Patterned after the Amy Greenwell Garden’s successful annual event on the Big Island, Bishop Museum is hosting the first-ever Grow Hawaiian Festival on O’ahu. Weavers, dancers, kapa makers, and other practitioners of traditional Hawaiian culture meet with biologists, conservationists, and horticulturists to explore their common passion for the native and Polynesian introduced plants of Hawai‘i. Festival-goers have a unique opportunity to meet and talk with many of the foremost practitioners of Hawaiian arts including lei makers and kapa makers, as well as leading scientists and entomologists. Renewable energy initiatives and energy conservation measures designed to combat global warming will also be presented.