The Volcano Art Center’s 2019 Hula Voices series continues Wednesday, featuring kumu hula Kimo Awai with moderator Desiree Moana Cruz.
The presentation is slated for 5:30-7 p.m. at the VAC Gallery in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. It is free to attend, but park entrance fees apply.
Hula Voices is an oral history project, presenting engaging, intimate talk story sessions with Hawaii Island’s hula practitioners and musicians as they share their hula genealogy, traditions, protocols and experiences.
Awai was born in Honolulu and attended Lahainaluna High School and the University of Hawaii at Hilo.
While in Hilo, he studied the Hawaiian language and the art of hula under the late Aunty Nona Beamer and with major influence from Aunty Pualani “Pua” Kanaka‘ole Kanahele.
He is kumu hula of Hula Halau Na Po‘e Ao Hiwa.
Awai shares his Hawaiian cultural knowledge with the Big Island community as a spiritual leader and through lectures and workshops, as well as being on the faculty of Halau O ‘Aulani in Arlingon, Va.
For more information about Volcano Art Center and its upcoming events and workshops, visit www.volcanoartcenter.org.