October 27, 2008
Aloha Hawaii Gourd Society members and supporters, Please allow me to begin with, Ipu Rule!
Ipu Lani, Inc (HGS parent organization) has had a very full year, and we are getting even busier now! Fall is ipu season, we have vines growing and producing beautiful ipu right now at the Ipu Lani Farm, 84-5125 Keala o' Keawe (Hwy 160), Captain Cook, HI. If you would like to visit during the next few months, please call for an appointment. (Mary 808 937-4308). We are constructing arbors and continuing to plant ipu in preparation for our 2009 Ipu Cultural Festival, Jan. 15, 16, 17, & 18, 2009.
The 2009 Ipu Cultural Festival will celebrate the diverse culture surrounding the ipu. Ipu art, koko, basket weaving on ipu, cordage and olona demonstrations, guest Kumu demonstrations and workshops, music, hula, food, ipu instrument classes (ipu heke, ipu ole', uli uli), Hawaiian arts and craft vendors, a silent auction, storytelling, Ni'ihau ipu pawehe classes and demonstrations will all be included.
The festival will begin at the Ipu Lani farm for a pot luck and casual gathering on the afternoon of Jan 15th. The official event kicks off at the Keauhou Beach Outrigger Resort, Kailua-Kona, HI. The Outrigger is hosting our festival and for that we are very grateful! They have donated two ballrooms (for classes and vendors) and also the lani area surrounding the north section of the resort (Ballrooms known as Kahalu'u III & IV). Public hours will be as follows: Friday 1-16, and Sat. 1-17, 9AM - 5PM. Sunday 1-18, 9AM - 4PM. Free admission. The resort has a nice restaurant ($11 for lunch) and a dinner buffet ($25) available during the festival.
The Outrigger has reserved a block of rooms for us and so, if you wish to stay at the resort, tell them you are attending the 2009 Ipu Cultural Festival.
We also have a block of rooms reserved at the Manago Hotel in Captain Cook, (appx $60 per night.) They have a nice restaurant and are about 15 minute drive from Festival location.
Ipu Lani, Inc and HGS are also very please to have the assistance and professional touch of Alice Moon & Co. to assist in producing our event.
Vendors, we are looking for Hawaiian Cultural Practitioners, and vendors. The resort provides tables ($20) and the festival entry fee is $50. Please contact Mary 937-4308 or respond to this e-mail for more vendor information.
Musicians...we need you. Please call or respond to this e-mail. Alice will want to speak w/ you too.
Volunteers...we really need you! Between now and the festival there will be many necessary jobs to undertake and complete...please call Mary 937-4308 or write back and let me know where you may be able to help. For example, we will need sponsors and silent auction donations(and people to help collect these), folks to post posters and flyers, greeters and helpers at the festival and at the farm for the pot-luck, a driver to pick up arriving Kumu and see to thier safe arrival at the resort...etc. As we move closer to the festival I will send out more detailed time schedules and volunteer slots to fill. Please plan now for a Festival organizational meeting (ie:pot-luck) at the farm on Dec. 28, 2008. 1- 5 PM. Mark the date!
We realize the economy is in the pits and that everything is more challenging and difficult for us here in Hawaii. This is one time to relax in the simplicity of the wonderful culture of our host home. Ipu are not costly to raise and enjoy. They are grounding and help to center the artist and the family which becomes involved. The ipu was here in Hawaii at the beginning and we are very humbled by its beauty, mana, and the joy it brings to each of us today. Join us to celebrate this amazing cultural jewel and the many related cultural treasures we wish to present at the 2009 Ipu Cultural Festival.
There will be Kumu and Cultural Practitioners displaying Koko, Olona, Ipu basketry, Kapa, Lau Hala weavers and Coconut weavers...dancers, music and artists. The festival will be free to the public, there will be fees for classes.
On a completely different note, we will present a 2009 Ipu Workshop series at Ipu Lani Farm.
I will post the planned schedule in this letter, fees are to be determined, (a grant proposal is in and may help to lower costs). If you are interested in any of the workshops, please let us know as soon as possible...some are limited participants). Call Mary 937-4308 or respond to this email.
2009 IPU WORKSHOP SERIES
(WS) workshops in numerical order
# of
WS Code Participants Date & Description
WS-1 20 Feb. 22 Ni'ihau ipu pawehe finishing / 3 - 5 PM
Workshop will complete project began @ 2009 Ipu
Cultural Festival.
WS-2 20 March 28 & 29 Ipu & Fishing/ 10 AM - 4 PM both days, Lunch
Olona introduction, ipu olo wai, and one fish
hook.
WS-3 10 April 25 & 26 Ipu & Fishing / 10 AM - 4 PM both days, Lunch
Ipu sweetening, bailer or ipu container & fish
lure.
WS-4 20 May 9 &10 Ipu heke and Ipu ole' /10 AM - 4 PM both days, Lunch. Workshop participants will fashion two
instruments each.
WS-5 6 May 25 & 26 Basketry on ipu, 10 AM - 4 PM both days, Lunch
Beginning olona preparation / class will begin a basket on
an ipu.
WS-6 10 June 14 Pyro ipu pawehe / 10 AM - 4 PM, Lunch
Class will woodburn an ipu project.
WS-7 20 July 12 Ni'ihau ipu pawehe /11 AM - 3 PM, Pupus
Class will learn the rediscovered art of Ni'ihau ipu pawehe
(decoration).
WS-8 10 July ____ (date still open) Fishing excursion / 8 AM - 3 PM
Picnic following
Fishing day using tools made in workshops, WS-2& WS-3.
WS-9 20 Aug. 30 Ni'ihau ipu pawehe finishing / 3 - 5 PM
Class will complete ipu project started in WS-7.
WS-10 10 Aug. ____(date still open) Fishing excursion / 8 AM - 3 PM
Picnic following
Fishing day using tools made in workshops, WS-2 & WS-3.
WS-11 20 Sept. 26 & 27 Ipu heke and Ipu ole' / 10 AM - 4 PM both days,
Lunch
Workshop participants will fashion two instruments each.
WS-12 6 Sept. 19 & 20 Basketry on ipu / 10 AM - 4 PM both days, Lunch
Class will continue on basket project began in WS-5.
WS-13 6 Oct. _____ & ____ KoKo / 10 AM - 4 PM, Lunch
Workshop participants will learn to fashion one ipu carrier each.
WS-14 20 Oct. 11 Ni'ihau ipu pawehe / 11 AM - 3 PM, Pupus
Class will learn the rediscovered art of Ni'ihau ipu pawehe
(decoration).
WS-15 20 Nov. 28 Ni'ihau ipu pawehe / 11 AM - 3 PM, Pupus
Class will learn the rediscovered art of Ni'ihau ipu pawehe
(decoration).
WS-16 20 Nov. 28 Ni'ihau ipu pawehe finishing / 3 - 5 PM
Class will complete ipu project started WS-14.
WS-17 20 Dec. 27 Ni'ihau ipu pawehe finishing / 3 - 5 PM
Class will complete ipu project started WS-15.
Mahalo for giving us your time today, and we hope to hear from you soon as a volunteer, vendor, musician, or supporter of the 2009 Ipu Cultural Festival.
Mahalo! From the Hawaii Gourd Society
Mary E Amos
Evie Morby
Emily Radisich
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