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Kahiko night at the Merrie Monarch Festival featured hula in the ancient style with 29 groups performing Friday night in the annual competition in Hilo, Hawaiʻi. The festival continues tonight with ʻauana or modern hula, followed by results from the 63rd event.

It’s that time of year — an even more most wonderful time for everyone who enjoys hula and hālau that perform. Ticket request forms postmarked Dec. 1 or later are being accepted for the 2026 Merrie Monarch Festival.

The Oni Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to perpetuating Hawaiʻi’s diverse multicultural heritage through dance and the arts, has officially launched its Giving Tuesday fundraising campaign.

Construction of the Hālau of ʻŌiwi Art project is slated to begin April 28, a milestone in moving ahead with the $40 million project for which a Native Hawaiian site blessing was held nearly seven months ago. Planned on a parcel in the heart of Wailuku town next to the 393-stall Wailuku Garage and southeast […]

Hula O Nā Keiki – a solo competition for young hula practitioners – returned to the Outrigger Kāʻanapali Beach Resort this past weekend. All eight contestants represented their hālau and hula lineages. The two overall winners were Khandi-Pearl Holi and Luke Hilinaʻi Aquino – both students of Hālau o ka Hanu Lehua, under the direction of Kumu Hula Carlson Kamaka Kukona III.

While hula is emblematic of Hawai‘i, it is far less known that puppetry is a tradition within the world-famous form of dance.

The 2024 Emma Farden Sharpe Hula Festival Legacy Award was presented to Carolee “Doll” Aricayos on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024, at the Queen Ka‘ahumanu Center. Aunty Doll, as she is affectionately known, was recognized for her lifelong dedication to hula and culture.

The 16th Annual Kū Mai Ka Hula, Maui’s only adult hula competition, takes place live at the the Maui Arts & Cultural Center, Sept. 8-9, 2023. Tickets go on sale Aug. 8.

Hālau Kekuaokalāʻauʻalaʻiliahi, of Wailuku, Maui, won the Overall Kaikamahine (girls) division in the first Queen Liliʻuokalani Keiki Hula competition held since the onset of COVID.

Lahaina Cannery’s special event is led by Maui Taiko and O’ahu’s enigmatic Au’s Shaolin Arts Society, which will usher in the “Year of the Rabbit.”

Kahulu De Santos has been appointed Kāʻanapali Beach Hotel’s new Director of ʻImipoʻokela, providing Hawaiian cultural education to all departments through music, hula, guest activities, special programming and events.

For a list of upcoming events, concerts, shows and entertainment from June 16-22, find our comprehensive listing here.

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.

Twelve Native Hawaiian programs based in Hawaiʻi have been awarded federal grants totaling $1,181,486 to help preserve the indigenous history, heritage and culture of Hawaiʻi, US representatives Ed Case (HI-01) and Kaialiʻi Kahele (HI-02) announced today.

After months of developing rigorous safety guidelines and a television broadcast plan that will allow for a virtual audience experience, the Merrie Monarch Festival announced that the hula competition will be held this summer.

The “Mele + Moʻolelo || ʻAwa + ʻAi” program features hula, mele Hawaiʻi, ʻapu ʻawa and ʻai māmā with performances by Hālau o Nakaulakuhikuhi and special guest musicians Josh Kahula and Kūpaoa.

It was the largest health treatment study involving Native Hawaiians ever presented at an American Heart Association national meeting.

Nā Hanona Kulike ʻO Piʻilani marks one and a half decades on the Valley Isle with a hōʻike at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, June 9, 2018.

Nā Kumu Hula Karl Veto Baker, Michael Lanakila Casupang and Hālau I Ka Wēkiu from Oʻahu bring their love for hula to the Maui Arts & Cultural Center under the name KUmZ.

Maui’s Hālau Nā Lei Kaumaka O Uka under the direction of Kumu Nāpua Greig won the overall title in the 2018 Merrie Monarch hula competition held in Hilo Hawaiʻi