Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 3, Number 11, 1 November 1986 — Hawaiian Topics on "Enduring Pride" [ARTICLE]

Hawaiian Topics on "Enduring Pride"

"Enduring Pride," the first monthly television series on Hawaiian topics and issues, has been scheduled for a five-month period from September, 1986, to January, 1987, on KHET, Channel 11, Hawaii Public Television. Eaeh half-hour program is broadcast on the third Sunday of every month at 6 p.m., and focuses on an island. Karen Keawehawaii is the show s hostess, and guests from the featured island join her as co-hostess. Coming up in November, the program will spotlight the island of Lanai. Subjects will include ghost stories, development and changes. The December program will feature Maui and Molokai, and the final program in January will focus on the Big Island of Hawaii. The first program of the series, aired in September, featured Kauai and discussed the Na Pali Coast, saltmaking at Hanapepe and Niihau shell leis. Linda Moriarty, author of the book Niihau Shell Leis, co-hosted. The October program examined Oahu, the importance

of the Koolau Range, Frank Hewitt's innovative hula halau, songwriter Haunani Apoliona in action cutting her first solo album and the controversial issues on ceded lands. The co-hostess was KCCN's Honolulu Skylark. In early 1985, the initial concept behind "Enduring Pride" was to create a weekly half-hour Hawaiian maga-zine-style show. The creators, Esther Figueroa and Heather Giugni, found the enormous cost of television production prohibitive, and siarted with a pilot show whieh was partially funded by an Office of Hawaiian Affairs grant and assembled with a lot of volunteer help from television professionals. The initial pilot aired in January, 1986, on KHET. It was well received and the current five-month series is a result. The current series receives support from the Kamehameha Schools as part of their 100th Anniversary celebration and from an OHA grant.