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Jumping with Joy - A New Art Project is Firing Up - Plus Food, Farm, Pollinator and Affordable Housing News
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LavaRoots Dance in North Kohala
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King Kamehameha Day Festival, Kapa'au
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Introducing a new NEA funded
HEART of Kohala
Arts Planning Project
Kohala is renowned for its gifted and inspiring musicians and artists. We are excited to announce that North Kohala has been chosen as the site for a new cultural arts visioning project called 'The HEART of Kohala'.
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
Thomas Merton
The HEART of Kohala is an opportunity to evoke the beauty, mystery and wonder that the arts bring to our lives. Over the next two years, the community will be invited to participate in a series of conversations, history tellings, and future visioning that deepens Kohala's connection to the arts.
The goal of the project is to strengthen 'place making' through the design of new public art spaces and events that weave the arts into every day life and celebrate the special character of Kohala and its natural environment.
On June 14th, following a nationwide competition, the National Endowment for the Arts announced the selection of the HEART of Kohala project, the only NEA project funded this year on an outer island. Sponsored by One Island Sustainable Living and working in conjunction with local arts and writers' groups, the HEART of Kohala now invites artists in all media and community leaders to join a vital community conversation about the past, present and future of the arts in Kohala.
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| Kohala Artist Cooperative Pop-Up Show, Hawi |
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Looking Forward ....
This summer we begin with identifying existing arts organizations and arts leaders, and are hosting listening sessions to learn about the needs of local arts and audiences. As a Community Arts and Cultural Planning Project, both artists and those who appreciate the arts will be involved in these generative conversations.
Honoring and Celebrating the Arts in our Community
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Kindy Sproat, legendary musician at Pololu
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Local Treasures ...
The musicians of North Kohala are local treasures. Slack key guitar and ukulele traditions and innovations continue to win national awards. In Kohala you can enjoy music on the local KNKR radio station, at the Saturday Farmers' Market, and cafes around town bringing great jazz, bluegrass, electronica DJ, rock 'n roll, slide guitar, uekele, or island style reggae to life every week.
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Painting, Peter Kowalke, Sweet Potato Cafe, Hawi
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Visual arts are showcased in galleries, cafes and at special pop-up shows. World dance and traditional hula lend great heart to our community. Murals enliven building surfaces around town. Woven feathers and lauhala, carved and painted gourd artists keep traditional folk arts alive and passing between generations. Keiki attend music classes or learn hula. Kohala seniors are active musicians and dancers.
Printmakers and photographers, studio and plein air painters, sculptors, wood carvers, writers, poets, spoken word and theater performers - the range of art styles and mediums in Kohala greatly enriches the cultural fabric of this small rural community.
Calling All Artists
The HEART of Kohala begins this summer by listening to artists inspired by Kohala. This is the first step in sharing the history of local arts and cultural traditions. During these informal community conversations among artists and community leaders, we will explore the needs of today's artists and the art community at large. If you are a Kohala-based artist, in any medium, and would like to be included in formative conversations, or know any artist, musician, dancer or writer (whose work is about Kohala) to forward this to, we invite a short note of interest at [email protected] or by phone to 808.328.2452.
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Hula Hālau O Kukui Aloha O Kohala
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As a rural island, the arts connect us to one another and provide valuable opportunities to explore our higher and deeper human potential.
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Updates on Important Projects
Being Part of the Change We Want to See in the World
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Nationwide, Pollinator Week and month-long events take place in June. Citizen scientists are out and about viewing, identifying, and reporting what they see. In Hawaii, The Great Pollinator Hunt welcomes your observations using an easy online tool.
Learn more about local Hawaii Pollinators here
Watch the Great Pollinator Hunt short video
Rare Kamehameha Butterfly by Rachel Laderman
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Smaller Footprint. Greater Savings.
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Tiny House Legislation
Decision on HB2 Bill allowing on-farm tiny houses is due by July 11th. So far, over 2,700 people have viewed our short video, and 220 of our readers have written notes of support that have been sent to the Governor. Mahalo!!
If you support this Bill, write the Governor directly here.
New Training with the
Community Land Trust Organizati
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This Spring, One Island began a training program with the national Community Land Trust organization that coordinates affordable housing land trusts. We welcomed a visit in Kohala with the CEO of the organization in May, have been actively participating in their online courses, and will be attending the national conference in October.
The full-year training is preparing our organization to establish an affordable housing village on the island and we are seeking a location for low environmental impact housing to help first time (or down sizing) buyers qualify for their own home.
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Community Land Trust housing on Lopez Island, WA
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Locally grown and crafted
Sweet Potato Haupia Pie by Sonia Martinez
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Green IS a Verb - Eat It !
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One Island is a 501c3 non-profit organization
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