Pasifika Living Arts Showcase

11:00-3:00pm

Tattoo Demonstrations, Tricia Allen

11:00-5:00pm

Museum Tours

12:00-5:00pm

Face Painting, PNG Group of SoCal

12:15-12:55pm

Ukulele Workshop

Participants will learn to understand chord charts, lead sheets, strumming and songs. Bring your ukulele. We will have some instruments on hand too!

1:15-1:45pm

Kula A'o Ukulele 'O Hoku

Kula A'o Ukulele 'O Hoku (Ukulele School of Hoku) will perform mele from the vintage era of the Hawaiian repertoire

4:15-4:45pm

Cellophane Hula Skirt: A Conceptual Perspective of Mele, Ukulele and Hollywood Hula

This conceptual perspective will bring forth compositions and quotes of Hawaiians who lived the era of change between the 1870s and the 1970s. Hoku will paint melodic images of this time frame through storytelling and mele.

Continual   

Then There Were None Screening, Courtesy of Pacific Islanders in Communications

Hula presentation by Lamme Malunao

12:00pm

Opening/Welcome, Master of Ceremones, Tui Letuli

12:05-12:50pm

Ava Ceremony, Samoan Ali'is

12:50-1:50pm

Marshallese Dance workshop, Marshallese Youth of Orange County

Mele Hula Workshop, Kalei  Daoang

Island Drums, Sefa Pumphry

Papua New Guinea Workshop, PNG Group of Southern California

Samoan Fire Knife Workshop, Community Bridges, Ford Theater Foundation

The Ford Theatre Foundation, through its Community Bridges program, is pleased to bring to PIEAM at the Pasifika Living Arts Showcase a special two-day J.A.M. (Jazzed and Motivated) Session with Samoan fire knife dance guru Tui Letuli and his daughters¸ the internationally acclaimed dancers, Anuhea and Taimane.

Saturday, May 5th at 4 PM Fire Knife Dance – Using practice sticks, experience one of the most exciting forms of Polynesian entertainment.

Free to the public, J.A.M. Sessions invite the audience to sing, dance and make music with local artists. Conceived to create positive multi‐cultural community experiences through active participation in the arts, the program began at the Ford Amphitheatre in 2008. www.fordtheatres.org

Closing & Blessing, Tui Letuli

Singing Performance, Pacific Talent Academy of the Arts

Samoan Artifacts, A Conversation: The Ala Family 

Fijian Artifacts, A Conversation: The King Family

Poi Pounding, Na Mamo

Contemporary Youth Art Exhibit, Pacific Talent Academy of the Arts

Chamorro Artifacts, A Conversation: The Fejeran Family, Foundation for Chamorro: Arts Crafts, Artifacts & Education

 Tattoo Demonstrations, Tricia Allen

 Museum Tours

 Face Painting, PNG Group of SoCal

Children’s Cultural Workshop
Children will be engaged as Hoku helps them to develop a comprehension of Hawaiian music, expression and history through storytelling and songs. Interactive!

Kahuli Aku is an ancient verse put to melody. It tells the story of the little snail, who calls the Kolea (bird) and ask the bird to bring water from the fern. Children will learn to sing this song and make application.

Ukulele History: Children will love hearing the story of “Billy, The Little Boy Who Could Play Ukulele”, based on the actual experience of Bill Tapia. This story will cover the ukulele’s arrival to Hawaii all the way to the present.

This conceptual perspective will ‘bring forth compositions and quotes of Hawaiians who lived the era of change between the 1870’s and the 1970’s. Hoku will paint melodic images of this time frame through storytelling and mele.

Kid’s Ukulele Workshop
Hoku will teach children how to hold a ukulele, strum, and play a song together. We will cover: Send kids with a uke! We will have a few on hand too!

Rhythm

Strumming

Chords

Hoku Bray: Ukulele Artist
A ukulele performance of traditional mele ‘o Hawai’i, and original composition

Ukulele Strumming, Long Beach Ukulele Club 

Welcome, Master of Ceremonies, Tui Letuli

Worship Hula, Kahanu Coleman

Fish Net Throwing Demonstration, Uncle Chuck Maples

Marshallese Weaving Demonstration, Likkien Ralpho and Christina Kalles, Marshallese Youth of Orange County

Island Drums, Sefa Pumphry

Tahitian Dance Workshop, Community Bridges, Ford Theater Foundation
The Ford Theatre Foundation, through its Community Bridges program, is pleased to bring to PIEAM at the Pasifika Living Arts Showcase a special two-day J.A.M. (Jazzed and Motivated) Session with Samoan fire knife dance guru Tui Letuli and his daughters¸ the internationally acclaimed dancers, Anuhea and Taimane.

Sunday, May 6th at 4 PM Tahitian Dance – Learn to tell a story the Tahitian way using chants, dance, beats and rhythms.

Free to the public, J.A.M. Sessions invite the audience to sing, dance and make music with local artists. Conceived to create positive multi‐cultural community experiences through active participation in the arts, the program began at the Ford Amphitheatre in 2008. www.fordtheatres.org

Closing & Blessing

Singing Performance, Pacific Talent Academy of the Arts

Rising Waters Screening, Courtesy of End Oil

Skin Stories screening, Courtesy of Pacific Islanders in Communications