Name: Session 1: Hula Kahiko "He Mele Hulu No Kapiʻolani" ("Aia i Waimānalo Ko Nuʻa Hulu") (2 hrs)
Start: 2026-06-26T14:00:00-0700
End: 2026-06-26T16:00:00-0700

Session 1: Hula Kahiko "He Mele Hulu No Kapiʻolani" ("Aia i Waimānalo Ko Nuʻa Hulu") (2 hrs)

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Friday June 26, 2026 2:00pm - 4:00pm PDT

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Workshop Session 1 (Friday, 2:00pm-4:00pm)

"He Mele Hulu no Kapiʻolani"("Aia i Waimānalo") is from a set of three feather chants composed to commemorate Queen Kapiʻolani’s visit to Mauna Loke (Rose Mount), the residence and sugar plantation owned by John Adams Cummins at Waimānalo, (son of Englishman Thomas Cummins and Chiefess Kaumakaokane Papaliʻaiʻaina.) It is believed that these chants were composed in 1883, the year King Kalākaua and Queen Kapiʻolani had their coronation. Cummins was a good friend of King Kalākaua and was appointed his minister of foreign affairs. Kalākaua and his wife Kapiʻolani visited Mauna Loke many times. Queen Kapʻiolani spent her birthday, December 31st, 1885, at Mauna Loke. On this occasion, a number of people went to Mauna Loke aboard the steamer. Waimānalo and others took the overland route over the Nuʻuanu pali. Read story from Mary Kawena Pukuʻi’s: The Echo of Our Song (159-161)

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Pōhaikealoha Souza

Kumu Hula, Hālau Hula Kamamolikolehua

Kumu Hula Pōhaikealoha Souza has been dancing hula since she was 3 years old. Her hula
lineage traces back to influential hula masters like George Holokai (her first teacher), then her
aunt Maiki Aiu Lake, and then Mae Kamāmalu Klein under whose mentorship she graduated
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Friday June 26, 2026 2:00pm - 4:00pm PDT

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