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Pan Pacific Fest brings hula to Waikiki

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By Gary Chun / gchun@staradvertiser.com

Today’s Ho’olaule’a along Kalakaua Avenue, an integral part of every year’s Pan-Pacific Festival, will feature an appealing variety of hula and music that brings together the local and visiting Japa­nese communities. Food booths and arts and crafts vendors will help fill out the evening’s activities from 7 to 10 p.m.

Pan-Pacific Festival

Where: Waikiki (various locations) and Ala Moana Center’s “Centertainment Stage,” Level 3, Nordstrom Wing

When: Today-Sunday

Cost: Free

Info: 926-8177, ext. 279/280, pan-pacific-festival.com

 

Food trucks will also be there: Elena’s Filipino Food, Kona Ice, Cake Works, Island Pops, Time 2 Grind, Da Spot, Hula Shrimp and Le Crepe.

For the third year in a row, a stage sponsored by the Hawaii Academy of Recording Arts will feature Na Hoku Hanohano Award winners tonight.

Festival spokesman Alan Kinuhata notes that it will once again be a “charity stage,” accepting donations to the Minami Soma Fund to help those in the area of Japan hardest hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Kalakaua Avenue will be closed to traffic starting at 5:30 p.m. from Lewers Street to Uluniu Avenue, and will reopen sometime between 11 p.m. and midnight.

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There will be two performing arts showcases, at the Waikiki Beach Walk Plaza stage and the Ala Moana Centertainment Stage, Level 3, Nordstrom Wing, taking place today and Saturday.

The Pan-Pacific Hula Festival (now in its 13th year) will feature halau from Japan, as well as a special exhibition performance

by local Halau O Napuala ‘Ikauika ‘Iu, led by kumu hula Sally Yoza. It will be held at Kuhio Beach Hula Mound today through Sunday.

The festival culminates with a parade starting at 5 p.m. Sunday. Drummers, dancers, marching bands and cultural groups from around the world will march down Kalakaua Avenue, beginning at Fort DeRussy and finishing at Kapiolani Park. Traffic will also be rerouted and closed off from Kalakaua Avenue on Sunday afternoon.

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The highlight of the parade will be the return of the Noto Kiriko, a huge Shinto-style lantern float donated by the people of Noto Peninsula, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan. Kiriko floats are made of a rectangular platform with long bars on the sides to shoulder them, Kinuhata said, and often feature elaborate decorative pieces on top and smaller lanterns on the inside.

The lacquered Noto Kiriko will be about 40 feet long and 16 feet high, and carrying it along the parade route requires at least 30 people.

The festival was originally established in 1980 as Ma­tsuri in Hawai’i. The ma­tsuri (Japanese for festival)-based event was created to increase exposure of traditional Japanese culture in Hawaii through music, dance, food, crafts and more. When it became the Pan-Pacific Festival, it broadened its scope and appeal to include other Pacific Rim cultures, including Hawaii.

Sixteen prefectures from Japan are represented in this year’s festival.

Spanning the event’s three-day weekend from today through Sunday, close to 100 performance groups and organizations will be out in force around Waikiki and at Ala Moana Center.

Kinuhata noted that taiko (also known as daiko) drumming is always a popular attraction. “We’ve gotten a few more taiko groups from Japan this year,” he said.

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FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
Today’s Ho’olaule’a schedule along Kalakaua Avenue:
Na Hoku Hanohano Stage
(in front of Moana Surfrider)
>> 7 p.m. — Dukes of Surf
>> 7:30 p.m. — Kalei Gamiao
>> 8 p.m. — Waipuna
>> 8:30 p.m. — Natalie Au Kamau’u
>> 9 p.m. — Mailani Makainai
>> 9:30 p.m. — Maunalua

Royal Hawaiian Avenue
>> 7 p.m. — Tama Hawaiians
>> 7:40 p.m. — Liko Hula Studio
>> 8 p.m. — Hula Studio Keao Nani
>> 8:20 p.m. — Hawaii Matsuri Taiko
>> 9 p.m. — Ho Aloha Hula Club
>> 9:15 p.m. — Shiratori Daiko

Seaside Avenue
>> 7 and 9:20 p.m. — Kujyukuri Sakura Taiko
>> 7:25 p.m. — Tonpei Band
>> 7:45 p.m. — Ka Pa Hula O Anela Lani
>> 8:05 p.m. — Kolohe Ukulele Group
>> 8:25 p.m. — Hula O Ke’alo Hu’ihu’i E
>> 8:45 p.m. — Chiba Hangasa-Kai Narita (folk song and dance)

Beachcomber Performance Zone
>> 7 p.m. — Ryukyu Koku Matsuri Daiko
>> 7:25 and 9:15 p.m. — Dragon Beat – Wa Taiko
>> 8 p.m. — Oita Nanpu Hyottoko Kai (dance)
>> 8:20 p.m. — Na’a Amwaj and “Samak Bala Hasak” (belly dance)
>> 8:50 p.m. — Kitamoto Okesa Kai and Wakanami Kai (folk song and dance)

Outrigger Hotel
>> 7 and 9:15 p.m. — Asakusa Taikoban
>> 7:25 p.m. — Hula Halau O Ka Lei Nani U’i O Ka Aina
>> 7:45 p.m. —Nakatsu Kuroda No Kai
(folk song and dance)
>> 8:20 p.m. — Setagaya Aloha
>> 8:55 p.m. — Hula Halau O Kaleilehua

 

Performing arts showcases

Highlighting groups from Japan
Today

Waikiki Beach Walk Plaza
>> 11 a.m. — Asakusa Taikoban
>> 11:30 a.m. — Hula Halau O Ka Lei Nani U’i O Ka Aina
>> 11:50 a.m. — Kolohe Ukulele Group
>> 12:10 p.m. — Hula Studio Keao Nani Ekahi
>> 12:30 p.m. — Hula Studio Keao Nani Elua
>> 12:50 p.m. — Kitamoto Okesa Kai and Wakanami Kai
>> 1:25 p.m. — Ho Aloha Hula Club
>> 1:45 p.m. — Hula Halau O Kaleilehua
>> 2:05 p.m. — Sakurada Kyoshitsu
>> 2:25 p.m. — Chiba Hanagasa-Kai Narita
>> 2:45 p.m. — Hula Hui O Na Wahine Hele La
>> 3:05 p.m. — Nakatsu Kuroda No Kai
>> 3:40 p.m. — Oita Nanpu Hyottoko Kai

Ala Moana Centertainment Stage
>> 3-3:45 p.m. — Omiya Minbu Kai and Meiwa Kai

Saturday

Waikiki Beach Walk Plaza
>> 12:30 p.m. — Tama Hawaiians
>> 1:10 and 3:30 p.m. — Aloha Beauty Hula Studio
>> 1:30 p.m. — Hula Studio Makalea
>> 1:50 p.m. — Bicchu Ura Daiko
>> 2:30 p.m. — Loco Aloha
>> 2:50 p.m. — Hula Halau Hoaloha Hawai’i
>> 3:10 p.m. — Halla Huhm Dance Studio
>> 3:50 p.m. — Dragon Beat – Wa Taiko
>> 5 p.m. — Tsutsuryu Taisokoto
>> 5:40 p.m. — Halau Hula O Makanakulani

Ala Moana Centertainment Stage
>> 5-5:45 p.m. — Ryukyukoku Matsuri Daiko Hawai’i and Halla Huhm Korean Dance Studio

Sunday

Waikiki Beach Walk Plaza
>> 11:35 a.m. — Asakusa Taikoban
>> Noon — Nani Mau Loa Hula Studio
>> 12:20 p.m. — Riseki & Miori
>> 12:40 p.m. — Kitamoto Okesa Kai and Wakanami Kai
>> 1:05 p.m. — Na Hula O Ke Kai Malu
>> 1:25 p.m. — Dragon Beat – Wa Taiko
>> 2 p.m. — Hula Halau O Ka Manu Iiwi
>> 2:25 p.m. — Fujiryu Minbu Kazuchiyo Kai
>> 2:40 p.m. — Kujyukuri Sakura Taiko

Ala Moana Centertainment Stage
>> Noon-12:45 p.m. — Hawai’i Matsuri Taiko and Somei Taiko

 

Pan-Pacific Hula Festival lineup
Performing at the Kuhio Beach Hula Mound:
Today
>> 6:10 p.m. — Lilia Hula School Soma
>> 6:25 p.m. — Hula Halau O Ka Lei Nani U’i O Ka Aina
>> 6:40 p.m. — Ka Pa Hula O Anela Lani
>> 7 p.m. — Halau O Napuala ‘Ikauika ‘Iu
>> 7:35 p.m. — Halau Hula O Makanakulani
>> 7:50 p.m. — Team Blenda
>> 8:05 p.m. — Halau Hula Teruko Studio

Saturday
>> 4:40 p.m. — Aloha Anuenue, hula & Polynesian dance
>> 4:55 p.m. — Hula Halau Hoaloha Hawai’i
>> 5:10 p.m. — Ho Aloha Hula Club
>> 5:25 p.m. — Na Hula O Ke Kai Malu
>> 5:40 p.m. — Hui O Pumehana Hula Studio
>> 5:55 p.m. — Hula Hui O Na Wahine Hele La
>> 6:30 p.m. — Regular torch lighting and hula show
>> 7:35 p.m. — Loco Aloha
>> 7:50 p.m. — Aloha Beauty Hula Studio
>> 8:05 p.m. — Hula Halau O Ka Manu I’iwi
>> 8:20 p.m. — Nani Mau Loa Hula Studio
>> 8:35 p.m. — Hula Studio Makalea

Sunday
>> 6:30 p.m. — Regular torch lighting and hula show
>> 7:40 p.m. — Hula Studio Keao Nani Ekahi
>> 7:55 p.m. — Hula Studio Keao Nani Elua
>> 8:10 p.m. — Liko Hula Studio
>> 8:25 p.m. — Hula Halau O Kaleilehua
>> 8:40 p.m. — Setagaya Aloha
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For more information visit:
pan-pacific-festival.com

 


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