Welcome to Hawaiian Skies, the in-flight video magazine of Hawaiian Airlines. In our latest edition, we satisfy your thirst for music...visit a valley from another time...meet Samoan royalty...and discover a paddler's paradise.
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Practitioners and lovers of the distinctly Hawaiian art of hula look forward to the Merrie Monarch Festival all year. Televised statewide, it is the world’s foremost showcase of hula, with “halau,” or schools of hula, demonstrating their mastery of the dance’s various forms.
“Kokua” is a Hawaiian word meaning, at its simplest level, to extend help to others. It is a concept that is intrinsic to the Islands, and singer Jack Johnson is working to spread the spirit of kokua to help protect and preserve the natural environment that sustains us all.
Na Wahine O Kei Kai is the premier event in the sport of women’s outrigger canoe racing. It is the ultimate test for the “women of the sea” who draw on teamwork and incredible endurance to race from the island of Molokai to the shores of Waikiki, a distance of some 42 miles.
For many people, parachuting is extreme enough. Some daredevils, though, have raised the ante through a new evolution of the sport known as “swooping.” Essentially, swooping involves leveling out before reaching the ground, while dramatically increasing speed. Skilled “swoopers” skim mountains, treetops and more at speeds exceeding 90 miles per hour before finally landing.
Imagine a shop filled with treasures of yesteryear. Not just any treasures, but the best of Hawaiiana: antique hula lamps, aloha shirts, tiki statues, signs, posters, books, jewelry and much, much more.
Filmmaker Stuart Yamane is dedicated to showing the unexpected side of the Islands, the personal stories that go beyond the stereotypes and fill out the true picture of Hawai‘i and its people. His film “Artist,” produced with PBS Hawaii, does just that.
The Hawaiian Islands are the most isolated in the world. What could have inspired the early voyagers to attempt the dangerous journey here over thousands of miles of ocean? What would the trip have been like? These questions fired the artistic imaginations of two men, and resulted in the film “Voyagers.”
Young, dynamic and preternaturally skilled, Jake Shimabukuro has singlehandedly created a boom in a traditional instrument of the Islands: the ukulele. But Jake is more than a performer.
As you walk the streets of Honolulu, you can easily spot cultural influences from around the Pacific. It’s in the signs on display, the languages in the air, the dishes on offer in restaurants.
Honolulu hasn’t always been the city of tall towers and tourist attractions you see today. Hawaii’s capital has seen many changes in the last century, chronicled in the film “Honolulu – 100 Years in the Making.”
