KAMUELA and HONOLULU, Hawai‘i—September 17, 2015—On September 21, The Kohala Center, a Hawaiʻi Island-based nonprofit, and Hawaiʻi Public Radio launch a 13-week original radio series entitled “Aloha ʻĀina.” The series, comprised of 65 approximately two-minute segments, explores the roots and historical endurance of the values of aloha ʻāina, commonly translated as “love of the land.” Commentary […]
July 7, 2015 (Honolulu Civil Beat)—Gov. David Ige signed a bill Tuesday that is intended to increase the amount of local food students eat in Hawai‘i’s public school system and boost their understanding of its importance. » Read more
June 5, 2015 (Big Island Video News)—A three-year photography project involving three well known Hawaii photographers is set to get underway in the native forests of North Hawaii. The Kohala Watershed Partnership, a sponsored program of The Kohala Center, recently received funding to undertake Images of Kohala: Source of Water, Source of Life in order to capture […]
KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—June 4, 2015—The Kohala Watershed Partnership, a sponsored program of The Kohala Center, recently received funding to undertake a three-year photography project that will capture images from some of the wildest and least accessible locations on Kohala Mountain. “Images of Kohala: Source of Water, Source of Life” is intended to inspire appreciation of native Hawaiian […]
June 3, 2015 (Hawai‘i Public Radio)—The Hawai‘i Book Publishers Association has presented the Samuel Kamakau Book of the Year Award to Dr. Kamanamaikalani Beamer, the new president and CEO of the influential Kohala Center in Waimea. Looking ahead to Kamehameha Day, HPR’s Noe Tanigawa offers this look at Beamer’s ideas about Hawaiian leadership. » Read more/listen
KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—May 15, 2015—Dr. Kamanamaikalani Beamer, president and CEO of The Kohala Center, received the Samuel M. Kamakau Book of the Year Award for his book No Mākou ka Mana: Liberating the Nation at the 2015 Ka Palapala Po‘okela Awards presented by the Hawai‘i Book Publishers Association. » Read more
May 15, 2015 (MauiNow.com)—The president and CEO of The Kohala Center, Dr. Kamanamaikalani Beamer, received the Samuel M. Kamakau Book of the Year Award for No Makou ka Mana: Liberating the Nation at the 2015 Ka Palapala Po‘okela Awards presented by the Hawai‘i Book Publishers Association. » Read more
May 9, 2015—Kahalu‘u Bay Education Center’s efforts to educate visitors, residents, and keiki (children) on how to care for Hawai‘i’s critically endangered Hawaiian monk seals are featured in the inaugural episode of this new broadcast series. » Watch video
May 5, 2015 (West Hawaii Today)—Five enthusiastic students at Kahakai Elementary School stood in front of a large mural where hand-painted pictures of monk seals shined on a 4-foot by 8-foot canvass behind them. The young scholars spent more than two months crafting the drawings of the endangered species and joyfully expressed their knowledge and […]
May 3, 2015 (Honolulu Star-Advertiser)—“No Makou ka Mana: Liberating the Nation,” by Kamanamaikalani Beamer, a re-seeing of Hawaii history and the role of alii from an indigenous perspective, has won the Samuel M. Kamakau Award for book of the year, bestowed by the Hawai‘i Book Publishers Association at its annual awards ceremony April 23. The judges called Beamer’s book “one of those […]