PAʻI Foundation announces a new collaboration with nā Kumu Hula Vicky Holt Takamine, Robert Uluwehi Cazimero, and Michael Pili Pang.
I Leʻa Ka Hula: Celebrating Culture, Preserving Traditions will provide residents and visitors interested in hula and Hawaiian cultural practices opportunities to:
- Learn from some of Hawaiʻi’s finest Kumu Hula (master teachers of hula) and cultural practitioners
- Gain a better understanding of the mele (songs/chants)
- Connect the mele with the natural and cultural resources, people and places that inspire the compositions
- Increase their understanding and use of Hawaiian language; and
- Support and value the Kumu Hula and master teachers that dedicate their lives to the preservation and perpetuation of these traditions for future generations.
