Plants – Momi Subiano
Lau hala Weaving – Ku`uipo Morales
Aho (rope weaving) – Heifara Aiamu
11:00 am and 3:45 pm – Entertainment with Halau Makana Lei Aloha and Andy Bumatai. Enjoy Hawai`i’s traditional foods in this extensive buffet luncheon while being entertained.
Saturday, October 29
Malama Ola Events
9 am – Taiko Drummers. Start your morning with our Taiko Drummers as they share a part of themselves, as well as their culture.
7:30 am – Strength Endurance Training
8:30 am – Zumba
9 a.m – Hula chants and stories – Kumu Kaha`i Topolinski
Grand Court – Learn the stories behind Pa Hula, the chants, the meanings of and behind the movements and steps.
1 pm – Kinolau – Kekoa Wong. Native plants as they relate to hula and ourselves.
Hawaiiana Events
9 am to 3:30 pm – Cultural Demonstrations/Craft Fair: Visit with our crafters, and demonstrators
Pa`akai (salt making) – ‘Anake Janet Kahalekomo
Weaving with `ie`ie (a natural plant found in the islands) – Kahalekomo `Ohana
The uses of kalo (taro) – Kahalekomo `Ohana
Coconut weaving – Kahalekomo `Ohana
Niho`oki (shark tooth knife making) – ‘Anakala Solomon Apio
Pahu (drum) Making – Kane Turalde. Learn how to make a musical drum used in cultural chants, hula, and ceremonies.
Lomilomi (massage) in the traditional style – Robert Logan
Hawaiian Medicinal Plants – Momi Subiano
Lau hala weaving – Ku`ulei Becklund
Kapa – Verna Takashima
9:30 am to 3:30 pm – Hawaiian music.
6 to 8 pm – Hawaiian music/hula show.
8 pm – Pa Hula Na Kane O Keoneloa (male hula group). Performing powerful hula chants and movements in the Main Lobby.
