Maui Arts & Entertainment

Pet owners are invited to celebrate the spooky season with Kīhei Kalama Village by sending a picture of their pet’s awesome Halloween costume to the center’s Virtual Pet Costume Contest.

Azeka Shopping Center will celebrate Halloween remotely this year with a Virtual Costume Contest. Families are encouraged to share their costumes with the community, Oct. 10-31.

The Maui County Sister Cities Foundation announced the slate of winners from its local youth art contest, including Maui entrant Skylar Kuroda, who won the $1,000 grand prize in the Poets Showcase in the Sister Cities International Young Artists and Authors Showcase 2021.

Kainani Kahaunaele was the standout at the 44th Annual Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awards, winning seven awards in six categories for her third album Waipunalei. The list of winners is posted here:

Entry forms for the 34th Lahaina Poster Contest are now available online, with the first place winner to be awarded a $3,000 prize.

Maui Mall Village is hosting a virtual Halloween Costume and Pumpkin Carving Contest October 4-27. 

Following its world premiere at the Hawai‘i International Film Festival in November, and a five-month, statewide theatrical run in Consolidated and Regal Cinemas, family-friendly comedy “Aloha Surf Hotel” is coming to North American Video on Demand platforms as of Oct. 12.

The Lahaina Cannery invites local residents and visitors to partake in A Wicked Affair for some “spooktacular family fun.” The event takes place on Oct. 23 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

A virtual Halloween Costume Contest is taking place now through Oct. 24, for children, ohana and pets to win Spooktacular gift baskets with prizes from merchants at The Shops at Wailea.

The public is invited to become a part of the resulting artwork and to learn more about her process during her “open studio” days at Wailuku Coffee Company on Market Street, where she will be seated outside on Sunday, Oct. 3 and Monday, Oct. 4 beginning at 7 a.m.

Mālama Maui Nui is accepting submissions for the 2022 Art of Trash and Trashion Show, a juried event that inspires community members to reimagine resources and create art and fashion using recycle and/or reused material.

The Maui Arts & Cultural Center hosts a Live @ the MACC streaming event tonight, Saturday, Sept. 25, featuring Nathan Aweau.

Hundreds of Kumu Hula came together in recent months to create and ratify the “Huamakahikina Declaration,” a historic document on the integrity, stewardship, and protection of hula.

Kamaehu Kawa‘a earned the championship title at the 19th annual Richard Hoʻopiʻi Leo Kiʻekiʻe Falsetto Contest, held Saturday, Sept. 18 at the Ritz-Carlton Kapalua. The competition featured five contestants showcasing their high-register voices in the unique style of falsetto.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs received three awards from the Accolade Global Film Competition for its short film titled “Mana i Mauli Ola,” which details how the organization is working with the community through its new strategic plan to positively impact the wellbeing of Native Hawaiians.  

The Maui Arts & Cultural Center is streaming a free concert featuring multiple Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award-winning Hawaiian Style Band on Sept. 18 at 7:30 pm.

SelvaRey Rum, co-owned by music superstar Bruno Mars, is donating 100% of its profits earned in Hawaiʻi for the remainder of 2021 to Honolulu Community College’s Music & Entertainment Learning Experience program

With the COVID-19 surge in Maui County, the Maui Arts & Cultural Center will stream free concerts on Saturday nights, beginning with the ‘ukulele powered Hawaiian reggae folk rock band Kanekoa on Sept. 11 at 7:30 pm.

Director Destin Daniel Cretton of Marvel Studios’ Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings speaks with Maui Now’s News Director, Wendy Osher as the movie hits theaters on Friday, Sept. 3, 2021.

Hawai‘i-based fashion designer Micah Kamohoali‘i is preparing to debut his fashion brand, Dezigns by Kamohoali‘i, at New York Fashion Week.