Welcome to Hawaiian Skies, the in-flight video magazine of Hawaiian Airlines. In our latest edition, we remember Pearl Harbor… visit the farms that are helping O‘ahu go organic… get a unique perspective on Hawaii’s Na Hoku Hanohano Awards… stamp your passport to Hawai‘i… take to the waves for some amazing canoe surfing… watch the Keiki Hula Festival winners show off their moves... and introduce a hula festival commemorating a royal journey.
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If you could choose just one “can’t miss” destination on O‘ahu, it would probably be Pearl Harbor. Millions of people have visited this profoundly moving site over the years, taking the opportunity to literally walk in the footsteps of history.
The organic farming movement has come to Hawai‘i in a major way, with many small farms embracing this clean, green method of agriculture. Come visit the farms and meet the forward-thinking farmers who are making a difference in the Islands.
The diversity of Hawai‘i. The beauty of Hawai‘i. The soul of Hawai‘i. It’s all there in the music of Hawai‘i, and there’s no better place to experience it than at the Na Hoku Hanohano Awards. In this story, Kuuipo Kumukahi, President of the Hawai‘i Academy of Recording Arts, gives us a personal introduction to these prestigious awards and explains what they mean to the artists and to the Islands.
This story is your passport to a Hawai‘i many people never see. We travel to Lahaina, on Maui, to explore an ancient treasure located in the unlikeliest of places: beneath the softball mounds of a county park. We also visit Chef Chai Chaowasaree, a master at incorporating local flavors into his menus, who shares one of his favorite recipes with us.
Surfing is a way of life in Hawai‘i, so much so that people are constantly nudging the sport in new directions as they try to find the best and biggest ways to ride the waves. Witness canoe surfing, which combines the big-wave-riding thrills of surfing with the teamwork of canoe paddling. The result is certainly something to behold.
The Brothers Cazimero, one of Hawaii’s best-loved musical acts, recently invited some young guests to share the stage. Their concert at the historic Hawai‘i Theatre featured performances by the winners of the Keiki Hula Festival.
Viewers of Hawaiian Skies were recently treated to a special documentary entitled “Journey to Emalani,” chronicling a hula festival featuring three talented halau, or schools.
The festival is held yearly in commemoration of a journey taken in 1871 by Queen Emma Naea Rooke to the upland forests of Kokee in West Kaua‘i. It is a powerful evocation of a time and a spirit that have persevered through the ages.
There is no larger stage for hula than the Merrie Monarch Festival. This annual competition, held in the town of Hilo on the Big Island of Hawai‘i, brings together the finest dancers and halau, or schools of hula, that the Islands have to offer.
Hawai‘i is blessed with an abundance of sun, waves and wind, potential sources of alternative energy that can help keep the Islands clean and green. In this story, we meet some of the people dedicated to making Hawai‘i a better place by taking advantage of our renewable natural resources.
There’s surfing, and then there’s surfing. For those who search out the biggest waves and the greatest challenges, the name “Jaws” has a special place in their hearts. Jaws is the nickname for a spot on the north shore of Maui, where mammoth waves provide the surfing thrills of a lifetime.
“Hiki no” means “can do” in Hawaiian, and this story illustrates the can do spirit of Hawaii’s young generation as they work on the nation’s first statewide student news network.
The dance form Hawai‘i is most associated with is, of course, hula. But dance is taking several fascinating new directions here as well, exemplified by Tau Dance Theater. A blend of ancient stories and contemporary tools and techniques, these productions are at once utterly new and eternal.
