Participants will be coming from:

• Japan
• Mexico
• France
• Okinawa
• Guam
• India
• The Netherlands
• New York
• California
• 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 and receive a soothing massage as well.thing massage as well.

For 2009:
The lawn section is open for picnics and family outings. All seats are reserved and tickets go on sale October 1, 2009 at the Blaisdell Box Office and all outlets. Special group rates are available.
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. 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.

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

 

  

Photos by Pete Bostwick, David Elliott, Bobby Rawlins & Associates, Keoni Hays, Joe Olivos

International Specialist - Keoni Hays
Webmaster - Alika Jennings