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Jack Law is a businessman and LGBT activist based in Waikiki, Hawaii, United States.As a businessman he helped establish and operate two nightclubs and bars in Waikiki: The Wave Waikiki and Hula's Bar & Lei Stand, while as an advocate for LGBT rights and culture he founded the Life Foundation and the Rainbow Film Festival, which publicized LGBT culture in Hawaii.
The lei is her entry for the 95th Annual Lei Day Celebration, which happens on Lei Day, Monday, in Honolulu. Since 1927, Lei Day has been celebrated by what feels like the entire state of Hawaii ...
Rebecca Leina'ala Kalama Heine (c. 1940 – September 9, 2015) was a kumu hula and hula instructor. In 1976, Heine established Na Pualei O Likolehua, a nonprofit hālau which trains girls and young women in both hula and Hawaiian cultural traditions. [1] [2] [3] Heine was raised by her mother, Rebecca Beke Paiaina, a lei maker. [2]
A new free Waikiki hula show is attracting visitors and kamaaina alike, but legal challenges on how it will be funded are lingering. The Kilohana Hula Show, which opened Feb. 15, is a joint ...
During the king's 1883 coronation, local chanter and hula master ʻIoane ʻŪkēkē, aka Dandy Ioane, danced with hula girls, before an estimated 5,000 lūʻau guests. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] "Dandy" was an apt name for Ioane, who specially tailored his own clothing in a style that led one newspaper to call him "Honolulu's Beau Brummell ". [ 22 ]
Margaret Maiki Souza Aiu Lake (28 May 1925 – 19 June 1984) was a hula dancer, kumu hula, hula teacher, and influential figure in the second Hawaiian Renaissance [1] [2] because of her revolutionary teaching techniques. [3]
Songwriter, Kumu Hula, and Associate Professor of Hawaiian Language at the University of Hawaii [87] Don Ho: 1930–2007 2013 Singer [88] Matthew H. Kane: 1872–1920 2013 Composer [89] [90] Iolani Luahine: 1915–1978 2013 Kumu hula, dancer, chanter and teacher, who was considered the high priestess of the ancient hula [91] Napua Stevens: 1918 ...
A hālau hula (Hawaiian pronunciation: [haːˈlɐw ˈhulə]) is a school or hall in which the Hawaiian dance form called hula is taught. The term comes from hālau, literally, "long house, as for canoes or hula instruction"; "meeting house" [1], and hula, a Polynesian dance form of the Hawaiian Islands.