Kauluakalana

Ka pahuhopu o kawainui: this is an out-of-school, hawaiian culture based, 'olelo-rich, 'aina education program designed for middle school to early high school-aged learners from kailua and neighboring ahupua'a in ko'olaupoko, o'ahu. The program focuses on engaging youth with cultural practitioners from our community in intergenerational transfer of hawaiian knowledge and practices including story-telling, mele, food cultivation and preparation, and community-based land stewardship and restoration.

Pili mai & kuokoa: (meaning "to come together") brings together families and educators to facilitate their reconnection to haloa (the first kalo plant and elder sibling of the hawaiian people), each other, and our homeland in order to celebrate, inspire, and organize the regeneration of our community around the cultural practices of poi making. The primary component of this program is a multi-month program for a cohort of kailua-connected families and educators, centered around learning and perpetuating the process of growing, harvesting, preparing, and pounding kalo into poi. Participation is by invitation only. The culminating activity is the families host a kalo pounding tent at a community gathering in celebration of la kuokoa where they teach other families how to make poi.