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Mary Kawena Pukui Art Festival-9th Annual

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  • Feb 8, 2009 from 12:00am to 6:00am
  • Location: Bishop Museum, Great Lawn
  • Latest Activity: Jul 30, 2021
Pukui Performing Arts FestivalStorytellers from Alaska, Mississippi, Massachusetts, and Hawai‘i will gather at Bishop Museum in Honolulu on Sunday, February 8, 2009 to perform at the 9th Annual Mary Kawena Pukui Performing Arts Festival. This year’s theme is “The Way to the Heart: Changing Food, Foodways, and Culture.”The Pukui festival is a celebration of native cultures through the ancient art of storytelling and dance. There will be several stages featuring a variety of storytellers and programs, hula hālau, entertainment, food, and craft booths. Event goers will have the opportunity to watch a special performance led by the dynamic Tau Dance Theatre Artistic Director Peter Rockford Espiritu.The festival is held each year in honor of Mary Kawena Pukui, a revered Hawaiian scholar and linguist who valued the art of storytelling and the importance of oral history. Pukui published the first Native Hawaiian language dictionary and worked tirelessly to preserve and perpetuate Hawaiian traditions of hula and storytelling.Born in 1895, Pukui lived with her maternal grandmother until she was six. She learned the Hawaiian language, chants, hula, and legends. Those lessons continued throughout her life as she continued to collect more stories that she would use to write more than 50 books and 150 songs. Pukui worked at Bishop Museum for over 50 years helping to preserve chant texts, oral histories and ethnographic data collected in her research and fieldwork.This event is sponsored by grants from the Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations (ECHO). The purpose of ECHO programming is to amplify educational benefits, foster greater appreciation of local and national history, and assist communities in maximizing the social benefits of new technologies.The 9th Annual Mary Kawena Pukui Performing Arts Festival will take place Sunday, February 8, 2009 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on the Great Lawn of Bishop Museum. The Museum is holding a food drive so Kama‘āina and military get a special rate of $3; with a canned food item (ie. tuna, fruit, meat) donation rate will be $2; children 3 and under are free.Regular admission rates apply for all other visitors.This event is FREE for Bishop Museum Members.For more information, please call (808) 847-3511 or visit www.bishopmuseum.org-pau-
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  • Gloria Keaka Kay-Gouveia January 27, 2009 at 9:42pm
    Mahalo for the sharing Kali,
    What a great way to get information out there. Imua.
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