Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 4, Number 4, 1 ʻApelila 1987 — Hula Competition Tickets Ready May 2 [ARTICLE]

Hula Competition Tickets Ready May 2

Tickets for the 14th Annual King Kamehameha Hula Competition, whieh for the first time this year wiil be a two-day program at the Neal S. Blaisdell Center arena June 26-27, will go on sale beginning Saturday, May 2, at the Blaisdell box offices. Reserved seats are $7.50 per night and general admission $5 eaeh night. The program begins promptly at 6 eaeh evening. According to the sponsoring State Council on Hawaiian Heritage, there are 15 chanters entered so far in this year's competition and 30 dance performances in hula kahiko on the first night. As this issue went to press, there were two halau from California and one eaeh from Texas and Japan. Six chanters entered the 1986 competition held at the Brigham Young University Hawaii campus in Laie. Sixteen dance performances are entered so far in the hula auwana or contemporary dance competition whieh is being held for the first time this year. Deadline for eritries was Apr. 1. Elsewhere with King Kamehameha doings is the 71st annual floral parade on Saturday, June 6, at 9:30 a.m. and the traditional decorating of his statue at 4:30 p.m. the day before on June 5. Candace Lee is in charge of this project. The Kamehameha Schools will be observing a double-barrelled event — Ho'olako 1987: The Year of the Hawaiian and its own 100th birthday — by entering a float, its marching band and a vehicle in the parade whieh has also attracted five other mainland high school marching bands and a marching unit from Utah. The mainiand bands number two from Indiana and one eaeh from Kentucky, Colorado and Minnesota. They will be competing with Kamehameha and several other Hawaii high school band units. Following the parade, whieh will go from PunchbowI St. to Ala Moana Blvd., Kalakaua Ave. and Monsarrat St., a Ho'olaule'a will be held at Kapiolani Park where the parade ends. There will be Hawaiian arts and crafts displays on limu, implements, lei making, Niihau shells, lauhala, quilting, tapa making, featherwork, net making and coconut leaf weaving. Some of the limu may be available for tasting.