Volcano Art Center’s Hula Voices program, a free educational offering the first Thursday of each month at the gallery in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, continues from 7-8 p.m. Sept. 7 with kumu Paul K. Neves.
Volcano Art Center’s Hula Voices program, a free educational offering the first Thursday of each month at the gallery in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, continues from 7-8 p.m. Sept. 7 with kumu Paul K. Neves.
Hula Voices presents an engaging, intimate “talk story” session with Hawaii Island’s kumu hula who eat, sleep and live lives centered on the practice of hula and its associated arts. The public is invited to these informative and fun hours as the kumu share their hula genealogy, traditions, protocols, experiences, chants and choreography that are rooted in the ancient Hawaiian practice of hula.
Desiree Moana Cruz will moderate the Sept. 7 event with Neves, a student of the late kumu hula Wayne Kaho‘onei Panoke, who in turn was a student of the late kumu hula Winona Beamer. Neves opened Halau Ha‘a Kea o Kinohi in 2004 with schools in Hilo, San Francisco and Kyoto, Japan.
Neves is a cultural practitioner of the traditional ways of the kanaka maoli who emphasizes aloha as a lifestyle, with ‘ohana (family), alakaʻi (leadership/discipline) and lokahi (unity) as the core of communal expression. Neves’ purpose is to lay a foundation of aloha with the goal of making a difference in the world today through the practice of Hawaiian culture and values.
These cultural events are supported in part by a grant from the Hawaii County Department of Research and Development and the Hawaii Tourism Authority. Park entrance fees apply.
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