Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 3, Number 10, 1 ʻOkakopa 1986 — Kamehameha Schools, Bishop Museum Poised for Combined Two-Day Hawaiian Celebration [ARTICLE]

Kamehameha Schools, Bishop Museum Poised for Combined Two-Day Hawaiian Celebration

Two of Hawaii's largest annual benefit events are being combined this year into a two-day spectacular "Hui 'Ana: A Hawaiian Celebration" Oct. 18-19. "Hui 'Ana," whieh means "Joining Together," will benefit Kamehameha Schools Association of Teachers and Parents and Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. The 100th anniversary of Kamehameha Schools' original beginnings on what is now the Museum's campus also will be observed.

The entire event will be held on Bishop Museum's campus near H-1 Freeway and Likelike Highway. Additional parking will be available at nearby Kamehameha Schools' campus, with shuttlebus service available to the site every 10 minutes. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days of the third weekend in October. Activities will include food booths, entertainment, exhibits, Planetarium shows, behind-the-scenes tours and sr>ecial children's activities.

Drawings will be held for a Hawaiian quilt and a Martin & McArthur Heritage koa rocker chair. "Hui 'Ana" T-shirts and Pegge Hopper posters, plants of many variebes and many other mementos will be available to help visitors remember the big event. Food booths will include popu!ar ethnic favorites, Neighbor Island specialties and traditional fare. Advanqe sales locations will include Bishop Museum,

Kamehameha Schools and other places to be announced. Advanced sales will feature admission tickets, drawing tickets, and at some locations, T-shirts and posters. Advance purchase admission is $3 for adults and $1 for youth 5-17 years old. At the gate, admission will be $4 for adults and $2 for youth.

A new, major exhibit at Bishop Museum will have its grand opening during Hui 'Ana. "The Wayfinding Art: Oeean Voyaging in Polynesia" is a major exhibition and participatory planetarium program inspired from the journeys of the Hokule'a, the double-hulled eanoe built to the sailing specifications of ancient Hawaiian canoes. The exhibit is a two-year joint effort by Bishop Museum and the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California at Berkeley, where a duplicate exhibition opens the same week. AT&T is the corporate sponsor for the exhibit.

In "Wayfinding Art," 11 interactive exhibits allow viewers to find out where the ancient Polynesians originated and to explore the art and technology that made possible their voyages to the islands of the Pacific. An additional special feature of "Hui 'Ana" will be the newly-renovated Hall of Discovery, where visitors, especially children, are asked to "please touch." The interactive, hands-on displays brings a new meaning to "fun," with discovering, touching, experimenting, and

unlimited imagining. The new Hall features specially designed "discovery boxes" that are filled with interesting activities. Freestanding displays highlight Hawaiian culture. "Hawai'i Close Up: A Specimen Center" offers drawers filled with shells, plants, birds, fishes, animal bones, and cultural specimens for close examination.

The new "Hawaiian Ecosystems: A Living Heritage" exhibit also will be open. In this special air-conditioned room, you ean view plant specimens more than 200 years old and see more than a 100 color photos of rare and endangered native plants of Hawai'i in their original ecosystem, or habitat. Free behind-the-scenes tours will show Bishop Museum visitors some of the wonders not usually seen by the general public.The Planetarium's famous "Polynesian Skies" program will be shown continuously. Traditional folk crafts of Hawai'i will be demonstrated, and singers, dancers and others will provide entertainment for everyone.

"Hui 'Ana: A Hawaiian Celebration" benefits two of the oldest, most significant educational institutions in Hawai'i. This "Joining Together" is part of the observanee of Kamehameha Schools' Centennial celebration and a reminder that Bishop Museum's 100th birthday is just three years away!