Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives will be hosting a Tahitian Craft Fair and Family Day on Saturday, August 13, 2022 from 10am to 3pm at the Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives located at 553 S. King Street, Honolulu. This event is free to the public.
The day will feature Tahitian crafters and entertainment. Featured crafters include Na Maka Kahiko, Jeanne Larson, Cathy Temanaha, and Le Mana Perles. Hawaiian Mission Houses will showing a short film throughout the day of a History Theatre performance of Tauʻā (portrayed by Albert Ueligitone), an early Tahitian missionary to Hawaiʻi who was instrumental in the conversion of Queen Keōpūolani to Christianity, the translation of the Bible into ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, and spent many years as a church worker on Maui. The film will be shown in the Multipurpose room at the Hawaiian Mission Houses. There will be activities for the whole family including temporary tattoos, TiFaifai Tahitian quilting, 19th century games, Pae 'ore-Tahitian lei making, and Lauhala Weaving with the weavers of Ulana Me ka Lokomaikaʻi. The three historic houses at Hawaiian Mission Houses will be open for visitors to walk through with stationed docents inside the houses.
Te Vai Ura Nui Tahitian Dance Troupe will be performing from 1pm to 2pm with Tahitian drum and ukulele demonstrations and Tahitian dancing. Te Vai Ura Nui is under the direction of Kumu Catherine and Charlie Temanaha.