He ʻaha ka mea hou ma Pūpū A ʻO ʻEwa?
(Whatʻs new at Pūpū A ʻO ʻEwa?)

ʻApelila 2016: Na Pāheona Hou (New Release Monday for April 2016)

• I am a Farmer, video by Sheila Arasato
• Keahihi’ipoikamana’o’i’ookalani, mele by Hiʻilei Manoi-Hyde
  

Malaki 2016: Na Pāheona Hou (New Release Monday for March 2016)

• Artist Showcase, paintings and drawings by Neil Chan, Kekai Mar, Sharisse Maluina, Iolakana Paguirigan, Robin Puahala, and Loke Schoening
• Laʻakea, a poem by Laʻakea Ai
• Nā Mele, two compositions by Van-Jon Paio, narrated by Kepoʻo Keliʻipaʻakaua

Welcome back to the spring 2016 semester! We have a lot of wonderful writing, art and videos for you from our talented students and community members.  Each Monday during the semester, Pūpū A ‘O ‘Ewa proudly features the work of one of our talented students, faculty/staff, and community members.

Pepeluali 2016: Na Pāheona Hou (New Release Monday for February 2016)

• Becoming Papa David, a short story by Amanda Allison
• Moku O Keawe, photographs by Kahoʻolemana Naone
• We are From, a video-poem by Kamanukea Kekoa
• Kahi Mea I Aloha Ia, a mele by Hiʻilei Manoi-Hyde
• Kahoʻolawe ʻ88, a poem by Tracy Dixon

Pūpū A ʻO ʻEwa is going on winter hiatus. Weʻll be back in the Spring with new writing and art pieces. See you in the Spring!

Nowemapa 2015: Na Pāheona Hou (New Release Monday for November 2015):

• Ma Puʻuloa Kuʻu Aloha, a mele for Patsy Dudoit by Mālia Helelā
• Ka Pō, photographs by Kahoʻolemana Naone
• Once and Future, a short fiction piece by Will Gutzman
• No Namaka Kailialoha laua o Alea Hoohihikeaumoe, a mele inoa in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi by Hiʻilei Manaoi-Hyde

ʻOkakopa 2015: Na Pāheona Hou (New Release Monday for October 2015):

• March On, a video written by Courtney Takabayashi
• Kamalu Hawaiʻi, block prints by Kaleialoha Lum-Ho
• Hoʻōla at Hālawa, photographs by Kai Markell
• Ka Maile, a mele in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi by Kahaulahilahi Vegas

New at resource Leeward CC! If youʻre looking for inspiration and information, visit Keahiahi Long and the great staff at Kapunawai Kapunawai, the Pacific Resource Room in the Learning Commons.

Itʻs a new academic year! Welcome back! ʻKepakemapa 2015: Na Pāheona Hou (New Release Monday for September 2015):

Each Monday during the semester, Pūpū A ‘O ‘Ewa proudly features the work of one of our talented students, faculty/staff, and community members. Check out new works by our communityʻs talented writers and artists for September:

• He Hawaiʻi Au, a personal essay by Alyssa ʻAnela Purcell
• Stand Up and Rise, mele kūʻē by One Rhythm

Announcing the 2015 Ka ʻUmeke Kāʻeo a Award Winners!

Hoʻomaikaʻi ana! Congratulations to these talented writers and artists from our very own Leeward Community College! These writing and art works will be published when we return in the Fall 2015:

Writing in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi

• Hiʻilei Manoi-Hyde, No Naʻawao ($100 cash prize)
• Van-Jon Matthew Kaleialohanoelani Paio, ʻO ʻOe Kuʻu Māmā ($100 cash prize)
  

Writing in ʻōlelo haole:

• Laʻakea Ai, Laʻakea (poetry) ($100 cash prize)
• Tracy Dixon, Kahoʻolawe 88 (poetry) ($100 cash prize)
• Alyssa Purcell, He Hawaiʻi Au (poetry) ($100 cash prize)
• Amanda Allison, Becoming Papa David (short story) (Honorable Mention, $50 cash prize)
• Shenandoah Greco, Pele Hawaiʻi (poetry) (Honorable Mention, $50 cash prize)
• Victor Kila, Makaʻala ʻO Nānākuli (poetry) (Honorable Mention, $50 cash prize)
• Erin Scheldt, The Demise of the Hawaiian Language (academic essay) (Honorable Mention, $50 cash prize)

Art/Multimedia:

• Sheila Arasato, Who Are You? (video) ($100 Amazon.com gift card)
• Kea Kekoa, We Are From Hawaiʻi (video) ($100 Amazon.com gift card)
• Iolakana Paguirigan, Ka Huaka’i (painting) ($100 Amazon.com gift card)
• Aika Makaula, Mauna Kea (video) (Honorable Mention, $50 cash prize)
• Neil Chan, Identity Theft (graphic illustration) (Honorable Mention, $50 cash prize)

Kūlia I Ka Nuʻu Judgesʻ Award for Most Outstanding:

• Sheila Arasato, Who are You? (video) ($100 cash prize)

Mahalo a nui loa to the Worldʻs Best Judges:

• ʻIokepa Badis, Language Arts – Hawaiian language
• Dave Manu Bird, Language Arts
• Eileen Cain, Language Arts
• Piʻikea Hardy-Kahaleoumi, Counseling, Hālau ʻIke
• Eiko Kosasa, Social Sciences
• Kuʻuipo Losch, Arts and Humanities – Hawaiian Studies
• Auliʻi Silva, Poʻo – Hālau ʻIke
• Kaleʻa Silva, Education – AAT

Many thanks to the generous donors of Pūpū A ʻO ʻEwaʻs UH Foundation Fund for providing the Kūlia I Ka Nuʻu, writing, and honorable mention prizes. Special thanks to Student Life @ Leeward Community College, led by the amazing Lexer Chou, for sponsoring art and multimedia prizes.

Mahalo a nui to all of you who submitted works this semester. Want to get involved? Pūpū A ʻO ʻEwa accepts submissions year round. And Leeward Community College students, youʻre invited to submit your original work to next yearʻs Ka ʻUmeke Kāʻeo Achievement Awards, deadline May 1, 2016.

ʻApelila: Na Pāheona Hou (New Release Monday for April 2015)

Each Monday during the semester, Pūpū A ‘O ‘Ewa proudly features the work of one of our talented students, faculty/staff, and community members. Check out new works by our communityʻs talented writers and artists for April:

• Ka Poʻe Kiaʻi, photographs by Kai Markell
• Her Name was Violet, a personal history by Stephanie Namahoe Launiu
• Contradictions, spoken poetry by Chris Kaʻimilawakualiʻi Oliveira
• Ola Ka Hā, photographs by Kai Markell

Malaki: Na Pāheona Hou (New Release Monday for March 2015)

• Hattieʻs Passing, a short story by Umialiloa Harding
• Kuhiawaho (Part 2), photographs by ʻIokepa Badis
• Kuhiawaho (Part 1), video by Mauna Burgess and Dariq Murray

Pepeluali: Na Pāheona Hou (New Release Monday for February 2015)

• A Hawaiian Lament, poetry by Ed Ciliberti
• Ke Kalaka Polū Nui, moʻolelo pōkole by Kimberly Reed
• He Kai Mālie, He Kai Puʻeone, photographs by Ikaika Anderson
• He Lehua ʻĀhihi, mele inoa by Mālia Helelā and Manu Bird

Ianuali: Na Pāheona Hou (New Release Monday for January 2015)

• Nānākuli, poetry by Elsie Moʻi Peters Itutaua
• Naue i Ke Aloha ʻĀina, photographs by Kahoʻolemana Naone

Pūpū A ʻO ʻEwa wins Wo Learning Champion Community Builder Award!

On November 29, 2014, Pūpū A ʻO ʻEwa was named the winner of the Wo Learning Champion Community Builder Award. The award recognizes projects within the past five years that are designed to expand and enrich campus communications, spirit, collaboration and/or community connections. The award letter says in part:

The reviewers were impressed by the way Pūpū A ʻO ʻEwa truly embraces community building, involving current and former students as well as faculty and community members. Students are contributors but also serve as volunteers to maintain the digital space. Through this online access to expressions of Hawaiian culture, the community is enriched and the contributors are celebrated.

On behalf of our talented artists and writers as well as our dedicated volunteers, Pūpū A ʻOʻEwa is honored to receive this award.

ʻNowemapa: Na Pāheona Hou (New Release Monday for November 2014)

• Birthright, two poems by Denise ʻAkaloka Rivers
• Olowalu, photographs by Kahoʻolemana Naone
• Kā Kamahaʻo Mea Pāʻani, a childrenʻs story written and narrated in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi by Pōhai Medeiros
• Hū Ka Pele, paintings by Stephanie Loke Schoening

ʻOkakopa: Na Pāheona Hou (New Release Monday for October 2014)

• Kahana Bay, a poem by Katy Darlington
• Ke Ala Hele I Mauna Kea, a mele by Kiaʻi Lee
• StepHI, a photo collage by Kekai Mar
• The Naming, a short story by Umialiloa Harding

Pūpū A ʻO ʻEwa gets shout out in Leeward CC Library blog!

Pūpū A ʻO ʻEwa, the Leeward CC Native Hawaiian Writing and Art website, is featured as a resource in Ulukau, the Hawaiian Electronic Library. The purpose of Ulukau, according to its website, is to “make these resources available for the use, teaching, and revitalization of the Hawaiian language and for a broader and deeper understanding of Hawaiʻi.” Pat Kamalani Hurley, Leeward CC professor and editor of Pūpū A ʻO ʻEwa, is thrilled at the website’s inclusion as a “special feature/Noiʻi Nowelo” as it’s a fantastic way to not only promote writing and art about anything-Hawaii, but it also showcases the hard work of our students, faculty, and other contributors throughout community. According to Hurley, “most of the works [featured on the website] are by students, faculty, and community members who aren’t professional artists and writers. Our kuleana is to provide a creative space for our community to tell our stories in whatever form these stories — mele, photos, poetry — take.”

Congratulations to Pūpū A ʻO ʻEwa, as they continue to accomplish great feats.

Welcome back! Itʻs Fall semester, and Pūpū has got some terrific things in store. We have a new look (although itʻs not without its glitches, like images not showing up where they should be in posts. ʻAuwē.)