Halau Hula Kauluokala Inc.

“Expenses advertising 338 office expense 3 travel 1,450 insurance 1,556 christmas event 6,802 storage rental 3,628 website maintenance 228 other expenses 965 bank charges 163 auto 70 mail box rental 200 stage props 177 total 15,580”

“We educate and instill the values of hawaiian culture through language, chant and dance. We encourage the development of skills and knowledge as being part of a caring, respectful community, bringing awareness and sensitivity to perpetuate all things hawaiian. Our goal is to build self- confidence with a greater understanding and connection to our ancestral ways. Thus with a strong foundation through education, we will ensure a secure future, and enduring pride in hawaiian culture.”

“Instruction is done through the use of traditional hawaiian instruments such as gourds, drums, string instruments, and other implements such as uli uli (rattle gourd), ipu (gourd), ili'ili (flat stones), puili (split bamboo), kala'au (sticks), and ukulele instrument playing. Eleven classes are held each week serving keiki students from ages three to seventeen, as well as instruction for adults. During 2018, halau hula kauluokala performed community events including kama'aina nights, picnic for poke, aloha ukulele festival on kaua'i. Our kupuna (women ages 55 and older) entered the kona kupuna competition taking first place in september. The mokihana festival was held on kaua'i, in which our opio (ages 12 to 18) took second place as a group. In november, we participated in teh hula o na keiki competition for the younger children. In july, we took a group of students on a cultural exchange trip to japan for the aloha hakodate festival where we performed and taught hula and traditional lei making. To close our year, students performed for patients at the kula hospital during the christmas season.”