Colorful Canoe Pageant Honors Polynesian Legacy

From its very beginning in 1963, the Polynesian Cultural Center has featured traditional canoes and, soon after opening, launched a canoe pageant that remains an important part of our daily program. The canoes and pageant not only pay tribute to the islanders’ ancient...

All Hawaii Honors King Kamehameha Each June 11

In 1871 King Kamehameha V set apart June 11th as a national holiday honoring his great-grandfather, King Kamehameha I, who first established the unified Kingdom of Hawaii through a series of military victories and alliances with other island ali’i or rulers between...

May 2015 Laie Community Update

In other PCC and related news We share several additional noteworthy items with you: •     New president to lead BYU-Hawaii:  John S. Tanner, an English professor and former academic vice president of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, has been named as the...
Joseph Kekuku: Lāʻie’s Famous Steel Guitar Musician

Joseph Kekuku: Lāʻie’s Famous Steel Guitar Musician

Remember how we recently talked about the PCC putting up a statue of Hamana Kalili in the new Hukilau Marketplace in our March 2015 eNewsletter? You know, the Hawaiian man from Lāʻie who originated what the world now knows as the shaka.  Well, the Cultural Center paid...

“We Are Samoa” High School Cultural Arts Festival Sells Out

The PCC has also been staging a traditional Samoan cultural arts and practices festival — featuring Samoan and interested high school students from across Oahu — as an important part of the World Fire Knife Championships . . . and to show just how popular this year’s...