Students work with a purpose
If you received the PCC’s July 2005 newsletter, you might remember an article about a Rapa Nui (or Easter Island) elder who visited the Center and the adjoining BYU-Hawaii, Alberto Hotus. As part of that visit, the Center and the university agreed to extend several scholarships to Rapa Nui students.
Ito Pakarati [...]
A participant’s perspective: Marcia Rangimarie Perret — a senior Pacific Islands Studies major at BYU-Hawaii from Hamilton, New Zealand, and a student worker in the PCC’s Aotearoa (New Zealand) Islands — will perform her traditional Maori songs and dances for the fourth and final time during this year’s seventh annual Whakataetae [...]
Byron ‘Pailogi’ Tenney, a hospitality and tourism management major at BYU-Hawaii, is one of the young students working with Kap in the Samoan village. He’s also going to compete for the first time in this year’s World Fire Knife Dance [...]
Kapeneta ‘Kap’ Te’o-Tafiti, the PCC’s “ambassador” in the Samoan village, thinks this link to culture is very important.
“Knife dancing is a powerful way for Samoans, [...]
Go Native’ at PCC
Kids — and adults — can learn some ukulele
chords at the Hawaii Mission Settlement
Over the past several months each of the island villages at the Polynesian Cultural Center has been encouraging guests to “go native.”
“We want our guests to get involved in a series of new, hands-on activities,” explains [...]
The Polynesian Cultural Center is so good at what it does that some visitors are not even aware of one of our most unusual objectives: We work very closely with the adjacent Brigham Young University Hawaii to help students finance their education.
In fact, since we opened in October 1963 over 15,000 BYU-Hawaii students have [...]
Yup, when you listen to Liolita Hola, a BYU-Hawaii IWES student worker in the Tongan village, you will definitely hear a bit of Alabama coming through. That’s because the tall, smiling young Tongan recently served her LDS Church mission in Birmingham and would love to go back some day. The Church of Jesus Christ of [...]
Heimana Mike Yap came to the PCC as an IWES student worker four years ago from Faaa, Tahiti. He graduated from BYU-Hawaii on June 24 in two-dimensional art, started an OPT (optional practical training) program as a part time PCC carver, and just finished four beautiful carvings that will be used in the Latter-day Saint [...]
The Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii recently presented its prestigious Living Treasure Award to Sione Tui’one Pulotu for his 40-plus years of excellence and creative contributions as a master Polynesian carver.
Pulotu was only 20 years old when he came from Tonga to help build additions to the campus of the Church College of Hawaii [...]
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