KUANA NIIHAU EARRING WORKSHOP NORTHVILLE, MI
FRIDAY AUGUST 16, 2024
12:30PM-3:00PM NIIHAU EARRING WORKSHOP • Niihau Pick-a-Pearl Pīkake Earring Workshop. Students learn the Pīkake style of Niihau Lei making and incorporate their choice of Pearl accent for the earring. Fun and educational workshop. If you’ve taken this class in another city, we will try to find another style for you.
WEEKEND SCHEDULE:
WORKSHOP LOCATION:
Gym @ Northville Community Center • 303 W. Main Street • Northville, MI 48167
CLASS SCHEDULE:
FRIDAY AUGUST 16, 2024
9:00AM-11:30AM Hula ‘Auana Workshop ROBERT CAZIMERO “Ka Pali Hotel” from Robert’s MINE CD.
11:30AM-12:30PM BREAK No Host, bring your own lunch. We eat together and talk hula and Hawaiian Culture.
12:30PM-3:00PM NIIHAU EARRING WORKSHOP • Niihau Pick-a-Pearl Pīkake Earring Workshop. Students learn the Pīkake style of Niihau Lei making and incorporate their choice of Pearl accent for the earring. Fun and educational workshop. If you’ve taken this class in another city, we will try to find another style for you.
3:00-3:30PM Break
3:30PM-5:30PM Hula ‘Auana Workshop KUANA TORRES KAHELE “WEWELO KA HAE HAWAII” from Kuana’s KALEO ALOHA CD.
SATURDAY AUGUST 17, 2024
9:00AM-11:00AM Protocol ‘Oli • Hawaiian Chant Workshop
11:00AM-11:30AM Break • No Host, bring your own snacks.
11:30AM-3:00PM Kuana Wili Lei Workshop • This entire Lei Workshop is dedicated to making your Lei, Lei Po’o or hairpieces for the Saturday concert at Wilcox Theater. We will provide a variety of materials and ingredients to make several style of wili lei. Kuana will help your group plan their stage adornments.
3:00PM-6:00PM Go get ready!
7:00PM ROBERT CAZIMERO + KUANA TORRES KAHELE LIVE IN CONCERT • Wilcox Theater starring…. YOU!
SUNDAY AUGUST 18, 2024
9:00AM-12:00 Noon Hula ‘Auana Workshop ROBERT CAZIMERO “POLEHOONALANI” from Kuana’s MUSIC for the HAWAIIAN ISLANDS vol.2 NIIHAU CD
12:00pm-1:00pm PIZZA on us… we’re ordering a bunch of kinds If not, you can bring whatever you want.
1:00PM-3:30PM Hula ‘Auana Workshop KUANA TORRES KAHELE “RAIN TUAHINE” from Kuana’s KALEO ALOHA CD.
SATURDAY CONCERT VENUE:
SATURDAY AUGUST 17, 2024 (7:00PM) Jack Wilcox Theater 650 Church St in Plymouth, MI • We are creating a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for attendees Saturday evening to attend and possibly perform live with their hālau in the Robert Cazimero and Kuana Torres Kahele concert.
Interested hālau, please message Marc Turner to coordinate live hula performances and song choices: mturnerfineart@yahoo.com
You are also more than welcome to just come and watch the concert and cheer on your hula friends. Robert and Kuana have chosen 12 songs they would like hālau or groups to perform at the concert. We will work with any interested hālau to find a great song for you to perform. Mele are limited to the 12 song selected by our guest artists.
TICKETS: Everyone needs a ticket. They can be included in your package or purchased from Hoaloha PSG. When we coordinate your hālau performance song, we will block your seats together as a group in the audience. There is no website for tickets. This is a small venue and we are managing ticket sales by hand. We will reserve the next best available seat on our ticket map.
HOUSEKEEPING
•it’s a large group of excited people. Help us keep it moving smoothly. We need to try to stick to the schedule in order to squeeze in all these great classes.
•YOU DO NOT NEED TO BRING THEM ANYTHING • if you do…. Kuana is allergic to chocolate and shellfish and loves peanut butter. Robert is diabetic and loves Starbucks gift cards. Both of them very rarely drink alcohol on the road and if they do, they buy their own.
•we absolutely LOVE your husbands and kids and dogs, please leave them at home.
•we will provide bottles of water, light snacks or fruits over the course of the weekend. Please bring your own lunch Friday and Saturday. We will provide pizza for Sunday final day. Help us keep everything clean. You’re welcome to bring little treats but certainly not expected to.
•everywhere we go, we have so many wonderful people that come to share stories, connections, histories and excitement with us—especially Robert. Help us keep him in one piece. We need him! Give him a little room and be considerate of others wanting his time, too.
•this is meant to be a fun weekend to unite and reunite many of our new and old hula friends. You need a basic foundation in hula to keep up the these classes. Nobody is training for Merrie Monarch here. It’s a safe, fun and serious environment. Both Kumu will rotate lines to give everyone an opportunity to learn from different vantage points.
•ALL SALES FINAL • NO REFUNDS •
