Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 8, Number 7, 1 July 1991 — July events feature flag, quilts [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

July events feature flag, quilts

A Festival of Hawaiian Quilts," the 13th annual quilt exhibition at the Mission Houses Museum, will be held through Sunday, July 21. It features approximately 20 Hawaiian quilts in the family collections of members of the Pearl Harbor Hawaiian Civic Club, the majority of whieh have never been publicly exhibited. The exhibition is co-sponored by the Hawaiian Quilt Research Project, a program of the Kalihi-Palama Culture and Arts Society. Admission to the exhibition is included in the museum entrance fee of $3.50 for adultsand$l for youths (6-15). The museum is open Tuesday Saturday from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.; and Sunday from noon - 4 p.m. Call 531-0481 for additional information. A series of educational programs including quilting demonstrations and classes, guided tours, a quilt identification elinie, pattern tracing and a Hawaiian quilt registration day are scheduled during the course of the exhibition.

July 31 is "La Hae Hawai'i" or Hawaiian Flag Day. "It's a day for all people who love Hawai'i to celebrate their aloha, for in the Hawaiian flag is t+w history, values, and truths of the people who have set it forth," said Patrick Ka'ano'i Hawaiian flag historian. Pu'ukohola Heiau National Historic Site at Kawaihae on the Big Island will be honoring Hawaiian Flag Day with a special exhibition of the Hawaiian flag and a video of the story of the Hawaiian flag. Pu'ukohola Heiau is one of only three locations where the official or historically correct Hawaiian flag, as commissioned by Kamehameha, has been dedicated with Hawaiian ceremony to fly independent of any other national banner. The other locations are 'Iolani Palaee and Mauna 'Ala Royal Mausoleum in Nu'uanu, O'ahu. Show your colors and aloha for Hawai'i by displaying your Hawaiian flag on July 31.

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