abstract image of leaf with beads of water for the kalehua story
Kalehua Fung was the 2022 Hawaii Youth Poet Laureate. Her Native Hawaiian culture and schooling is very important and she believes is the foundation of all her successes.
What do we do when our ‘ainalani, our heavenly land, looks no different than any other major metropolitan city? What do we tell the thousands of vacationers, who visit our islands for its inherent natural beauty, when our beaches are eroded upon and steel and concrete weigh down too heavily on our sacred land, our beautiful land? These are the questions the Wai‘anae community will wrestle with as developers push to rezone agricultural farmlands to make way for light industrial.
Through June, check out these #FINDART exhibitions throughout Chinatown at thirtyninehotel, Manifest, Mercury Bar, The Human Imagination and Pegge Hopper. Photos by Jonas Maon and John Hook ____________________________ Carolyn Castaño Forever...

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