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WIHF in the News
- Read the story from the Honolulu Star Bulletin
The 18th
Annual
World Invitational Hula Festival
at the
Waikīkī Shell
in
Honolulu, Hawai'i
November 12th through the 14th
2009 |
     
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Participants were from:
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Japan |
Mexico |
France |
Okinawa |
California |
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Guam |
India |
The Netherlands |
New York |
Hawai'i |
Vendors of Hawaiian made products offered their wares for sale and super Lomi Lomi
was available for anyone who wanted to watch the performances while receiving a
soothing massage.
The lawn section was open for picnics and family outings.
The World Invitational Hula Festival has had participants from the mainland USA, Alaska, Easter Island,
Holland, Germany, France, Mexico, Central America, the Orient, Pacific Basin, the Middle East, Africa, and New Zealand and offers those who love and respect our unique Hawaiian culture through the art of hula an opportunity to
"Return to the Source", Hawai'i, to learn more about hula and Hawaiian traditions as well as to experience "Love of the Aina" (Earth) through preservation... Then return to their homeland and, in turn... teach what they have learned.
We have twenty-one judges in seven categories who make constructive remarks on their scoring sheets. Everyone invited to participate becomes a member of the E Ho'i Mai Ohana and may be invited back at a future time.
Achievement awards are given in fourteen categories.
The 2009 results can be found here.
Workshops are available and a special Ho'olana Hula Workshop is conducted at the Kamehameha Schools the Sunday before the performances for all judges and participants. Together, the openning ceremonies are created in a spirit of comraderie, cooperation, and fun.
We need to have a festival of the highest quality and are asking for your kokua
(help) in supporting our endeavors.
The World Invitational Hula
Festival
E Ho'i Mai I Ka Piko Hula is an ongoing educational celebration of Hawaiian
culture and arts, customs history, language, and relationship to all natural things.
Mahalo for visiting and
Aloha!
Videos of the festival are available
from Playback Memories
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