HPR Kainani Kahaunaele s latest album is “Waipunalei”. Hear her Parisian track Kaulana Versae on your favorite music platforms.
Hilo musician Kainani Kahaunaele spoke with Hawaiʻi Public Radio about her latest album Waipunalei and the inspiration behind several mele, or songs. I m in here for the long haul. I m trying to get more Hawaiian music into the ears of Hawaiʻi, into the ears of our youth, and to show my generation that we can do it. But we have to do it well, as far as the language and the poetry are concerned, and we ll bring integrity to the front line of Hawaiian music, she said.
UFO isn’t a theory supported by
IfA) Astronomer
Karen Meech, who led an international research team’s analysis of ʻOumuamua immediately after its discovery in 2017. Meech and fellow researchers initially investigated the object’s origin and found no evidence it is linked to alien life.
“It’s certainly intriguing to creatively speculate what the physical nature of something is when it is the first of its kind this is part of exploration and discovery,” said Meech. “However, one has to follow scientific principles. Everything we have seen with ʻOumuamua is entirely consistent with it being a comet. We can’t prove it, because we had too little time and it was too faint to get all the data we would like, but that is a poor reason to declare it is alien technology.”
One Boy, No Water, will headline conference events on Oʻahu.
Hawaiʻi Island award-winning artist and author Caren Loebel-Fried, known for her eco-focused hand-colored block prints will be a featured guest at
UH Hilo’s event.
“The
Kirsten Møllegaard, professor and chair of
UH Hilo’s English department. “In organizing the Hilo event, we’ve made an effort to celebrate the creativity, artistry and joy of working with children and literature that exist in our local communities.”
The Hilo campus’ event will also feature
UH Hilo faculty
UH Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching and
Kamalani Johnson, a lecturer and curriculum specialist at Ka Haka ʻUla O Keʻelikōlani College of Hawaiian Language. Other speakers include a roundtable of children’s librarians from public libraries in Kona, Kealakekua and Hilo.