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Fiji, Host of the 1st Festival of Pacific Arts & Culture

Dear Reader, in anticipation of the upcoming Festival of Pacific Arts & Culture to be held this year here in Hawaiʻi nei, our posts will feature the previous FestPAC hosts and perhaps other participants as well. Today, we begin with Fiji.

Pauahi ʻo Kalani

We celebrate a day early this year the birthday of our namesake, Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop. The featured article appears in Ka Nupepa Kuokoa and describes the festivities in 1869.

Lā Kūʻokoʻa Celebration, 150 Years Ago.

In 1873, a group of young men, the ‘Ahahui ‘Ōpiopio o Hawaiʻi (AOH) decided to have a large public celebration of Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea which had not been recognized among the official kingdom holidays since 1866. After successfully carrying out those plans, their minds quickly moved on to Lā Kūʻokoʻa.

A New Hawaiian Language Dictionary 

An article expressing appreciation and hope for a planned Hawaiian language dictionary and what it could contribute toward a future of language vibrancy.

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