Hoʻi aku nei kekahi Kumu Hula aloha o Kauaʻi i ke ala hoʻi ʻole mai.
ʻO ia aʻela kekahi poʻo nūhou o kēia lā, ka lā 8 o ʻOkakopa, he Pōʻakolu. Welina e nā makamaka. ʻO Ke Aolama kēia a penei ka nūhou.
Aloha nō. I ka hopena pule nei, ua moe ihola ke Kumu Hula Leināʻala Pavao Jardin i ka moe kapu a Niolopua. ʻO Pavao Jardin ke kumu hula o Hālau Ka Lei Mokihana o Leināʻala ma Kauaʻi. A he kaikamahine ʻo ia i hānau a hānai ʻia ma Kauaʻi. Ua hoʻomaopopo ʻia ʻo ia i ke kau wela o ka makahiki 2024, ua loaʻa ʻo ia i ka maʻi ʻaʻai. A i loko nō o kona ʻāʻumeʻume ʻana me ua maʻi lā, ua komo akula kāna mau wāhine a me nā kāne i ka hoʻokūkū hula ʻo ka Merrie Monarch, a lilo akula kāna moho, ʻo ia ka Miki Aloha Hula o ka makahiki 2025. I ka makahiki 2022, lilo aku nei i nā wāhine o Hālau Ka Lei Mokihana o Leināʻala ka makana helu ʻekahi o ka māhele hula ʻauana a me ka māhele hula kahiko. He haumāna ʻo Pavao Jardin na Kumu Hula Rae Fonseca i hala.
Aia nō ka ʻAha ʻŌiwi Hawaiʻi ke mālama ʻia aku nei ma Tulalip i Wakinekona a hiki i ka Pōʻahā. ʻO ka nui o nā kānaka e hele nei i ua ʻaha lā, he 1,300 a ʻoi aku mai nā mokuʻāina a me nā ʻāina ʻē he 37. ʻO ka hapanui o lākou, mai Hawaiʻi aku, a he hapahā, ma Wakinekona e noho nei. Ma kekahi pānela o ka Pōʻalua nei, e kamaʻilio ana no ka ʻike ʻia o ka lāhui Hawaiʻi he aupuni ia i mua o nā maka o ke aupuni pekelala. Ma ia pānela, aia ʻo Breann Nuʻuhiwa, he aʻoaʻo a kū i ka pono no nā aupuni ʻōiwi a me nā hui ʻoihana, ʻo Summer Sylva, ke kahu hoʻoponopono kūikawā o ke Keʻena Kuleana Hawaiʻi, a me Esther Kiaʻāina, he lālā no ka ʻAha Kūkā o Honolulu nei.
Eia mai kā kākou ʻōlelo noʻeau,
ʻAwapuhi lau pala wale.
He ʻōlelo kēia no ke kanaka nāwaliwali, a no kekahi mea paha e pau koke ai ka pono.