Ola ka inoa o nā kūpuna, e hoʻomau ʻia i ke kahua hoʻomanaʻo

Museum After Hours
Ola ka inoa o nā kūpuna, e hoʻomau ʻia i ke kahua hoʻomanaʻo
Friday, December 19, 2025
5-9 p.m.
Location: Gallery Lawns | Hawaiian Hall Complex

$10 pre-sale, $15 at the door for General Admission. Free for Bishop Museum Members.

In partnership with the Mary Kawena Pukui Cultural Preservation Society, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum invites you to celebrate the life, work and legacy of our hero of cultural preservation, Mary Kawena Pukui.

We culminate our 2025 Nānā i ke Kumu Series by honoring Mrs. Pukui on the anniversary of the birth of our beloved namesake, Ke Aliʻi Bernice Pauahi Bishop. This special Museum After Hours features honored guest presenters Awaiaulu, who will weave the contributions of these two paragons of ʻike kupuna into reflections on the revitalization of ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi. Join us for an evening of loving tributes through moʻolelo, mele, hula, plus much more.

This program is part of the 2025 Nānā I Ke Kumu Series | Honoring the Legacy of Mary Kawena Pukui, a collaborative effort between the Mary Kawena Pukui Cultural Preservation Society and Bishop Museum, celebrating the ways Mrs. Pukui’s scholarship, mentorship, and cultural wisdom continue to nourish and guide the lāhui.

Program Highlights
Mele and Moʻolelo honoring Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop with the Kamehameha Schools Alumni Glee Club
Hula with Lei Hulu Hula Studio
Awaiaulu discusses the legacy one of Mrs. Pukui’s greatest accomplishments, the Hawaiian Dictionary
Reflections on the 2025 Nānā I Ke Kumu Series | Honoring the Legacy of Mary Kawena Pukui

Awaiaulu is dedicated to developing resources and resource people that can bridge Hawaiian knowledge from the past to the present and the future. Historical resources are made accessible so as to build the knowledge base of both Hawaiian and English-speaking audiences, and young scholars are trained to understand and interpret those resources for modern audiences today and tomorrow.

J. Kimo Alama Keaulana can account for 7 generations of chanters, dancers, teachers, singers, musicians, composers and recording artists before him. Kimo is one of two living persons who have learned hula kuahu, religious hula.  As a Hawaiian music historian, Kimo has published books and radio series on Hawaiian music and songs and has a biography in Hawaiian Music and Musicians, the definitive encyclopedia on Hawaiian music. Most notably, the “Kimo Alama Keaulana Collection” housed in the Bishop Museum Archives is “the Museum’s most widely used collection,” containing almost 1,000 Hawaiian language songs with their translations, annotations and cross references.

Ola ka Inoa o nā kūpuna na Mary Kawena Pukui
Ola ka inoa o nā kūpuna
E hoʻomau ʻia i ke kahua hoʻomanaʻo
Kūkulu ʻia e Konia me Pākī
Ka Hale Hōʻikeʻike a Pīhopa

Ancestral names live on
Perpetuated at this commemorative foundation
Buildings named for Konia and Pākī
At the Bishop Museum

For information on the full series of events dedicated to Mrs. Pukui, please click this link:
2025 Nānā i ke Kumu Series | Honoring and Perpetuating the Legacy of Mary Kawena Pukui

The Mary Kawena Pukui Cultural Preservation Society’s purpose is to be a unique and invaluable educational resource based on the life’s work of Mary Kawena Pukui, who dedicated her life to the preservation of the Hawaiian culture and language, authoring over 50 scholarly publications, composing over 150 songs and chants. Pukui was widely recognized as a historian, translator, author, teacher, lecturer, composer, researcher, genealogist, hula expert. lexicographer and more.