Grow Hawaiian Festival Gives Public Time With The Experts
Captain Cook, HI – Residents and visitors looking to “grow” green can get lessons from the experts at the 5th Annual Grow Hawaiian Festival presented by Hawai‘i Forest & Trail at the Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden in Captain Cook on the Big Island. This FREE event takes place on Saturday, February 28, 2009 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Festival-goers will get the chance to talk with practitioners of the Hawaiian arts, biologists, conservationists, and horticulturists – professionals who share a common passion for the native and Polynesian introduced plants of Hawaii. The Annual Grow Hawaiian Festival has something for everyone at any age. There will be hands-on activities for the keiki and adults, cultural demonstrations, ask-the expert booths, displays, a lei contest, live entertainment, and much more!
Located in Captain Cook, 12 miles south of Kailua-Kona, the Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden is part of the Bishop Museum, a private non-profit dedicated to inspiring people to experience and embrace the Pacific and its various cultures. The garden itself seeks to support the Hawaiian traditions of land and plant use, and conserve the plant resources of traditional cultural activities. The garden features more than 200 species of endemic, indigenous, and Polynesian introduced flora, as well as five acres of archeological remains of the ancient Hawaiian agricultural system, known as the Kona Field System.
For more information please call (808) 323-3318 or visit http://www.bishopmuseum.org/exhibits/greenwell/greenwell.html.
The 5th Annual Grow Hawaiian Festival is supported in part by a grant from the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority (HTA), in partnership with the County of Hawai’i through the County Product Enrichment Program (CPEP). It is one of the HTA’s Festivals of Hawai‘i, celebrating diversity and aloha throughout Hawai‘i.
Support for this program is also provided by Kuki’o, Ka Ahahui o ka Nāhelehele; South Kona Green Market; the Office of Hawaiian Affairs; and Hawai‘i Electric Light Company.
This Festival is funded under the Native Hawaiian Culture and Arts Program. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the opinions or policies of the U.S. Government. Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute their endorsement by the U.S. Government. It is also an initiative under the Office of Innovation and Improvement of the U.S. Department of Education. Education through Cultural & Historical Organizations, also known as ECHO, provides educational enrichment to Native and non-Native children and lifelong learners.
Grow Hawaiian Festival
Bishop Museum’s Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden
Saturday, February 28, 2009 9:00 am – 2:30 pm
Captain Cook, Hawai‘i
Main Program
Emcees: Tom Cummings and Kealoha Kelekoli‘o
9:00 - 9:30 Opening, Greeting and Pule Virginia Isbell, Danny Akaka, Kanu o ka ‘Āina
9:30 - 9:40 About Amy Greenwell Meg Greenwell
9:40 - 10:20 Botanical Gardens Round Table
David Orr (Waimea), Lisa Raymond (Maui Nui), Chipper Wichman (NTBG), Alice Kitajima (Lyon), Naomi Hoffman (Honolulu Botanic Garden); Peter Van Dyke (AGG))
10:20 - 11:00 Hawaiian Tattoo
Keone Nunes: (Author, artist)
11:00 - 12:00 Cultural Round Table
Moderated discussion – Hannah Springer(moderator), Billy Parris, Bobby Punihaole, Sonny Keakealani
12:00 - 12:40 Micronesian singing and dancing
12:40 - 1:00 Insects! Damselflies in Distress
Ron Englund (Kamehameha Schools/ Bishop Museum)
1:00 - 2:00 Hawaiian Cultural Renaissance: Bernice Akamine (Moderator) Marie MacDonald, Rocky Jensen, Moana Eisele, Dennis Keawe
2:00 - 2:30 Closing and Pule (Kanu o ka ‘Āina)
Garden Tours (meet at kukui tree near the Garden office)
10:30 Tour –Guide Bill Garnett
12:45 Tour - Guide Peter Van Dyke
LEI CONTEST (under kukui tree near the Garden office)
12:00 Leis due 1:20 Winners announced
Other Attractions (drop in any time)
Ask a Scientist (near main canopies):
Plant Identifications - Clyde Imada, Marie Bruegmann, Shelley James
Strange Fruit ID – Ken Love
Insects - Pat Conant, David Preston, Ron Englund
Horticultural help!
Plant Doctor - Scot Nelson
Propagation & nursery care – Bill Garnett
Grafting demonstrations – Sunao Kadooka
Master Gardeners
Kalo - Jerry Konanui
Botanical Gardens - NTBG, Lyon, etc.
Garden Artisans (near main canopies):
Weaving –Lehua Domingo, Debbie Toko, Ku'‘uipo Morales, Jim Skibb, Shirley Kauhaihao, Harriet Wong (quilts)
Wood Working – Kala Willis
Ipu Gourds- Michael Harburg,
Kapa making and dying – Pam Barton, Lisa Raymond, Bernice Akamine, Moana Eiseley
Quilts—Harriet Soong
Lei –Patsy Ivy, Maile Napoleon
Cordage—Larry Kuamo‘o
Hula Demonstrations – Ulalia Berman
Lomilomi Demonstrations -, Hawai'i Lomilomi Associaton—Wesley Sen
Pohaku shaping: Ka‘uhane Morton’s nephew
Book Signings
Herb Kane, Keone Nunes, Craig Elevitch, Caren Loebel-Fried, Barbara Fahs, Marie MacDonald, Lucia Jensen
Garden Give Away – Isis
Native Plants Sales (near Garden office)
Keiki Activities: Nose flutes – Albert Carbonel
Ohe kapala--
Makahiki games
Super J’s Hawaiian Food (near Garden office)
Displays: Many other groups will have displays and be on hand to tell you about themselves in the area around the main canopies, including: Ka‘upulehu Dryland Forest, Kanu o ka 'Äina, Bishop Museum, Big Island Invasive Species, National Parks Service, UH West Hawai‘i Botany, National Tropical Botanical Garden
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