FEBRUARY!

Everyone says it, "Where has the time gone?" and we'll chime in right along side them, because we're amazed that January has passed so quickly!!! Our recent club gathering this past Saturday was fun, with everyone visiting and for those of us who aren't so great at making lei (read: TINA) still enjoying everyone's company. We have a fun, and different activity planned for February, we're just waiting on some confirmations and we'll begin letting everyone know.

We do have our Mainland Council Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs quarterly gathering in February, and we're looking forward to sharing time, space and mana'o with club leaders from across the Continental United States. We hav

e a grant "boot camp" workshop scheduled, which will hopefully enabl

e us to secure funding to better assist in our people's and our community's growth.

We do want to share some of the amazing initiatives occurring in our community, especially the amazing work of `Anapesi Ka`ili, take a look at

the flyer below. It just can't get any easier to stay abreas

t of issues that impact us as Pacific Islanders!! Please help spread the word!

Recent Happenings

Aloha!

It's been a while since our last posting, we hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday season! Here are some of the things we've been up to.....

December 11th, we had the honor and privilege to represent our Hawaiian community here in Utah by presenting an oli and makana for Tongan Royal Princess Pilolevu Tuita at the South Towne Expo Center. Here's a shot of us directly after, L-R: Charlene Lui 1st V.P., Soulee Stroud President for the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, Tina Cabiles-Carden Club president.

This month our club gathering will be on Saturday, January 28th. We'll have a fun yarn lei making activity, and learn some basic protocols for lei making and lei giving. FUN!! Bring the family down, potluck dinner to be served, please bring a dish to share!
We are also eagerly anticipating the release of Hokulani Aikau's new book, A Chosen People A Promised Land . While we are excited when Native Hawaiian authors present their works, this one is especially exciting for us. Hokulani is the daughter of Uncle Ned and Aunty Sharon Aikau, and while that enough is cause for us to celebrate this release, the subject matter of this work is one that has relevance for so many here. We encourage you to purchase a copy!

Within the next few weeks this blog will be undergoing some reconstruction, we're excited about that. We aim to make it more user friendly. MAHALO!!!

NOVEMBER ACTIVITIES!

Aloha!!! We have some fun and exciting news!! In addition to the above listed activity, we are also pleased to announce a "Hui 'Olelo Hawai'i" (E kala mai, unable to include proper diacriticals here) which will meet twice a month for the sole purpose of practicing conversing in our mother tongue. We'll also include cultural discussion on various topics such as oli, mo'olelo, wahi pana, na mele and more! All ages and abilities welcome, absolutely free of charge!!! Stay tuned for more information!

For this month, we have a few FUN and FREE activities! We're hosting a FREE COUPONING CLASS, AND A HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE ACTIVITY FOR NA KEIKI! While that's going on we'll also have Charlene Lui speaking on Convention highlights, some of the resolutions that were highly debated, and some of the other activities that took place there as well. Potluck, please bring your favorite dish to share with everyone!!

Aloha e Kupulau! (Hello Spring!)

Sorry it's been a while since our last post!!! We are pleased to report that the Anti-Affirmative Action Bill did not go through, so that's one thing to celebrate!!! We're sure it'll rear it's ugly head again during the next session, but with our efforts to inform our community, many more people will be aware and actively watching for it come next year, which is a great thing.

Last week Club Pelekikena Tina Cabiles-Carden was in Arizona for work and attended the Arizona Aloha Festival. There she was priviledged to meet members of the newest Hawaiian Civic Club, Laukanaka No Hawai'i. Her favorite person, was Kupuna "Pineapple Kamakea". Of course they bonded, both being from Wai'anae, and from the very same street, no less! She says, "It was incredible to get to visit and wala'au with our newest civic club!! So encouraging to see so many active kupuna who are engaged in positive work in the community. I look forward to being able to see them at Mainland Council gatherings and at Convention!"

She was also able to meet Dirk Soma and Kaui Asing, with OHA's Continental Community Outreach. She spoke for a bit with Kaui Asing, who shared the goals of the Continental Community Outreach program, and says she looks forward to further contact with Kaui and Dirk and seeing about creating an opportunity for them to come and meet community leaders, cultural practitioners and community members here in Utah sometime in the near future. Exciting potential to build great partnerships!

GOT PA'I 'AI? Join Malama Haloa O Utah on Wednesday, March 30th at a Community Ku'i at the Hawaiian Cultural Center, 6 - 8:30 p.m. Come and experience making pa'i 'ai, bring the 'ohana and learn about this beautiful cultural practice and how together you, and Malama Haloa O Utah can continue this practice right here in Utah! Potluck dinner served, please bring a dish to share! For more information on ordering, please visit their blog!

DON'T FORGET! Our next club gathering will be on Saturday, April 16th from 3 - 6pm at the Columbus Center, 2531 S. 400 E. in Room 106. Potluck, fun activities for the entire 'ohana! Keep watching for more information!

Our club will be participating in Lei Aloha O Ka 'Ohana's 'Ohana Saturday on April 30th from 3 - 6 p.m., come join us, talk story, hang out, participate in the FREE activities and events that day, incluing a FREE screening of "Ka'ilila'au's Canoe" which aired via "Emme's Island Moments" back home in Hawai'i.

Here's a link to our last Club newsletter, the Spring issue will be out during the first week of April, make sure you sign up to receive it!

GET SET, GO!!!

We are EXCITED for the many fun, culturally engaging, exciting things we have planned for our community in 2011!! We are blessed to be able to bring cultural education, family oriented activities to our community while partnering with other Hawaiian and Polynesian organizations. The resources within our Polynesian community here in Utah are immense and we are blessed to be able to partner with each other for the betterment of our community.
Our first gathering for 2011 starts us off with a cultural presentation. In our traditions, when a name is bestowed, it serves to activate that which is being named. It serves to breathe life into it, to animate it, serve as anchor to its life. Come and explore what our Native Hawaiian traditions are for bestowing a name, and who knows? You may just learn more about YOUR name, and who YOU are. All the information can be found on the flyer below.

To balance our activities, February will find us with a fun ACTIVITY/WORKSHOP for the whole family!! Want to know what it is? Make sure you come to January's gathering, and follow us here for more up to date information!!!

Also, make sure and follow KALEA'S blog, as they'll have their membership, practice schedule and race schedule for 2011 posted on the blog soon!!!

We hope all of you have had a terrific 2010, we're excited to share 2011 with all of you!

MAHALO!

We hope this post finds all of you enjoying your holidays!!! We want to send a MAHALO NUI to all of you who came and helped us celebrate the holiday with us!!! It was so great to see all of you! We also want to extend a special thank you to Pomaika'i Gaui and everyone who participated in our Caroling event at Hillside Rehabilitation Center!!!!!! Mahalo for sharing the Aloha spirit and Christmas Cheer!

Please save the date of January 15th, that will be our very first gathering of 2011, and we'd love to spend it with all of you! We'll be continuing our "Makawalu Series", this time sharing traditional Native Hawaiian naming practices, followed by a basic Hawaiian language lesson, the better to enable you to pronounce Hawaiian names, place names, and more. Saturday, January 15th, 3:00 - 6:00 p.m. potluck, 2531 S. 400 E. in Room 106. We will be posting the flyer shortly. Until then, posted below are some pics from our Christmas event, we hope you enjoy it, and next time, we hope to see ALL of you there! From Hui Hawai`i O Utah Hawaiian Civic Club to all of you, Happy Holidays!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CHRISTMAS PARTY!!!

Everyone's invited! Join us in celebrating the holidays on Saturday, December 11th at the Columbus Center, 2531 S. 400 E. for our Annual Christmas Party! From 2 - 6pm, potluck, kanikapila! This year we'll be caroling at the Hillside Rehabilitation Center, from 2 - 2:30, and those interested are invited to meet a little earlier at the Columbus Center, at 1:30. We will be caroling in honor of our beloved kupuna who passed this year, Aunty Shirley Kalawai`a, Tutu Annabeth Squires, and Uncle Henry Vincent. We would LOVE for you to join us! Here are the list of carols we'll be singing:

Mele Kalikimaka

Kani kani pele

Po La`i E

12 Days of Christmas Hawaiian Style

Christmas Island

Deck the Halls

The Christmas Song

O Holy Night

Here is a link that will enable you to download the lyrics in a .zip file

We hope you can join us! Bring your guitars and ukuleles! Bring the whole family!

Food, friends and family and fun!!! See you there!

25th Anniversary Celebration

If a picture is worth a thousand words then this will definitely be a lengthy post! We would like to thank each and every person who had a hand in making this anniversary party a success. We would like to thank na kupuna who started the club, who prepared the ground for our planting, nourishing and growing for the next generation's harvesting. We look forward to the upcoming year, with the many fun, culturally engaging and exciting events we have planned. We look forward to the next 25 years and hope it finds the club and our people prospering.

These are just a few shots, be on the lookout for our club newsletter, available to members, which will have a lot more photos from that evening. MAHALO!

25th Anniversary!

Welina mai nei....we are slightly astounded at our quickly approaching 25th anniversary. Why astounded? Because we are only able to stand here because of the hard work, dedication and aloha of those civic club founders and members who have come before us and we are astounded at what their hard work has wrought. We are also excited. Very excited for all of the wonderful things in store for our club and our community.


KALEA is now a part of Hui Hawai`i O Utah and the potential for us to do huge and amazing things together in the community is a reality that keeps us humble, and the positive energy generated keeps us invigorated and energized. Ka `ohana Tejada, Uncle Mike, Lincoln, Johnny and their `ohana by means of their generously sharing their wa`a, have gifted this community and upcoming generations. Their sheer wholehearted aloha has served to re-energize and inspire our community and for that, we are ever grateful and humbled. MAHALO.

Halau Kawaiulu has re-emerged, with our entering once again into the Makahiki season. The cultural depth, and subsequent flow, serves to spiritually, culturally and emotionally feed na haumana a Kawaiulu, which in turn better allows them, and our club to be culturally enriched outside of the Makahiki season. Halau Kawaiulu is a Hawaiian studies type of piko, a cultural resource designed to increase the amount of `oiwi that are connected to their Native Hawaiian culture. This increases our resources, our waiwai, with the amount of `oiwi in our community who are culturally grounded and therefore able to share with others. While Halau Kawaiulu is an initiative through Hui Hawai`i O Utah Hawaiian Civic Club, they participate community wide by means of Hawaiian language classes, cultural workshops, conducting protocol, serving as Haku for ho`oponopono sessions and more. Be on the lookout for a series of cultural workshops by Halau Kawaiulu in 2011.

While our club's strength is in na mea Hawai`i, we are committed to the entire well being of our people and that includes ho`ole`ale`a, or having fun. Our civic club was active in the promotion of recent concert here in Salt Lake City that featured `Ekolu, as well as our favorite REBEL ZION, Natural Roots and Evalution. Brought to us by Fairwinds Productions and other sponsors, and held at Bar Deluxe, it was a fun way for us to support local owned businesses, and local bands and local music. Here are some pictures from that night.