Maui Arts & Entertainment

The next Hawaiian Music Series of 2024 will take place on Thursday, Aug. 29, at 6 p.m., at the Lahaina Civic Center Amphitheater. This is the first Hawaiian music series in Lahaina after the fire. This free event will feature well-known local musician Joshua Kahula.

Kū Mai Ka Hula (“Hula Appears”), Maui’s only adult hula competition, returns to the Castle Theater for its 17th annual event Saturday, Sept. 14.

Maui Arts & Cultural Center presents Altered Earth in Schaefer International Gallery, an invitational exhibition featuring ten contemporary artists whose work explores the medium of clay and earth-derived materials through a diverse breadth of processes. The invited artists are Clayton Amemiya, Jake Boggs, Jisoo Boggs, Rachelle Dang, Roberta Griffith, Codie M. King, David Kuraoka, Jenna Macy, Sarah Metz, and Brad Evan Taylor. The exhibition runs from Aug. 27 through Oct. 19. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free.

As part of the company’s annual ArtsWave campaign, Hawaiian Telcom and its employees statewide have donated $52,000 to three local non-profit organizations dedicated to the arts in Hawai‘i.

Hawai’i’s top-selling female vocalist of all time, Amy Hānaialiʻi, returns to her roots in musical theatre to perform with professional actor Richard Cray in MAPA’s production of the iconic musical “Man of La Mancha,” opening Friday, Aug. 16. With a cast of 20 and a 16-piece live orchestra, Man of La Mancha runs Aug. 16-25 at Maui Arts & Cultural Center’s Castle Theater.

The iconic Lā ‘Ulu Festival returns to Central Maui on Sept. 7, celebrating the significance of breadfruit and Hawaiian culture through food, games, crafts and demonstrations. 

A new trailer and poster were unveiled for Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Moana 2,” opening in theaters on Nov. 27, 2024. The reveal came at the recent D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event.

Director-musician-actor Robert Schwartzman will be honored with the Lights! Camera! Passion! Award during the Maui Film Festival, which will celebrate its 25th anniversary Aug. 29-Sept. 2 at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center in Kahului.

Hui No‘eau Visual Arts Center and East Maui Watershed Partnership (EMWP) have announced its call to Maui artists of all ages to submit artwork for the 20th annual Mālama Wao Akua Exhibition. 

To cap off Friday’s community-inspired events honoring Lahaina, upwards of 500 people attended “Puana Aloha no Lahaina” at the Lahaina Civic Center on Friday night.

Maui Public Art Corps, in partnership with the County of Maui, Hale Hō‘ike‘ike at the Bailey House/ Maui Historical Society and the Lahaina Restoration Foundation, has released a request for proposals for participatory public art projects. Projects include a mural at the temporary campus of King Kamehameha III Elementary School and a mural at the Kaiser Permanente Lahaina Clinic. The deadline to apply is Sept. 8, 2024. 

HISAKO Film Lab is a nonprofit program coming from HISAKO Productions, a company created by Maui-born filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton (Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) in collaboration with the University of Hawaiʻi Maui College, Academy For Creative Media.

Maui musicians won multiple awards and were showcased throughout the event, which took time to recognize the ongoing recovery taking place following the August 2023 wildfires.

Longtime musician and on-air Maui radio personality, Shane Kaonohiokalā Kahalehau, was recognized by the Hawaiʻi Academy of Recording Arts with the 2024 Nā Hōkū Hanohano award for Most Promising Artist of the Year.

Maui’s contemporary dance company Adaptations Dance Theater (ADT) will present its sixth annual “Bring it Home” dance concert on Aug. 16-18 at the Historic ʻĪao Theater. Showtimes are 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. on Sunday.

To celebrate community pride and local culture, cities across the nation have been transforming their area codes into holidays and events. Queen Kaʻahumanu Center is excited to bring this tradition to Hawaiʻi with the launch of 808 Bash, a new signature event for the center. The day’s activities will run from 12 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 24.

Through the generosity of longtime music industry veterans and global music icon, philanthropist Dolly Parton, Cavaliere is releasing “My Hawaiʻi,” with 100% of proceeds going to Maui United Way – Maui Fire Disaster Relief Fund that provides direct financial assistance to community members who experienced loss and devastation from the fires in Lahaina and Kula.

The 22nd Richard Ho‘opi‘i Leo Kiʻekiʻe Falsetto Contest is seeking contestants. The contest will be held at the Ritz-Carlton Maui, Kapalua Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024 at 6 p.m. Applicants may apply online by Sept. 6, 2024.

Slack Key ‘Ohana has been invited to perform at the Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awards when they are handed out by the Hawai’i Academy of Recording Arts this Saturday at the Hawai’i Convention Center.

PacWhale Eco-Adventures has announced that Marty Dread, known as Hawaiʻi’s Reggae Ambassador, will return to its bi-weekly Friday sunset cruise, starting Aug. 2.