Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 27, Number 5, 1 May 2010 — OHA Board approves $375,000 in grants [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OHA Board approves $375,000 in grants

By Ka Wai Ola staff Bishop Museum, King WilliamCharles Lunalilo Trust Estate and the Hawai'i Academy of Recording Arts has received a total of $375,000 in community grants that will help them carry out projects linking generations of Hawaiian tradition across pre-contact, postcontact and modern times. The grants were approved by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees on April 15. "I commend the work of all three awardee groups who honor and elevate appreciation for Native Hawaiians, generations past and present," said OHA Chairperson

Haunani Apoliona. "I congratulate the OHA Board of Trustees for their support of these three awardees and countless other community change agents that have received OHA hnaneial support over this decade." Bishop Museum will receive $100,000 for the Kū Ana Ka Paia: Unification, Responsibility and the Kū Images Exhibit, whieh will reunite three pre-contact Kū Images for the first time in more than a century. Two of the Kū images will arrive from England and Massachusetts for the exhibit that will run from June 5 to Oct. 4 in Hawaiian Hall. "For us it's a great honor to receive this grant," said Tim Johns,

president and CEO of Bishop Museum. "OHA has been a big supporter of the perpetuation of Hawaiian culture, and without OHA's participation there is no way that this historic opportunity to bring about the reunification of these three Kū images for the first time in 170 years would happen." The Lunalilo Trust Estate will receive $150,000 to make whole the successful restoration of King Lunalilo's royal tomb at Kawaiaha'o Church. Lunalilo established a trust for the care of Hawaiian kūpuna (elders) and care of his resting plaee elevates his legacy to serve them. "It's an understatement to say that we have a lot of gratitude and we are very pleased for this award

from OHA," said Harvey Melnerny, chairperson of the Lunalilo Trust Estate. "Going forward we have many, many things that we're looking at doing and because of this grant we're going to be able to pursue these interests for the benefit of our kūpuna." The Hawai'i Academy of Recording Arts will receive $125,000 for the inaugural Nā Hōkū O Hawai'i Music Festival, a four-day event leading up to the May 30 Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awards, whieh will offer a slew of educational workshops to help Native Hawaiians in the music industry to succeed in modern times. (See page 11 for a story on the upcoming music fest.) ■

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OHA Trustees approved grants to the Bishop Museum, King William Charles Lunalilo Trust Estate and the Hawai'i Academy of Recording Arts totaling $375,000. Pictured from leftare: Ku'uipo Kumukahi, Trustee Rowena Akana, John Aeto, Marlene Sai, Harvey Mclnerny, Blair Collis, Noelle Kahanu, Trustees Robert Lindsey and Oswald Stender, Tim Johns, Trustee Boyd Mossman, Chairperson Haunani Apoliona and Trustees John Waihe'e and Colefte Machado. - Photo: Helson Gaspar