Hula Chicago: Halau I Ka Pono with Kumu June Tanoue

06/14/2024

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Halau i Ka Pono, a Hula dancing school in a Chicago suburb, teaches students the art form and history of Hawaiian Hula dancing.

06/12/2024

Halau I Ka Pono, Hula School of Chicago, turns 15 this year! Save the date and celebrate with us on October 5, 2024!

06/01/2024

And it's not easy to leave again...https://conta.cc/3X2k6he

    Lookin out upon the city lights And the stars above the ocean Got my ticket for the midnight plane And it's not easy to leave again ~Keola Beamer, “Honolulu City Lights” I was just washing dishes

05/28/2024

Members of Halau I Ka Pono celebrated Oak Park’s annual ”A Day in Our Village”!

An homage to the 50th Anniversary of Oak Park's A Day In Our Village via Gordon Lightfoot's 1974 classic "Sundown". The hair and moustache may be fake, but t...

05/16/2024

As part of AAPI Heritage Month, Halau I Ka Pono will be featured in “Our Chicago: Connecting Cultures", which will air this Saturday (May 18th) at 6pm CST on ABC7. It'll re-air Sunday (May 19th) at 11pm. The segment will be available to watch online at abc7chicago.com. 🌺

05/15/2024

Join June Tanoue for “Mindful Movement in the Park” every Wednesday from June 5-26, 2024 at Seneca Park located at 220 E. Chicago Avenue in Chicago. 🌺

05/11/2024

Mahalo nui loa (thank you) to Chicago Dogs Baseball for the opportunity to perform last night and share Aloha with everyone! 🌺 ⚾️

05/01/2024

May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii https://conta.cc/3WnUb3o

    May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii. Garlands of flowers everywhere. All of the colors of the rainbow… So begins the song we always sang at Paauilo Elementary School when we celebrated May Day is Le

04/01/2024

04/01/2024

Your loving doesn't know its majesty until it knows its helplessness. https://conta.cc/3U7SCoN

    Madonna and Child Watercolor by Alberta M Polin Your loving doesn't know its majesty until it knows its helplessness.  ~Rumi This year the spring equinox, a time of new growth, fell in the middl

02/20/2024

I Le'a Ka Hula https://conta.cc/3wsppvm

Join Us!   I LE'A KA HULA Celebrating Culture, Preserving Traditions February 22 - 24, 2024 In conjunction with 'Olelo Hawai'i month, I Le'a Ka Hula presents Online Workshops taught by amazing Kumu H

02/09/2024

In conjuction with ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi month,
I Le‘a Ka Hula presents workshop taught
by various reputable Kumu Hula, February 22-24, 2024. 🌺

Support and value Kumu Hula and master teachers that dedicate their lives to the preservation and perpetuation of these traditions for future generations

02/01/2024

Love is a spring that flows freely https://conta.cc/3HEQ22i

    Mauna Kea Sunrise Painting by Catherine Robbins https://catherinerobbins.com/ He punawai kahe wale ke aloha. Love is a spring that flows freely. Love is without bounds and exists for all. #936

01/13/2024

Hauoli Makahiki Hou! Happy New Year to all!

E lei kau, e lei ho’oilo I ke aloha. 🌺

Love is worn like a wreath
Through the summers and winters.
Love is everlasting. 🌺

The above is one of my favorite Olelo No’eau – Hawaiian Proverbs & Poetical Sayings. It’s a fitting proverb to remember as we begin our New Year. Aloha means kindness, generosity and love. It is our nature – it’s who we are. Aloha is also a practice because it’s not possible to be aloha 100% of the time. Which means we don’t always get it right. Can we keep practicing aloha, even when we fail? I think we can for aloha includes compassion and forgiveness when we fall off the path. We get up, dust ourselves off and begin again.

One fun way to cultivate aloha is through Hula, so I hope you’ll join me! - Kumu June Kaililani Tanoue 🌺

SATURDAY CLASSES – begins Jan. 6th
🌺 Beginner Keiki Class resumes at 9-9:55am. In-person classes only.
🌺 Auana II (Modern) is at 10-11am CST – Hybrid
🌺 Adult Beginning Hula is from 11-12pm CST – Hybrid

MONDAY CLASSES – begins Jan. 8th
🌺 Chair Hula is from 5-5:45 PM CST – Online Only
🌺 Auana II is from 7–8 pm CST – Hybrid
🌺 Kahiko II from 8–9 pm CST – Hybrid

WEDNESDAY CLASSES – begins Jan. 10th
🌺 Adult Beginning Hula is from 10-11am CST – Hybrid
🌺 Advanced Hula is from 7-9pm CST– Hybrid

For more information and Zoom links, contact HIKP via our website!

01/12/2024

Just watched an excellent documentary of the overthrow of the Hawaiian government in mid-January 1893. It's been 131 years. it was aired on 93 public televisions.

This hour-long documentary is a provocative look at a historical event of which few Americans are aware. In mid-January, 1893, armed troops from the U.S.S. Boston landed at Honolulu in support of a treasonous coup d'etat against the constitutional sovereign of the Hawaiian...

12/31/2023

It's a delicious mystery. https://conta.cc/48bHSKq

Happy New Year!     Sunrise at Lake Cuyamaca (Behind the Clouds) Julian, California It's a delicious mystery 20 days ago, I said hello to the Pacific Ocean at Tourmaline Beach in La Jolla. It was so

12/18/2023

Halau I Ka Pono will be featured on MeTV’s, Toon in With Me, on Tuesday, December 19 at 6am CST. Check metv.com/schedule for your local access.

Mele Kalikimaka to all! 🎄🤙🏽

12/10/2023

Created this altarcloth during sesshin breaks. What would be a good name?🙏♥️🥰

12/02/2023

Happy Holidays from Halau I Ka Pono! We are grateful for each other and our community who supported the Lahaina benefit last fall. May this season offer you many moments of joy & peace 🕊️🎄

12/02/2023

The olive leaf of love https://conta.cc/414W458

    Young Apapane on Orange Lehua, Kokee, Kauai Photo by Mike Teruya Ka lau ‘oliwa a ke aloha The olive leaf of love. A gift, kindly given. ~‘Olelo No’eau by Mary Kawena Pukui #1434, Hawaiian P

11/23/2023

I am deeply grateful for all of you at Hula Chicago: Halau I Ka Pono with Kumu June Tanoue and all of our friends who joined us at this Benefit Concert for Maui and throughout the year who love Hula and Hawaiian culture! May your lives continue to be enriched with the boundless spirit of Aloha and may it spread throughout the universe!🤙❤️🥰

11/07/2023

Kamehaitu Helela, A Niʻihau native. Hanapēpē Valley, Kauaʻi

Elvin K. Kaiakapu
Age 80 D.O.B. 11/11/1931
Hanapepe, Kaua'i, Hawaii

‘Resume’

“My resume is actually my lifestyle growing up that I learned from my kupuna and continue to raise my children, my grandchildren and now their children, in the same manner.

I grew up in the ahupua'a of Hanapepe, and as children, our Ohana raised kalo, chickens, sweet potatoes, and a large variety of popular garden vegetables that everyone ate.

We hunted in the uplands of Hanapepe for wild pig and goats. We shared everything with our extended Ohana and neighbors whenever we had more than we could eat.

They in turn shared what they had. This was the normal protocol of life in Hanapepe and the rest of Hawaii.

Hanapepe Valley of my youth was a far cry from what it is today. Our water was cut off by the hungry and thirsty sugar plantations that manipulated and controlled the water that the everyday farmers used.

The plantations prospered and the people suffered.

Our Ohana still continued to hunt in the uplands, still grew what we could, and still watched as the plantations took more and more.

We also continued to gather medicinal
herbs from both the west, south, east and north sides of the Island.

Hanalei was our favorite area to harvest awa and olena, a certain type of ginger that was used to cure many western diseases that infected our people, and they brought a lot of infectuous diseases from their first arrival on Hawaiian Soil.

Of course we all know it wasn't intentional.

I remember when my Grandma moved in with us after she was evicted from Niihau by the Robinson's for making comments that the Robinson's did not own Niihau simply because Kamehameha III NEVER SOLD THEM THE PROPERTY and that he only leased his 1/3 of the island only for the life time of the first Robinson on the Island.

She was the last recognized ali’i on the island and her name was Ali’i Helela Kameheitu.

Niihau's and Robinson's loss was our gain, my tutu had a wealth of information that she taught me as a young man growing up.

Information that is so important, that it needs to be shared with all of our
people and eventually, the entire World.

It is my hope and wish that our Islands will once again return to the wonderful lifestyles we were privy to have and that we can all live once more with unconditional aloha that will bring back the practice of Lokahi and living our everyday lives by trying our best to be Pono.

As a Kanaka Maoli, we must once again share with aloha and make sure the greed of corporate America is removed from our presence.

After all, they cannot continue the fraud of claiming they own the Hawaiian Archipelago.

I don't know of any legal conveyance from our King or anyone else with authority. And I have searched.”

By Elvin K. Kaiakapu
Published 12 years ago — 2012

https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2817686161?profile=original

Title: Hula ipuwai

The collection by Kamehaitu Helela of Hanapēpē Valley, Kauaʻi, which is said to date back to the early eighteenth century.

Photo: SP 96954.

Roberts, Helen Heffron -- 1888-1985 (recordist)
Helela, Kamehaitu (singer)
Created / Published

Ni'ihau Island, Kaua'I, Hawaii.
Headings

- Sung by Kamehaitu Helela of Ni'ihau Island. (statement of responsibility)

- AFS 00763 A02 (AFS Number)
- 763 (afsNum)
Form

sound recording
Repository

American Folklife Center,
Library of Congress
Online Format

METSXML Record

https://www.loc.gov/item/afc9999005.2313/

Image sharing on social media is welcome; for all other uses, please contact [email protected].

10/31/2023

Peace is a chief, the lord of love. https://conta.cc/49j8bPE

    Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois He ali’i ka la’i, he haku na ke aloha. Peace is a chief, the lord of love. Where peace is, there love abides also. ~‘Olelo No’eau by Mary Kawena Pukui #532,

10/09/2023

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Oh My Goddess!, Iona Contemporary Dance Theatre’s first new production in eight years, debuts in September. We got the inside scoop.

10/06/2023

In the shade of the breadfruit trees of Lele https://conta.cc/3F37EDT

    Benefit for Lahaina - Celebrate Aloha Concert is a Success MAHALO NUI LOA!!! Lahaina, i ka malu ‘ulu o Lele. Lahaina, in the shade of the breadfruit trees of Lele. The old name for Lahaina was Le

10/05/2023

We are pleased to share that we collectively raised $15,000 from ticket sales, donations and our Silent Auction/raffle items!! We are so grateful to everyone who contributed to this benefit for families in Lahaina. All proceeds will be donated to the Hawai’i Community Foundation, Maui Strong Fund. Thank you!! 🌺

10/04/2023

It was a magical afternoon full of hula and mele in community, infused with Aloha for our sisters and brothers in Lahaina. We are thankful to everyone who joined us, in-person and live stream, and to the many who volunteered their time and resources to kokua (help). When we come together in the spirit of Aloha, all things are possible. 🌺

We would like to warmly thank:
Kumu Hula Tina Momilani Eggert, Kumu Kona Garcia, Kumu Shasta Hud, Netty Palumbo, Aloha Eats, Ivan Lee, Aloha Wagon, Betsy Puig, Cheryl Honesty, Clare Martin, Elena Glen Ellen, Keikilani Sarvida, GoDogRockford, Gwendolyn Baker, Hanale West, Julie Thompson, June Kaililani Tanoue, Kim Dubsky, Lisa Kinolau Alamar, Lorel Madden, Mālie Organics, Mary Coglianese, Mary Huyck, Maui Humane Society, Melissa Belly Dance, Michael Pili Pang, Moira Singh, Nicole Sumida, Ricia Shema, Robert Althouse, Rose Patterson, Spark Bird Studios, Erika Tuttle, Susan Bart, Tiki Terrace, Yoshiko Fields, Yukiko Shiraishi , Layla Krause, Julie Sievert, Katie Iammartino, Leela Sims, Mari Yu, Alex Yu, Lisa and Beth Nielsen, Ron Cabanada, Jillian McCann, M.G. Bertulfo and Cissy & Harry Plekavic. Special thanks to the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church for sharing their lovely space with us.

We are deeply grateful for our Kumu Hula June Kaililani Tanoue for her vision and dedication and for all of the dancers and performers whose passion made this benefit possible.

We are in the midst of tallying our donations and will share the final amount very soon. Mahalo nui loa! 🌺

*UPDATE: We raised $15,000 and will donate all proceeds to the Hawai’i Community Foundation, Maui Strong Fund!!! Thanks to all for your support! 🌺

09/29/2023

Benefit for Lahaina - Inperson tix SOLD OUT - Online streaming still Available! https://conta.cc/3rwrV1q

100% of Ticket Sales and Silent Auction donated to Maui Strong Fund   Native women with leis play Ukulele, 1910 (donated by Ivan Lee for Silent Auction) CELEBRATE ALOHA BENEFIT LAHAINA CONCERT Sunday,

09/27/2023

Benefit Lahaina Concert 10/1/23. https://conta.cc/48q46ZT

100% of Ticket Sales, Raffle and Silent Auction donated to Maui Strong Fund   Native women with leis play Ukulele, 1910 (donated by Ivan Lee for Silent Auction) CELEBRATE ALOHA BENEFIT LAHAINA CONCERT