Hula Voices featuring Leilani Lindsey-Kaʻapuni
Thursday, March 5, 2020 | 5:30-6:30pm
Hula Voices is an engaging, intimate “talk story” session with Hawai‘i’s hula practitioners & musicians. This monthʻs edition features hula & ʻōlelo practitioner Leilani Lindsey-Kaʻapuni with moderator Desiree Moana Cruz. Join us for an engaging, informative, and fun hour as our guests share their hula genealogy, including the traditions, experiences, inspirations for songs, chants and Hawaiian choreography.
Leilani Lindsey-Kaʻapuni is a wahine ʻāpapalani practitioner and protector of sacred Maunakea. She is a keeper of moʻokūʻauhau passed down through generations of her family. Leilani began her training in hula at the age of four under Christina Nauahi and Sally Moanikeʻala Wood of Lāʻie, Koʻolauloa, Oʻahu. She entered the hālau hula as a student of Leinaʻala Kalama-Heine and learned the hula traditions of the island of Molokaʻi from John Kaʻimikaua.
Leilani has been a part of the movement to revitalize and perpetuate Hawaiian language for over thirty years and currently works at Ka Haka ʻUla O Keʻelikōlani Hawaiian Language College at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. She also serves as the president of Hui Aloha ʻĀina, the organization established in 1893 to preserve and defend Hawaiian independence.
These programs take place at the Volcano Art Center Gallery in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park and will continue throughout the year on the first Thursday of each month.
Please join VAC in celebrating the Hula Arts at Kīlauea with Hula Voices. These programs are supported in part by funding from Hawaiʻi Tourism, the County of Hawaiʻi Department of Research and Development and members of the Volcano Art Center.
These programs are also professionally videotaped, and past episodes may be viewed at www.volcanoartcenter.org/hula-arts/hula-voices/