Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 30, Number 11, 1 Nowemapa 2013 — Pau hana pick [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Pau hana pick

f you're looking for a perfect Friday pau hana activity, put this on your calendar. On Nov. 15 at Cafe Julia in the Downtown YWCA, Aaron Kawai'ae'a will show three eollections of his original artwork. Together these drawings and paintings will sweep you away on an emotional journey. Add to that free admission, food creations by Chef Emerson Ribao at happy hour prices, and the musical stylings of Zanuck Lindsey, and you've got a winning way to close out the week with friends. If you're into Hawaiian culture and history, if you're into eom-

pelling, beautiful artwork or if you're into humor and having fun - then you'U be into Kawai'ae'a's creations. And if you're into shopping, the event will delight you too, since you'll be able to order giclee reproductions

of Kawai'ae'a's paintings at a holiday discount. This event and Kawai'ae'a's three premier collections have it all. The "Kohala Kuamo'o" collection draws you back in time, retelling the

story of Kamehameha's birth. These are the full, original images used in the ehildren's book Kohala Kuamo 'o (authored by Kawai'ae'a son Keka-

ulele). In that first attempt of Kawai'ae'a to illustrate a book, he won the bronze award for Best Illustrator in the 2010 Independent Publisher's Moonheam Children's Book Awards - an international eompetition that attracted more than 800 nominations. The "Pō" eolleehon eelebrates through portraiture 20th century Hawaiian me'e, or heroes. Pause on these images, soak in the me'e, andyou'll swear you ean hear messages coming right off the canvas straight into your na'au (your core being).

The " 'O ke kalo ke ola" (Kalo is life, life is kalo) collection will likely have the whole room talking (and laughing and crying). It's really too special to give it away here. Check this out in person! ■

Art showing Featuring: three collections of artwork by Aaron Kawai'ae'a When: Friday, Nov. 15, 5-8 p.m. Where: Cafe Julia, in the Downtown YWCAon Richards Street Admission: free Parking: Ali'i Plaee on Alakea Street

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Aaron Kawai'ae'a's original artwork will be featured at a pau hana event at Cafe Julia. - Courtesy photos

Kawai'ae'a's illustration of the late Hawaiian practitioner and Kumu Hula Edith Kanaka'ole is part of the Pō series.